April 2025 Posts
Get out to vote!
April 15, 2025
How to vote in the Canadian election with food insecurity as your priority Voting is a powerful tool that can help address food insecurity in our communities. This election comes at a critical moment when we need immediate action to...
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
March 31, 2025
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared...
Free tax clinics at food banks achieve massive “returns” on investment
March 24, 2025
In the spring of 2024, when “Marlice,” a single mother of one, walked into the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre, she simply expected to get some help filing her taxes. What she didn’t yet know was that this free...
This spring, help us feed more families than ever before
March 13, 2025
It’s time for the Loblaw Companies Ltd. annual Spring Food Drive to Feed More Families across Canada. From March 13th to April 2nd, 2025, you can support by donating non-perishable food items in-store or by making a monetary donation at...
Walmart’s Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign is “a bedrock of vital support” for Canadian communities
February 20, 2025
A lot has changed since Walmart Canada and Food Banks Canada joined forces on their first Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign in 2017. For one thing, the need for food banks in Canada has soared from around 1.1 million monthly...
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
January 28, 2025
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared...
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
January 7, 2025
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared...
Spread the spirit: Rewarding ways to support food banks this holiday season
December 2, 2024
When the holidays return each year, they remind us of the joys that can be found in giving. Whether gifts are big or small, they show others that we care. Supporting food banks is a meaningful way to give back...
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
November 28, 2024
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared...
More needed than ever: Loblaw’s 15th holiday food drive to help stock local food banks
November 28, 2024
For 15 years, Loblaw Companies Ltd., its employees and its shoppers have helped food banks across Canada to feed more families through its biannual food drives. So far, this sustained commitment has resulted in more than 70 million meals for...
