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The latest report on food prices in Canada confirms what the working class, and especially the most vulnerable in society, already know: Nutritious food is quickly becoming a luxury item in one of the world’s most advanced and wealthiest capitalist countries. Along with access to higher education, quality healthcare, proper housing or even a decent-paying job, nutritious food options are now on the list of things that are, or may soon be, unattainable for the vast majority of the population. Above: A homeless encampment in Kitchener, Ontario, in front of the former Krug Furniture factory