Subway has decided to fire back at CBC after a recent episode of its television series, Marketplace, claimed the chicken Subways uses in its sandwiches contained a significant amount of “soy protein filler”, about 50 per cent to be exact.

The fast-food company is looking to sue for $210 million from the Canadian broadcaster for damages caused by their soy filler claim.

As of the publishing date this Toronto Star’s article, though, CBC had not been served with an official statement of claim. Read all of the details here.

 

Thanks for the friendly comments, everyone! We’re not all a bunch of maple-syrup drinking snow farmers and to make up for the blasphemous pour depicted in the previous photo, we’ve poured another pint that we hope is worthy of Ireland. In true Canadian fashion, we'd like to apologize, so we’re inviting anyone of age with a valid Irish passport to join us this Friday, St. Patrick’s Day, for a perfectly poured Guinness and a shot of Jameson.

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Who knew pouring a pint of Guinness incorrectly could cause should an international uproar? Well, Vancouver’s Railtown Cafe found out just how harsh the criticisms can be after they posted a photo of a pint of beer with foam running over the rim of the glass.

All of Ireland seemed to have waved their fists in unison about said blasphemy and the photo made news across Canada, as well as in Europe.

All’s well that end’s well, though, as the owners of Railtown posted a new photo of a nicely poured Guinness, apologizing for the initial photo and extending the offer of some free Guinness and a shot of Jamieson’s whiskey to any Irish expats who popped by their cafe on St. Patrick’s Day.

Read about the initial backlash in this Vancouver Sun piece and how the cafe made amends to folks across the pond in this Irish Mirror article.

A saddening story came out recently in the Toronto Star on the topic of nursing homes in Ontario and how little of a budget they have to feed seniors. The $8.33 per day alloted for each home resident is almost $1.50 less than what prisons are budgeted to feed their prisoners.

You can read more about this sad state of affairs here. This is just one of many disheartening stories that have come up in the media in the past handful of years. Most notably, in 2015, Calgary restaurant critic, John Gilchrist went undercover to a care home in Alberta to investigate its food quality and the results were shocking.

 

That famous crab and avocado salad that put us on map 9 years ago. Thank you Ottawa for the chance to have cook humble food for all of you. Its goodbye to an era for now but not goodbye to my food in #ottawa #muchlove #food

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After nine years as one of Ottawa’s top casual fine dining restaurants, Navarra (the Spanish-Latin American fusion eatery from Top Chef Canada season four winner, Rene Rodriguez) closed its doors at the beginning of March. Chef/owner Rodriguez mentions that folks will be able to enjoy his cooking again soon, but makes no mention of whether that means another bricks and mortar concept is in the works.

Find out more about Rodriguez’s reason to close in this Ottawa Citizen as well as two other notable restaurants in the city that also have shut down recently.

As we get closer and closer to Canada’s 150th birthday, most news sources and other publications are taking time to delve into the history of Canadian food.

This article from The Globe and Mail takes a fairly in-depth and fascinating look at some of the country’s most well-known foods throughout the past century and a half including junk foods like Kraft Dinner (created in 1937) , Hawkins Cheezies (1949) and even McDonald’s McLobster sandwich (1991) as well as ginger beef, the California roll and, of course, poutine.

Read the full feature here to learn more about our country's most popular foods from the past 150 years.