Butcher: a dying profession? Interview with Pascal Thériault

Published: 12 November 2024

The next generation of butchers is in short supply. According to the Canadian Meat Council, there are nearly 10,000 butchering positions available in supermarkets across the country.

AI for the well-being of cows and the wallets of breeders—interview with Prof. Elsa Vasseur

Published: 12 November 2024

Images captured by cameras scrutinizing the slightest movements of cows. This is the basis of a major study currently being carried out by the Innovation Research Chair in Animal Welfare and...

Atlantic killer whales show dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals: study

Published: 7 November 2024

Killer whales off Canada’s Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that put them at elevated risk of severe immune-system and reproductive...

Veterans honoured in annual Remembrance Day ceremony

Published: 12 November 2024

Photo by Neale McDevitt: On the left, 99-year-old WWII vet Joe Maxwell shakes hands with Colonel Andrew Lussier, 35 years service including tours in Kosovo and Afghanistan. In the middle is Lt....

More expensive beef: why such a meteoric rise in price? Interview with Pascal Thériault

Published: 6 November 2024

Beef prices have risen in recent years, and could continue to do so in the coming year, Le Journal de Montréal reports....

Margaret A. Gilliam Lecture in Global Food Security: Africa’s Road to Agrifood Systems Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 17:00to19:30

The Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security, the School of Population and Global Health, and the Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics invite you to the...

The hidden climate cost: Food loss, waste, and greenhouse gas emissions

Published: 17 September 2024

Professor Gordon Price from Dalhousie University and Professor Grant Clark from 's Department of Bioresource Engineering study the hidden climate change costs of food loss and...

The cost of poutine, a symbol of rising prices—Pascal Thériault on 98.5fm

Published: 26 August 2024

The price of food has been increasing since the pandemic. Even poutine is not immune to inflation: the price of sunflower oil used in fryers has doubled, and even the price of potatoes has risen.

The size of your chocolate bars will scare you this Halloween—comments from Pascal Thériault

Published: 30 October 2024

This Halloween, there may be a haunting fright in Montrealers' candy bowls: smaller chocolate bars and less treats in each candy bag....

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