Four police services are joining forces on Thursday, April 2, 2026, to host a community food drive in Cornwall, Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police, Cornwall Police Service, Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are working together to collect food for local children.
The event will take place from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Baxtrom’s Your Independent Grocer, located at 31 Ninth Street East. Residents are encouraged to bring canned goods or boxed meals to the store to help students who do not have enough to eat at home.
All donations will support the Akwesasne Schools Backpack Program, which provides meals for students to take home on weekends and school breaks. The Ahkwesáhsne Mohawk Board of Education manages three schools serving students from the K3 level through grade 8, and this program helps feed children when school meal programs are not running.
Current figures show that about 2.5 million children in Canada live in households that struggle to afford regular meals. Among Indigenous families living off-reserve, approximately 4 in 10 children live in homes that experience food insecurity, a rate significantly higher than the rest of the country.
The Akwesasne territory covers land in Ontario, Quebec, and New York State along the St. Lawrence River. This joint effort by local, provincial, federal, and First Nations police represents a shared goal to help families and students across the community deal with the rising cost of food.
