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Sylvain Charlebois

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Canada needs new strategy

The scene in the Oval Office on Feb. 28 between Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump was deeply unsettling. The...

yesterday 10

Castanet

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Canadians pay the price for Ottawa’s trade war strategy

yesterday 3

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Nova Scotia leads the way in dismantling costly trade barriers

28.02.2025 4

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Opinion: With GST holiday over, Canadians brace for food price rebound

Opinion: With GST holiday over, Canadians brace for food price rebound
24.02.2025 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Food prices dropped during the GST holiday, but was it real?

21.02.2025 3

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Opinion: Canada avoiding price pickle as cost of eggs soars in U.S.

Opinion: Canada avoiding price pickle as cost of eggs soars in U.S.
19.02.2025 3

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Dairy farmers need to wake up before the system crumbles

16.02.2025 10

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Egg prices are cracking under pressure

11.02.2025 10

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Trump’s tariffs hurt Canada’s agri-food, but our own policies are worse

06.02.2025 7

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Comment: Trump’s tariffs hurt Canada’s agri-food — but our own policies are worse

A commentary by the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The Trump administration’s decision to impose a...

04.02.2025 3

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Wake up Ottawa! Free trade is dead

31.01.2025 9

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Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers make Trump’s 51st state jab hit home

28.01.2025 10

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Comment: Canada lets Cherry Blossom melt away

A commentary by the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and co-host of The Food ­Professor Podcast. Hershey...

23.01.2025 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Opinion: An iconic Canadian candy melts away amid food challenges

22.01.2025 9

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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How grocery giants are shortchanging Canadians

14.01.2025 7

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Canada’s agri-food sector dodges a bullet as Parliament hits pause

09.01.2025 10

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Opinion: Critics like RFK Jr. ignore benefits of ultra-processed foods

Demonizing ultra-processed foods as inherently harmful ignores the historical and ongoing benefits of food processing.

04.01.2025 4

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Canada’s top food stories of 2024

31.12.2024 2

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How Trudeau’s GST/HST tax break turned into a holiday turkey

Retailers and consumers blindsided by Ottawa’s chaotic GST/HST tax break rollout For interview requests, click here T’was the week before...

18.12.2024 3

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Canada’s plan to tackle cow farts risks losing consumer trust

13.12.2024 3

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GST holiday a band-aid fix for Canadians starving for real solutions

11.12.2024 4

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Will your grocery bills spike in 2025?

03.12.2024 5

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GST holiday a recipe for inflation

24.11.2024 5

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Why Canadians aren’t ready to trade steak for crickets

19.11.2024 3

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Ottawa’s agriculture failures are putting Canadian farmers at risk

13.11.2024 4

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What a Trump 2.0 presidency could mean for Canada’s agri-food sector

09.11.2024 4

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Think beef prices are high now?

05.11.2024 2

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Trick or treat? Shrinkflation haunts Halloween candy aisles

19.10.2024 4

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Billions of litres of milk wasted while families go hungry

19.10.2024 3

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Can consumer-based altruism succeed at grocery stores?

16.08.2024 2

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Opinion: Stretchflation sneak as groceries get pricier, not just bigger

The trend of stretchflation, where the size of a produce increases, but the cost rises disproportionately, appears to have arrived in Canada.

13.08.2024 2

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Stretchflation is the latest threat to your grocery bill

09.08.2024 3

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Opinion: Gaza boycotts, rising prices take bite out of McDonald's sales

Top restaurant chain McDonald's suffered a decline in sales for the first time in four years, attributed to rising prices and boycotts.

02.08.2024 6

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Opinion: Costco hikes membership fees, but Canadians unlikely to mind

Costco, which opened its first store in Canada in 1982, now has more than 100 stores with more than five million Canadians who have joined as members.

18.07.2024 4

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Costco membership fees to rise, but most won’t mind

The Costco wholesale model has led to its success  in Canada Costco is raising its membership fees for the first time since 2017. After months of...

16.07.2024 1

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