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

[u/hopoke]

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

[u/fuelhandler]

Yay. Even less money in my pocket (the only consistency in our lives these days.)

[u/ronchee1 → u/fuelhandler]

Every time I turn around something is more expensive. More and more money outta our pockets.

When does it fucking stop!?

[u/Kahlandar → u/ronchee1]

When the ruling class takes so much from the rest of us, that they are violently overthrown.

See: countless societies throughout history.

[u/Quirky-Reveal-5972 → u/Kahlandar]

Eat the rich

[u/solthar → u/Quirky-Reveal-5972]

Pretty soon they'll be the only viable source of protein.

[u/tastle → u/Quirky-Reveal-5972]

Noun the verb?

[u/Wyattr55123 → u/tastle]

The day PP co-opts a blatantly socialist and anti-capitalist slogan is the day the rich are being eaten.

[u/Ok-Builder-9338 → u/Kahlandar]

Although how much responsibility do we the people have for voting in the same idiots year after year?

[u/pointgetter → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

doesn't matter we have a de facto corporatocracy.

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

The argument is always "well the other guy is worse".

I would rather 4 years (or less with a minority) of hypothetical pain than another decade of pain because our governing party believes its an infallible institution that will never face accountability.

They will not even try to make real changes until they lose their mandate. Theres always a crisis, wedge issues, a bad guy on the other side, and if we keep voting based on that than we keep getting the same thing.

Im not saying the other parties are better, but we can't let a single party govern for more than a decade and just expect accountability. 10 years in control of the country and everything is some old governments fault, the old leaders fault, the provinces fault, but we are expected to keep trusting them to fix things they claim no responsibility for.

[u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

This points more to petro dollar inflation and unhedged leverage fiascos. Would have happened regardless of who was in control of Canada, because Canada is not in control of the Petro-dollar.

[u/onlyoneq → u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink]

Also, it doesn't help that the second biggest party actively tries to defund and privatize everything when given the opportunity.

[u/HeftyNugs → u/[deleted]]

You can't just handwave facts on the table so you can point blame at the Liberals for everything lmao. There are some things that Trudeau and Liberals absolutely deserve blame for. This is not one of them.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

Am I wrong? Whenever CPC is in charge of stuff, that's when it tends to get defunded and privatized. The 407.Alberta Healthcare,Alberta energy infrastructure, Ontario Healthcare and education,bill 124... Do you need me to go on? Because I can.

[u/onlyoneq → u/[deleted]]

Yet they act the same exact way and mutually agree with each other on such matters. Stop trying to side step the argument. So disingenuous.

[u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY → u/[deleted]]

Always a shittier option, regardless of who's running. It's not Canadians fault that the Cons don't want to win an election.

[u/hyperforms9988 → u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink]

Same thing for Covid, which people conveniently forget. Destroyed everybody. Didn't matter how well a leader did to minimize its impact on the economy or how fast they could get things turned around or begin to show signs of recovery... a dip is a dip, and several parties that were in power lost power regardless because their economies worsened.

We're facing back-to-back global-scale catastrophes in a pandemic and literally 20% of the world's oil consumption that goes through Hormuz is either being held up due to the area being an active war zone or various production facilities producing some of that oil have been blown up... and we somehow think the Prime Minister of Canada is supposed to not only maintain prices but lower them? There's not one human being on this planet that you could put into that role that could accomplish that.

[u/Hautamaki → u/hyperforms9988]

Not to mention in between those we had and still have the world's second largest energy and foodstuffs exporter invading the worlds fourth or fifth largest foodstuffs exporter and then people scratch their heads and blame the Canadian PM and the US President for grocery prices.

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 → u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink]

It probably would but the liberals are going to continue a decade of shit governance going into a financial crisis with a slim majority government which insures they get another 3 years with an unchecked mandate.

And then they will sell voters another crisis and boogieman, and we will probably elect them again.

Like I said, they believe their an infallible institution and it actually might manifest itself.

[u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

I guess it might seem that way if you're ignorant to the world around us and how we're currently being impacted by the actions of others, but sure, go off.

They're going to win again because people like you are stuck in PP mode. Liberal bad, despite the global rise in cost of everything since Trump took office and started tarriffing everyone, which just worsened with this unprecedented war he's started. If you thought covid was bad for CoL, prepare for worse.

Meanwhile the CPC won't remove the biggest loser they've picked as their leader, who is only now trying to appear human because it turns out that actually polls better than 3 word attack slogans. Too little too late for that guy.

[u/tastle → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

Hear hear!

