• Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Food insecurity in Canada’s north is a frequent news headline. For years statistics have shown that one in every two households in Nunavut face shortages of healthy food – whereas the Canadian average is one in eight.1 Many Canadians likely feel this is inevitable – if the cold climate and tundra landscape do not allow for agriculture, and southern food sources are thousands of miles away, it makes sense that food would be expensive and hard to come by, right?...
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