Recorded live at the SIAL Food Innovation show in Montreal, Michael and Sylvain welcome Victoire Guglieri, Founder of Nasdrow and winner of the show's startup pitch competition. The Bordeaux-born entrepreneur pours her premium non-alcoholic ready-to-drink cocktails, including award-winning bestseller Scarlet & Co, while explaining why alcohol-free drinks shouldn't be boring. The trio explores why younger consumers are drinking less, the health and wellness trends driving the category, and the momentum behind Nasdrow's Quebec retail listings.

Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois talk with Naïla Bassin, Marketing Leader Canada, and Carlo Stocco, Managing Director North America, both of Andriani S.p.A., live at the SIAL Food Innovation Show in Montreal, on launching Italy's fastest-growing better-for-you pasta brand Felicia in Canada. From the new London, Ontario plant to buckwheat, red lentil and green cauliflower SKUs, a NEXTY award, and why fibre is the next protein, it's a masterclass in growing a category rather than chasing it.

Recorded live at SIAL Canada in late April, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome back Martin Lavoie, CEO of Groupe Export Agroalimentaire Québec-Canada, for their annual trade check-in. Lavoie unpacks the fallout from Liberation Day tariffs, the outlook for CUSMA renegotiation, and why Mexico is Quebec's top diversification target. Note: recorded before July's CUSMA deadline and the latest round of U.S. tariff actions against Canada — some ground has since shifted.

On this summer bonus episode of The Food Professor, recorded at SIAL Canada in Monteal, Michael LeBlanc and Sylvain Charlebois sit down with Jacques Duhaime of Duhaime Gourmet. Jacques traces his family's path from a 1945 dairy farm to a fifth-generation Quebec orchard and a nationally distributed low-sugar jam and fruit-spread business — covering the sale of the processing arm, expansion into Japan and the U.S., private-label manufacturing, trade show strategy, and a new 90%-fruit, no-pectin spread line.

In the Season 6 regular episode finale of The Food Professor Podcast, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois sit down with Pete Hoekstra, United States Ambassador to Canada, for an exclusive discussion on Canada-U.S. food trade, CUSMA, supply chains and agricultural cooperation. Before the interview, they analyze the week's biggest food news, including El Niño's impact on crops, CFIA food fraud enforcement report, dairy protein shortages, the Grocery Code's first report, Metro's labour dispute and fun potato chip finds.

This week on The Food Professor Podcast, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome Vincent Breton, President & CEO of duBreton, for an engaging conversation recorded live at SIAL Canada in Montreal. Vincent explains why duBreton is betting on organic production, animal welfare and radical transparency while challenging long-standing agricultural policies. Before the interview, Michael and Sylvain unpack another busy week in food and agriculture, including rising grocery inflation, meat supply chain delays, grocery competition investigations and finding the MAHA solution for M&Ms

Recorded live at SIAL Montreal, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome Jean-François Archambault, Founder and General Manager of La Tablée des Chefs, for an inspiring discussion about food recovery, food security, and food education. Jean-François shares how his organization has transformed surplus food into more than 26 million meals while empowering nearly 100,000 youth through culinary education. The episode also covers Canada's food strategy, competition policy, food waste, energy drink regulations, the return of frozen juice concentrate, and Foodtastic's continued expansion.

Special guests Axel Schwan, President of Tim Hortons Canada & U.S., and Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer of Restaurant Brands International, joining Michael and Sylvain to answer tough questions about quality, Dunkin's return to Canada, hiring Canadians, attracting younger guests, and AI in restaurants. Plus, the news of the week: Sobeys faces Competition Bureau scrutiny over property controls; Ottawa's new AI strategy and agriculture; and the Texas screwworm fly threatening to push Canadian beef prices even higher.

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

This week on The Food Professor Podcast, Michael LeBlanc and Sylvain Charlebois unpack the sharp rise in chicken prices, Canada’s growing dependence on imported poultry from the U.S., Quebec’s move to remove sales taxes from select grocery items, and mounting tensions around beef trade & import negotiations. Then, recorded live at SIAL Canada in Montreal, Karen Proud, President & Adjudicator of the Canada Grocery Code, joins the podcast once again live from the SIAL show in Montreal to discuss the early implementation of the industry-led code, supplier-retailer relationships, transparency, and the future of grocery sector accountability in Canada.