Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For February 11, 2025

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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.

‘Buy Canadian’ starting to have an impact on retail market (CBC)

If tariffs kick in, your online and cross-border shopping could cost more (Globe & Mail)

Up against tariff threats, here’s how to shop (and grow) Canadian fruits and vegetables (National Post)

A people-pleasing addition to the coming Canadian economic overhaul: Fold the GST into retail prices (Globe & Mail)

Salad dressing could be trouble: Canadian supermarkets scramble to find alternatives before threatened U.S. tariffs hit (Toronto Star)

Made in Canada grocery guide: 95% of Yahoo Canada readers want to ‘buy Canadian’ amid ongoing tariff talks — full list of Canadian brands to shop (Yahoo)

How Canada’s Shopify is weaving AI ‘magic’ to pull in merchants (Yahoo)

Canadian Content Creators Share Their Favourite Canadian Brands to Shop (Elle Canada)

Alberta family designs app to help Canadians buy Canadian (Global)

How $10K of cannabis was delivered to the wrong Toronto store — and then disappeared (CBC)

Pedestrian-only streets in the winter? Montreal wants to give it a shot (CBC)

Gastown hoping for retail rebound with cruise ship season (Global Vancouver)

The history of the LCBO in Ontario when they had counter service (BlogTO)

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