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Food in Canada: Response to COVID-19
At Food in Canada, the safety of our readers, clients, partners, staff, suppliers and people of the communities where we operate is of the utmost importance. We truly care about each other and our customers, and we acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Temporary foreign workers exempt from Canada’s travel ban
Farm workers coming to Canada under programs for temporary and seasonal workers will be exempt from a ban on foreign nationals entering the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that effective Wednesday, foreign nationals from all countries except the…
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Second Harvest launches network to guarantee food supply to needy
March 19, 2020, Toronto, Ont. – Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue organization, has announced the launch of the Food Rescue Canadian Alliance (FRCA) Task Force, a national network that will support food redistribution efforts across the supply chain during…
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STORE 2020 postponed until September
March 19, 2020, Toronto, Ont. – In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is postponing its 2020 STORE Conference until Sept. 14-15, 2020. The event had been scheduled for May 26-27, 2020. The RCC said…
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Support for businesses announced in response to COVID-19 crisis
March 19, 2020, Ottawa, Ont. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a new set of economic measures to help stabilize the economy and help Canadians affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. Part of that plan includes augmenting…
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One-piece processor prevents bacterial growth
March 19, 2020, York, Penn. – Readco Kurimoto LLC has announced a one-piece, seamless design, continuous processor that prevents bacterial growth and contamination. Readco is a process equipment manufacturer in Pennsylvania. The processor featues a novel, one-piece screw design that…
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Nielsen identifies six behaviour thresholds as COVID-19 outbreak evolves
March 18, 2020, Toronto, Ont. – A Nielsen investigation has identified six key consumer behaviour threshold levels that tie directly to concerns around the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The thresholds offer early signals of spending patterns, particularly for emergency pantry…
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Seasonal workers caught up in COVID-19 border closure
By John Greig Editor of Farmtario March 18, 2020, Toronto, Ont. – Fruit and vegetable growers will be short of workers this growing season with the news that labourers from the Caribbean and Mexico will not be allowed into Canada…
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Loblaws CEO reassures shoppers “we have enough food”
Loblaws CEO Galen G. Weston issued a statement Monday following the announcement of the Canadian borders closing amid the spread of COVID-19. Weston reassured shoppers, who may have been worried when they saw “extraordinary numbers of people in stores, long…
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COVID-19: Regaining trust of citizen-consumers through effective signalling
By John G. Keogh March 18, 2020, Toronto, Ont. – In a global pandemic like COVID-19, a considerable knowledge gap or information asymmetry opens up between citizen-consumers, governments and public health agencies (PHAs). Amid a plethora of message distortions across…
