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The Tangled Links Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health
Most people have felt pangs of hunger at some point, if only for short-lived reasons such as missing a meal during an exceptionally busy day. Now imagine experiencing hunger regularly, without necessarily being able to satisfy it when you want…
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“Walk Alongside Us”: Supporting Northern Food Programs
After growing up in foster care, “Kelsey” returned home to her community, Kwadacha Nation (also known as Fort Ware) in Northern BC as a young adult. Like many others in similar situations, she wasn’t used to life in a remote…
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Rent, bills, or food: Millions must make impossible choices, finds HungerCount 2026 report
“I couldn’t afford to pay for everything and buy food. I chose to pay rent and stay hungry.” These words, from a Food Banks Canada study of the wide-ranging ways that food insecurity can affect people’s lives, describe a situation that’s all too common…
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How Food Banks Get Food: Four Fascinating Facts
Never before in recorded history have so many people in Canada experienced food insecurity, and keeping up with this need is among the greatest challenges facing food banks across the country. They now see over 2.2 million visits every month. That’s more…
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Standards of Excellence Ambassadors: Pelham Cares on ensuring and showcasing integrity
In early 2024, Food Banks Canada launched a set of national standards covering all areas of food bank operations. These benchmarks strengthen accountability and trust, ensure good practices, and equip food banks to serve their communities as effectively as possible….
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Driving Food Security Forward in the North and Beyond
In the northernmost part of the Northwest Territories, the Beaufort Delta is home to about 6,800 people, most of whom live in Inuvialuit and Gwich’in communities that are spread out over the region’s river delta, tundra, and seashores. In recent…
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Canada’s EI wasn’t built for today’s workforce — and it shows
When Emersyn* lost her full-time job at a nonprofit and applied for Employment Insurance (EI), she expected the social safety net to catch her. It didn’t. “It was not enough to live on,” says the Nova Scotia resident. “I would receive $800 every two weeks…
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Food for Learning: How Food Banks Enable School Nutrition Programs Across Canada
As summer comes to a close, children across Canada are getting ready to head back to school. While many will carry backpacks stuffed with pens, paper, books, and tablets, it’s what’s in their bellies and lunchboxes that could have a greater influence on their success. Unfortunately, many students show up to class hungry. It’s a problem…
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Food Banks Canada In the News
- 2026 Federal Budget Response – November 6, 2026
- Minister MacDonald announces organizations to deliver the Local Food Infrastructure Fund: Community Support Stream to strengthen food security in communities across Canada – October 23, 2026
- Canada’s 2026 HungerCount finds millions of people in Canada face Impossible Trade-Offs
- Minister Valdez Highlights $60 Million Investment Advancing Menstrual Equity and Improving Affordability Through Access to Essential Menstrual Products – September 14, 2026
- Building Canada strong must include protecting people from food insecurity – August 26, 2026
- Food Banks Canada Announces New Board Members – June 26, 2026
- Food Banks Canada welcomes National Food Security Strategy and calls for continued action on income security measures – June 12, 2026
- Food Banks Canada Proudly Recognizes the Recipients of the 2025 Partner Awards – June 8, 2026
- Canada Has a Generational Opportunity to Reduce Poverty – June 1, 2026
- Marking a Decade Food Banks Canada Kicks Off 10th year of Fight Hunger. Spark Change. with Walmart Canada – February 5, 2026
- Food Banks Canada welcomes the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit – January 26, 2026
- The Globe and Mail – A quarter of Canadians are food insecure. Addressing this must be a national priority – December 22, 2025
- Food Bank Canada Responds to Budget 2025 – November 5, 2025
- Food Banks Canada Announces New Board Members – November 5, 2025
- Canada’s 2025 HungerCount shows the cost of inaction – October 27, 2025
- Food Banks Canada and the Daily Bread Food Bank Release Sweeping New Reports on Canada’s Spiralling Food Insecurity – October 23, 2025
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- Food Banks Canada Responds to the Launch of Build Canada Homes
- Food Banks Canada’s 2025 Poverty Report Card offers Canada a glimmer of hope and a pathway to reduce poverty and food insecurity
- Food Banks Canada Proudly Welcomes the Food Bank Society of the Yukon as the First Territorial Food Bank Association – August 6, 2025
- The Honourable Percy P. Mockler Joins Food Banks Canada Board – July 29, 2025
- Celebrating the 2025 Food Banks Canada Partner Awards – July 21, 2025
- Food Banks Canada and Saputo join forces to tackle hunger from coast to coast to coast with a $450,000 commitment – June 23, 2025
- New Food Banks Canada Election Report Finds 86% of People in Canada Support the Goal of Cutting Food Insecurity in Canada in half by 2030– April 15, 2025
- Food Banks Canada and Egg Farmers of Canada Celebrate 25 Years of Giving– April 10, 2025
- Joint Open Letter: Cut Food Insecurity in Canada in half by 2030 – April 8, 2025
- Food Banks Canada named to Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2024 by Waterstone Human Capital” – Nov 21, 2024
- HungerCount 2024: The Need for Food Banks in Canada “Spiralling out of Control” – Oct 28, 2024
- Food Banks Canada Urges Canadians to Join the Call for Change – Aug 22, 2024
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