A crucial but simple – and largely unasked – question crossed my mind this past week as I composed my post about 10 million Canadi-ans being Food Insecure: What, if any, is the difference between being ‘Food Insecure’ and ‘Starving’?Read More →
Used to be that doctors and nutritionists had a pat answer for the question, “How much water should I drink per day?” They auto-matically said every adult needed 8 x 8 oz. glasses. But science is now say-ing that one size does not, in fact, fit all…Read More →
There are a lot of things that set Wendy’s apart from other major players in the fast Food game. One of them is the brand’s history of ‘being different’ from the competition. How far can ‘being different’ go towards keeping a burger chain afloat these days?Read More →
Burned laps from spilled coffee. Deceptive marketing. There’s usually one factor that unites the fans. But this Fast Food lawsuit is about just one fan with an onion allergy. Suing over an incident for which some might argue he shares the responsibility…Read More →
I remember ‘guesting’ as a media ‘greeter’ at a McHappy Day event here in Ottawa just a cou-ple of years after arriving in town to work at ‘the Capital’s leading radio news voice’. A spe-cial feeling pervades McDonald’s on McHappy Day that’s impossible to describe…Read More →
Ah, Oui! Zee Spring flowers! Zee sidewalk cafés-espressos! Zee fresh-baked baguettes! Et – Mon dieu! – zee post-prandial poots… But a French inventor claims to have created what folks have craved for millennia: a pill that makes poots smell like chocolate!Read More →
Could it be the ultimate Fast Food sector ‘newstalgia’ offering? McDonald’s is hiring 20,000 Canadian summer students this year. Which should help put a significant dent in the current youth unemployment rate of 14.1 percent…Read More →
The average American is just starting to notice what a bad idea Trump’s Tariffs were, after all. And there has been a specific response in the mainstream media spotlighting just how much tariffs are likely to cost Americans this year.Read More →