Calgary’s poverty line is higher than Toronto and Vancouver

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Calgary’s poverty line is higher than Toronto and Vancouver

Statistics Canada’s latest results show us that you must make more living in Calgary than other major Canadian cities to be above the poverty line, Danina Falkenberg has more in this report.

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