Stephen Lewis, former Ontario NDP leader and global AIDS advocate, dies at 88

When I can, I cook at home and make my own coffee. My food budget doesn’t care. Coffee is up 30.8 percent year-over-year. Beef is up 16.8 percent. The average family is paying $1,600 more a year on groceries than they were before the pandemic. Canada now outpaces the United States on food inflation, and five chains still control 79 percent of the market. The Grocery Code of Conduct that took effect January 1 won’t change that. It governs how retailers treat suppliers, not how they price milk. With inflation and the cost of living topping Canadians’ concerns by a wide margin in the...