{"id":967,"date":"2012-09-02T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2021-07-17T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T22:41:23","slug":"maplesyru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/maplesyru\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Syrup Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Editor Jordan Weissmann:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/canadarealtime\/2012\/08\/31\/quebec-whodunit-14-of-provinces-syrup-reserves-go-missing\/\">news broke<\/a> that thieves had stolen $30 million dollars worth of Quebec&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserves. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geopolitical emergency, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers has been managing warehouses full of surplus sweetener since 2000. The crooks seem to have made off with more than a quarter of the province&#8217;s backup supply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210516212622\/https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/09\/why-does-canada-have-a-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve\/261869\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/09\/why-does-canada-have-a-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve\/261869\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Editor Jordan Weissmann: On Friday, news broke that thieves had stolen $30 million dollars worth of Quebec&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserves. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geopolitical emergency, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-quebec","post_format-post-format-quote","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":686,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-protest-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":0},"title":"Montreal Protest History","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"July 13, 2012","format":"video","excerpt":"Check out this great video about the Maple Spring.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Quebec&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Quebec","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/quebec\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21840,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/stepping-back-in-time-in-quebec-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":1},"title":"Stepping Back in Time in Quebec City","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I felt like a time-traveller within ten minutes of arriving in Quebec City by train. 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