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Walmart Canada celebrates 30th anniversary with promotions, price rollbacks

- General News
For this milestone of thirty years in Canada, Walmart is introducing its 30th Anniversary Rollback Event to help Canadians celebrate alongside the retaile

Canadian restaurant industry struggles increase in 2024

- General News
According to the Conference Board of Canada, the restaurant economy’s lackluster performance in the second half of 2023 will spill over into the first months of 2024 with minimal growth expected.

CPMA and WGA: Short-sighted plastics ban would cause food shortages and increase prices

- Analysis
Canadian consumers are already besieged by high food prices. Now the government is pushing to implement a plastics ban without considering the consequences, including increased prices and reduced access to affordable, healthy food.

Tomato greenhouse opens in Manitoba

- Analysis
The precision agriculture business Netafim has partnered with Vermillion Growers to build the first large-scale vegetable greenhouse in Manitoba, Canada.

Canadian produce industry reps meet with Trudeau

- Analysis
Representatives of the Canadian produce industry met with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in San Francisco in November.

Restaurants Canada documents pandemic damage, lack of government support

- General News
The Canadian government has missed an opportunity to implement sector-specific support for the restaurant industry, which was the hardest hit by the pandemic.

IFPA meets with Canadian PM on food affordability, packaging policy

- General News
With increasing consumption of fresh produce as its top priority, on November 15, International Fresh Produce Association CEO Cathy Burns and VP of Innovation, Vonnie Estes, attended a roundtable meeting focused on U.S. and Canadian consumer food affordability with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

USDA announces trade missions for 2024

- General News
USDA has announced its planned trade missions for 2024 as well as its increased investments to grow U.S. agricultural export markets

Metro Inc. opens automated DC in Quebec

- Retail
METRO Inc. opens its new automated distribution center for fresh and frozen products in Terrebonne, Quebec.

Okanagan Specialty Fruits hires vice president of sales and business development

- General News
Okanagan Specialty Fruits announces that John Freitas has joined the company as vice president for sales and business development.