Many food items are significantly more expensive at the grocery store today than they were a year ago in Canada. Leading the pack is rice, with a year-over-year increase of 48.9%, according to Statistics Canada. The spike is largely driven by export restrictions in key producing countries such as India and Thailand. Grapes come second with a 34.1% jump, likely the result of Canadian grocers pivoting away from U.S. suppliers this past winter—many stores carried grapes from South Africa, Peru, and Chile instead.

Other notable price increases are linked to Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs, especially on U.S. goods like coffee and oranges. These items have risen well over 25% in the past year—an outcome that was both foreseeable and politically driven.

But what stands out in the data is the rise

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