News On French Fries and Potato Specialties from Canada

Irving Oil announced last week that it has signed an agreement with McCain Foods, making it Irving Oil’s newest natural gas industrial customer, and the first in New Brunswick to receive compressed natural gas (CNG) delivered by trucks.

As deals go, it was small potatoes, but the $60-million sale of an Alberta processing plant signals a new stage in the long-running French-fry fracas between New Brunswick’s McCain and Irving families.

Cavendish Farms announced today it had concluded an agreement to buy the assets of Maple Leaf Potatoes, the frozen potato business of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., including a 142,000 sq. ft. processing facility in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In the latest installment of its transparency campaign, McDonald's has released a video to try and convince skeptical Canadians that its famous french fries are indeed made out of real potatoes.

Un vídeo de la sede canadiense de la multinacional muestra como hacen la guarnición con la que acompañan sus hamburguesas. McDonalds ha lanzado nuevo vídeo para explicar como fabrican sus famosas patatas fritas. Dentro de la campaña que está llevando ...

Margate Farms Ltd. of Kensington was named the 2011-2012 McCain Champion Potato Grower for P.E.I. during the annual McCain Growers’ Banquet.

The Town of Florenceville-Bristol, French Fry Capital of the World and hometown of McCain Foods hosted National French Fry Day celebrations with free fries and fun activities for all. People of all ages enjoyed hot, crispy golden McCain French Fries ...

Cavendish Farms celebrated the official opening of its natural gas receiving station at a ceremony held at the New Annan site on Prince Edward Island.

The McCain Foods plant in Florenceville will be shut down for part of the summer. Due to a shortage of potatoes, the company will be shutting down operations beginning June 18 until after the long weekend of July 1. Calla Farn, vice-president of publ...

McCain Foods Canada is temporarily shutting down a potato processing plant in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, a decision that will affect 120 workers.

With their soft, mashed potato insides and crispy exteriors stamped in the shape of a happy face, McCain Foods’ frozen Smiles are marketed as a fun-to-eat children’s snack. They’re not supposed to explode.

McDonald’s Canada is giving its iconic Happy Meal a makeover and introducing a new automatic offering of yogurt and the choice of apple slices or new mini-sized French fries. The move is part of the company’s commitment to provide customers - especiall...

The United States Potato Board’s (USPB) Vietnam Representatives partnered with the Washington Apple Commission and the US Meat Export Federation at the 2012 Saigon Professional Chef Guild (SPG) Annual Meeting.

Canada has a national sport, a national animal and two official langcodes. But does not have a national dish, until now.

French fries sold at major fast-food chains in Canada contain more than double the amount of salt of those sold at U.S. locations, according to a new international study

McCain Foods (Canada) french fry plant in Portage la Prairie is planning some upgrades ahead this summer.

SOME employees at the Simplot potato- processing plant in Portage la Prairie will see their hours cut in coming months due to a looming shortage of locally grown processing potatoes, industry officials say. Simplot spokesman David Cuoio said the Idaho...

A shortage of locally grown processing potatoes is threatening to make the Canadian province of Manitoba an importer of spuds for the first time in more than two decades and will lead to production cuts in at least one local processing plant.