Tag: canada

The Pattison Food Group, Western Canada’s largest provider of food and health products, has added two more stores to its fleet with the acquisition of Chuck’s Produce and Street Market by Roth’s Fresh Markets.

Empire Company Limited today announced that following the launch of Voilà par IGA on March 7, it is now ramping up operations of its new online grocery home delivery service in Quebec.

Wow Bao, the fastest-growing U.S. restaurant concept since the pandemic began, is now available in Canada starting today via Ghost Kitchen Brands.

What effect these demonstrations will have in the long run, I don’t know, but I’m forced to wonder whether the truckers’ complaints have to do with a great deal more than compulsory vaccination.

One group of people in the produce world who are desperate for good news are the potato growers of Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI).

On January 27, International Fresh Produce Association Co-CEOs Cathy Burns and Tom Stenzel met with Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, to discuss supply chain issues critical to the fresh produce trade.

As announced in November and as we've communicated with the industry recently, starting January 15, unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers entering Canada will need to meet requirements for pre-entry, arrival and Day 8 testing, as well as quarantine requirements.

Political and industry pressure appear to have helped the Canadian government to drop its mandate that all Canadian truckers prove they have taken coronavirus vaccine shots.

PEI potato growers are likely to find a replay of 2001 no more amusing than the original.

Food prices in Canada are going up — again.