Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS Single mom Amy Young cuddles her 15-month-old son Striker in this 2012 Canadian Press file photo.

UNICEF head in B.C. to ‘hold up mirrors’ to persistently high child poverty, inequality

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President and CEO of the United Nations kids agency is in Vancouver this week addressing poverty reduction advocates. Canada has fallen to 26th place in the world when it comes to economic inequality, according to the United Nation agency UNICEF, whose Canadian president was in Vancouver this week.

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