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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.

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Keahna Margeson
Monday, November 20, 2023
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Dal PhD candidate Joseph Bedard won the prestigious Falling Walls global competition in Berlin, Germany last week for his pitch on using air to create plastics. Read our Q&A with this researcher on the rise.
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A Â鶹´«Ã½ lab built a mock MRI machine to prepare kids to participate in their reading comprehension study. Now, they’re offering the equipment up for use by other researchers who need to build kids’ capacity for ‘lying-still-time.’
Andrew Riley
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