A Metro Vancouver social enterprise combating hunger and food waste is asking for community support to stay open as rising costs threaten to shutter its operations, work one local food bank said is vital.
The forecast, published Thursday in the 14th edition of Canada's Food Price Report, also found that B.C.'s food prices increased 5.9 per cent between September 2022 and 2023.
This period of high inflation is certainly a fresh political test for any climate policy that creates a new financial cost for industry or consumers. But in the debate about food prices, the carbon tax is being saddled with an outsized and undeserved role.