Aardvark Cola

Posts Tagged ‘Maple Leaf Foods

The lunch meat election and the radio rant

Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008

I wouldn’t do this, but after listening the other day to a radio announcer harp on a Liberal campaign television attack ad on the listeriosis deaths, and just now reading his piece, I’m prompted to write.
Now 19 people have reportedly lost their lives to the listeriosis outbreak caused by contaminated food, including cold cut meat, [...]

New Democrats understand the lunch meat election

Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 24, 2008

I somewhere read that the colour orange can inspire a restaurant customer to order more food. It is, apparently, the colour of hunger.
Perhaps the New Democrats have sensed hunger in the land. Who knows why the grand old party of Tommy Douglas of bygone days has chosen the prominent orange colour backdrop for their 21st [...]

The lunch meat election

Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 1, 2008

What better election plank than food safety?
Fifteen Canadians dead eating tainted lunch meat, and Tony Clement, the health minister, playing Obama groupie in Denver, rather than considering the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis crisis was crisis enough to come home to attend to. All this on the heels of government plans to cut health inspections.
Luc Pomerleau, [...]