Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian retailer Loblaw on Wednesday missed analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter revenue, signaling consumers are turning cautious and more discerning in their spending pattern as tariff uncertainty hovers.
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Canada’s Loblaw misses fourth-quarter revenue estimates
General Mills cuts annual outlook as shoppers seek cheaper options
Reading Time: 2 minutes General Mills cut its annual core sales and profit forecasts on Tuesday as the Cheerios cereal maker contends with a volatile economic backdrop and evolving consumer tastes.
Future of Food conference underscores need for unity in agriculture sector
Reading Time: 5 minutes Canada’s agriculture sector must work together for success — that was the message of the day at the 2026 Future of Food Conference in Ottawa.
FCC platform to tell story of Canadian agriculture, food brand
Reading Time: 2 minutes FCC launches Let’s Grow Canada platform to tell the story of Canadian agriculture
Carney wins admiration globally but struggles to lower food costs at home
Reading Time: 4 minutes Prime Minister Mark Carney has earned global admiration for openly declaring the end of a global order based on rules, but he has had far less success addressing a growing and more day-to-day concern at home: the rising cost of food.
Grocery code of conduct takes full effect
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canada Grocery Code, developed to promote transparency and fairness in the sector, took full effect on New Year’s Day.
Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
Reading Time: 3 minutes Packaged food makers and fast-food restaurants may be forced to overhaul more of their products next year as newly approved, appetite-suppressing GLP-1 pills become available in January, analysts say.
Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026
Reading Time: 4 minutes Food prices are 27 per cent higher now than they were in 2020, the new Canada’s Food Price Report shows. Meat prices are particularly to blame for the rise.
Food and beverage makers’ sales predicted to slide on trade tensions: FCC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian food and beverage makers have begun to feel the pinch of trade tensions with the U.S. according to a new forcast by Farm Credit Canada, which downgraded sales growth predictions from the start of the year.
CFIA raw poultry policy to tighten food safety
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian poultry slaughterhouses will have to test carcasses for pathogens before chilling when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s new pre-chill policy comes into force Dec. 1, 2025.
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