Top Stories: National
- Stewart Schaefer appointed President of Sleep Country Canada (Newswire press release)
- Shopify helped generate $307 billion in economic activity in 2020 (Beta Kit)
- Clorox systems to disinfect Walmart Canada shopping carts (Grocery Business)
- Ottawa tables legislation to send striking Port of Montreal workers back on the job (CBC)
- Disney closing all of its stores in Canada: Report (Toronto Sun)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Consultations start Wednesday on tower planned for the Bay in downtown Montreal (Montreal Gazette)
- Committee green-lights plan to seek public feedback on small biz tax cut (Ottawa Business Journal)
- Federal government insists it’s up to Ontario to make businesses pay for sick leave (CBC)
- Tenant finally secured for 837 Queen West in Toronto (BlogTO)
- Biscuits Leclerc supports Quebec vaccination effort with new hub (Grocery Business)
Western Canada News
- Ponoka chamber members get ‘Insider’ look at future of retail from Retail Insider’s Craig Patterson (Ponoka News)
- London Drugs clearing shelf space for Western Canada restaurants to sell their goods (Nanaimo Bulletin)
- Save-On-Foods opening two stores in Winnipeg (Grocery Business)
- New co-op food store in Melfort announced by Prairie North Co-op (humboltournal.ca)
- ‘You disgusting human being’: Shopper berates Richmond pet store worker over mask policy (News 1130)
- “I stood there and watched my store burn” business owner loses boutique in strip mall fire (fortsaskonline.com)
- Safeway saying goodbye to plastic bags on May 5 (Cochrane Now)
- Forced closure of Clavet, Sask. business has nearby community puzzled (Global)
