Will we miss the big picture on Canada's food crisis?
All government contracts should have a mandated minimum of local procurement: from hospitals to prisons and military cafeterias.
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Two million Canadians use food banks each month as housing and food prices soar
The organization says it recorded more than two million visits in March 2024 – nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019, and six per cent above last year's record-breaking figure.
B.C. introduces law to cut the poverty rate by 60 per cent over next decade
The B.C. government introduced legislation Tuesday setting 10-year targets to substantially reduce poverty in the province, focusing on children, while also making a first-time commitment to cut seniors' poverty by 50 per cent.
Money for housing, food banks expected in Quebec economic update
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard is scheduled to present the province's fall economic update this morning.
Community pantries don’t just fight hunger. They’re also a climate solution
In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions.
Grocery store gift cards a stepping stone to end hunger
Ensuring people can afford food through income support is better for their mental and physical health, generates less food waste and is more cost-effective than food banks when it comes to tackling food insecurity, new research suggests.
Canadian food banks are 'addressing the symptom, not the cause'
The word "crisis" comes up quickly when speaking with those who run food banks across Canada.
Freeland still struggling with global supply-chain problems
Supply-chain turbulence is here to stay, so what is Canada doing about it?
Why anti-poverty advocates object to holiday appeals for food bank donations
Campaigns for food bank donations are a staple of the holiday season, but some Canadian food insecurity researchers say the appeals can be tough to swallow.
War means pain for Europe now, later for Russia
Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on. Food banks in Italy are feeding more people. German officials are turning down the air conditioning as they prepare plans to ration natural gas and restart coal plants.
Agriculture Minister Bibeau tops up food security fund
The federal government is spending another $30 million to help people at risk of going hungry.
Canadian food banks get $100M boost from the feds
The funds were announced at a virtual news conference Friday, as Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau detailed the third round of financial support under the Emergency Food Security Fund.
Newfoundland and Labrador hit by 'Snowmageddon' and pandemic, confronted hunger in 2020
Skipping meals is dangerous for a diabetic, but Janine Ryan finds she sometimes has no choice if she wants her kids to have enough to eat.
Ottawa wants your ideas on how to combat food waste
Each year, fields of Canadian produce are plowed under due to cancelled orders. But that may be about to change.
Food banks are working overtime. Is that a good thing?
Mounds of mangoes and pallets of peanut butter sit on a monochrome concrete floor. They’re islands of sustenance, dwarfed in the Greater Vancouver Food Bank’s cavernous warehouse — and a fraction of the roughly 40,800 kilograms of food that pass through the distribution center each week, explained the organization’s CEO, David Long.