Food bank use in Toronto keeps hitting new records, with a new report finding 4.1 million visits made from March 2024 and April 2025 — an increase of hundreds of thousands from the year before.

The annual Who's Hungry report, released Monday, is a joint effort between Daily Bread Food Bank and North York Harvest Food Bank and provides a yearly profile of food insecurity and poverty in the city.

Neil Hetherington, Daily Bread’s CEO, told CBC Toronto the number of visits has been climbing at an exacerbating and alarming rate in recent years.

“It took 38 years to get to one million visits, two years to get to two million, a year to get to three,” he said. “And now we're another year and here we are at 4.1 million visits.”

That figure comes straight from this year’s Who’s Hungry report, an

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