Hundreds of people line up every day for as much as two hours along the sidewalk near Fort York Food Bank for two bags of sustenance.
It’s awful.
Hundreds of people every day line up for as much as two hours along the sidewalk for two bags of sustenance. It has been like this for the last year, but as tens of thousands of refugees and immigrants have flooded into Canada and settled in Toronto this year, those lines seem to be getting even longer.
This is not the only clue around town of the crisis. Across College St., just east of Bathurst St., is a 1930s-style shanty town, which in 2023 we call a tent city. But if we are honest, these are now fortified and furnished street abodes built for the elements and constructed to last. Nobody is paying $3,000 a month to live there, but judging from the tempers that flared Thursday, it is not a place where many would want to live.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.
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