Friday, June 12, 2015

When $500 Isn’t Enough To Buy Groceries For A Week

High priced food is a given in Canada's north. Leesee Papatsie, an Inuit mother of five can tell you all about it. In Nunavut, the rate of food insecurity is 45.2 percent, by far the highest in the country. The price of food in Papatsie's community is crushing her people and she has set out to do something about it. Her Facebook site Feeding My Family is shedding light on the problem.



Full article: Chatelaine 

This slideshow from Huffington Post provides a shocking perspective of what food costs in the north.

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