For the ninth year in a row, the number of people accessing food banks in Ontario has grown.

The annual Hunger Report from Feed Ontario released Monday says more than one million people made 8.7 million visits between April 2024 and March of this year.

That’s a one per cent increase from last year and an 87 per cent increase since the 2020 Hunger Report.

But as concerning as those numbers are, Feed Ontario CEO Carolyn Stewart says the bigger issue now is seeing how food insecurity in the province is spreading out and impacting other facets of life, including how people access housing, health care and their communities.

“We're hoping that this report serves as an alarm bell for the interconnected issues of poverty and the reality we're seeing out there,” Stewart said.

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