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Retail Insider is streamlining its Canadian retail news from around the web to include a handful of top news stories that can be viewed quickly during the day. Here are the top stories from the past 24 hours.

Canada Goose to reduce 17% of corporate roles in cost-cutting push (Reuters)

How Loblaw became Canada’s ‘company store’ (CityNews)

Parkland puts 157 convenience store and fuel station locations up for sale (CityNews)

Ontario to add $31 million to budget to deal with increasing number of illegal cannabis stores (StratCann)

Low vacancy squeezes Metro Vancouver retailers seeking space (Business in Vancouver)

Save-On-Foods add two stores in Saskatchewan (Grocery Business)

A Loblaw boycott means more than avoiding its grocery stores (NOW Toronto)

Concern over clubs on Ossington grows as new ‘social bar’ set to open up shop (Streets of Toronto)

Future of lone grocery store in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue uncertain – Montreal (Global)

Yaletown is throwing a one-day only spring retail bash and you’re invited (This Populist)

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