For people across Canada and beyond, rising costs and inflation have been hitting them hard.
In northwestern Ontario, higher living costs have meant some First Nations are finding creative solutions to an ongoing and longstanding problem.
Since October, Whitesand First Nation — which is 250 kilometres, or about a three-hour drive, north of Thunder Bay — has been holding a community food market every Wednesday since last October.
Community members in the Ojibway First Nation can access fresh fruits and vegetables, along with other items like bread, at an affordable price — and they’re all brought to their community
Angela Nodin, health co-ordinator for Whitesand First Nation, said people there originally heard about such a food market after the
