Sylvain Charlebois
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 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 - 1/15/2026
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 - 1/12/2026
From McDonald’s price freeze to a price war—and a supply-chain squeeze
McDonald’s can outlast a price war; the real question is who absorbs the damage upstream - 1/11/2026
The U.S. redesigned its food guide while Canada keeps lecturing
This week, the United States didn’t lecture its citizens about food—it redesigned the system around how people actually eat. There’s a lesson here for Health Canada - 1/7/2026
Canada is poised to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026. Does anyone care?
When menu prices rise and profits fall at the same time, you’re not seeing growth — you’re seeing a sector trying to breathe
