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Nunavut residents protest high food prices
Ottawa :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Protests against the high cost of food took place across Nunavut and in Ottawa Saturday. The issue has drawn more attention in recent weeks since the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food visited Canada last month. The Facebook group 'Feeding My
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Northern Canadian Communities Keep Food Subsidy As Is - For Now
The federal government through its Indian Affairs and Northern Development sought to institute changes to the food subsidies paid to northern and isolated Canadian communities through its Nutrition North Canada programme. The
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Food prices skyrocket in the Canadian Arctic.
Prices of food in Canadian Arctic communities are soaring. There are no roads to most communities so most food must be flown in although in the summer supplies may come by ship. With the increase in aviation fuel costs food prices far
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Grocery bills spike after Ottawa scraps food mail subsidies to North
Ottawa :: Canada | over 2 years ago
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However high you think your grocery bills are, they're bound to be worse in Arctic Bay a standard jug of cranberry cocktail sells there for $38.99, eight times more than it would in Southern Canada. The remote Nunavut hamlet has seen food prices
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Northern food subsidy drops some goods
Toronto :: Canada | over 2 years ago
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ET The federal Nutrition North program subsidizes the cost of transporting some grocery items to remote northern communities. (CBC) Ice cream, bacon, garlic bread and bottled water are among the items that may get more expensive in Canada's remote
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