Northmart Targeted By Iqaluit Protesters Over Overpriced, Rotten Food
Monday, June 16, 2014
The Huffington Post Canada
Food at the biggest grocery store in Iqaluit is overpriced, expired and sometimes rotten — and many residents are getting sick of it.
A group protesting the prices stood outside Northmart on Saturday, huddled against the wind, holding colourful signs with slogans like "Greed Doesn't Feed" and "Nutrition? North", a jab at the federal government's contentious food subsidy program, Nunatsiaq News reports.
Leesee Papatsie, who has been organizing protests against expensive, low-quality food for the past three years, told CBC she thinks the grocery store is selling food that they wouldn't dare to sell in southern Canada.
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