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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For April 11, 2025

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Retail Insider is streamlining its Canadian retail news from around the web to include a handful of top news stories that can be viewed quickly during the day. Here are the top stories from the past 24 hours.

Why Simons and Holt Renfrew are unlikely to want all of Hudson’s Bay’s real estate (The Canadian Press)

Canadian food processor urges feds to axe reciprocal steel tariff or store prices will rise (CBC)

Duty-free shops in Quebec and across Canada are in ‘survival mode’ as border crossings slow (Montreal Gazette)

Why tariffs may mean Canadians could pay more for some Canadian brands at home (Globe & Mail / subscriber paywall)

US shop that relied on Canadians announces closure, citing tariffs and Trump’s ‘choice’ (Fox Business)

Canadian veterans Big Wreck named Record Store Day Canada Ambassadors for 2025 (Calgary Herald)

Massive Mixed-Use Redevelopment Proposed at Burlington Centre (Urban Toronto)

Stone Island Marina Pops up at Better Gift Shop in Toronto (Pause Magazine)

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