Locals take welfare challenge, will survive on $19 a week for food

DJ Larkin, a lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society, isn’t looking forward to the coming week. For the second year in a row, Larkin will be participating in the welfare food challenge, surviving on only what $18 will buy at the grocery store — packaged ramen, no-name mac and cheese, canned beans, a loaf of bread. 
The sixth annual Welfare Food Challenge is put on by Raise the Rates, a coalition of anti-poverty activists, in hopes of raising awareness of the challenges facing B.C.&r