We Stopped Waiting for Politicians to Notice Us. So We Invited Them In.
Here’s something we don’t say enough out loud: food banks were never supposed to be permanent. They started as a stopgap. A bridge. A “just until things turn around” kind of solution. Forty years later, they’re not a bridge anymore, they’re infrastructure. And this year, Feed Ontario confirmed what we already see every week at our door: more than 1 million Ontarians turned to a food bank for help, and 1 in 4 of them are employed. Not unemployed. Not…