Research

Canada’s Food Price Report 2025 predicts Canadian families will spend up to $801 more on food next year

Canada’s Food Price Report 2025 predicts Canadian families   will spend up to $801 more on food next year

The 2025 report forecasts overall food prices will increase by 3% to 5% at a time when 8.7 million Canadians are living in food-insecure households.  Read more.

Featured News

Alison Auld
Friday, December 20, 2024
A new lithium-ion EV battery material being studied by Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers lasts for 10 times more charge-discharge cycles compared to a conventional battery, potentially powering cars for eight million kilometres.
Andrew Riley
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
A Dal social work researcher whose reports have exposed problems such as overcrowded housing and compensation issues will have more avenues to inform policy under a new Memorandum of Understanding.
Alison Auld
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Millions die every year due to bacterial infections that are growing more resistant to antibiotics. Dal researchers and their partners are addressing that threat head-on.

Archives - Research

Ajay Parasram
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
If political parties respect voters and focus on policy rather than polls and partisan hackery, Canadians might have something substantive to choose from when the next federal election is called.
Q. Casey
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Halifax-based Coloursmith leveraged support from Creative Destruction Lab - Atlantic, the Â鶹´«Ã½-based arm of the global startup program, and is now working with the vision care industry to commercialize its technology that helps colourblind people see colour more vividly.
Theresa Anne Salah
Friday, August 9, 2024
Building a communications network to study environmental conditions in the harsh North Atlantic comes with its challenges. This Dal engineer is helping develop a solution.
Kenneth Conrad
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson toured Dal’s battery labs and met with student researchers during a visit to announce $10.15 million in funding for the Canadian Battery Innovation Centre.
W. Dominika Wranik, Nachum Gabler
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Overlooking the impacts of remote work on motivation may have unexpected consequences for Canadian public services and policies, write Faculty of Managaement researchers Dominika Wranik and Nachum Gabler.