From My Bottom Step

Made Where?

“The soaring Canadian dollar has spurred manufacturers to replace Canadian ingredients with imports…As our currency has run up, so has…buying power outside of Canada. It makes sense to source cheaper products outside of Canada.” 01 That may be well and good for food manufacturers, but should we care?
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Consumer Alert – Feds Attack Canadians with Saturated Fat

OTTAWA, Dec. 17 /CNW/ -
With Federal Government Ministers
Jim Flaherty (Finance), David Emerson
(International Trade), and Gerry Ritz (Agriculture)
poised to announce the passing of legislation to substantially
increase the fat content of cheeses sold in Canada, the
Consumers’ Association of Canada wonders if
Health Minister Tony Clement is asleep at the switch.

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The Fight For Personal Privacy: Already Lost?

                    
Dan Brown’s post about stealth advertising (’There’s a new word for product placement: it’s now called “integration”‘; 2007/11/28) and his subsequent post about the modern technological capability to monitor your personal behaviour (’TiVo in Canada’; 2007/11/30) reminded me of the movie in which the multimedia display ads in various store windows automatically assailed one of the movie characters (personalized their content as he walked past). Somebody help me out… what’s the movie’s title?
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Product of Canada?

If you think that you can trust a ‘Made in Canada’ label, think again! Those ingredients could come from anywhere, because the label simply means that 51 per cent of the production cost was incurred in Canada.
Consumers should be concerned, especially in light of recent food safety problems involving Chinese imports.
On another (related) note… then there are those ‘Best Before’ dates…
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