Sylvain Charlebois
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 2/10/2026
When the grocery cart becomes a ballot box
When geopolitics is broadcast into living rooms every night, it inevitably follows Canadians into the grocery store. The checkout lane has become the only ballot box many consumers feel they control - 2/8/2026
Supply management and the cost of milk dumping
As food banks strain and dairy prices climb, millions of litres of Ontario milk are being poured away under a system built to control supply - 2/3/2026
The Super Bowl of snacking is, well, the Super Bowl
In Canada, the Super Bowl functions less as a sporting event than as a nationwide, synchronized snacking exercise - 2/1/2026
Beef bans, halal menus and the erosion of choice
Publicly funded services in a secular country must not impose dietary standards without transparency and choice - 1/29/2026
Ottawa: Stop sending cheques to fight grocery prices. End the grocer blackout
If Prime Minister Carney truly wants to help Canadians at the grocery store, he should ask grocers to end the counterproductive blackout period - 1/27/2026
Ottawa’s approval of unlabelled gene-edited pork is a policy mistake
Gene-edited pork poses no health risk, but withholding information undermines trust, market clarity, and consumer choice - 1/25/2026
Why Ottawa keeps treating food inflation like a PR problem
You can subsidize demand all you want, but if supply stays tight, inflation will do what it always does - 1/21/2026
Trade with China, but don’t fall in love
China is a market, not a partner—and treating it otherwise is where Canadian trade policy goes wrong - 1/18/2026
How Canada became the food inflation capital of the G7
Temporary tax breaks don’t fix inflation — they postpone it and make it worse - 1/18/2026
There’s no such thing as a free lunch—especially for kids
Why Canada’s school food program must teach children how food actually works
