The good news is that fewer B.C. kids were living in poverty in 2007.The bad news is that the Best Place on Earth has the highest child poverty rate in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.Worse, perhaps, is the fact that despite six consecutive years of that dismal distinction, poor children children generally weren't mentioned much in the provincial election campaign. That bothered Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the legislature's Representative for Children and Youth. Turpel-Lafond,...
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