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Posted: Dec 11, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
A file photo from May 2018. Fresh fruit are some of the most expensive items in Nunavut. A Nutrition North representative says the cost of flour after subsidies is now comparable to southern Canadian prices, because of COVID-19 funding. (Nick Murray/CBC News)
Relief funding for the COVID-19 pandemic has been effective in increasing access to food in remote northern communities but it s also revealed the true extent of food insecurity that Nunavut households face.
Because many communities are using pandemic relief funds to give out food hampers during isolation and school closures, food sales have increased in the territory, said Wayne Walsh, who oversees the Nutrition North program, during a parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs on Dec. 8.