It was earlier this fall, Canada’s food professor dropped a few hints, that prices at the grocery store wouldn’t be coming down anytime soon. In fact, he said the news for 2026 was not good at all when it comes to food prices and the figures would be spelled out this month in a new study by Dalhousie.
The report came out yesterday afternoon and it shows an average family of four in Canada could spend another $1,000 next year on groceries. The latest edition of the food price report expects food prices to rise between four and 6 percent next year, with meat leading the way, and not just beef but chicken too. Sylvain Charlebois, the senior director of the Agri-food lab at Dalhousie was critical of the federal government long before these numbers came out. “If you look at the G7 right now, we’re the only county within the G7 which has seen four consecutive months of food inflation rate increase. We’re not going the right direction right now.”
-With Files From Dean Thorpe-
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