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Quebec police are on the hunt for a sticky-fingered thief after millions of dollars of maple syrup vanished from a Quebec warehouse. The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check last week at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where the syrup is being held temporarily. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which is responsible for the global strategic maple syrup reserve, initially kept the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime quickly.

As panicking investors seem to liquiditate non-syrupy assets indiscriminately to buy whatever maple syrup they can still get their hands on, some analysts show concern about the potential impact of this heist on the global economy: "Maple Syrup derivatives form the foundation for some of our country's most highly regarded investment vehicles, a shaken confidence in the continued availability of syrup could quite literally pull the rug out from under large parts of the global financial system" tells us a confidential source.