Retail & Manufacturing

Canadian alcohol producers are cheering decisions from several provinces to yank U.S. booze from provincial liquor stores. They say the move will deliver a boost to homegrown business while adding ammunition to a federal plan aimed at getting the U.

Artigiano plans to open five new cafés by the end of June: in West Vancouver, Burnaby, White Rock, North Vancouver and Vancouver

Wine wholesales fell the most by volume and by dollars spent

Mangrove Lithium closes on $35 million raise to finance new refinery

Vancouver International Wine Festival to launch Feb. 22 with U.S. as the theme region.

OTTAWA — Canadian retail sales in November were flat compared with October, but an early estimate by Statistics Canada pointed to a rebound in December which saw the start of Ottawa's GST/HST holiday.

TORONTO — Hudson's Bay says it has laid off 41 staff as it revamps the retailer's structure.

VANCOUVER — Walmart Canada says a third-party supplier that weighed and labelled meat products for its Richmond, B.C., store took immediate "corrective action" when it was made aware some products were being priced incorrectly.

OTTAWA — Canadian industry groups are calling on the government to protect businesses if U.S. president-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods headed to the U.S.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 0.8 per cent to $71.5 billion in November, helped by higher sales in the aerospace product and parts industry group and the petroleum and coal product subsector.