Top Stories: National
- Cannabis Retailer Gift Cards Now Available at Almost 300 Canadian Circle K Stores (New Cannabis Ventures)
- Pets-online.ca is celebrating the opening of its English-speaking online store (Press release)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- With COVID-19 cases trending down in Ontario, small businesses ask for a plan to begin loosening restrictions (Toronto.com)
- Quebec plans to go head-to-head with Amazon with new online marketplace (Montreal Gazette)
- Quebec parents, opposition parties call on children’s clothing stores to be essential (Global News)
- 1 in 5 big-box stores inspected receive tickets during COVID-19 enforcement blitz in Windsor (CBC)
- ‘Big-box blitz’ leads to more than 2 dozen fines in Ottawa (CBC)
- Ontario NDP calls for paid sick leave, restrictions on big-box store non-essentials (Insideottawavalley.com)
- Ontario officially extends state of emergency and stay-at-home order by 14 days (CTV)
Western Canada News
- Lining up to get into a store could be riskier for COVID than shopping: Winnipeg epidemiologist (Global News)
- Industries left out of Manitoba’s reopening plans want more explanation (Global News)
- Local pet shops and dog care centres thriving thanks to rise in pet adoptions (CTV Calgary)
- Wine, Spirits, Beer to be built onto Nipawin Co-op Food Store this summer (Northeast Now)
- Restaurant in central Alberta serving diners in defiance of COVID-19 health orders (CBC)
- COVID-19 exposures: Warning notices posted at grocery stories and pharmacies across B.C. (CTV)
