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NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemmy.ca )  to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago

City councillor proposes city-run grocery store to tackle rising food costs

toronto.citynews.ca

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City councillor proposes city-run grocery store to tackle rising food costs

toronto.citynews.ca

NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemmy.ca )  to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago
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For many Torontonians, the weekly grocery run has become stressful. From produce to pantry staples, the cost of food continues to climb, pushing more people toward food banks and leaving some neighbourhoods with limited options for affordable groceries. At least one Toronto councillor says the city should try something bold, and he’s proposing opening city-run […]
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  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace ( ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ) 
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    Just subsidize coops co-ops!

    Edit: I meant cooperatives. Not chicken coops. LoL!

    • TheAsianDonKnots ( TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip ) 
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      Where I’m from there’s city laws, building codes, health inspections, and HOA’s that all make having chicken coop’s impossible/illegal. It makes me so angry. Chickens would eat all the bugs, man… and we have bark scorpions to worry about.

      • USSMojave ( USSMojave@startrek.website ) 
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        I think they’re talking about co-ops but valid, we need more chicken coops too

      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace ( ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ) 
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        🤣🤣🤣🤣

        My friend. While I understand and agree with you, I was talking about co-ops. Cooperatives.

        But yeah I feel the same way. 

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    🤞

    City council is expected to consider the motion at its next meeting on March 25th. If approved, the pilot program would move forward with plans for four locations across the city, though exactly where those stores could go hasn’t been decided yet.

  • DriftingLynx ( DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Cue the lobbyists petitioning Ford to get involved to stop it…

    my fingers are crossed for you Toronto.

  • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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    That is a first tiny step towards the citizens owning their means of production. Now pass some protection laws so we can keep the greedy unions out and keep the costs fairly low.

    • hoserhobbes ( hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca ) 
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      You seriously think high grocery costs are due to unions? How are you both pro-communism and anti-union?

      • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Unions have become big business. There is no confusion.

  • Andrii Zvorygin ( AndriiZvorygin@helpos.ca ) Banned from community
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    Sounds interesting. I am planning similar thing in Owen Sound with mills and cold store rooms etc. So we can localize the food supply chain.

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    As long as when they buy fruit and veg from the farmers that they don’t reject over 40% of it because it doesn’t look aesthetically pleasing, they’ll be able to keep the prices down and the farmers will get a better return

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