I am Canadian and living in the east. These prices as seen in the source article are for groceries sold in the far north (Yukon, NWT, Nunavut). Prices have ALWAYS been sky-high up there on account of shipping costs. In fact, families there find it worth their while to order a year’s worth of supplies from down south, enough to fill a shipping container (and keep the container for storage). Where I am, it’s good farming country, locally grown produce is readily available in season, and prices, though a bit higher than in the US, are still bearable.
Same observations as you - things not that bad in Montreal and Quebec City.
However, beef in Canadian stores was significantly higher than in Northeast US.
I don’t think the cucumber prices are that far out of line. Those are “English” cucumbers, which are expensive here, too. I saw the same kind of cucumber yesterday in Walmart in Mesa, AZ for $2. With a 70-cent Canadian dollar, CDN$3 is about what you’d expect to pay given the exchange rates.
It is a screw for Canadians, of course, to see their food costs go up by 50% due to currency rates on top of the doubling in vegetable prices that we have seen in the past decade here in Arizona.
Thanks for the update and perspective. I sure haven’t seen this reported anywhere else yet. This was the first I had heard of it. I could only pity our friends on Freedominion up there.
Now to get down to business: “our socialist idiot leader is more socialist than your socialist idiot leader!”
Just like prices are always higher in Alaska and Hawaii.
It’s good farming country only as long as global warming lasts. Soon the libs will have you living under 3 miles of ice and they will have saved Gaia!