Cheese-Smuggling Ring Is Brought Down In Canada

Cheese that was smuggled into Canada may have brought profits of more than $165,000, according to police. Pizzerias were reportedly a main market for the criminals, who were arrested this week.

Cheese that was smuggled into Canada may have brought profits of more than $165,000, according to police. Pizzerias were reportedly a main market for the criminals, who were arrested this week.

A "large scale Canada-U.S. cheese smuggling operation" has been brought down, after an international investigation tracked criminals who were skirting import duties and Canada's higher cheese prices.

"The investigation revealed over $200,000 worth of cheese and other products were purchased and distributed for an estimated profit of over $165,000," Niagara police said.

The smugglers one current and one former police officer, and one civilian reportedly sought out pizza restaurants to move their merchandise. News emerged this week that charges would soon be announced against what Mark called a "mozzarella mafia".

As Windsor, Ontario, pizzeria owner Bob Abumeeiz told the CBC, he has been asked several times if he's interested in buying cheese smuggled from America, where prices are anywhere from a third to half what they are in Canada.

"Cheese is the white gold in the restaurant business. Cheese is 50 percent of the taste on a pizza," he said. "The price is rising every year two or three percent."

The network operated in Ontario province, where two of the accused have worked for the Niagara Regional Police Service.

According to a police statement, members of a Department of Homeland Security border security task force, the Niagara police, and Canada's border agency have been investigating the case since January. It began with an inquiry into the possible illegal transport of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Cheap Cheese Smuggled Across Canadian Border

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September 26, 2012

Pizzerias in Canada's Niagara Falls region say they've been offered cases of cheese smuggled from the U.S. In Canada, cheese costs three times as much as it does in the U.S. So drivers are paid a lot to drive contraband cheese across the border. CBC News reports Niagara police officers are alleged to be in on the scam.

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Canada's Food Insecure Find Help, Community Through Facebook

A mural in the isolated city of Iqaluit, in Canada, where food insecurity is tied up with native culture, poverty, and high food prices.

A mural in the isolated city of Iqaluit, in Canada, where food insecurity is tied up with native culture, poverty, and high food prices.

We've been giving a lot of virtual ink to the problem of food insecurity lately the challenges people face when they frequently can't put enough food on the table. And sometimes it seems like an insurmountable problem.

Take the city of Iqaluit, in Canada's largest territory, Nunavut, just a few hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. There's no highway, so in the grocery store, a few slices of watermelon can cost $12, heads of cabbage can go for $28, and people sometime stretch cans of meatballs and noodles out for a week. Plus, its become more expensive for the Native people the Nunavummiut to hunt the traditional foods that have sustained them for 4,000 years.

But recently, a Nunavummiut woman and mother of five decided to bring attention the challenges she and families like her face everyday by creating a Facebook group called "Feeding My Family." And now she's got more than 20,000 members.

"I'm worried about the kids that go to bed hungry. I worry about the elders going hungry. I'm going to keep going until the people start to stand up," Leesee Papatsie, the founder of the group, tells Alexandra Townsend, who wrote about Papatsie's story for Facebook's page called "Stories, People Using Facebook in Extraordinary Ways." (Check out the full story and arresting slideshow here.)

Papatsie's group helps to organize protests, compare food prices across the territory, share native hunting and carving tips, and hook up food banks and generous souls with families in need. Sometimes, members just post photos of high-priced fresh food to illustrate the problem, like this pack of peppers priced at $21.89/kg.

But Madeline Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit, says it's not fair to blame the grocery stores alone for high prices. "Food insecurity in the north is complicated. It's not only access to country food [hunted or gathered food] or the high cost associated with that, it's the graduation rate 75 percent of our kids don't graduate - we have a lot of people who are living in poverty," she says.

And then there's the simple fact that it takes money to get by. As Will Hyndman, founder of a local hunter's market, tells Townsend, "You can't feed your snowmobile a seal. You can't feed it fish. It needs gas and that means cash."

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Summer Lobster Surplus Leads To Cross-Border Price War Between Trappers

Blockades set up by lobster trappers in Canada have disrupted Maine's lobster business.

Blockades set up by lobster trappers in Canada have disrupted Maine's lobster business.

You might imagine a war between lobster trappers to be something like this battle of the lobsters. OK, not really. Still, the price war heating up between the fishing folk in Maine and Canada this summer is bringing everybody down.

It's already been a pretty tough year for Maine's lobster industry, with a glut of soft-shell lobsters causing prices to plummet and leading lobstermen to voluntarily tie up their boats to reduce supply.

Then, just as prices in Maine began to stabilize a bit, bad news came in from Canada: A blockade.

The lobster industry in the province of New Brunswick operates out of a handful of towns along the Acadian coast. As much as 70 percent of Maine's lobster catch gets shipped up there to be shucked and frozen.

But when cheap lobster comes in from Maine, the Canadian fishermen there say they can't make a living.

"Our expenses are very high," says Blaine Daigel, who hauls traps in the Northumberland Strait in Canada. "You've got your fuel. It's $700 to $800 a day. We've got bait. We're paying a dollar a pound. So, it means your meat I don't know where we're going to survive out of the lobster. [The lobster processing plants are] only paying us $2.50."

So Daigel and other Canadian lobstermen recently staged angry demonstrations at the gates of the plants, which prevented trucks from getting in and forced the processors to temporarily stop accepting shipments from Maine.

"We sell about 80 percent of our product to the Canadian processors," says Chris Byers, who runs lobster wholesaler D.C. Air and Seafood Inc., in Winter Harbor, Maine. "Without being able to do that, they're holding trucks; they're not letting us work."

Byers normally sends out five semi trucks daily, loaded with lobster. But this week, he sent just two a day; and he says fishing boats are tied up, idle in the harbor.

Some of those boats belong to the 40-year-old Winter Harbor Lobster cooperative, and some of their trappers say the logjam might not be so terrible.

"It might not be a bad thing to not fish," says coop member Billy Bob Faulkingham. "Especially with the Canadians opening up, they're going to demand more money. And if they demand more money, we're going to get more money too."

Faulkingham's bottom line is off by around 50 percent this year, and he says he'd be thrilled to get the $2.50 a pound for his catch that Daigel scoffs at. Right now, Faulkingham is getting about half that.

But late Thursday, Maine lobstermen won a small victory. A court in New Brunswick issued a 10-day injunction, prohibiting protesters from blocking gates leading into Canadian processing plants.

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