2024: Year in Review
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
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RCC Win: B.C. Agrees to Put Health Cost Recovery Act On Hold
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
Alberta announces new restrictions including retail capacity lowered to 10% effective May 5, 2021
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
Nova Scotia shuts down in-store non-essential retail; RCC secures additions to list of ‘essential’ retail products
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
RCC urges longer lead times and greater predictability for food labelling
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
B.C. ‘essential worker’ vaccination plan for warehouses/distribution centres
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
All retail stores across Toronto and Peel Region can reopen on March 8
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
Ontario’s reopening of retail
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
Retail Council of Canada statement on Ontario’s reopening plan
Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is pleased that Premier Ford provided encouraging news to retailers today on the province’s reopening plan. Allowing ‘non-essential’ retailers to reopen at 25% c...Learn More
RCC wins on easing food label requirements
The Government of Canada has agreed to RCC’s requests to: Not move forward with the Front-of-Pack food labelling at this time; Focus efforts on education and compliance promotion, rather than tradit...Learn More