Top Stories: National
- Why grocers and restaurants are teaming up on prepared meals (strategyonline.ca)
- Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood thinks Shopify could be next Amazon (BNN)
- M&M Food Market keeps its “real food promise” (Franchiseinfo.ca)
- Small businesses make pre-budget plea to Ottawa: Keep wage and rent subsidies going (Globe & Mail)
- Canada’s top toilet paper maker eyes using bamboo for future products (Financial Post)
- Fed’s $691 million investment supports poultry, egg supply chain (Grocery Business)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Top Toronto cheese shop ‘The Cheese Boutique’ set to open new offshoot (trnto.com)
- Victoria-by-the-Sea (PEI) businesses prepare for uncertain tourist season (CBC)
- Metro uses Varennes distribution centre as vaccine storage (Grocery Business)
- Lessons from Quebec City’s gym outbreak, one of Canada’s largest COVID-19 superspreading events (CBC)
- London, Ont., meat plant shut for 2 weeks amid COVID-19 outbreak affecting 82 workers (CBC)
Western Canada News
- Downtown Salmon Arm store ‘a dream come true’ for clean cosmetics owner (Salmon Arm Observer)
- Customers in shock as Burnaby grocery store closed for 10 days due to COVID-19 (VIA)
- Manitoba Safeway stores reducing plastic bags (Grocery Business)
- COVID-19 pivot: Alberta barber opens shop in ‘the world’s largest man cave’ (Global)
- How Winnipeg, Canada, Became the Slurpee Capital of the World (mentalfloss.com)
- COVID-19 exposures: Warning notices posted at more than a dozen grocery stores across B.C. (CTV)
