Wins

After two years of relentless advocacy, RCC has won a major update to the province’s Revenue Administration Act as related to the sugar sweetened beverage tax (SSBT). The government now agrees that ...Learn More

Last year, Toronto proposed a parking levy taxing corporate parking spaces at $6/m² downtown and $3/m² elsewhere, increasing grocery store property taxes by 10%. Last Tuesday, Toronto tabled its bu...Learn More

Year-end message from our CEO In 2024, RCC worked tirelessly to represent your needs and concerns in all regions of the country, putting the spotlight on retail crime and its impact on your businesses...Learn More

Attention RCC Members’ legal teams:  RCC’s collaboration with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade in spearheading influential business association lobbying endeavors has prompted the B....Learn More

The Alberta government has announced a number of new mandatory health measures in an effort to address record high COVID-19 cases and an overburdened health-care system. Impact to retail Effective Wed...Learn More

UPDATE APRIL 29, 2021: As Nova Scotia retailers manage the province’s lockdown, RCC continues its efforts to expand the list of products that are considered ‘essential’.  RCC can confirm th...Learn More

Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is pleased to provide comments on behalf of its members as part of Health Canada’s and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) consultation on the Draft Joint P...Learn More

RCC is working with the B.C. public health authorities in an effort to help them plan their essential service vaccination for “wholesale/warehouses” (e.g., distribution centres). Retailers have co...Learn More

Following 102 consecutive days of closures for non-essential retailers in Toronto and Peel, Premier Ford announced a short while ago that both will be moved into the grey zone of the provincial framew...Learn More

UPDATE: Ontario regions re-opening under colour code framework on February 16, 2021 Ontario announced retail reopening, something that RCC has been working on continuously for many weeks. Reopening wi...Learn More