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Statistics Canada says Canada’s inflation rate tumbled to 2.8 per cent in June, putting it within the Bank of Canada’s target range. (self.canada)
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Excluding gasoline, headline inflation would have been 4.0% in June, following a 4.4% increase in May.

Canadians continued to see elevated grocery prices (+9.1%) and mortgage interest costs (+30.1%) in June, with those indexes contributing the most to the headline CPI increase.

The all-items excluding food index rose 1.7% and the all-items excluding mortgage interest cost index rose 2.0%.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230718/dq230718a-eng.htm?HPA=1

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[–] zephyreks 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

There needs to be services that directly connect farmers with consumers. The grocery store serves as a middleman that's honestly become rather useless given that many people use another middleman (Instacart, etc.) to actually get their groceries.

I'm open to building one and have a decent way of organizing logistics, but I have no idea how to reach out to farmers (who to reach out to, for what crops, and who is getting the most exploited by grocery stores).

[–] Rodeo 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

For some industries you can't do this because of regulatory capture.

For example dairy. Dairy farmers are not allowed to sell to anyone except the cooperative, who does all the processing and then sells to stores. Since the dairy cartel is in bed with the grocery cartel, good luck breaking in.

Also fo meat, any meat sold in Canada must be inspected at a federal abbatoire. Guess who owns the abbatoires? The big guys, and they're not going to sell to you because the beef cartel is in bed with the grocery cartel.

[–] knivesandchives 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That can't be universally true - you can buy meat from independent farms. Maybe you're correct about logistics at scale, but at the individual farm level, you can definitely purchase meat.

Random link from Google.

[–] EhForumUser 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

at the individual farm level, you can definitely purchase meat.

Yes, unless it is poultry, in which case it controlled much like dairy (with an exemption for hobby-scale farms). Although the abbatoire problem remains, and good luck finding an abbatoire these days.

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