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Food Banks Canada shows the number of people accessing food banks has seen a spike nationally amid the COVID-19 pandemic.But the same trend is not playing out here in the Maritimes — at least not yet, said Mark LeBlanc, who is the executive director of the Vestiaire St-Joseph Shediac Regional Food Bank.

Alberta food banks struggling to meet demand as need surges 30 per cent “We did see a lot of clients that regularly would come to the food bank that didn’t come because they had CERB benefits,” said LeBlanc, who is also the Atlantic representative for Food Banks Canada.The 2021 HungerCount Report compared numbers in March 2021 to those of March 2019.The report uses March as an indicator of average usage, and no data was collected in 2020.

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