Food banks

An in-house food bank operated in a seniors apartment building will be out of commission during one of the busiest periods of the year because of a fire that damaged freezers and stored food, one of its organizers says. Read More

Wesley Waite is entering his third year of selling holiday branches from a stand the 11-year-old built himself in front of his home, about 20 a minute drive northwest of London. Read More

Thanksgiving 2023 was likely the most food-insecure fall holiday in decades. Some seven million people in the 10 provinces and five distinct regions struggle to feed their families. More alarming, almost two million of them are children. Despite their record numbers, the country’s food banks feed only one-quarter of that

The London Food Bank is seeing the highest-ever demand for assistance in its 35-year history, a record it has broken twice this year as inflation and higher interest rates put pressure on low-income Londoners. Read More

For Canada's food banks, it's crunch time. Things didn't quite go as planned once the pandemic began to dissipate. A year ago, the assumption was demand would return to 2019 levels. The opposite occurred, and now many food banks are teetering on the edge of survival. Read More