Acquisition of Thunder Bay food companies will help with northern food insecurity: Marten Falls chief

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 3:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A northwestern Ontario First Nation hopes its caller acquisition of 2 Thunder Bay nutrient companies volition assistance code nutrient insecurity successful the north.

Marten Falls First Nation present owns 51 per cent of Bay Meats and Cav-Tal Foods, Chief Bruce Achneepineskum said.

"We've been a long, agelong clip lawsuit — arsenic a assemblage — of Bay Meats, and we cognize that the institution had precise bully product," helium said, adding the proprietor approached the assemblage astir coming connected committee arsenic investors.

"Then this accidental came up connected Cav-Tal Foods, which is simply a abstracted concern successful itself," Achneepineskum said. "It seemed similar a cleanable acceptable into expanding our nutrient business."

Bay Meats inactive operates arsenic a processing centre for butchered meat, portion the Cav-Tal gathering connected Norah Crescent handles each kinds of nutrient distribution, and besides has a nationalist storefront.

Cav-Tal CEO Alex Siciliano said the determination allows the institution to expand, "and truly wholesale a batch of nutrient passim Northwestern Ontario."

Achneepineskum said helium hopes the inaugural volition assistance code issues astir nutrient information successful the north. Marten Falls besides hopes to bring connected different First Nations successful the country arsenic customers.

"We're just starting to unfastened those doors close now," helium said.  Achneepineskum said determination are is besides the anticipation of expanding the concern by constructing a processing tract and catering astatine the Thunder Bay location.