A new report that says more than one million Ontario residents needed a food bank in the past year is "disheartening" but not surprising, says the CEO of Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank.

"We see it here every single day at the food bank, at the Daily Bread Food Bank," Neil Hetherington said Monday. "And it's been a real tough slog being able to make sure that we feed the need now."

Hetherington was responding to the 2025 Hunger Report report by Feed Ontario, an advocacy organization, that found Ontario residents made 8.7 million visits to food banks from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025 — a 13 per cent increase in one year.

That year marked the ninth consecutive year of growth in food bank use in the province and a record high level of demand, according to the report.

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