Recession, What Recession, Kingston Baby Formula Factory revelations, Tomato logic & guest Don Hill, Chairman of Sucro

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on Canada's economic outlook and the sugar industry with guest Don Hill, alongside various food-related topics.

This week on The Food Professor Podcast, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome Don Hill, Chairman of Sucro, for a fascinating conversation about Canada's newest sugar refinery, food manufacturing competitiveness, trade, innovation, AI, and the future of the North American sugar industry. Before the interview, we unpack Canada's economic outlook (recession, what recession?) Dalhousie Agi-Food Lab & MNP’s G20 country view on food affordability, runaway tomato inflation & food insecurity, Kingston Baby Formula factory dairy transparency, and we congratulate Metro CEO Eric La Flèche's on his retirement and contribution to grocery retail in Canada

People in this episode

Hosts: Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

Guest: Don Hill

Topics covered

• economic outlook
• food manufacturing
• sugar industry
• food affordability
• food insecurity
• dairy transparency
• tomato inflation

Keywords

• recession
• sugar refinery
• trade
• innovation
• AI
• food insecurity
• tomato inflation
• baby formula
• dairy transparency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sucro, Dalhousie Agi-Food Lab, MNP, Metro

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