Reading Time: 4 minutes A 32 per cent increase in the minimum wage in 12 months is simply irresponsible
Author: Sylvain Charlebois
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois conducts research in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He has written four books and many peer-reviewed and scientific articles - over 500 during his career. His research has been featured in media outlets that include The Economist, New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Globe & Mail, National Post and Toronto Star.
Health Canada’s suggested new food labelling has limitations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Would help consumers know what’s in their food but there are some gaps in the system
Price fixing scandal breaking bad for grocers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The growing bakery goods price fixing investigation puts the onus on manufacturers and retailers to reach out to consumers in meaningful ways
Setting the table for a homegrown value-added food sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes As foreign food processors pull out of Canada, taking jobs with them, it’s essential to the economy that we fill the gap
TPP2 death knell for supply management, and that’s a good thing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Trans-Pacific deal will boost agri-food industries. But it’s a nail in the coffin for Canada’s protectionist supply-management sectors
Tim Hortons: the killing another of Canadian icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Parent company RBI’s international expansion plans may well be behind the heartless Tim Hortons policies in Canada
The genius of Loblaws’ $25 gift card campaign
Reading Time: 3 minutes This PR masterstroke by Loblaws has allowed the company to take control of the narrative and dodge, for now, consumer mistrust
Just who’s the bully when it comes to minimum wage hikes?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government generally has little or no understanding of franchising, how food distribution forces play out or even simply how small businesses operate
Taxing meat is an unpalatable proposition
Reading Time: 4 minutes Arguing that meat is the new tobacco is sensationalist nonsense, since tobacco is not essential to life and food is. Let the market evolve
Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers
Reading Time: 3 minutes As shocking as it was, most of us will eventually forget Loblaw‘s admission of price-fixing. Let’s hope the industry doesn’t