Food & Beverage
Union ‘deeply troubled’ by lack of COVID-19 protection at meat plant
Demanding a two-week closure to assess safety and guaranteed full compensation for the plant’s approximately 2,000 workers.
Farmers, food processors to get fed funds to help foreign workers isolate
Essential to the food supply, must quarantine for 14 days when they arrive in Canada.
Harvey’s and Bauer Hockey come together during COVID-19
Guests ordering at Harvey’s drive-throughs will now pay on a payment machine attached to the end of a Bauer hockey stick.
McCain Foods donates 20M pounds of potatoes to combat food insecurity
The Canadian Food system has been stretched by the impacts of COVID-19
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Maple Leaf Foods suspends operations in Brampton
Investigating three COVID-19 cases involving people working at that facility.
BevCanna launches cannabis-infused beverage powder
Jase will be available for sale in licensed dispensaries in California this year.
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Empty grocery shelves don’t mean we’re out of food
Currently seeing demand-based shortages, not supply-based shortages.
Union representing federal meat inspectors want safety guarantee
Production at Harmony Beef was halted after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 a day earlier.
Food companies boost employee pay during COVID-19 outbreak
Maple Leaf, Cargill and Mondelez are among the food processors taking measures to prop up employees
Nestle Canada giving temporary raises to factory, distribution workers
$3 per hour, retroactive to March 16; bonus also applies to salaried employees in the factories who cannot work from home.
Mexico border referendum cancels massive Corona brewery
Government won’t grant operating permits for the plant, which is about two-thirds built.
Tweed’s first THC-infused drink ships nationwide
The THC/CBD beverage will be available on provincial eCommerce platforms and at brick-and-mortar retail locations across Canada.
Distilleries using high proof alcohol to make hand sanitizer
Putting their spirits to work to help fill the shortage brought about by the coronavirus.
Feds invest $2.3M in potato disease research
As part of the project, the Canadian Horticulture Council will survey potato fields to determine the levels of Potato Early Dying disease
Noose placed on Wis. Molson Coors brewery shooter’s locker in 2015
Police investigators say so far “neither race nor racism has been identified as a factor in this incident.”
