Food insecurity

As Haiti battles with ever-increasing gang violence and a reality where 5.7 million people daily find themselves up against high-level food insecurity, Mary’s Meals is hoping its extensive school meal program can become a powerful shield for the nation's next generation.

Both the 2025 Who’s Hungry Report, co-released by Daily Bread Food Bank and North York Harvest Food Bank, and the 2025 HungerCount from Food Banks Canada have presented the most unsettling accounts of Canadian food insecurity to date.

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Canada has launched a campaign to help Cubans suffering from severe shortages of food, medicine and basic goods, exacerbated by the U.S. fuel embargo on the nation.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (CCCB) Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace is striving to chart a promising path forward with its release of a pastoral letter on Nov. 16, the World Day of the Poor.

It took 38 years for Toronto food banks to experience over one million client visits in a single year.

The Canadian bishops are calling on the power of prayer to diffuse the complex situation that has engulfed the Holy Land for the past 22 months.

Through ShareLife, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto (CCAT) and with the generosity of two anonymous donors, Canada’s largest Catholic community is embarking on its biggest effort yet to tackle the ever-prevalent food insecurity crisis.

Across its more than 40 years, Aid to Women has stood firm in its mission of being a compassionate, physical and emotional lifeline for Toronto mothers, counselling abortion- minded women into choosing life for themselves and their babies.

Though its doors closed in May of last year, one of Halifax’s historic parishes has reopened with a new purpose, offering a warm welcome to the city’s most vulnerable through a temporary basement homeless shelter.

For the hungry and needy of Toronto’s Parkdale community, St. Francis Table has been a beacon of hospitality, and over the past 20 years, a service kept alive through the care of Br. John Frampton.