'I would say it's not so much the cost of food but the cost of everything else,' she said. ( Tori Maas )Here’s some food for thought: The largest cross-campus study to date has discovered that nearly 40 per cent of Canadian students are food “insecure.” The report, called Hungry for Knowledge, was released last week by Meal Exchange, a national charitable organization. It surveyed 4,500 students across five Canadian campuses over the course of 16 months to fill the gap in data on the issue. “This needed to surface, to bring attention to a problem that’s hidden on campuses,” said Anita Abraham, executive director at Meal Exchange. “(This research has) affirmed what we thought we knew.” Meal Exchange can now point out that 39 per cent of students are going without nutritious food, and that more vulnerable demographics, including Aboriginal students, students of colour and student parents, reported higher degrees of food insecurity.

Source: thestar November 02, 2016 22:00 UTC