Money Break

From: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada

Money Break features Canadians who talk about their relationship with money and their vision of financial wellness. Their stories touch on their challenges, successes and aspirations for the future.

Coffee edition, giving "bean counting" a whole new meaning.

The first Money Break edition invites you to take a break (and have a coffee!) and listen to coffee experts share their own stories about money and financial well-being.

See how these coffee roasters and baristas give bean counting a whole new meaning!

A series on financial wellness, Money Break, Coffee edition

Our roasters

Meet Mark

This First Nations entrepreneur has made it his mission to give back to his community, one coffee bag at a time. Through the sales of coffee, his social enterprise brings fresh drinking water to Indigenous families across Canada.

Meet Paul

Paul began pursuing his dream of becoming a coffee roaster by sourcing green coffee beans from around the world and roasting them in a hot air popcorn popper.

Meet Luc and Pierre

These brothers are the perfect blend of coffee expertise and business savvy and operate out of a big blue barn.

Our baristas

Infographic illustrating various coffee related facts:

72% of Canadians drank coffee yesterday^{Footnote 1}
$6.2 billion dollar industry^{Footnote 1}
$1.4 billion in grocery/retail^{Footnote 1}
$4.8 billion in café’s/restaurants^{Footnote 1}
Canadians consume 2.3 cups of coffee per day^{Footnote 1}
The coffee industry employs more than 160,000 of Canadians in cafes and coffee shops.^{Footnote 1}
5,000 jobs are in roasting^{Footnote 1}
$5.19 is the average price of a 300g bag of coffee in Canada^{Footnote 2}
Canada imported more than 260,000 metric tonnes of coffee in 2017^{Footnote 3}