210,000 pounds of food was delivered to the Ottawa Food Bank on Saturday, the largest donation in its 40-year history.
Donors helping to unload over 210,000 pounds of food for the Ottawa Food Bank on Saturday, the largest donation in its history. The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App
It shatters the previous record of 182,000 pounds set back in 2013. This most recent donation comes out to about 420,000 meals to go to kids in need, as vital school breakfast and lunch programs go offline for the summer. "I feel amazing helping people in need and doing this to help people who aren’t as lucky as I am," Avalon Public School student Blake Maillet told CTV News on Saturday.
"There's no provincial and federal funding for food banks in Ottawa or Ontario for that matter," she said. "We received about 98 per cent of our funding and food from the community. We really rely on the community and hope they'll continue to support us.
A 93-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to careless driving causing bodily harm in the crash that sent CTV News Kitchener reporter Stephanie Villella to hospital with life-threatening injuries last year. A 32-year-old woman from Brampton has been arrested and charged with impaired driving for the third time in the span of 15 months, say police.A human smuggling ring recently dismantled by members of the RCMP was connected to the deaths of eight migrants who drowned in the St. Lawrence River while trying to cross illegally into the United States last year.
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