More than one-third of Nunavut households go hungry: StatsCan – Nunatsiaq News
March 26, 2015
“The Conservatives have refused to acknowledge how ineffectual Nutrition North has been”
A new report from Statistics Canada confirms what most Nunavummiut already know: that the territory has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country.
The report, Food Insecurity in Canada, released March 25, found more than one-third of Nunavut households don’t get enough to eat.
In 2011-12, an estimated 36.7 per cent of Nunavummiut struggled with food insecurity, the StatsCan report said — more than four times the Canadian average of 8.3 per cent.
Read More: http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674more_than_one-third_of_nunavut_households_go_hungry_stat_can/