While many children look forward to having the time off during summer break, some lose access to food provided through at-school programs.
More than 700,000 visits were made to food banks by children in March 2025 – 340,000 more than the visits recorded in 2020 – accounting for one-third of all clients.
Erin Filey-Wronecki, chief development and partnerships officer at Food Banks Canada, said “that’s not acceptable in this country.”
NB: Newcomers (people in Canada for 10 years or less) made up nearly 34% of food bank clients in March 2025. This figure has been stable recently but rose sharply from 13% in 2019, amid broader growth in food bank visits (nearly 2.2 million in one month, roughly double 2019 levels).
I am suspicious of an infrastructure allegedly devoted to Foodbanks that is able to support a “chief development and partnerships officer” just as I was when foodbank overseas rice imports were claimed to be in jeopardy due to the the Iran war: Rice shipment heading for Toronto food banks struck near Iran, CEO says
CEO says? If you build it they will come.
