On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:58:00 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:56:45 -0500, George
wrote:

On 12/7/2012 6:17 PM, wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:43 pm, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:22:53 -0600, " Attila Iskander"

wrote:
Best country in the world - and goofs like you staying away will help
keep it that way.

Arguable point about "best country in the world"
And Canada has it's share of "goofs".

_$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern
Canada _

"...Its not just food, either €” necessary sundries like diapers and
sanitary napkins are also outrageously expensive."

http://grist.org/list/28-cabbage-65-chicken-and-other-insane-food-pri...



Good find, my friend. Where's HomelessGuy when you need him?
According to him, why everything is peachy keen up there in Canada
with a perfect economy and bad
stuff only happens in the USA. At least here peppers and cabbage
don't cost $15 a pound.


Not disputing troubled "home guy" but how much do you suppose it adds to
the cost of a crate of produce if you load it on an airplane with 5
other crates and fly it 1,000 miles into the most distant of the
Northwest territories?

Rom Northern Air Cargo website:
http://www.nacargo.com/shipping/rates.php

The formula to calculate total charges is weight x /lb. rate x current
fuel surcharge x tax = total

For example: a 72 lb. widget from Anchorage to Bethel would be charged
as follows;

72 lb. x .74 (rate) = $53.28
$53.28 x 12% (fuel*) = $59.67
$59.67 x 6.25% (tax) = $63.40 total charges

Effective Date: January 01, 2011

That is AMERICAN North on scheduled flights.

InnCanada, First Air, flying from Resolute to Arctic Bay,1-10KG is
$40/kg11-15Kg is $50/Kg, 16-20 is $67/kg, 21-25 is $83/kg, all the way
up to 41-44KG at $141/kg.

So, you get a pallet of cabbage, weighing 35KG into Resolute and want
to ship it to Arctic Bay, it will cost you $3990 to ship it. Say each
cabbage weighs 1Kg (2.2 lbs) the cost per cabbage is $141.

That's just the "base charge" - on top of that, add a 6.5% NavCanada
surcharge and a 20% fuel surcharge.

Resolute to Arctic Bay is a short hop. 35 Kg to Pond Inlet is $849 per
Kg according to the Domestic Cargo Rates published by First Air at
http://www.firstair.ca/flying/tariff...c-cargo-rates/.

You don't have to take my word for it - you can look it up and read it
yourself. However, the population of Pond Inlet is 1549 people.
Arctic Bay is 823. Resoltute bay is something like 225. Pangnirtung is
1325. And miles of nothing in between.

In comparison, I can ship that same pallet of cabbage today from
Waterloo Ontario to Victoria BC for $387 - guaranteed delivery by 9am
tuesday - or by next friday for $137.
Just found more - from Winnipeg to Edmonton, 1-6kg =$70, 7-97kg is
$10.14/kg, and 486kg and up is $9.68/kg by air.

From Winnipeg to Pangnirtung, 1-5kg is $47
6-98Kg is only 8.95/kg - Pretty reasonable when you come down to it -
but that is from a main city hub, where fuel costs and everything else
are a lot lower - and scheduled flights are used. Those hypothetical
cabbages would get to Pangnirtung from Winterpeg for $312.55 - a cost
of $8.95 each.