Top Stories: National
Couche-Tard buys 6.3 million shares from co-founder for $300 million (Canadian Grocer)
The return of Zellers? Experts divided on whether pop-up will revive brand (CTV)
Cannabis has been legal almost 3 years, yet retailers say banks are shutting them out (CBC)
Winter tires are the next looming shortage for consumers (TorStar)
View from the C-Suite: How Altitude Sports is planning around disrupted supply chains (Strategy)
Economy needs to shed reliance on government aid: Manley (BNN)
Canada’s high-end restaurants face struggle to survive (Paywall/Globe & Mail subscribers)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Landlords welcome cannabis stores to major Ontario shopping malls (mjbizdaily.com)
- Plante pledges $1 billion for downtown core, vows to reintroduce free parking (Montreal Gazette)
- Mall shopping: Weaving Baskets Group buys Cornwall Square retail complex (Ottawa Business Journal)
- Animal advocates calling on PetSmart to stop selling reptiles, amphibians (CityNews)
- Convenience stores propose made-in-Ontario beverage alcohol sales (Grocery Business)
- WestLine Condos Pop-Up Opens at Nearby Yorkdale Shopping Centre (Urban Toronto)
- Flow Alkaline Spring Water Becomes the Official Water Partner of the Montreal Canadiens and the Bell Centre (press release)
Western Canada News
- Crestpoint Acquires the Junction Shopping Centre in Mission, British Columbia (Newswire)
- Alberta launches app for businesses to scan COVID-19 vaccine QR codes (CTV)
- Vancouver’s commercial real estate market tilts east (BIV)
- Family-owned Blooms by May Celebrates their Expansion at New Location in Edmonton (EIN)