As inflation grips Canada, people turn to crowdfunding platforms to meet basic needs

var TRINITY_TTS_WP_CONFIG = {"cleanText":"As inflation grips Canada, people turn to crowdfunding platforms to meet basic needs. Last week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland detailed $8.9 billion in measures to tackle the rising inflation \u2014\u00a0currently at a 30-year high \u2014 in a new \u2018Affordability Plan\u2019 to a high-profile audience at the Empire Club in Toronto. It includes free dental coverage for people earning less than $90,000 a year, increasing the Old Age Security by a mere 10 percent, and a few other things.\u00a0 In my estimation, none of these measures actually gets to tackling the systemic affordability issues.\u00a0 Minister Freeland might be suffering from a lack of perspective on what the affordability crisis looks like up close. Where can she gain that perspective

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