{"id":145868,"date":"2024-11-17T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145868"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:03:42","slug":"4-in-5-new-food-bank-clients-in-toronto-are-newcomers-to-canada-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/17\/4-in-5-new-food-bank-clients-in-toronto-are-newcomers-to-canada-new-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"4 in 5 new food bank clients in Toronto are newcomers to Canada, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The National Post<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1tXATX.img?w=768&amp;h=576&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Food banks in Toronto reported a record-breaking 3.48 million visitors between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food banks in Toronto reported a record-breaking 3.48 million visitors between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monthly Food Bank Use Hits Record 2 Million\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QQvJEng498?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As it has annually since the pandemic, the number of people visiting Toronto food banks for the first time soared again over the last year, and newcomers to Canada are among the largest cohort of new users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an astonishing 222 per cent increase in new food bank clients compared to just two years ago,\u201d the report reads, noting that the figures are an underestimate as they don\u2019t include data from anonymous visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the facilities had a record-breaking 3.48 million visitors over the year, one million more than the previous and almost four times as many recorded before COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/food-bank-use-soars-in-canada?utm_source=related&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=NP_social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monthly food bank use soars to record 2 million, driven by cost of groceries, housing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada-international-students-food-banks?utm_source=related&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=NP_social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;How to get free food in Canada&#8217;: YouTubers criticized for encouraging international students to use food banks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The report notes it took 38 years to surpass the one-million visit mark, two years to pass the two-million and just a year to hit three million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on our projections and the worsening level of poverty in our communities, we expect to exceed four million visits by this time next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The National Post Food banks in Toronto reported a record-breaking 3.48 million visitors between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. As it has annually since the pandemic, the number of people visiting Toronto food banks for the first time soared again over the last year, and newcomers to Canada are among the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}