CBC: ‘Needing help is scary,’ says small business owner who is fighting stigma around using food banks

Miranda Mirlycourtois, 34, looks directly at the camera and makes a confession. “I am one of the tens of thousands of Manitobans that has accessed a food bank through Harvest Manitoba this past year,” she says in a video posted to the Instagram account for Tan Mommy Glow Co., her small spray-tan business in Winnipeg. Dr. Jesse Hajer, an associate professor of economics and labour studies at the University of Manitoba, says inflation and a rising cost of living disproportionately affect people who earn less. 

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