Source: National Public Radio (NPR)
Year: 2019
“In the most northerly Canadian territory of Nunavut, grocery shopping is expensive. Like, really expensive. So much so that residents regularly post in a Facebook group called Feeding My Family to share photos of high prices at their local stores. A package of vanilla creme cookies: $18.29. A bunch of grapes: $28.58. A container of baby formula: $26.99. Leesee Papatsie, founder of the Facebook group, says she spends at least $500 a week on food for her family of five — and that's just for basics in the capital of Iqaluit, a city of some 7,000 residents. Because it costs a lot to fly goods into communities in remote regions of the Arctic Archipelago, there's not much that can be done to drastically reduce prices, she explains. But that's why — in a territory where about 84% of the population identifies as Inuit — "country food" is still the preferred source of sustenance.”