Food Price Predictions for 2026
Canada’s Food Price Report, 16th edition Canada has faced trade and tariff threats from both the south and west this year. The USA, China and …
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What’s in a Name?
An Overview of Generic Pesticides Product familiarity helps speed up decision-making. No one wants to do extensive research on all market options, so having a …
Canadian Food Focus: Connecting Consumers to Farming & Food
Penny Eaton Canadian Food Focus, Stakeholder Relations Today, less than 2% of Canadians have a direct tie to farms and everyone has questions about their …
Canadian Horse Meat is Quietly Successful
Global diversity means a diversity of food sources; from those we consider staples to those we believe should disappear entirely. As a result, preferences and …
Conjuring Monsters to Scare Consumers
In a previous post, From Mad Scientists to Maddening Science Perceptions, Stuart discussed how society’s fear of science has deep cultural roots. This post takes …
Where Nutrition North Canada Falls Short
Part 2: …and How to Fix it More than a decade after its launch, Nutrition North Canada (NNC) continues to fall short for many Northern …
Why Averages Fall Short in Emissions Accounting
By Dr Saulé Burkitbayeva Measuring Agri-food products’ carbon footprint A little while ago, it was considered impossible to measure emissions in agriculture, especially at the …
Don’t Skip the Cranberries
Nestled amongst our Thanksgiving classics is Canada’s second most-valuable fruit: the cranberry. It is easy to overlook the cranberry as merely seasonal. Sure, they’re tart …
Nutrition North Canada: How We Got Here
In Canada’s North, the price of a single bag of groceries can rival a week’s rent in the South. Nutrition North Canada (NNC), launched in 2011, was meant to bridge this gap by making healthy food more affordable in remote communities. But more than a decade later, questions remain: is the program truly addressing food insecurity, or are systemic challenges, like cultural responsiveness, transportation barriers, and outdated policy frameworks, still leaving Northern families behind?
The Summer Fruit Was Just Fine
An Okanagan update following the 2024 BC Tree Fruits Cooperative closure About a year ago, I took the opportunity to cry out the end of …