TORONTO – Nearly $1,000 more per family to buy food: 2026 is shaping up to be a more expensive year for Canadians, according to the Canada’s Food Price Report (CFPR) realized by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), a group of experts from several Canadian universities coordinated by Professor Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University, who is the study’s lead author. According to the report, an average family of four will pay approximately $994.63 more for food in 2026 than this year. This increase, which brings total estimated annual food spending to $17,571.79 per family (from 16,577.16 in 2025), stems from a forecast of 4% to 6% food inflation for 2026. →
TORONTO – According to new data from Statistics Canada, more young people under the age of 18 were charged with homicide in Canada in 2024 than in the previous year—an increase that occurs despite the national homicide rate declining slightly.
TORONTO – Food bank use in Ontario has reached another record, with over one million people relying on emergency food services a full 8.7 million times in the past year. This new figure, another negative record, is highlighted in the latest report from “Feed Ontario” published Monday. →
TORONTO — The Ontario government has decided to take control of another School Board, the Near North District School Board (NNDSB), after a ministerial review confirmed “deep-rooted dysfunction and mismanagement that have eroded public confidence”. The Education Minister led by Paul Calandra, therefore, after having placed a series of education boards under supervision, is now also using newly broadened powers of oversight and authority enabled by last month’s Royal Assent of the Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025, and, through these, has placed the NNDSB under his direct control.
OTTAWA — Canada is cutting, for the first time, its contribution to the Global Fund, a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world’s poorest countries. And the head of the United Nations HIV/AIDS program, Winnie Byanyima (in the pic above, from her Twitter profile – @Winnie_Byanyima), is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government’s planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding.
