Posted AT 4:37 AM EDT on 29/04/08
Toronto feeling effects of global rice shortage
The ripples of the global rice shortage have reached Toronto, as many of the city's immigrants are under pressure to dig deeper into shallow pockets to send more money and bags of rice home to relatives in the hardest-hit countries.
A few days ago at iRemit, a Filipino remittance agency with offices in Cabbagetown, immigrants lined up to send precious rations of their paycheques to family members in Manila and Quezon City.
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