Thieves in Quebec have made off with a massive haul of maple syrup worth up to $30 million in an unusual burglary targeting the world's most important association of producers of the Canadian confection.

Quebec provincial police are investigating after the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, in an inventory check of one of its warehouses, noticed that a large number of the barrels it uses to store its maple syrup were empty.

The warehouse, in St-Louis-de-Blandford, 160 kilometres northeast of Montreal, held about 3.4 million litres of bulk maple syrup and is part of a global strategic reserve of the sticky liquid.

The federation of producers said the Sûreté du Québec and an auditing firm are determining exactly how much the thieves took.

"The St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse had been secured by a fence and locks, and visited regularly," federation president Serge Beaulieu said in a news release.

The statement said the syrup was being held at the warehouse temporarily while the finishing touches are put on a new storage facility in nearby Laurierville, Que. It was supposed to be transferred over the coming weeks.

Insured

If the entire warehouse's contents were stolen, it would represent more than a tenth of Quebec's 2012 harvest, and more than a quarter of the federation's inventory.

The stock of syrup was insured, the federation said, so its members will not lose financially.

The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers is the industry association for the province's 7,500 producers, and administers a bulk sale system with quotas on individual operations. The federation also keeps nearly 13 million litres in syrup in three warehouses to stabilize global supply and prices.

Quebec produces three-quarters of the world's maple syrup. The province's output hit 33 million litres this year, down about five per cent from last year but way up from the lean harvest of 2008.

So it seems that in recent years the only thing I use my DA journal for is to announce significant site outages.

In short: the domain has expired and I'm having some issues renewing it. I'm optimistic that this will be worked out in the relatively near future. In the meantime, bodyinflation.org will be pointing at a rather unattractive list of "Related Searches".

marzopolis wrote:
Pardon me! I thought it was a United Kingdom and men from your country were across the board refered to as being Englishmen!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four administrative divisions (or countries): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Demonym: British or Briton

foxglove wrote:
The way Piggybelly described the way she touched her & spoke to her was akin to a doctor grabbing someone's big nose and going OMG LOOK AT YOUR MASSIVE HOOTER IT'S SO DISGUSTING, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY GET PLASTIC SURGERY! Lol, not cool!

NoVa wrote:
didn't curvage die?

Reaperman wrote:
Also, re: me3 one of the endings (even before they added the dlc) shows someone that looks suspiciously like (read obviously is) shepherd starting to wake up. But yeah, disappointed with the end in many ways but even that had some good bits. The way the music went with the visuals stands out, but the music of mass effect has always been outstanding. Next generation saph?