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Food insecurity is on the rise in Alberta. The University of Toronto’s 2021 Household Food Insecurity in Canada Report found that Alberta faces the highest food insecurity among the 10 Canadian provinces. The report used data from 54,000 Canadian households included in Statistics Canada’s 2021 Canadian Income Survey (CIS) and concluded that 20.3 per cent of households in Alberta are food insecure. “Household food insecurity is a marker of material deprivation, tightly linked to other indicators of social and economic disadvantage. Households with lower incomes are more likely to be food-insecure,” read the report. Alberta also has the highest rates of severe food insecurity in the country at 6.3 per cent — these households have less than three meals a day, or skip multiple meals in a row due to financial constraints. Food insecurity was highest within homes that face the most social determinants, such as single mother, low income and Indigenous households. Alberta was once the oil province — one that attracted multi-billion dollar companies and created jobs across the socioeconomic ladder. For years, Alberta’s government had a surplus of funds, which they used to increase wages for teachers in 2007 and pension for seniors in Alberta . […]
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