Kootenay Co-op is recalling Kootenay Co-op brand beef sausages and burgers from the marketplace due to possible presence of pieces of metal and plastic. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
What you should do
Check to see if you have the recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
Loblaw Companies Limited is recalling PC Blue Menu brand Artichoke & Asiago Dip from the marketplace because it may contain egg which is not declared on the label. People with an allergy to egg should not consume the recalled product described below.
What you should do
If you have an allergy to egg, do not consume the recalled product as it may cause a serious or life-threatening reaction
Check to see if you have the recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
There have been no reported reactions associated with the consumption of this product.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
Les Jardins Picoudi is recalling Picoudi brand microgreens from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
The ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) transmitted an alert to the news media concerning the affected products (in French only).
What you should do
If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have the recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Salmonella may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems may contract serious and sometimes deadly infections. Healthy people may experience short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Long-term complications may include severe arthritis.
There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
Believe it or not, fall is just around the corner! Pumpkin Spice drinks and baked treats are back at Starbucks Canada.
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G. Brandt Meat Packers Ltd. is recalling Brandt brand mini spicy cheese sausage from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have the recalled product in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
It’s showtime! Cineplex has reopened all of the theatres and entertainment venues across Canada. Cineplex made comprehensive changes to ensure guests and team stay safe.
SOL Cuisine is launching new Spinach Chickpea Bites at all Costco Canada locations throughout Western Canada. Spinach Chickpea Bites feature a blend of vitamin loaded spinach and high in protein chickpeas. The plant-based appetizer is soy free, non-GMO and offers a good source of iron. You can find new Spinach Chickpea Bites in main frozen aisle at participating Costco Canada locations throughout Western Canada.
SOL Cuisine is about offering innovative PLANT-BASED food choices that people want and love! With our busy lives, we all strive to find balance within our environments, allow us to help you maintain a healthy, mind, body and SOL. The many delicious and tasty PLANT-BASED offerings will satisfy everyone’s needs for alternative and better proteins. SOL Cuisine started in 1980 with a passion for great tasting quality vegan foods.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume and retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and food service establishments such as hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals, and nursing homes not to serve, use, or sell the products described below.
Prima Wawona, located in Fresno, California, has recalled fresh peaches with various brand names due to possible Salmonella contamination. Various importers in Canada are conducting a recall of the affected products.
Peaches with the same PLU numbers and that are Product of Canada are not affected.
Click here to view the recalled products
What you should do
If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have the recalled products in your home or establishment. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the location where they were purchased. If you are unsure of the source of the peaches, check with your place of purchase.
Food contaminated with Salmonella may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems may contract serious and sometimes deadly infections. Healthy people may experience short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Long-term complications may include severe arthritis.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
KFC has launched its plant-based menu across Canada! After a successful pilot with plant-based partner Lightlife® in 2019, vegetarians everywhere can now experience KFC’s delicious taste at their local restaurant.
“When we tested Plant-Based KFC by Lightlife® late last year, we sold over a month’s worth of sandwiches in six hours,” said Samantha Redman, Chief Marketing Officer, KFC Canada. “Seeing the extraordinary demand for Plant-Based KFC, we worked quickly to bring these menu items to our restaurants across Canada.”
The menu options include:
“Lightlife® is excited to continue on this journey with KFC, providing Canadians with plant-based foods that deliver on incredible taste and are more broadly available to consumers who know balance is essential to living well,” said Dan Curtin, President of Greenleaf Foods, SPC, the owner of Lightlife®. “The Plant-Based KFC sandwich delivers the same great taste of chicken—but made with plants.”
The Plant-Based KFC sandwich will be available permanently, while the Plant-Based KFC Popcorn will be available for a limited time while quantities last.
What do you think of KFC’s Plant-Based options?
Rewards on your two faves? Yes and yes! Now you can earn Rewards on hot beverages and fries at McDonald’s Canada! McDonald’s is revamping its McCafé® Mobile Rewards program with a new name and a new reward. Announced today, McDonald’s Rewards, a program available on the McDonald’s app, allows Canadians to collect and earn rewards on hot McCafé beverages and has now been expanded to include its World Famous Fries™. As one in three orders includes McDonald’s fries in Canada, the all-new McDonald’s Rewards is another way Canadians can conveniently and simply get more of the food they love.
