Bill Tieleman
Bill Tieleman, a Vancouver born writer for the 24 Hours newspaper, is one of British Columbia’s best-known communicators, political commentators, and strategists. Tieleman is president of West Stars Communications, a strategy and communications consulting firm, providing service for labour, businesses and governments for the past 13 years. Tieleman also writes for the 24 Hours newspaper every Tuesday regarding politics. Tieleman is best known for his coverage of the BC Legislature Raids, which resulted in his office being broken into and materials regarding the trial had been moved about. Tieleman had received his master’s degree in political science from the University of British Columbia and now resides in Surrey.
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Along with poverty comes hunger, which is a problem nearly 795 million people are facing around the globe. This article specifically targets food banks not ending world hunger. More than 100,000 British Columbia residents visited a food bank for help in March 2015. Nationally, 852,137 people needed groceries from a food bank, with one-third being children. Bill Hopwood of anti-poverty advocacy group Raise the Rates suggests that “Food bank’s don’t solve the problem, they ameliorate the problem.” British Columbia is the only province that doesn’t have a poverty reduction plan, in contempt of British Columbia being a province with one of the highest poverty rates. Although the Canadian government makes efforts to raise funds for food banks, they’re simply treating the symptom and not the actual problem. The amount of money CBC raises will feed each person who uses a food bank for only two days. Two days out of 365 days is simply not enough to fix the issue of hunger in Canada. The British Columbia Liberal government had frozen abysmally low welfare and disability benefit rates since 2008. British Columbia is in need of more affordable real estate, an increase in minimum wage, and accessible childcare, which the British Columbia Liberals have not attempted to fix. Although food banks help the poor, they simply are not the solution for ending hunger in
Five Vicious Attacks …show more content…
Along with poverty comes hunger, which is a problem nearly 795 million people are facing around the globe. This article specifically targets food banks not ending world hunger. More than 100,000 British Columbia residents visited a food bank for help in March 2015. Nationally, 852,137 people needed groceries from a food bank, with one-third being children. Bill Hopwood of anti-poverty advocacy group Raise the Rates suggests that “Food bank’s don’t solve the problem, they ameliorate the problem.” British Columbia is the only province that doesn’t have a poverty reduction plan, in contempt of British Columbia being a province with one of the highest poverty rates. Although the Canadian government makes efforts to raise funds for food banks, they’re simply treating the symptom and not the actual problem. The amount of money CBC raises will feed each person who uses a food bank for only two days. Two days out of 365 days is simply not enough to fix the issue of hunger in Canada. The British Columbia Liberal government had frozen abysmally low welfare and disability benefit rates since 2008. British Columbia is in need of more affordable real estate, an increase in minimum wage, and accessible childcare, which the British Columbia Liberals have not attempted to fix. Although food banks help the poor, they simply are not the solution for ending hunger in