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When Potatoes Become a Luxury: Canada's Grocery Gouging Can’t Continue

I don’t want to live in a country where pensioners have to put back potatoes, a food that supported millions of lives in desperate times, Columnist Jeremy Nuttall writes.

Dec 23, 2024
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By Jeremy Nuttall

It was a routine wait in the grocery line last year when I personally witnessed the true cost of the grocery price spike. An elderly lady in front of me in the lineup did a double ta…

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