Food banks in the Greater Toronto Area are looking ahead to 2024 with concern after the high cost of living and food inflation led reliance on food banks to
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Daily Bread says it needs all levels of government to act as the cost of living forces more people to rely on food banks. Visits are up 51 per cent from this time last year, the charity says, and the goal of this year's drive is to raise $3.8 million along with over 200,000 lbs of food donations.
As the number of monthly visits to a Toronto food bank doubled since last year, similar trends nationally suggest pangs of hunger are being felt across the country.