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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 How Canada became the food inflation capital of the G7 Temporary tax breaks don’t fix inflation — they postpone it and make it worse 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 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last
