VANCOUVER — Food banks across Canada continue to face soaring need this Thanksgiving, with one executive warning that things could quickly get worse.
Amid inflation, increasing food and housing costs, and precarious employment situations, the country's food banks have watched the need for their goods balloon as the organizations enter what, for many, is a critical time of year for fundraising.
"You've got food prices, you've got a precarious work environment, and most of all lack of decent, affordable housing," he said. "When I started, about five years ago, we were supporting between 6,000 and 7,000 people a month and we're up in the 16,000 to 17,000 number at the moment," she said. Hetherington said he's frightened to see food bank usage be at record highs when unemployment rates in the country remain so low, and it's something he's warned both Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow about.
"We focus a lot on recovering large industrial donations of food where, say, the avocados were a few centimetres too small and they were rejected because aesthetically they didn't look right, or the bread was in the oven for 20 seconds too long, or something like that," she said. She said many of the smaller food banks may not have the same online reach or fundraising resources her organization does.
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