{"id":167495,"date":"2023-07-17T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=167495"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:15:17","slug":"beyond-the-federal-grocery-rebate-local-perspectives-on-ways-to-solve-the-problem-of-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/beyond-the-federal-grocery-rebate-local-perspectives-on-ways-to-solve-the-problem-of-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the federal grocery rebate &#8212; local perspectives on ways to solve the problem of food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How has the grocery rebate impacted people in Kitchener-Waterloo, and are there alternatives that can be implemented to address sharply rising costs, including a universal basic income?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s show talks to Kim Wilhelm, interim CEO of the Food bank of Kitchener-Waterloo and Peter Fragiskatos, MP for London North Centre and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue. In today's report, we also hear\u00a0 the testimony of Neil Hetherington, the CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, in front of the the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance about the recently announced grocery rebate as part of the 2023\/24 budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>\u2014----------------------------<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The music on today\u2019s show is called \"BAIKAL\" by <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqENmE-PkgoNp2e6PWwlcZA\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@scandinavianz<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> courtesy of by BreakingCopyright on youtube.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This music is used under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has the grocery rebate impacted people in Kitchener-Waterloo, and are there alternatives that can be implemented to address sharply rising costs, including a universal basic income? Today\u2019s show talks to Kim Wilhelm, interim CEO of the Food bank of Kitchener-Waterloo and Peter Fragiskatos, MP for London North Centre and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":167497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,225],"tags":[9552,7603,23158,544,28314,14131,28292,594],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167596,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167495\/revisions\/167596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167495"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=167495"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=167495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}