July 2025 Posts

Food Banks Canada Data Challenges Assumptions About Newcomers’ Circumstances

July 17, 2025

Every year, Food Banks Canada surveys the food bank network to provide a unique and valuable lens on food insecurity in this country. Our research contradicts the persistent false assumption that newcomers, or newly arrived refugees in particular, receive a...

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The Emergency Response Program: A Safety Net for Food Banks During Times of Disaster

July 7, 2025

When a severe ice storm hit parts of southern Ontario late in March 2025, Kawartha Food Share general manager Ashlee Aitken knew she was in for a challenge. Comprised of 37 member agencies in Peterborough and the surrounding region, Kawartha...

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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

July 2, 2025

This month, our spotlight is on Moosomin Food Share (A.K.A. Southeast HealthAbility Society Inc.) in Moosomin, Saskatchewan! 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,...

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Through Never Miss Lunch donation week, Subway Canada nourishes childhood summers

June 16, 2025

Last summer, a family walked into the Root Cellar Food and Wellness Hub in Medicine Hat, Alberta, appearing stressed. “[It was] a mother, father and their two children; they’d recently fallen on hard times due to job loss,” said executive...

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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

April 24, 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...

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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...

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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

March 31, 2025

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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...

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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...

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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...

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