Statistics Canada's consumer price index report said while the country's annual inflation rate dropped slightly to 6.9 per cent in September
SASKATOON — Laurie O'Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as prices in grocery stores rise out of reach.
, the cost of groceries continued to climb. Grocery prices increased at the fastest rate since August 1981, with prices up 11.4 per cent compared to a year ago. The survey said people in the Prairie provinces were much more likely to have used emergency measures for food. Quebec saw the starkest difference from the Prairies, as 95 per cent of respondents there said they could afford to eat a balanced diet.
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