Sylvain Charlebois

There are trending topics every day on social media, on Friday it was Subway and yellow mustard. A Friday morning post on X—formerly known as Twitter—by Canada’s Food Professor Dr. Sylvain Charlebois at Dalhousie University in Halifax started the ball rolling. He said Subway has told its Canadian franchisees that yellow mustard would no longer […]

A decision by Canada’s largest grocer isn’t sitting well with a federal New Democrat MP.  Alistair MacGregor, who sits on the commons ag committee is demanding the competition bureau get involved in the decision by Loblaw.  After facing pressure from Dalhousie university, the company confirmed it was ending its practice of placing 50 percent off […]

You’ve likely noticed it at the grocery store and on social media: beef prices are high, but pork prices are low. Using a few products from a Stats Canada chart as examples, the average price for beef top sirloin, across Canada, was $21.43 per kilogram in June, compared to $18.44 per kilogram in January. The […]