Are grocery stores running out of food? Here’s what’s really going on – CBC

Winter weather, Omicron and trucker vaccine mandate are all making it harder right now

Jan 26, 2022

Never mind hockey, maple syrup or Tim Hortons. Canadians seem to have found a new national obsession in recent weeks: Documenting the state of affairs at their local grocery stores, to try to gauge whether or not the country is in the midst of a food-supply crisis.

Provincial premiers, federal MPs, members of various opposition parties and even members of the bastion of sober second thought that is Canada’s Senate have weighed in on the matter, taking pictures of local grocery store shelves as evidence — or a lack thereof — of a looming crisis in Canada’s food supply.

Since most of those doing the picture-taking have a particular agenda to push, as with anything political, the reality is likely somewhere between what partisans on either side are saying.

While no one can pretend there aren’t a lot of empty shelves out there right now, it’s also unfair to suggest there’s some sort of slow-moving famine underway across the country.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocery-store-analysis-1.6326663