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A dark comedy series The Sticky, out on Amazon Prime Dec. 6, satirizes a real-life sticky situation: the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
If you can get past the novelty of the fact that Canada has strategic maple syrup reserve, and the "sticky fingers" jokes leading every single news story about it, the heist in which $30 million ...
Topline The Canadian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the convicted ringleader of an early 2010s scheme that made off with about one-eighth of Quebec's strategic maple syrup supply to pay a fine ...
The heist, tons of the sugary substance with an estimated worth of $18 million, was so large that it put a dent in the global supply of maple syrup.
It is inspired by the true story of the so-called “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” which made international headlines in 2012 when it was revealed that over $18 million (CAD) worth of maple ...
"The U.S. market is the main market for maple syrup, about 75 percent of Canadian maple syrup is directly exported to the U.S.," she said.
He asked for a few details on the theft of approximately 18 million Canadian dollars’ (or $12.5 million) worth of product from Quebec’s maple syrup reserve between 2011 and 2012—a notorious ...
On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian ...
The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which discovered the warehouse full of empty barrels last week in St-Louis-de-Blandford (they initially kept the crime quiet), didn't specify the ...