Almost one third of Toronto’s entire population visited a food bank last year, an astonishingly large number for a developed North American metropolis.

I went to Fort York with many questions in an effort to find out how the food bank copes with such large demand. But instead of coming away with answers, I quickly fell in love with the men and women who work there. Their pasts, in some cases heartbreaking, and their ambition, in some cases inspiring.