Top Stories: National
- Runners facing shoe shortage due to surging demand, pandemic-related supply issues (CTV)
- Frozen pizza sales are red hot and expected to outlast the pandemic (CBC)
- Impact of Suez Canal shipping traffic interruption felt all the way in Montreal (CTV)
- Want to know how much added sugar is in your favourite foods? Canadian companies don’t have to tell you (CBC)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Cabbagetown comes together to support merchant devastated by anti-Asian racism (Toronto.com)
- This Hamilton paint business opened 2 months before COVID-19. It hasn’t stopped growing (CBC)
- Inside one man’s fight against anti-maskers at his grocery stores (Toronto Star)
- Rabba Fine Foods donates to Mississauga women’s shelters (Grocery Business)
- EDITORIAL: Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson does what he can to help business during pandemic (Ottawa Sun)
- While other businesses are closing up, cannabis retail industry continues to grow in Ottawa (CTV)
- Fellow Provincial Budgets Have New Brunswick Businesses Feeling Left In the Cold (919thebend.ca)
- Toronto booze delivery service opens 1st brick-and-mortar convenience store location (BlogTO)
Western Canada News
- 2 Alberta London Drugs stores closing for good in Edmonton and Calgary because of declining foot traffic (CTV)
- Future looks fresh for budget grocers as new shops open in Winnipeg (Yahoo)
- Quality Foods opens new flagship store in Parksville (Vancouver Island Free Daily)
- Calgary’s Wild Rose Brewery to undergo $4.12M expansion, increase canned beer output (CTV)
- Gallery moves online after 40 years in YK (CBC)