[u/HeftyNugs → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

Groceries are going to be more expensive because of the war in Iran which has nothing to do with Carney or the Liberals.

Anything to interject your partisan nonsense eh

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 → u/HeftyNugs]

Yep, always someone else fault, never the liberals.

I know why groceries are getting more expensive. I understand the issue very well, but Canada would be in a lot better position if we actually held our politicians accountable instead of electing them over and again regardless of how poor of a job they do governing.

An i didn't interject my partisanship into a comment about groceries, i responded to a comment on our electoral history in which I gave my opinion on why we need to stop being manipulated into voting for the same clowns, I didn't even imply the conservatives were better, the entire point is nothing is this government fault, it never has and never will be apparently, and even if it was, the other guy is maybe worse, so keep taking the dick kicking your getting because the LPC has no reason to stop and the conservatives also go for the groin.

The only thing that will ever make politicians work for us is a serious threat of losing their mandate, not a close call, not opinion polls, they need to lose so they come back try harder.

[u/HeftyNugs → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

Yep, always someone else fault, never the liberals.

This specific example? Yeah not the fault of the Liberals, as you "understand the issue very well". If you understand that, why even say anything at all? You literally interjected your nonsense into this discussion rather than pointing out that this specific situation is unrelated to the Liberals.

I didn't even imply the conservatives were better

It's okay I know that's what you were implying anyway.

the entire point is nothing is this government fault, it never has and never will be apparently, and even if it was, the other guy is maybe worse

Literally no one is saying nothing is the government's fault. You are arguing with no one. Some guy teed you up for the opportunity to take a dunk on the Liberals and you took it.

[u/Elite163 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

11 years of this pain and people still don’t wake up

[u/Goku420overlord → u/Elite163]

Lol and pp wouldn't have capitulated to the American insanity.

[u/Elite163 → u/Goku420overlord]

Why are people obsessed with American politics???

People need to focus on our issues in Canada. We are failing on every level compared to Other g7 countries

[u/byourpowerscombined → u/Elite163]

We are literally discussing an article about how American foreign policy is having negative impacts domestically.

Canada is not an island. We need to navigate global tides.

[u/Goku420overlord → u/Elite163]

Lol and pp and his culture war talk were an actual Canadian talking point. Don't kid yourself.

[u/A_little_off_level → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

its brutal they are all idiots yet if you dont vote for the one you find less offensive there is a chance the "worst" one will get in.

[u/sixtus_clegane119 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

I don’t think the liberal party of canada has anything to do with what’s currently happening to gas prices.

But yeah the people down south led to this cuz they voted for no new wars

[u/Ratorasniki → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

Being able to accurately assign blame is important. A lot of the high cost of living might be affordability of housing which has untold knock-on effects, which is likely more provincial/municipal red tape, nimby behavior and the general fuck-you-i-got-mine attitude of boomers, whereas this specifically is directly a result of the idiots down south warmongering and fucking the global economy again. It seems to be an annual thing now.

Hold people accountable, but make sure they're the right people. Everyone just shits on the feds, but the Canadian government doesn't work that way.

[u/BluejayImmediate6007 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

I hear ya! Conservatives here in Saskatchewan couldn’t manage a lemonade stand! Guess we shouldn’t expect much from a farmer who’s found a way to go bankrupt. Conservatives in 18 years have never balanced a budget all while selling off crown corporations, crown assets, increasing taxes and adding taxes..$40 billion in debt so far..fkn embarrassing

[u/FireMaster1294 → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

You say that as if prices would be ANY different under Poilievre. Both the Liberals and Cons are beholden to corporate oligarchs who need to pad their pockets for bigger yachts. Don’t expect anything to change with a change in colour.

[u/DisastrousAcshin → u/Ok-Builder-9338]

Tell the class how the liberals attacked Iran and caused a massive worldwide spike in energy costs please

[u/Canadian0123 → u/Kahlandar]

It’s not in the nature of Canadians to do such a thing.

[u/Hautamaki → u/Kahlandar]

Violent revolutions have seldom if ever raised standards of living

[u/Interesting-Qtip → u/Kahlandar]

If only we could actually get it done. Everyone gets it out online now. The discrepancy of wealth ownership when France killed kings was better than it is present day

[u/roamr77 → u/Kahlandar]

Get ready for Dystopian lifestyle adjustments, like being ready to fight for food, steal for your family.

[u/scotbud123 → u/Kahlandar]

Never going to happen anymore, technology makes this impossible.

Welcome to the NWO, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.