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Quebec’s public health agency, Institut national de la santé publique (INSPQ), released a guide on prevention measures for businesses (in French only) to help retail employees who cannot mainta...Learn More

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Premier Pallister announced that all front line Manitoba essential retail workers, who worked a minimum 200 cumulative hours over the 10 weeks of March 20, 2020 – May 29, 2020 and earned less than $...Learn More

BC has announced that small businesses eligible for rent support from the federal government under the CECRA program will be protected from evictions by an order under the Emergency Program Act. Eligi...Learn More

Retail Council of Canada has issued a statement with our industry partners calling on the Ontario government to put in place a moratorium on commercial evictions, in which we drew attention to the urg...Learn More

For members with stores in British Columbia, the BC minimum wage will increase 75 cents per hour from the current rate of $13.85 to the new rate of $14.60 per hour effective June 1st, 2020. The next i...Learn More

Jason McLinton, VP Grocery Division and Regulatory Affairs, Retail Council of Canada discussing digital/eCommerce changes within grocery stores. Read full article at Simcoe.com...Learn More

Jason McLinton, VP Grocery Division and Regulatory Affairs, Retail Council of Canada discussing what consumers should expect when infections break out where they shop with London Free Press. View arti...Learn More

Retail Council of Canada isn’t happy that retail workers deemed essential during the COVID-19 crisis are ineligible for pandemic pay. “We were very disappointed, especially after the prime ministe...Learn More

Effective June 8, 2020 Disinfectants: Importers of disinfectants will be required to post bilingual label text on their website and provide sellers with a means to inform consumers, at the time of sal...Learn More