Industry Minister Mélanie Joly today announced $50 million for the Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN) through the Strategic Response Fund (SRF) and Canada’s National Food Security Strategy. CFIN is an industry-led not-for-profit that helps food and beverage companies access the expertise, partners and technologies they need to innovate and grow. Calling it Food 4.0, this... Read More
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Canada is getting older, more multicultural, and more suburban, while its political landscape becomes increasingly unpredictable. For the country’s food system, those changes are reshaping who Canadians trust, what they worry about, and how agriculture needs to communicate with consumers. At the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity’s 2026 Public Trust Summit at Toronto, RealAgriculture’s Bernard... Read More
Canadians continue to feel positively about the country’s food system, but growing uncertainty about affordability, information, and emerging technology is putting pressure on that confidence. That’s one of the key findings from the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity’s (CCFI) 2026 Public Trust Research, released at the organization’s Public Trust Summit in Toronto. In this interview,... Read More
As part of the National Food Security Strategy, Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, today announced the upcoming launch of the $1 billion Food-Link Fund. The Food-Link Fund is designed to improve Canada’s food distribution network by supporting development of critical infrastructure to move food more... Read More
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is consolidating its plant protein manufacturing network into a single facility in Indiana, it says, to trim structural costs and navigate softening demand. The Mississauga, Ont.-based consumer packaged goods company announced Tuesday it will close facilities in Seattle, Wash., and Turners Falls, Mass., over the next 12 to 18 months. Production... Read More
Canada could expand its non-U.S. goods exports by an additional $146 billion by 2035, with agri-food representing a primary growth driver, according to a new report by PwC. Capturing these international opportunities, however, requires overcoming significant infrastructure and trade logistics gaps and maybe even trade-offs between supply chains. To unpack the logistics requirements and strategic... Read More
Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Ltd. says it will spend $200 million to significantly expand its Clayson Road dairy manufacturing facility in Toronto, driven by a national cottage cheese shortage and demand for high-protein dairy products. The expansion, to be complete in 2028, will create up to 75 new positions at the Clayson facility. "Cottage cheese... Read More
Have you been eating more protein lately trying to hit your macros? What about adding cottage cheese to literally every recipe that never called for it? Cottage cheese, and other dairy products, is gaining serious popularity as a high-protein, low-sugar addition to diets, driven by several factors including Glp-1 use in Canada and the U.S.... Read More
Trade agreements within North America have significantly lowered food prices for consumers, according to new research from Purdue University. The study, funded by the Corn Refiners Association, quantified the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Purdue professor of agricultural economics and study co-author Dr. Joseph Balagtas... Read More
Canada’s seafood farmers are angling for a bigger say in the agricultural trade conversation. The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) has signed on as a "Friend" of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA), the groups announced last week. The move brings Canada's finfish, shellfish, and aquatic plant producers into the national group focused on growing... Read More