Nutrition North

• Replace Nutrition North with a new strategy, Inuit group urges

  The organization representing Inuit in Canada says the federal government program meant to subsidize the high cost of food in the region, isn't working and should be scrapped.

  Canada

  Jun 9
  
• Feds expand northern grocery subsidy to include feminine hygiene products

  It's the latest tweak to the Nutrition North program intended to reduce the high cost of living for northern families.

  Canada

  Aug 21, 2019
  
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• Food insecurity increasing in Nunavut despite feds’ program to fight hunger: study

  Newly published research has concluded that food insecurity in Nunavut grew after a federal program was brought in to fight hunger in the North.

  Canada

  May 21, 2019
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• Iqaluit’s population turns to Amazon to save money, government program ‘not working’

  Sky-high food prices in the North have led many residents of Iqaluit to turn to Amazon Prime to save on necessities. But is that a sustainable solution?

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2017
• $20 ground beef? Northern Ontario First Nations spend more than 50% of income on food

  First Nations families living in remote parts of Northern Ontario are spending more than half of their income on food in order to meet basic nutritional news, according to a new report.

  Canada

  Sep 12, 2016
• Nutrition North: Hunger in the Arctic

  The federal government's $60-million food subsidy, Nutrition North, is only the latest of the proposed solutions that has stumbled under mismanagement and the enormity of the hunger problem.

  Canada

  Jan 23, 2015
• What went wrong with Nutrition North?

  For years, northerners have complained about Nutrition North to anyone who would listen, grumbling that the $60-million annual federal food subsidy was doing little to ease their staggering grocery costs.

  Canada

  Dec 21, 2014
• Constituents dumpster diving? Aglukkaq reads newspaper rather than answer

  Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is facing criticism after she chose to read a newspaper instead of answer questions on the food crisis in Canada’s north.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2014