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For many years, internet users have been sharing an image that purportedly reproduces an article from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper headlined, Church closes food bank because it attracts poor people: The text of the article, as seen in that image, reads as follows: This image did in fact reflect an article genuinely published in the Ottawa Citizen (and several other Canadian newspapers) back in 2000, about the closure of a Winnipeg church's food bank program, although some of those involved might dispute whether the issue was as simple as the headline implied. A follow-up article from CBC News cited the Unity Truth Centre's minister, Charlotte Prossen, as stating that the food bank project was shut down for several reasons and denying news reports that suggest the food bank was really shut down because some church members were uncomfortable with the street people who came to their building. However, that article did not quote the minister as repudiating any of the statements attributed to her in the earlier Ottawa Citizen piece:
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