Shaw donates $250K to food bank initiative

CALGARY - Shaw and its partnering organizations have more than doubled their goal of raising one million pounds of food for registered food banks across Canada, prompting the company to donate $250,000 in cash to the cause. The Fill the Food Banks initiative, the first launched under Shaw’s ‘Together is Amazing’ charitable campaign, ran from September 20 - November 15. Shaw matched 350,000 pounds and Campbell Canada matched 300,000 pounds of food as part of the national food giving program which also included Safeway Canada. Including the matching 650,000 pounds of food, the final total came to 2,612,633 lbs of food. CEO Brad...