Prices are displayed for oranges at a store in Atawapiskat, Ontario, December 17, 2011. A new report from the Northern Policy Institute references figures that show feeding a family in a remote community like Attawapiskat costs $800 more each month than it does in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/Pool/Reuters) When Eric Melillo started looking into food insecurity in Ontario’s north, he was well aware that prices would be higher than in southern Ontario. Still, the author of a new paper from the Northern Policy Institute, digging into the high cost of healthy eating in the province’s north, said he was surprised […]
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