Holiday economics: Why canned food drives are awful

With few exceptions, the absolute best way you can help feed the hungry is to give your food bank cold, fungible currency.

For the last three years, the National Post has greeted the yuletide season by publishing the above video. With a simple message of maximizing charitable giving by donating money to the food bank instead of canned goods, it is one PostMedia's most popular videos ever, having reached almost every corner of the English-speaking world.

• Help the poor: Stop donating canned goods to food banks [Ottawa Citizen]