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Submitted by David on Tue, 2012-07-03 23:38
$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern Canada
I'd say that the simplest solution would be not living in Northern Canada. Of course, the article also has this to say: "According to one comment on the Facebook group, it’s often more cost-effective to fly to Edmonton, Alberta, do your shopping there, and fly home. (That alone is a pretty good indication that shipping costs are not exclusively to blame.)"
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David

Tue, 2012-07-03 23:56

BTW, I went to First Air's website (they're probably the main carrier in the Canadian North, and looked up the price of a flight from Iqualit to Ottawa (from the capital and probably biggest city in Nunavut - i.e. also likely the cheapest - to the nearest major Canadian city). Round trip flight cost: $1946 CDN (not sure if that was tax inclusive or not). Could carry two suitcases of up to 32 kg each, or adding $100, a total of 90kg between the two. Suppose the human passenger weighed another 75kg (about the Canadian average). That's 165kg.

That gives $2000/165kg transported. That suggests you're should be paying about $12/kg for the goods you get transported on your round trip journey (eliminating yourself from the list of edible stuff on the return flight means a premium of about $22/kg for each bit of food flown in.

Hate to say it, but that $28 cabbage may not be an unreasonable price.

David

Tue, 2012-07-03 23:58

Oh... and flying roundtrip to Edmonton from Iqualit is about $3000 if picking the cheapest available route.