This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. The food professor Sylvain Charlebois senior director for the Agri Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University suggests that retailers are buying enough inventory to cover several months of sales but negotiate a discount with the manufacturer. It only offers said product to cust...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. A criminology professor being quoted in news stories suggests despite the uptick recently in police deaths, taking into account there are more police officers in Canada compared to historical numbers this cluster of deaths due to violence isn't the norm and that in fact police ...

A new report showed that many caregivers in Canada's music industry aren't aware of the resources offered to help them. The report was published by Women in Music Canada and Music Publishers. With more than 200 Canadian music professionals surveyed, nearly 80 per cent said they weren't aware of any existing programs an...

Strange timing but yesterday we were chatting in the newsroom about having to access anything to do with life online and all the passwords and what not that you have to keep track of in order to keep track of your bills, your banking, your pension and investments, literally every aspect of life. When I say strange timi...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So the latest info out of Ontario where a police officer was shot and killed is beyond disturbing. Toronto Police allege young people are being recruited through encrypted messaging applications to carry out attacks and are required to record the incidents as proof in order to ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I'd like to take time out to salute those who go the extra mile to support their community in ways both big and small. We so often have unsung heroes in our midst who may volunteer with say a rotary club or the Kinsmen, perhaps they give some of their time to the local food b...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. One of Canada's former top generals has warned Canadians against booing the American national anthem at sporting events. His reasoning is that it's important not to burn bridges especially in light of the upcoming renegotiation of CUSMA - the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal. Whil...

While the C.D. Howe Institute may be seen as a right centre think tank it characterizes itself as non-partisan and recently issued a statement indicating it is too early to declare a recession. The "R" word has been bandied about by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of late who blames Prime Minister Mark C...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Some fleeting thoughts on the government of Canada's artifical intelligence announcement on Thursday. Prime Minister Mark Carney says it can create up to 90,000 AI-related jobs and work opportunities for Canadians by 2031. The flip side of that, as I said these are just fleetin...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So, back after vacation I am grateful to afford the ability to travel. We went to the east coast and saw family. My in laws are in Nova Scotia although while everyone back here was baking in a heat wave, we were emeshed in an east coast late spring gloom. Halifax was pouring, a...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I personally don't have any problem with grounding the Snowbirds until new airplanes arrive. I would have a problem if instead the replacement of the planes became a vehicle for eliminating the squadron altogether. And they won't be grounded until after this year's air show s...

I saw a shout out on social media to three young fellows who immediately pitched in to help a senior in a scooter struggling to get it maneuvered onto the sidewalk. The person posting had the best line - "Bless them and their parents for raising good humans." I wanted to mention this because the degree of an...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. So, the census. I got to question 78 and I saved it. I'll finish it up sometime this week. Interesting the questions now being asked and how it reflects society today. Questions about gender, questions about health, questions about languages - I think that will be interest...

Every year I say I'm going to cut back on the plants in my yard, starting with the tomatoes and peppers. I grow them and make salsa and soup in the fall. And invariably my decision to have say - eight plants - used to end up being about 25 and now seems to regularly fall into the 15 to 18 range. Which is a lot of to...

I find it interesting that Betty Nippi Albright is going to sit as an independent. There is the argument that those who voted her in voted because they wanted an NDP representative. Fair. But independent and not party affiliated is as much a choice to underscore protest as crossing to the other side. And I have mor...