8 h. ago Inside the London Food Bank's Thanksgiving drive collection efforts

As volunteers and officials for the London Food Bank made their rounds across the city on the final weekend of the Thanksgiving collection drive, London Free Press reporter Beatriz Baleeiro rode along to see how the pick-up process works. How does the food collection work? The Thanksgiving drive, one of the London Food Bank’s largest […]

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12 h. ago Thanksgiving highlights crisis as Toronto food bank expects 4M visits

Hundreds joined the Daily Bread Food Bank this Thanksgiving to give back, as food insecurity visits are set to surpass four million in Toronto this year.

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53 h. ago Food bank urges Londoners to dig deep in Thanksgiving drive's final days

As the London Food Bank’s Thanksgiving collection drive heads into its final weekend, donations outweigh the 2024 campaign totals at the same point last year, officials say.

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5 d. ago London Food Bank's Thanksgiving drive starts strong: 'Heartening'

Donations for this year’s London Food Bank Thanksgiving food drive are up about 50 per cent compared to the same time last year.

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1 week ago London Food Bank launches Thanksgiving drive to fight youth hunger

Almost 13,000 individuals 18 or younger have needed help so far this year, according to the non-profit.

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1 week ago London Food Bank's Thanksgiving drive trains focus on helping hungry kids

“It's important for us, as a community, to take care of our kids,” Jane Roy said.

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2 w. ago Toronto's crashing condo market like nothing seen since global financial crisis

Toronto's pre-construction condo market is finally bottoming out after over a decade and a half of frenzied construction that has reshaped the city's skyline while also contributing to a runaway increase in housing costs.But after years of doom-and-gloom predictions, a new RBC report makes it pretty clear that the developers and investors running the show are no longer able to rake in the immense profits that drove the local building boom to sky-scraping heights (and costs).The report released on Tuesday, titled "Navigating Toronto's frozen pre-construction condo market," outlines the steep decline in sales in pre-construction developments, a nosedive characterized as a "deep freeze" of "plummeting" sales at levels "not seen since the global financial crisis."RBCIt may seem like they're stating the obvious at this point, but experts are pointing to the reality of investor demand driving the local pre-construction condo market a...

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2 w. ago Toronto deploying crisis workers to downtown TTC subway platforms

Mayor Olivia Chow announced on Wednesday that crisis workers would be stationed on Line 1 platforms from Spadina to Bloor-Yonge station starting in November.

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2 w. ago Toronto home sales hit 'rock bottom' as experts alarmed over 'unfolding crisis'

Just in case you thought the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) new home sales market couldn't get any worse, well, things just got worse.A troubling new report from the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), released on Tuesday, is more bad news for anyone looking to sell their home in the region, with abysmally low sales figures that continue the cliff-diving trend of the past several months.A staggeringly low 300 homes were sold in the entire region of approximately 7 million residents during August 2025. This figure represents a 42 per cent nosedive from the sales figures seen the previous August, and plummeting 81 per cent below the 10-year average, according to the latest data from Altus Group.To put these massive declines in perspective, a typical August over the past decade would have averaged out at just shy of 1,600 units sold. Just a fraction of this figure was reached this past August."GTA new home sales in August 2025 remained at rock bott...

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3 w. ago Amid skyrocketing demand, Calgary Food Bank hopes for donor drive rebound

The Calgary food bank provided 202,926 emergency hampers in it's last fiscal year

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3 w. ago Food insecurity in Canada got worse this year, new report says

Food Bank Canada's 2025 "Poverty Report Card" gives Canada a failing grade on food insecurity and unemployment, but a slightly more palatable "C" for legislative progress.

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3 w. ago Toronto Public Library expanding social, crisis support services to more branches

Toronto's libraries increasingly find themselves on the front lines of the city's homelessness and mental health crisis.

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