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Canadian Cities Could Soon Have More Luxury Department Stores than in U.S.

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Top Stories - Canada

-Canada Post embracing e-commerce with modern pickup centres [Globe & Mail]

-Retailers “cautiously optimistic” about Liberal majority [BIV]

-Storefront pot shops still uncertain even with Liberals' legalization push [Globe & Mail]

-Canadian retail co-operatives donate $1m to community projects [thenews.coop]

-It's all about value for today's consumers [Marketing Magazine]

-Debbie Hiss joins Dominion Diamond Corporation [Canadian Jeweller]

-Canadians are charitable at the checkout (survey) [Canadian Grocer]

-Statistics Canada releases retail commodity survey for the second quarter [Canadian Jeweller]

Canadian News - Regional

Western Canada: BC/AB/SK/MB

-Back from the brink: Fields fends off closure to restore chain’s retail success [Business in Vancouver]

-Inside Harry Rosen's revamped Vancouver flagship [Style by Fire]

-Hogwash bath products are for real [Winnipeg Free Press]

-Alberta wholesale sector sees biggest annual decline in Canada [Calgary Herald]

-Local e-cigarette shops wreathed in haze of regulatory uncertainty [Business in Vancouver]

-Tsawwassen Mills enters last 12 months of construction [Journal of Commerce]

-BC wine industry souring under BC Liberals [Daily Courier]

-Evolution not revolution: Re-thinking Main Street (Brandon MB) [Westman Journal]

Eastern Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes

-Galeries de la Capitale: A New Generation H&M and McDonald's [Newswire]

-Don't Steal This: A Story of Appropriation (re: aboriginal designers at Ogilvy in Montreal) [The Link]

-Yorkdale's Jimmy Choo store hit by same shoplifter twice [CP 24]

-Best buys: Apples, little potatoes, strawberries worth a stop at the market [Montreal Gazette]

-A taste of success the Bad Monkey way [Montreal: The Concordian]

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