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We'll all be paying a lot more for food next year, says Canada's Food Price Report
2022 expected to see the biggest annual increase in food bills on record, new report says
Pete Evans · CBC News · Posted: Dec 09, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
Sky-high food prices were one of many negative impacts that Canadians felt during the pandemic-plagued year of 2021. And a new report suggests that problem is only going to get worse next year.
Canada's Food Price Report, released today, is an annual report published by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph that's the most comprehensive set of data currently available about a subject that all Canadians are impacted by: food.
As with everything else, supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on food prices and availability. Weather events such as the heat dome also didn't help put food on the table.
"The meat counter was a big deal this year," said Sylvain Charlebois, the chief researcher on the report and a professor studying food distribution and security at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
"It really pushed food inflation much higher."...
We'll all be paying a lot more for food next year, says Canada's Food Price Report
2022 expected to see the biggest annual increase in food bills on record, new report says
Pete Evans · CBC News · Posted: Dec 09, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
Sky-high food prices were one of many negative impacts that Canadians felt during the pandemic-plagued year of 2021. And a new report suggests that problem is only going to get worse next year.
Canada's Food Price Report, released today, is an annual report published by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph that's the most comprehensive set of data currently available about a subject that all Canadians are impacted by: food.
As with everything else, supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on food prices and availability. Weather events such as the heat dome also didn't help put food on the table.
"The meat counter was a big deal this year," said Sylvain Charlebois, the chief researcher on the report and a professor studying food distribution and security at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
"It really pushed food inflation much higher."...