Two days after confirming their talks on the idea, Canada’s biggest quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain and the world’s second-biggest burger chain have lined up their US$15.5 billion merger deal. Burger […] Read more
Burger King, Tim Hortons reach deal on marriage
Bloc Quebecois’ ag critic quits party
The Bloc Quebecois’ critic for agriculture has quit the party to sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons. Andre Bellavance, the Bloc MP for Richmond-Athabaska since 2004 […] Read more
Burger King throne would move north in Timmy’s merger
The world’s second-biggest burger chain is in talks with Canada’s biggest quick-service chain on a merger into a new Canadian-based company. Burger King Worldwide and Tim Hortons confirmed their talks […] Read more
Big Rock Brewery founder Ed McNally, 89
The lawyer and farmer who founded Calgary’s Big Rock Brewery has died at age 89. Ed McNally, who founded what’s now Canada’s second largest Canadian-owned brewery in 1985, had retired […] Read more
DuPont to shed Kocide fungicide business
DuPont’s copper fungicide Kocide, used in Canada to manage diseases in bean, potato and assorted hort crops, is set to meet a new maker. DuPont Crop Protection announced Wednesday it […] Read more
Labels now the law for all mechanically tenderized beef
In a move to cut risk from foodborne E. coli, all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) sold in Canada from today on must be labelled as such and list instructions on […] Read more
Cargill plant fined over cut wastewater samples
One of the largest beef packing plants in Canada has been slapped with an $80,000 fine after reporting “errors” in its wastewater data in early 2012. Alberta’s Provincial Court levied the […] Read more
Dr. Oetker orders McCain pizza
Germany’s Dr. Oetker is set to take a bigger slice of the Canadian and U.S. pizza market, with a deal to buy McCain Foods’ North American frozen pizza business. New […] Read more
N.B. microbreweries cleared for on-site sales
Microbreweries in New Brunswick will no longer be required to move product through the provincial liquor agency before they can open on-site stores. NB Liquor has scrapped a regulation in […] Read more
Ont. egg producer’s grading station reinstated
A southwestern Ontario shell egg producer’s grading station has been reinstated after a four-month federal suspension. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on April 11 suspended the registration for Allan Toby, […] Read more
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