“Adding our World Famous Fries to McDonald’s Rewards is a natural, given our history of innovation and the love Canadians have for our fries,” said Lara Skripitsky, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, McDonald’s Canada. “Now our guests can earn even more rewards on the food they love through our easy to use mobile app. And who doesn’t love free fries?”
As with the current program, McDonald’s Rewards provides a reward after seven qualifying purchases. The purchase can be any size hot beverage (excluding espresso) and, now, any size fries, even those included as part of a meal. Having a rewards program that includes both coffee and fries means that the new program truly offers round-the-clock rewards. Guests can also continue to earn McDonald’s Rewards on all of the same order points as today, including Front Counter, Drive Thru, Kiosk and Mobile Ordering on the McDonald’s app.
In about the time that it takes to cook McDonald’s fries (three minutes), users can download and set up McDonald’s Rewards by downloading the McDonald’s app on iOS or Android. The app allows users to save favourite menu items, pay for food and beverages straight from their smartphone, and collect and earn rewards on coffee and now fries.
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President’s Choice brand Beefless Undeniable Burgers recalled due to presence of pieces of wood.
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Toys, Toys, Toys has filed for bankruptcy and will close all stores after 30 years in business. The closing sale will begin immediately at 5 stores located in Vaughan Mills, Square One Shopping Centre, Erin Mills Town Centre, Scarborough Town Centre, & Oshawa Centre. This liquidation sale includes a huge selection of popular and collectible toys including action figures, dolls, board games, RC toys,, plush toys, souvenirs, and much more.
DAVIDsTEA Canada announced that they are implementing a restructuring plan under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “CCAA”) in order to accelerate the transition to an online retailer and wholesaler of high-quality tea and accessories. As part of the restructuring process, DAVIDsTEA may ultimately close a significant number of stores. At this point, they did not confirm exactly which stores will be closed. During the restructuring process, DAVIDsTEA will continue to operate their online business through their website as well as wholesale distribution channel, through which we sell a selection of DAVIDsTEA products in grocery stores and pharmacies across Canada.
DAVIDsTEA said “Dear Friends, We have made the tough but necessary decision to implement a restructuring plan under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (the “CCAA”) to reimagine our brick-and-mortar footprint and accelerate our transition to a more prevalent online retailer and wholesaler of high-quality tea and accessories. We believe this is a necessary evolution for our Company to better serve you. We will continue to share our love of loose leaf tea through davidstea.com and there will no interruption to your experience as we reorganize our business.”
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Health and nutrition retailer GNC has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and announced that it will close at least 29 stores in Canada as part of its restructuring. The locations of the stores that will close are:
GNC said: Our business has been under financial pressure for the past several years as we have worked to pay down debt and reposition GNC to be more competitive in a challenging operating environment. We were making significant progress and were focused on refinancing the business to allow us to position ourselves for long-term growth. However, the COVID-19 pandemic created a situation where we were unable to accomplish our refinancing and the abrupt change in the operating environment had a dramatic negative impact on our business.
As a result, we felt the best opportunity for us to continue to improve our capital structure and address certain operational issues was to restructure through a Chapter 11 reorganization. This gives us the opportunity to improve our balance sheet while continuing to advance our business strategy, right-size our corporate store portfolio, and strengthen our brands to protect the long-term sustainability of our company.
Over the past year, GNC has been executing a store portfolio optimization strategy to close underperforming stores, while doubling down on our omni-channel and brand strategies to better meet consumer demand. We believe that our strategy is sound, and the success we’ve seen thus far makes us confident we’re moving our business in the right direction. The Chapter 11 process will allow us to accelerate these strategies and invest in the appropriate areas to evolve in the future, while improving our capital structure and balance sheet.
As part of our restructuring, we expect to accelerate the closure of at least 800 to 1,200 stores in our portfolio, many of which were previously announced with the process underway. By doing so, we will be exiting unfavourable lease terms burdening our business more quickly and shifting resources to our standalone store locations where we are seeing significantly more consumer foot traffic. We will communicate specific updates around potential closures as we progress in the Chapter 11 process. While select corporate stores will eventually close, we encourage you to seek out one of our other store locations in your area. Please note that even closing stores may remain open for a period of time.
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