Government-run grocery stores and longer airport runways among suggestions to decrease Nunavut food prices

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Residents, retailers and an academic all have strategies on how to bring down the high price of groceries in Nunavut. No matter what the proposed solution, it’s going to involve the federal government investing money, according to Nicholas Li, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University. In both Greenland and Mexico, government-owned grocery stores are used to subsidize prices. “Greenland, outside of the capital, most communities are served by this chain of stores and it…