Canada’s grocery sector needs more competition to help keep food prices down and encourage new entrants, the country’s competition watchdog has found. In a highly anticipated study released Tuesday, the Competition Bureau said concentration in the grocery industry has increased in recent years and the largest grocers have grown the amount they make on food sales. Most Canadians buy […]
Bakery giant Canada Bread Co. has been fined $50 million after pleading guilty to its role in a criminal price-fixing scheme that inflated the wholesale price of bread in Canada for years. It’s the highest price-fixing fine ever imposed by a Canadian court, the Competition Bureau of Canada said Wednesday. The settlement is a significant milestone in the Competition Bureau’s ongoing investigation into alleged bread price-fixing […]
The agricultural world is abuzz with talk about this potential merger between grain giants Viterra and Bunge. There are wide spread reports that the two companies are talking about a merger, but neither side is willing to admit it. This is not the first time the two rivals have been in talks to merge. In […]
Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 6.3 per cent in December as the cost of groceries remained high and gas prices cooled. In its latest consumer price index released Tuesday, Statistics Canada said Canadians continued to see prices soar at grocery stores last month compared with a year ago. Grocery prices were up 11 per cent on […]
Russia has suspended its part of the deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports safely amid a monthslong war, and it appears that the remaining partners are now left to take their chances. On Monday, Ukraine said a dozen ships had sailed despite initially reporting that more than 200 vessels, many loaded […]
Laurie O’Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as the prices in grocery stores rise out of reach. A newly released Canada-wide survey found people in the Prairie provinces were much more likely to have used emergency measures like food banks or a community fridge. The […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. For months, […]
The Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan is moving into a second growth phase. Founded in 2012 in a public-private partnership between Nutrien, the Saskatchewan Government and the University, the Institute is designed to build on this province’s strength in agriculture. Current initiatives underway as part of the new phase of […]
Researchers with the U of S have joined forces with the Saskatchewan Health Authority and CHEP Good Food to study food insecurity and design a future path in the province. The study will look at various locations in Saskatchewan including urban centres and remote areas among First Nations and Metis communities. The project is […]
Farmers in Saskatchewan are calling Ottawa’s federal farm aid program a good first step but more is needed. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has outlined a 252 million dollar aid package to help producers who can’t sell their animals and a fund to buy food that would otherwise spoil and send it to food banks. […]
