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Washington contre-attaque sur l’alcool

Washington contre-attaque sur l’alcool

⏳ Temps de lecture: 3 minutes «Les monopoles d’État n’échappent pas aux règles du commerce international.» EXPERT INVITÉ. Le boycottage...

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Sylvain Charlebois

Washington contre-attaque sur l’alcool

Washington contre-attaque sur l’alcool

⏳ Temps de lecture: 3 minutes «Les monopoles d’État n’échappent pas aux règles du commerce international.» EXPERT INVITÉ. Le boycottage...

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Les Affaires

Sylvain Charlebois

It may be time for Ontario to lift its ban on American alcohol

It may be time for Ontario to lift its ban on American alcohol
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St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Ottawa is gambling with our most critical trade relationship

05.07.2026 5

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Washington is right about the Gordie Howe Bridge

05.07.2026 7

Troy Media

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Le commerce n’a jamais été une question d’équité

Le commerce n’a jamais été une question d’équité

⏳ Temps de lecture: 5 minutes «Principalement en agroalimentaire, le commerce international n’a jamais été une question d’équité, mais...

01.07.2026 10

Les Affaires

Sylvain Charlebois

Canada can’t negotiate CUSMA with contradictions and false narratives

Canada can’t negotiate CUSMA with contradictions and false narratives
29.06.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Government red tape is built into your grocery bill

27.06.2026 10

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Chaque mois, l’inflation alimentaire dépasse toujours l’inflation générale: pourquoi?

«Tant que l’inflation alimentaire ne passera pas sous le taux d’inflation générale, de nombreux ménages continueront de s’appauvrir, peu...

26.06.2026 10

Les Affaires

Sylvain Charlebois

Under Carney, food prices have risen faster than inflation for 15 straight months

25.06.2026 20

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Ottawa’s “food security” strategy is a total sham

18.06.2026 10

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Why your grocery bill won’t fall anytime soon

18.06.2026 10

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Sylvain Charlebois

Quelle stratégie alimentaire?

«La sécurité alimentaire ne s’achète pas uniquement à coups de dépenses gouvernementales. Elle s’acquiert par l’investissement,...

17.06.2026 20

Les Affaires

Sylvain Charlebois

Ottawa’s food plan has promise, but it lacks a clear vision for competitiveness

15.06.2026 20

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Sylvain Charlebois: How food inflation hijacked Valentine’s Day

This year, couples will be looking for ways to avoid sky high prices in restaurants

14.02.2026 30

National Post

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Canada chooses to dump milk rather than lower prices

10.02.2026 40

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Health Canada’s approval of unlabelled gene-edited pork is a mistake

01.02.2026 20

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Is Carney’s GST credit boost just political theatre?

28.01.2026 30

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Trade with China, but don’t fall in love

26.01.2026 30

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Canada has a policy-driven food inflation problem

22.01.2026 40

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Don’t bet the farm on a dying deal

What Carney’s trip to Beijing revealed: Ottawa knows CUSMA could collapse before year’s end.

19.01.2026 40

Calgary Herald

Sylvain Charlebois

Carney chooses reality over ideology with China deals

19.01.2026 20

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Why Carney changed course on China

17.01.2026 30

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: McDonald’s fast-food fight about more than burger prices

15.01.2026 70

Windsor Star

Sylvain Charlebois

McDonald’s price freeze is bad economic news for Canada

15.01.2026 30

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Opinion: Canada could lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026 Speak with operators, suppliers, landlords, insurers, or lenders and a consistent picture emerges: Closures are accelerating, balance sheets are deteriorating, and survival increasingly depends on short-term coping strategies rather than long-term viability.

14.01.2026 30

Edmonton Journal

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Canada is poised to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026. Does anyone care?

13.01.2026 30

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Fewer kids, more pets – but Canada's food system isn’t ready

12.01.2026 50

Windsor Star

Sylvain Charlebois

Canada is on track to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026

09.01.2026 30

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Charlebois: Get ready for grocery store AI to dictate what you pay for food

06.01.2026 20

Windsor Star

Sylvain Charlebois

Pet food is becoming a basic necessity in Canada

06.01.2026 30

Troy Media

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Opinion: Why Trump's challenge to Canada's dairy supply management matters for consumers

'The uncomfortable irony is that the only political figure with sufficient leverage to challenge Canada’s dairy orthodoxy is not Canadian,' writes...

04.01.2026 40

National Post

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: When your grocery bill starts pricing you With the rapid adoption of digital shelf labels, dynamic pricing can now be deployed inside physical grocery stores.

27.12.2025 30

Edmonton Journal

Sylvain Charlebois

When your grocery bill starts pricing you

23.12.2025 30

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: The grocery store checkout is not the crime scene

20.12.2025 70

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Why is Canada paying for dairy ‘losses’ during a boom?

16.12.2025 30

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Sylvain Charlebois: The quiet transformation of Canada’s grocery industry 

15.12.2025 40

National Post

Sylvain Charlebois

Taxing food is like slapping a surcharge on hunger. It needs to end

11.12.2025 30

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Questioning quotas

Every once in a while, someone inside a tightly protected system decides to say the quiet part out loud. That is what Joel Fox, a dairy farmer from...

11.12.2025 20

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Economics, user trust causing rethink of self-checkouts

06.12.2025 60

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Many in Sask. among Canadians grappling with food affordability

29.11.2025 60

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Grocery shopping habits

Canada’s relationship with food is shifting in ways that should concern all of us. The latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index: Fall 2025, produced by...

28.11.2025 20

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

Bovaer works to cut methane emissions, but Ottawa acts like the risks to farmers don’t matter

26.11.2025 30

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

Ottawa wants to keep beef prices high

25.11.2025 30

St. Catharines Standard

Sylvain Charlebois

Opinion: Ottawa wants to keep beef prices high — deliberately

22.11.2025 60

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Sylvain Charlebois

Patriotic shopping

Countless surveys have told us Canadians want to buy Canadian. They say they want to support local farmers and processors, keep dollars at home and...

22.11.2025 20

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

Made in Canada pride is back on the grocery shelf

14.11.2025 20

Troy Media

Sylvain Charlebois

The origin of our food

Cloned-animal foods could soon enter Canada’s food supply with no labels identifying them as cloned and no warning to consumers—a move that risks...

11.11.2025 20

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

'Reckless diplomacy'

The real threat to Canadian exporters isn’t U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, it’s Ottawa and Queen’s Park’s (home of the Ontario...

05.11.2025 30

Castanet

Sylvain Charlebois

Sylvain Charlebois: Ford’s trade tantrum costs Canada

30.10.2025 50

PNI Atlantic news

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