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Toronto Star
22-06-2025
- General
- Toronto Star
Ottawa considering ‘combination of approaches' to 20% military pay hike
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Toronto Sun
17-06-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
CHARLEBOIS: When supply management becomes a supply crisis
The system is failing to meet demand, depending on foreign product, and driving up costs at the grocery store Chickens are seen at a chicken farm in Abbotsford, B.C. Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. Photo by Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada's supply management system — once heralded as a pillar of food security and agricultural self-sufficiency — is failing at its most basic function: Ensuring reliable domestic supply. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account According to the latest figures from the Canadian Association of Regulated Importers (CARI), Canada imported more than 66.9 million kilograms of chicken as of June 14 — a 54.6% increase from the same period last year. To put that in perspective, this volume could feed 3.4 million Canadians for an entire year, based on per capita poultry consumption. That's roughly 446 million individual meals — meals that, under a tightly managed quota system, were meant to be produced domestically. Imports now equate to more than 12% of Canada's domestic chicken production so far in 2025 — highlighting the country's growing dependence on foreign supply. To be fair, the avian influenza outbreak in Canada has disrupted poultry production and partially explains the shortfall. But even with that disruption, the numbers are staggering. Imports under trade quotas established by the WTO, CUSMA, and CPTPP are all running at or near pro-rata levels, signalling not just opportunity — but urgency. Supplementary import permits — designed to be exceptional, last-resort tools — have already surpassed 48 million kilograms, exceeding the total annual import volumes of some previous years. This is not a seasonal hiccup. It is systemic failure. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Canada's poultry sector is supposed to be insulated from global volatility through supply management. Yet internal shocks — like the domestic avian flu outbreak — have shown just how fragile the system really is. When emergency imports become routine, we must ask: What exactly is being managed? The original intent of supply management was to align production with domestic demand while stabilizing prices and farm incomes. But that balance is clearly off. The A195 production period, ending May 31, 2025, showed one of the worst underproduction shortfalls in more than 50 years. Producers remain constrained by rigid quota allocations, while consumers face rising poultry prices. More imports. Higher costs. Diminished confidence. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Some defenders will insist this is an isolated event. It's not. This is the second week in a row Canada has reached pro-rata import levels across all chicken categories. Bone-in and processed poultry products — once minor parts of emergency import programs — are now essential to keeping the market supplied. The dysfunction extends beyond chicken. Egg imports under the shortage allocation program have already topped 14 million dozen, a 104% increase from last year. Just months ago, Canadians were mocking high U.S. egg prices — yet those prices have since fallen. Ours haven't. All this in a country with $30 billion in quota value, intended to protect domestic production and reduce reliance on imports. Instead, we are importing more — and paying more. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Meanwhile, Bill C-202, now before the Senate, seeks to shield supply management from future trade negotiations, effectively making reform even more difficult. So we must ask: Is this really what we're protecting? A system that fails to meet demand, depends on foreign product, and drives up costs at the grocery store? Our trading partners are taking full advantage. Chile, for instance, has increased its chicken exports to Canada by more than 63%, now accounting for nearly 96% of CPTPP-origin imports. While Canada doubles down on protectionism, others are gaining long-term footholds in our market. It's time to face the facts. Supply management no longer guarantees supply. And when a system meant to ensure resilience becomes the source of fragility, it is no longer an asset — it's an economic liability. — Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is the Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and co-host of The Food Professor Podcast Toronto Maple Leafs Columnists Canada Sunshine Girls Toronto Maple Leafs
CTV News
09-06-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
Multiple heat records broken across B.C. on Sunday
People try and beat the heat by enjoying the river in Lynn Valley in North Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (Jonathan Hayward/THE CANADIAN PRESS) Regions of British Columbia experienced the hottest June 8 on record this weekend, with some parts of the province shattering heat records over 70 years old. Twelve daily heat records were broken on Sunday, as the early season summer weather saw temperatures reaching as high as the mid to high 30s in some parts of the province. According to Environment Canada, Williams Lake, Whistler, Squamish, Princeton, Pitt Meadows, Pemberton, Lytton, Kamloops, Clinton and Abbotsford all broke the 30 C mark, with Lytton reaching temperatures of 39 C and Pemberton recording highs of 36 C. Abbotsford recorded temperatures of 31 C, marking the hottest June 8 in the city since 30 C was reached in 1955. The temperature in Pitt Meadows was so unseasonably warm at 31 C it broke a record over a hundred years old, with the heat rising a degree higher than its previous record in 1903. Environment Canada issued a warning Friday of an 'early season heat event' that would bring a sharp spike in temperatures to much of southern B.C. Over 20 special weather statements were made throughout the province. The weather agency forecasts the sizzling temperatures to continue throughout Monday, before the week peters off into cooler territory. 'High temperatures will persist into the week in Howe Sound, Whistler and Pemberton, and inland regions of Vancouver Island,' Environment Canada said in an update Monday. 'Temperatures will cool on Tuesday elsewhere in the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island.'
CTV News
30-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Strong action will be taken for planes, drones violating G7 no-fly zone, says RCMP
A plane is silhouetted as it takes off from Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., Monday, May 13, 2019. The RCMP says air restrictions will be in place in two main areas during the upcoming G7 Leaders' Summit in Alberta this June. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
CTV News
27-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Grizzly bear sighting on B.C. Gulf Island prompts warning
A grizzly bear fishes for salmon along the Atnarko River in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park near Bella Coola, B.C. Saturday, Sept 11, 2010. (Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS) A grizzly bear has made its way from the British Columbia mainland to Texada Island in the Strait of Georgia, prompting a warning to residents and visitors. Officials with the qathet Regional District, which includes the communities of Powell River and Lasqueti and Texada islands, say the adult male grizzly was first spotted in the island's Pocahontas Bay area, southeast of the community of Van Anda. The bear, which has a yellow ear tag, spent about a week in the Powell River area before apparently swimming to the B.C. Gulf Island. 'Texada residents are urged to be bear aware and take steps to prevent the bear from accessing human food,' the regional district said in a public notice Monday. 'This is critical to avoid the bear becoming habituated to local communities.' Residents are urged to report sightings of the bear to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service. The bear did not demonstrate any aggression or cause conflict while in the Powell River area, the regional district said.
