Top Stories: National
- Lee Valley warns customers of delays of up to 1 year, higher prices to come (CBC)
- COVID-19 pandemic benefits set to expire this week for Canadian businesses and individuals (CTV)
- BRAUN: Christmas shoppers to face shortages thanks to pandemic (TorSun)
- Alimentation Couche-Tard Named Top Canadian Retailer Among Forbes’ List of World’s Best Employers 2021 (Newswire)
- Growing a trend: Plant-based foods taking root at major Canadian grocery stores (BIV)
- Giant Tiger fundraising efforts look to tackle food insecurity (Canadian Grocer)
- Lucid Announces Canadian Pricing for Luxury EV Lineup, with Lucid Air Starting at $105,000 CAD (Yahoo)
Central/Eastern Canada News
- Canada’s oldest children’s book store now writing its next chapter (Global Halifax)
- Hundreds of samples from Ontario grocery stores examined for coronavirus; all test negative (CTV)
- Vancouver-based Fable just opened its first-ever store in Toronto (Daily Hive)
- Cannabis retailer ‘Tokyo Smoke’ opens first store in Eaton Centre (CityNews)
- Pot shop owner wants City of Toronto to crack down on illegal dispensary next door (CBC)
- Mississauga’s Square One Shopping Centre hosts massive job fair to fill hundreds of positions (insauga.com)
- A sneak peek at Toronto’s exclusive On pop-up shop (Running Magazine)
Western Canada News
- Edmonton retailers rise above pandemic doldrums with more small shops opening (Edmonton Journal)
- ‘A magic to it’: Winnipeg’s McNally Robinson celebrates 40 years in book business (CBC)
- “Please don’t trash my windows”: Vancouver businesses beg for relief (Daily Hive)
- ‘They are the foundation’: Victoria puts local shops in the spotlight for Small Business Month (CTV)
- Fast-food joints, more liquor retailers will ask for proof of COVID-19 vaccinations in Sask. (CBC)
- U.S. border town welcomes back fully vaccinated B.C. visitors, but travel hurdles remain (CBC)
- Kresge, the most memorable lunch counter ever (Trail Times)
- M&M Food Market franchise opportunity now available in New Westminster (Vancouver Province)
- Illegal dispensaries still operating in Vancouver three years after Cannabis Act became law (Vancouver Sun)
