Children's Aid Society of Toronto. All rights reserved. It's an appropriate name for the most culturally diverse city in North America. As Canada's largest city, the country's corporate capital and a renowned cultural centre, it's from these vibrant communities that Toronto draws its strength and its reputation as a great place to live, work and visit. Poor children live in poor families and the incidence of family poverty in Toronto is double that of the rest of Ontario.
Parents often go hungry to feed their children.
Toronto has a crisis in housing and homelessness. 31,000 children are on the waiting list for subsidized housing. Figures from the 1998 Report Card of Metro Campaign 2000 . Fifty-six percent live in families receiving some form of social assistance. Twenty-seven percent live in subsidized housing.