Im a single mom. I live in the basement of a run-down apartment building on 22nd Street in Saskatoon. The dodgiest area in town. Sadie… my daughter is very sick. She has trouble breathing because all the mold and mildew in our place makes her sick. I have a low-paying job, no benefits. And I can’t afford her meds that she needs to get better. And today my landlord came. He’s breathing down my neck to pay him last month’s rent that I still owe him. But I can’t pay him. I missed a couple days at work when Sadie was too sick to go to school. What am I supposed to do?

Who are the widows in our society today? They might look like inmates, the mentally ill, single moms. And maybe even our farmers… Big, national corporations break into the family farm system. By running huge corporate farms they not only destroy the land, but dictate the prices on the market. Farmers today are worse off than during the depression. Family farms are on the verge of extinction. This is a great injustice that squeezes many people in rural SK out of their existence.

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