EDMONTON — Slow food chapter leaders, and members from across Canada, are preparing for the Slow Food Canada national meeting to begin tomorrow, May 3, and run until May 6 at Edmonton’s Selkirk Hotel.

The meeting agenda will include an election to vote in members to the National Board. “The business at hand is to set up a Slow Food Canada national organization, a group that will carry on the same work as provincial chapters of the movement, yet with a national slant,” said Mary Bailey, a sommelier connected with the event.

CALGARY — Denver’s Smashburger burger chain is preparing to enter the Canadian market with plans to open two Calgary locations in May and June.

CALGARY — A feeling of uncertainty has settled among Western farmers as Ottawa’s new law to create an open market for the sale of wheat and barley remains top of mind.

Farmers are concerned about the sparse communication between Western growers and Japan, the region’s biggest top-notch wheat buyer. The problem has caused a lot of confusion about how the changes to the Wheat Board will unfold. Court cases will determine whether the grain planted will be marketed through the Wheat Board or through private trade.

CALGARY — Sales at Alberta restaurants and pubs hit the second-highest rate of growth in the country in October, reports Statistics Canada, as reported by the Calgary Herald.

“The strongest growth in sales was in the limited-service restaurant sector (one per cent). Sales at full-service restaurants rose 0.3 per cent,” reads a Statistics Canada report, as quoted by the paper.