It might be time to think twice about a warm bowl of chicken soup. In an alert issued on Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency recalled Tim Hortons chicken soup base sold up to Oct. 20. The alert, issued to hotels, restaurants and institutions, warned the soup base had been recalled due to “presence of … Read more
Nathan Currie used to shop for his family of three with no real plan in mind. “I’d just go in and see what looked good,” he says. But, due to rising prices and taking on the role of primary earner while his wife, Meghan Larkin, grows her co-owned business, The Maker’s Mark Handmade Artisan Boutique, … Read more
Canadian champion racing driver Paul Tracy likes to say that his father, Tony, a Scarborough house painter who died on Sunday, Oct. 23, at age 92, raised some of the money to send Paul racing in the early days by painting the CN Tower . This may very well be true. But there is also … Read more
Canada’s largest food retailer has just had a banner quarter and critics say it’s yet another example of a company profiting from inflation. Loblaw Companies Ltd. said Wednesday its first-quarter profit was up almost 40 per cent compared to the same period last year. Taking into account a tax ruling that went in its favor … Read more
Got a craving for Doritos, Ruffles or Miss Vickie’s? You’ll have to satisfy it somewhere other than Loblaws. Or Shoppers. Oh Zehrs. Oh Fortinos. Or any of the other chains owned by Loblaw Cos., after Frito-Lay Canada stopped shipping its snack-food brands to the country’s biggest grocery retailer this week amidst a pricing dispute. Frito-Lay, … Read more
The high-level food fight between Pepsi-Co Foods and Loblaw has been resolved. Consumers can expect to see Doritos, Ruffles, Tostitos and other Frito-Lay products stocked at Loblaw-owned grocery stores for the Easter weekend. “All along, this was about providing value to our customers,” Loblaw spokesperson Catherine Thomas said in an email on Saturday. “We’re happy … Read more
When writer Bee Quammie was pregnant with her second daughter, her biggest craving was ackee and saltfish. The thing is, if there’s anything a Jamaican restaurant will run out of first, it’s likely going to be this breakfast dish. “There were two times I can remember that I got to the counter, and they’re like, … Read more
Health Canada has proposed introducing mandatory nutrition labeling that will warn Canadians of foods that are high in saturated fat, like ground beef. Different from our current nutrition labels, these labels would have to appear on the front of food packaging, and have the specific goal of offsetting rising rates of diet-related diseases. While some … Read more
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 6 am Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 … Read more
Many Freshii customers have already encountered “Percy.” The video-calling device is attached to cash registers at a select few Freshii locations across Ontario, and it lights up when customers approach the counter. On the other end of the screen is a cashier wearing a headset, ready to take orders. Unlike the Freshii workers that wrap … Read more
