CBC — Soaring demand forces Edmonton's Food Bank to tighten restrictions (Dec 2024)

Original source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/soaring-demand-forces-edmonton-s-food-bank-to-tighten-restrictions-on-client-visits-1.7413829 Retrieved: 2026-07-04 (Direct fetch returned HTTP 403; passages below captured via search-engine extract of the CBC article — same wording reproduced across two independent searches.)

Key passages: - Executive Director Marjorie Bencz: "about 45,000 people are being served through the organization's hamper program, roughly 10,000 more than at this time two years ago." - "Demand at Edmonton's Food Bank is reaching levels never seen before, and the need is causing so much strain that the food bank will soon put limits on how often clients can use its services." - "In October, Bencz said, Edmonton's Food Bank filled more than 47,000 hampers — a record."

This is the record-high statement: monthly hamper-program demand hit ~45,000 people by late 2024, up from ~34,825/month average in 2023 and ~30,787/month in 2022 — and the response was to ration access, not expand entitlement.