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Sylvain Charlebois: How food inflation hijacked Valentine’s Day

This year, couples will be looking for ways to avoid sky high prices in restaurants

14.02.2026 10

National Post

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Canada chooses to dump milk rather than lower prices

10.02.2026 10

Troy Media

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Health Canada’s approval of unlabelled gene-edited pork is a mistake

01.02.2026 10

Troy Media

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Is Carney’s GST credit boost just political theatre?

28.01.2026 10

Troy Media

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Trade with China, but don’t fall in love

26.01.2026 20

St. Catharines Standard

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Canada has a policy-driven food inflation problem

22.01.2026 20

Troy Media

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Opinion: Don’t bet the farm on a dying deal

What Carney’s trip to Beijing revealed: Ottawa knows CUSMA could collapse before year’s end.

19.01.2026 20

Calgary Herald

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Carney chooses reality over ideology with China deals

19.01.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

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Why Carney changed course on China

17.01.2026 10

Troy Media

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Opinion: McDonald’s fast-food fight about more than burger prices

15.01.2026 30

Windsor Star

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McDonald’s price freeze is bad economic news for Canada

15.01.2026 10

Troy Media

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Opinion: Canada could lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026 Speak with operators, suppliers, landlords, insurers, or lenders and a consistent picture emerges: Closures are accelerating, balance sheets are deteriorating, and survival increasingly depends on short-term coping strategies rather than long-term viability.

14.01.2026 20

Edmonton Journal

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Canada is poised to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026. Does anyone care?

13.01.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

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Opinion: Fewer kids, more pets – but Canada's food system isn’t ready

12.01.2026 20

Windsor Star

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Canada is on track to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026

09.01.2026 10

Troy Media

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Charlebois: Get ready for grocery store AI to dictate what you pay for food

06.01.2026 10

Windsor Star

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Pet food is becoming a basic necessity in Canada

06.01.2026 10

Troy Media

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Opinion: Why Trump's challenge to Canada's dairy supply management matters for consumers

'The uncomfortable irony is that the only political figure with sufficient leverage to challenge Canada’s dairy orthodoxy is not Canadian,' writes...

04.01.2026 20

National Post

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Opinion: When your grocery bill starts pricing you With the rapid adoption of digital shelf labels, dynamic pricing can now be deployed inside physical grocery stores.

27.12.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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When your grocery bill starts pricing you

23.12.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

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Opinion: The grocery store checkout is not the crime scene

20.12.2025 30

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Why is Canada paying for dairy ‘losses’ during a boom?

16.12.2025 10

Troy Media

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Sylvain Charlebois: The quiet transformation of Canada’s grocery industry 

15.12.2025 20

National Post

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Taxing food is like slapping a surcharge on hunger. It needs to end

11.12.2025 10

Troy Media

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Questioning quotas

Every once in a while, someone inside a tightly protected system decides to say the quiet part out loud. That is what Joel Fox, a dairy farmer from...

11.12.2025 10

Castanet

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Opinion: Economics, user trust causing rethink of self-checkouts

06.12.2025 30

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Opinion: Many in Sask. among Canadians grappling with food affordability

29.11.2025 20

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Grocery shopping habits

Canada’s relationship with food is shifting in ways that should concern all of us. The latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index: Fall 2025, produced by...

28.11.2025 10

Castanet

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Bovaer works to cut methane emissions, but Ottawa acts like the risks to farmers don’t matter

26.11.2025 10

Troy Media

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Ottawa wants to keep beef prices high

25.11.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

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Opinion: Ottawa wants to keep beef prices high — deliberately

22.11.2025 20

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Patriotic shopping

Countless surveys have told us Canadians want to buy Canadian. They say they want to support local farmers and processors, keep dollars at home and...

22.11.2025 9

Castanet

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Made in Canada pride is back on the grocery shelf

14.11.2025 10

Troy Media

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The origin of our food

Cloned-animal foods could soon enter Canada’s food supply with no labels identifying them as cloned and no warning to consumers—a move that risks...

11.11.2025 8

Castanet

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'Reckless diplomacy'

The real threat to Canadian exporters isn’t U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, it’s Ottawa and Queen’s Park’s (home of the Ontario...

05.11.2025 10

Castanet

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Sylvain Charlebois: Ford’s trade tantrum costs Canada

30.10.2025 30

PNI Atlantic news

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Cloned foods are coming to a grocer near you

30.10.2025 10

Troy Media

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Canada’s combative trade tactics are backfiring

28.10.2025 10

Troy Media

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Grocery prices rising again

After months of relative calm, grocery prices have surged again since spring, driven by tariffs, weather disruptions, and a weakening Canadian dollar....

25.10.2025 8

Castanet

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Opinion: On food security, Liberals' temp foreign worker plan is better

22.10.2025 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Opinion: Phones replacing Canadian kitchens, including Saskatchewan's

22.10.2025 100

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Opinion: Counter-tariffs — Canada’s self-inflicted food bill

22.10.2025 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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The painful return of food inflation exposes Canada’s trade failures

22.10.2025 10

Troy Media

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Don’t buy the hype. Canola oil is good for you

17.10.2025 10

Troy Media

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Opinion: Tim’s coffee just got pricier — get used to it According to Statistics Canada, coffee prices in grocery stores have risen by 32 per cent since January, primarily due to higher import costs and global market distortions caused by tariffs.

15.10.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Reliance on foreign workers

Canada’s food industry has become addicted to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program . The numbers tell a sobering story. In just a few months of...

14.10.2025 10

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

Canada’s food industry addicted to temporary foreign workers

10.10.2025 20

Troy Media

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Coffee prices rising

It was only a matter of time before Canada’s coffee chains began adjusting prices. Tim Hortons was first out of the gate, announcing a price hike of...

08.10.2025 8

Castanet

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Sylvain Charlebois: Milking the myth: Why Ottawa can’t keep dairy off the table

07.10.2025 10

PNI Atlantic news

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Thanksgiving a little cheaper

Every October, millions of Canadian families gather around the Thanksgiving table to share turkey, potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Beyond being a cherished...

03.10.2025 10

Castanet

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