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A man shops for food at a store in Toronto in a file photo. Federal research dated December 2024 indicates that a third of Canadians had to borrow money or run up credit card debt in order to buy food or pay other monthly expenses in the past 12 months. Reuters/Carlos Osorio
One in three Canadians was living in a household that was struggling financially last month, a Statistics Canada report has found.
Thirty-three percent of survey respondents, aged 15 and older, said it was either difficult or very difficult throughout the month of October to pay for essentials like housing, food, clothing, and transportation.
