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Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For November 21, 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.

Do kids still want toys? Toy stores are struggling, but don’t just blame screens (CBC)

27 pieces of Hudson’s Bay Company history auctioned off, raising $5.9M (CBC)

BrandSpark names winners of Most Trusted Awards, including grocery retail (Grocery Business)

‘Buy Canadian’ could take a backseat to cost and convenience this Christmas (CBC)

Rising cost of food is changing how Canadians eat, survey shows (CBC)

If Quebec tribunal finds Amazon guilty of union-busting, what comes next? (CBC)

RCC Welcomes Food Exemption to the Free Trade and Labour Mobility Act: Preserving Canada’s Food Safety Standards While Advancing Trade (RCC)

Goodfood to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results (Press Release)

Peoples Jewellers Joins Forces with the Toronto Raptors as the Official Jeweller (BusinessWire)

Toys “R” Us through the decades: A glimpse at the newspaper archives (Calgary Herald)

Future of Calgary’s historic Hudson’s Bay building? (Everyday Tourist)

Free entry to Downtown Montreal’s gigantic holiday pop-up market (Time Out)

Giant Tiger is closing its Medicine Hat location in January (CHAT)

Brownstein: Montreal’s Pasta Pooks flies high on Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants list (Montreal Gazette)

3 thieves on the lam after smash-and grab at jewelry store in Masonville mall (CBC)

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Lush Cosmetics, Animal Alliance launch campaign against use of dogs and cats in research

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