Our research showed that 59% of households relying on social assistance in Ontario (#OW/#ODSP) were food-insecure before the pandemic. @ODSPAction #ODSPoverty

@TheAgenda recently reported on the increased difficulty of making ends meet amid the pandemic & rising inflation. (1/6) 📺 @mr_lois_lane and @JeyanTVO discussed how ODSP rates are inadequate for meeting basic needs and have gotten worse as they haven’t kept up with inflation or increased at all since 2018 (2/6)

PROOF principal investigator, Dr. Valerie Tarasuk (@nutrisci_uoft @uoftmedicine) was on 📻 @770CHQR this morning to discuss food insecurity in Canada & the need to move to effective responses that address the root of the problem: inadequate income.
Here are the highlights:🧵(1/8) 📈 Do food bank statistics tell the whole story?

No, data on food insecurity repeatedly shows that only fraction of food-insecure Canadian use food charity. From a May 2020 StatsCan Survey, during the pandemic <10% of food insecure used any food charity in the past month (2/8)