Seventy per cent of Inuit preschoolers in Nunavut live in homes where there isn’t enough food, a situation with implications for children’s development, said a McGill University researcher.
The average Nunavut family with young children is paying close to $430 a week for groceries, double the price for a family of the same size in the south, says professor Grace Egeland of the McGill Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment.