{
  "id": 406367,
  "title": "N.L. has a hard bread shortage — but why do we eat it in the first place?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/n-l-has-a-hard-bread-shortage-but-why-do-we-eat-it-in-the-first-place",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-09T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-hard-bread-history-shortage-9.7299276"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}