What an $18 million maple syrup heist tells us about the economics of supply management It was a heist the Pink Panther would have been proud of: over several months, a gang of thieves surreptitiously ...
Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Sticky. A dark comedy series The Sticky, out on Amazon Prime Dec. 6, satirizes a real-life sticky situation: the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup ...
In 2011 and 2012, over 9,500 barrels of maple syrup were smuggled out of Quebec’s strategic syrup reserve, with a value of over $18 million, then replaced by empty barrels. Eventually, the ...
In July 2012, Michel Gavreau was conducting a routine inspection of a maple syrup warehouse near Laurierville, Quebec. He climbed up a stack of 600-pound barrels, expecting them to support his ...
Quebec’s maple syrup producers are worried their industry will take a big hit if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to slap 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports next month.
A few years ago, when television writer and producer Brian Donovan returned home to New England for the holidays, his Canadian brother-in-law casually posed a question that stopped Donovan cold.