Perspective: April - June 2026
Food Banks Mississauga’s Annual Impact Report for 2025 outlines how food insecurity is addressed in our community. The need for food assistance has risen 20% in the past year with over 500,000 visits. The number of visits a household makes to their local food program has risen from 3-5 times per year in 2019 to 10 times per year today.
Coming back to our own personal experiences, we are left with one nagging question: must we accept this relatively new phenomenon of food insecurity as a day-to-day experience…
