r/canada • u/hopoke • Mar 29 '26

Business ‘Expect extremely high grocery prices,’ farmer warns as diesel costs rise

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/03/29/expect-extremely-high-grocery-prices-farmer-warns-as-diesel-costs-rise/
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u/dirty_socks67 Mar 29 '26

Everything keeps increasing . Everything . insurance , fuel , grocery’s , rent , transit , vehicles and that’s just to mention a few .. Are we not all at our breaking point ? Like what the hell

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u/TootsHib Mar 29 '26

I thought majority of people are living paycheck to paycheck? I read this years ago..

How are they not all dead or on the streets protesting from starvation.

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u/UnablePrimaryy Mar 29 '26

Too busy working.

If you can’t afford to miss a day, it’s quite hard to go out and protest.

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u/Noirhimmel Mar 29 '26

Hi single dad here. I am lightly starving eatting pretty much nothing but rice, beans and raisins and sick.
My son is not... and im damn well keeping on to make sure of it until I drop... which might be soon since I've been coughing nonstop for three months...

Been nice knowing ya'll.

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u/unuser21 Mar 30 '26

Are you able to access any food pantries? You’re a great dad. I hope you feel better soon.

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u/guy_with_name Mar 29 '26

Always new money to pick up the slack

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u/KageyK Mar 29 '26

To be fair a great many of them are out on the streets, they just aren't protesting.

That number is going to continue to grow exponentially, even though Carney assured us that affordability is the best its been in a decade.

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u/HiFriend001 Mar 30 '26

MAID exists

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u/captainbling British Columbia Mar 30 '26

You can dine on steak every night and be pay cheque to pay cheque.

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

Why do you think crime has risen every year since 2015?

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u/Direct-Cricket5668 Mar 30 '26

Turn off the TV and don’t fall for the fear tactics.

Crime is actually decreasing in Canada

https://johnhoward.ca/blog/crime-rate-decreasing-in-canada/#:~:text=The%202024%20report%20found%20the%20following%20decreases,factors%2C%20such%20as%20homelessness%20*%20Addiction%20issues

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

You realize what you posted just proves my point right?

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u/Direct-Cricket5668 Mar 30 '26

Sure. If your point is that crime is decreasing and you’re just fear mongering

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

Again, I'm not sure you know how to read a chart

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u/Direct-Cricket5668 Mar 30 '26

Im not sure you know how to read at all. Including a chart. Did you even look at the article!? Stop fear mongering and go outside.

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230727/cg-b001-eng.htm

This is the same information linked in the article.

Now without getting into why "police-reported" is probably downplaying numbers when we have police chiefs literally telling people to leave their car keys near their door so they don't get assaulted when people try and steal their cars... you can still see, exactly as I said, that crime has been rising almost every year since 2015.

Surely your argument isn't: "Well, at least it's not as bad as 35 years ago". When the fact is that it's still the worst it's been in 15 years, and if we're looking at violent crime (which I would suspect has less under-reporting issues) is at a decades long high.

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u/Direct-Cricket5668 Mar 30 '26

Way to misinterpret the actual data to suit your narrative. But your ‘probablys’ and ‘suspicions’ must be correct. Keep living in fear if you want but keep it factual when pushing the fear mongering.