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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For March 20, 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 48 hours.

On the Run Charging network to further expand across Canada (CCentral)

Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of U.S. business (Globe & Mail / subscriber paywall)

Cost of redeveloping former Bay building in Winnipeg now $310M, Southern Chiefs says (CBC)

What will be the future of Vancouver’s Hudson’s Bay store? (Vancouver Sun)

B.C. Moves to Relieve Interprovincial Trade Barriers (RCC)

Edmonton shoppers take trip down memory lane as Hudson’s Bay looks to liquidate shelves (CityNews)

Buying Canadian may become harder for Manitoba shoppers as locally grown produce runs out (CBC)

New No Frills store opens in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Grocery Business)

Canadian convenience store apologizes and removes ‘culturally insensitive’ lottery ad depicting woman in a hijab (Toronto Star)

Montreal Tesla dealership vandalized amid backlash against Elon Musk (CBC)

Buying out-of-province alcohol is ‘slow process,’ business owners say (CTV)

B.C. businesses navigate retail minefield in midst of tariff war (Vancouver Island Free Daily)

Alberta government releases impounded U.S.-produced liquor (Calgary Herald)

Yorkville’s newest vintage store will make you feel like you’re shopping in Paris (Streets of Toronto)

Rare and valuable Beatles recording turns up in Vancouver record store (Vancouver Sun)

‘They’re smashing the window’: Youths charged in botched Toronto jewellery store robbery (CityNews)

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