Top Stories: National
- New headaches emerge as retailers and manufacturers get ready for the Great Return (Financial Post)
- Parkas are the new handbag: Moose Knuckles plots growth with luxury market veteran (CityNews)
- Restaurateurs grapple with rising food costs, menu prices expected to rise (Canadian Press)
- Many Canadians are shopping online, but few are committing: Study (Canadian Grocer)
- Tim Hortons develops a new framework to tell its stories (Strategy)
- More Than 200 Canadian Retailers to Stock Vegan Meat From Planterra Foods OZO Label (Green Queen)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Retail giant Costco Ottawa’s top revenue-generating firm in new list (Ottawa Business Journal)
- Sleep Country continues to champion sleep with first-ever location in Cornwall, Ontario (Newswire)
- Community leaders say Montreal Chinatown plan a good first step, but lacks specifics (Canadian Press)
- Candy Depot To Open Saint John Location (country94.ca)
- For first week since pandemic hit, no grocery stores in Mississauga reporting COVID-19 cases (insauga.com)
- Halifax thrift shop filled with photos of ‘local hero’ chief medical officer (CBC)
Western Canada News
- Virtually all COVID-19 restrictions to be lifted in Alberta by Canada Day (lacombeonline.com)
- COVID-19 Numbers Still Too High For Manitoba’s Reopening Plan, Some Doctors Say (Canadian Press)
- Construction underway to transform Edmonton alley space into vibrant public plaza in Old Strathcona (Global)
- Le Chateau’s final days in Burnaby were pathetic, but could it be reborn? (Burnaby Now)
- Rent hike shuts down 23-year-old dry cleaners in Richmond (VIA)
- Jack Knox: Chinatown magnet on verge of vanishing (Victoria Times Colonist)
- Five arrested in Calgary after Chestermere RCMP respond to weapons call at Shoppers Drug Mart (Calgary Herald)
- Man who allegedly shot at Winnipeg convenience store clerk arrested (CBC)