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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For October 14, 2025

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News at a Glance

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 several days.

Spirit Halloween makes retail vacancies less of a nightmare after Hudson’s Bay fall (The Canadian Press)

VIDEO: Retail crime in Canada is soaring, and petty shoplifters aren’t the problem (Soo Today)

Public grocery stores won’t satisfy the hunger for lower food prices (Globe & Mail / opinion)

Following healthy food guidelines in Canada comes at a high cost, study finds (The Canadian Press)

American spirit exports to Canada ‘plummeted’ 85%, says U.S. trade group (CBC)

Why B.C. clothing retailers are rapidly opening new stores (BIV)

Quebec’s language watchdog cracks down after complaints top 10K (CBC)

Canadian Coffee Chain Plans To Take Over Closed Starbucks Stores (re: Good Earth: Noms Magazine)

Some private liquor businesses in B.C. struggle amid BCGEU strike (CBC)

New No Frills opens in South Edmonton, Alta. (Grocery Business)

Large-scale redevelopment unlikely to replace empty big box store, says city planners – Kelowna News

Indigenous pop-up returns to the Toronto Eaton Centre just in time for the holidays (NOW Toronto)

Mountain Equipment Company announces new store in Nanaimo (Oak Bay News)

It’s the end of a long chapter for one local bookstore (CTV Ottawa)

Three new stores to join Associated Grocers (Grocery Business)

Letters: Kudos to Lutfy for telling it as it is for Quebec businesses (Montreal Gazette)

Five suspects wanted after robbery at a Dufferin Mall jewelry store (CBC)

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