Alberta announces $10 million in funding for food banks and community organizations

The provincial government has announced that they’ll be providing $10 million in funding for food banks and community organizations across Alberta.

Of this funding, $3.7 million will be going towards food banks this month.

$900,000 of this funding has already been given to the Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta for food security grants and shelters.

On top of this, $4.1 million will be used towards food security grants.

Applications will open this month to organizations that promote food security, with Food Banks Alberta getting $2.2 million to develop a program to help serve the needs of food banks during natural disasters.

This comes as food bank officials all across Alberta are serving a record number of clients.

Between 2020 and 2022, the province allocated $16 million to food security.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Fort Sask. jail Escapee arrested in B.C.

Mackenzie Dawn Hardy was mistakenly released from jail on April 25 after an anonymous individual posing as a crown prosecutor, later found to be her boyfriend, sent fraudulent documents calling for her release to Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre. Hardy, along...

Read More >>