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Kingston becomes latest Ontario city to declare food insecurity an emergency | Globalnews.ca

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Kingston city council declared food insecurity an emergency last week , becoming the third Ontario city to do so over the past few months .

One in three people are experiencing food insecurity in the area, a number that has jumped from one in nine people in 2022 to one in three .

The motion calls on the Ontario government to immediately raise social assistance rates, increase funding for school food programs.

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