Ontario cars bound for Vietnam, Nigeria had VINs ‘altered with such precision,’ police say

OTTAWA — As someone who has lived in Canada for just a little over three years, Victoria Lavrynenko has an easy baseline for gauging grocery prices. When she and her family moved to Canada from Ukraine, a package of four chicken breasts was about $10. Now, she says, while scanning the poultry section with her husband and son at a Loblaw affiliate in her Ottawa neighbourhood, the price of that same package of chicken is consistently about 40-50 per cent higher. Lavrynenko says she tries to kill two birds with one stone by shopping around to get both the best prices and the healthiest...