The Messy Reality of Feeding Alaska - Chilkat Valley News

The messy reality of feeding Alaska - Chilkat Valley News

After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state’s food supply chain. It’s hard to remember now — a lot has happened since — but there was a time, back in February and March, when things got rather heated along the traditionally friendly, extremely long and largely unguarded Canada-U.S. border. In response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and talk of annexing Canada, provincial liquor authorities stripped …

The Messy Reality of Feeding Alaska

We know that Alaskan communities pay high prices at the grocery store, largely due to the cost of shipping food by road, water, and air from the lower 48. But with trade tensions simmering between the US and Canada, and the premier of British Columbia threatening to put tolls on trucks headed to the Last Frontier, Eva Holland’s investigation for High Country News discovered that among the obstacles between Alaskans and the food on their table, t…