Food Banks Canada

Food Banks Canada HungerCount 2015 report

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Food Banks Canada, a national charitable organization dedicated to helping Canadians living with food insecurity, recently released their 2015 HungerCount report. The document presents the results from an annual study on hunger and food bank use across the country, as well as makes recommendations for positive change. A few key stats pulled from the report: … Read more

Food Banks Canada reacts to 2014 budget

Here is a note from Shawn Pegg, director of policy and research at Food Banks Canada, regarding this year’s federal government budget. Yesterday, the federal government unveiled a relatively low-key budget with few of the type of new, large scale measures that are often expected from these exercises. Over the past year, Food Banks Canada … Read more