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Top 10 Food Stories of 2025 and guests Ryan Koeslag & Janet Krayden, Mushrooms Canada

Podcast: The Food Professor
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Duration seconds: 3892
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In the final Food Professor Podcast episode of 2025, Michael LeBlanc and Sylvain Charlebois break down the year’s most important food stories—the top 10 - from structural inflation and tariffs to the grocery code and Ozempic’s impact—before welcoming Ryan Koeslag, EVP & CEO of Mushrooms Canada, and Janet Krayden, Workforce Specialist. The guests reveal how labour policy misalignment is creating real risks for one of Canada’s most advanced, year-round agricultural sectors.