CBC’s annual Sounds of the Season fundraiser for Ontario food banks raised more than a million dollars in 2022.
Of that total, $836,913 was donated in the Greater Toronto Area while another $188,890 was raised in Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Hamilton, Kingston, Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
This year, on the 20th anniversary of the fundraiser, Sounds of the Season also expanded its community activities with donation events in Toronto and Pickering and food drives in communities across the GTA.
54 schools and 43 neighbourhood groups participated in the food drives, collecting 53 thousand pounds (or 24 thousand kilograms) of non-perishable food.