Pellerin: No one in Ottawa should be going hungry — particularly since we can fix it

There’s an embarrassment of topics to choose from this week, from the sublime (teensy cute ByWard Market skating rink) to the ridiculous (jacking up seniors’ transit fares by 120 per cent, only to reverse course) or the downright clownish (paying a private consultant nearly $14 million to find office space for federal government employees in the National Capital Region). I’ve decided we needed to focus on the basics. Like food. And how to ensure that in a society as rich as ours, everyone has enough of it. Read More