CHARLEBOIS: Why DoorDash's price tactics should worry us all This case is not just about a single company’s practices — it’s about maintaining integrity in a digital marketplace that millions rely on with Video July 29, 2025 Columnists
Sylvain Charlebois: Enough with the maple washing at the grocery store In recent months, Canadian grocery stores have often felt like a year-round Canada Day celebration. July 29, 2025 Nova Scotia
Charlebois: Time for Canadians to serve themselves As of January 2025, new caps limit TFWs to just 10 per cent of a food service business’s workforce—down from 20 per cent or more in recent years—and shorten work permits from two years to one. But this policy shift is not punitive. It reflects an overdue economic recalibration. Put plainly, the TFWP in food service has run its course. July 26, 2025 Columnists
Sylvain Charlebois: Time for Canadians to serve themselves The federal government’s recent overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) for food service has prompted predictable outcry from restaurant operators. July 26, 2025 Halifax Business
CHARLEBOIS: Enough with the maple-washing When grocers use the maple leaf to sell imported food, it’s not patriotism — it’s deception with Video July 25, 2025 Columnists
Sylvain Charlebois: The tariff time bomb and why food prices haven’t spiked yet For months now, consumers across North America have been wondering: where’s the inflation? July 24, 2025 Halifax Business
CHARLEBOIS: Time for Canadians to serve themselves The Temporary Foreign Worker Program for food service has run its course as a generation of young Canadians has been pushed to the sidelines with Video July 22, 2025 Columnists
Sylvain Charlebois: Why depopulation is the food industry’s silent crisis It’s difficult to argue that climate change isn’t the most pressing threat to our agri-food sector. July 22, 2025 Halifax Business
CHARLEBOIS: Why food prices haven’t spiked due to tariffs — yet Food inflation doesn’t follow a linear or predictable timetable with Video July 21, 2025 Columnists
Charlebois: Canada got fatter since the pandemic. Pharma noticed. If Canada doesn’t rethink how it produces, processes, promotes, and retails food, pharmacies — not grocery stores — will become our primary source of “dietary intervention." July 19, 2025 Columnists
