Food stores

CHARLEBOIS – Bureau makes the right call for more grocery competition

July 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

Loblaw, Empire/Sobeys and Metro control 80 percent of Canadian grocery sector. Too little competition is becoming an issue for Canadians By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Dalhousie [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Food chains have a lot of explaining to do on grocery prices

March 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE PRICE OF GROCERIES will be the focus of a new phase of a parliamentary probe today, and Canadians will be anxiously awaiting the [Continue]

FORSETH – Raspberry growers latest recipients of government largesse

April 1, 2022 // 5 Comments

THIS WEEK, the BC NDP government of Premier John Horgan announced new funding was going to be made available to raspberry growers for a “replant program.” Said [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Trying to untangle the logic of grocery store names

December 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest columnist THERE’S A PHENONENON happening in our midst. It isn’t about some pandemic related concern, or anything to do with circumstances [Continue]