Food Banks: The Five-Year Plan That's Now At Year 45

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Feb 3, 2026 · 9m

Food bank donations fund an organization that was never supposed to exist this long. You're stopped at a red light. Four cars around you. One of those drivers doesn't know where their next meal is coming from. You can't tell which one. The first food banks in Canada wrote sunset clauses into their bylaws. Five years maximum. The government would solve this. Forty-five years later, 2.2 million visits happen every month.

Twenty-three percent of food banks ran out of food before meeting demand last year. That's not a distribution problem. That's a math problem. Eighty percent of food banks now…