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“Be kind to yourself, have patience, go through the bad days”

September 6th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on “Be kind to yourself, have patience, go through the bad days”)

For many families on Vancouver Island, finding healthy food is a struggle: report

September 1st, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on For many families on Vancouver Island, finding healthy food is a struggle: report)

“For people in B.C. on social assistance, 82 per cent are food insecure. It’s a sentence”

One in five Vancouver Island families struggles to pay for healthy food, a new study says. A University of Toronto study looking at food security in British Columbia found that families with children younger than 18 are particularly vulnerable. About 20.6 per cent of Islanders with children are food insecure, compared with 11.1 per cent of all Islanders. “It doesn’t look good,” said Valerie Tarasuk, a nutritional sciences professor.  Read the rest of this article at The Times Colonist…