HungerCount out, picture incomplete – St. Albert Gazette

Nov 23, 2016

Food banks across the country released their annual HungerCount report last week. In national food bank usage statistics Alberta placed second for food bank usage across the board but the picture is incomplete.

There were 79,293 people who were assisted by a food bank anywhere in the province but the annual survey is conducted only during March, explained Food Banks Alberta director Stephanie Rigby. That information is missing a rather large chunk of what happened in the province after May 1.

“The fire happened after this count. From our perspective, it makes this data a little more disturbing because we know that food bank usage continued to rise after the fire and into the fall. We’re quite confident, sadly, that the numbers in Alberta are higher than 80,000 per month,” she said.

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