{"id":585850,"date":"2026-04-06T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:02:21","slug":"food-prices-up-six-per-cent-year-over-year-in-february-statistics-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585850\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Prices Up Six Per Cent Year Over Year in February: Statistics Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/chicken-grocery-store-country-ribbon.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Food Prices Up Six Per Cent Year Over Year in February: Statistics Canada\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The average increase in the price of food this February compared to February 2025 was up by almost six per cent according to Statistics Canada. <\/p>\n<p>In Newfoundland and Labrador, the largest item increase was fresh or frozen beef, which jumped by almost 17 per cent over that 12-month span. Pork rose by nearly 10 per cent in that period and chicken by almost four. <\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t much change in this province in the price of fish or fresh vegetables while cereal actually ended up costing less over that time.  <\/p>\n<p>Sylvain Charlerbois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, expects costs to go up again over the next while, mainly because of the war in Iran and the increase in fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to other countries, we tend not to be able to absorb geo-political shock like others, and the Iranian war is not going to help,\u201d said Charlebois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The average increase in the price of food this February compared to February 2025 was up by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-585850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}