A report cited by Daily Bread Food Bank says one in eight Toronto children now rely on food banks.

Toronto Sun, Global News · Canada

3 Nov 2026

What it means

This is the headline finding of Daily Bread 's annual "Who's Hungry" report on hunger in Toronto: more than one in eight children in the city — roughly 12.5% — used a food bank over the past year, nearly double the rate in the comparable earlier period. The report also notes children make up about 25% of Daily Bread's clients while only 18% of Toronto's population, and that the city logged 4.1 million food bank visits for a second straight year. CEO Neil Hetherington called the numbers "horrific" and framed them as a policy failure rather than a charity shortfall — the argument being that a prosperous city shouldn't need food banks at this scale.

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The figure comes directly from Daily Bread's own report, released Tuesday, and the coverage tracks its press release closely — so the reporting is faithful to the source, but the source is an advocacy organisation publishing statistics derived from its own client data and population estimates, not an independent statistical agency. Treat "one in eight" as Daily Bread's own estimate of food bank reliance (a narrower measure than food insecurity overall), and note the "nearly double" comparison depends on which earlier baseline year is used.

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