London businesses continue to show they care with huge haul for food banks
Jack Sutton
Published: Dec 19, 2025
Updated: Dec 19, 2025
CBC News
Excerpt
London's biggest holiday food drive filled the Western Fair Agriplex with hundreds of boxes of non-parishables and left the London Food Bank with thousands of additional dollars in donations.
The Business Cares Food Drive collected 315,247 kg or 695,000 lbs of food, worth just over $2 million, which was calculated Friday when the campaign wrapped up.
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