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Federal Subsidy: Sandy Christensen

Sandy Christensen: Sandy Christensen is worried about the end of a federal subsidy that helps low-income Canadians pay the rent. The federal program is scheduled to end within a year, according to CTV. Christensen says without the subsidy she wouldn't have been able to make ends meet and A federal program that helps people living in affordable housing with expenses may be coming to and end and that could spell disaster for thousands of Canadians. Christensen has lived in the Sarcee Meadows Housing Co-operative for 26 years and started receiving the subsidy last year after breast cancer treatments forced her to stop working. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.