Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, joins BNN Bloomberg to talk about some of his food price predictions in 2024 and how the grocery giants could [...]
In a world of plenty, the question we must confront is not whether we can afford to address food insecurity in Canada, but whether we can afford not to.
Prices have increased by 25 per cent just in the last six months. While palm oil went up 50 per cent, canola oil is up 55 per cent on average. The world is slowly running out of vegetable oil.
What was purely an academic supposition a few months ago, is now actually happening. Along with higher interest rates, inflation is likely to become one of this year’s biggest business stories. [...]
In this episode we chat with our special guest Ken Keelor , CEO of the amazing Calgary Co-op, one of the last remaining big indie grocers left in Canada and a solid, diversified business owned by [...]
Sylvain and I talk about the big news with Empire /Sobeys buying Longo’s, the well regarded Ontario regional grocer. How does this change the landscape for consumers, stakeholders and what [...]
A recent private member’s bill in Ottawa could now give Canadians a second chance to “Free the Beer” by forcing Canada Post to ship alcoholic products anywhere in Canada, and sidestep archaic [...]
