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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For February 26, 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.

Social media movement calling on Canadians to boycott U.S. retailers this Friday (CityNews)

Manitoba man creates app to help you shop for Canadian products (CTV)

Calgarian sees higher demand Canadian-made watches amid impending U.S. tariffs (CityNews)

Ontario to increase beer fee, hitting Beer Store, private retail, bars, restaurants (CBC)

TransLink Store pop-up returns to Waterfront Station this week | Urbanized

‘It’s always booze with this guy,’ Ontarians slam Doug Ford’s plan to axe the minimum retail price of alcohol (NOW Toronto)

Quebec encourages its civil servants to buy local and avoid Amazon (CityNews)

Proposed Canadian tariffs may impact North Dakota retail and tourism (In Forum)

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