By: Regina Dickson Brent Thompson’s weekly visits to the Yonge Street Mission, a Toronto Centre food bank, are seldom stress-free. The 55-year-old’s back injury left him relying on Wheel-Trans. Difficulties…
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The Good Food Centre (GFC) is providing more fresh food to the community after receiving stable funding this term. The GFC and the Sexual Assault Survivor Support Line (SASSL) held a successful campaign last November to address the lack of resources needed to tackle food insecurity. Students voted in support of the referendum to contribute $5 in the fall and winter semesters, to be divided equally between the centres.
When Karolina Surowiec, the RSU vice-president of equity, was campaigning last year, one thing that she and other Ryerson students found to be a problem on campus was the lack of affordable food. An RSU survey done last year, which polled 1,000 students, found a majority felt the cost of food was a problem. To change this, Surowiec came up with the idea of a $5 supplementary menu at the Ram in The Rye.
