It's hard to eat healthy

The [Heart and Stroke Foundation]'s annual report on Canadians' Health also revealed what it called "startling discrepancies" in the cost and availability of basic healthy food from province to province.

"Depending on where you live, some Canadians are often paying more than double to almost six times the price for the same basic healthy food," the report said. ... "You have to wonder why we control the price of alcohol but allow such price inconsistencies for healthy food — and not just in remote regions of the country — but even between larger metropolitan areas."

... The only items that showed little price variation and accessibility from one community to the next were pop, chips and cookies, which Canada's Food Guide recommends be consumed less frequently.

Source: Calgary Herald

Just like in other cases, government may be partly to blame.

I do find it curious though that there are price controls on booze but not on the amount that can be charged for, e.g., a ear of corn). That said, the European Union recently got rid of a bunch of regulations on food, but their requirements for veggies were overkill and quite wasteful.