Michelle Warren

VP of Content, Editorial Director, Convenience Group

Author Profile

Michelle Warren is Editor + Associate Publisher, Convenience Store News Canada + OCTANE, as well as the CCentral.ca website, All Convenience and All OCTANE Newsletters. She joined EnsembleIQ in 2021, after more than decade as a freelance business and design journalist, contributing to major newspapers, magazines and news websites across Canada, the U.S. and Ireland, including House & Home, Style at Home, Profit, Marketing Magazine, MoneySense and more. She has also worked at the Toronto Star and The Sunday Business Post in Dublin. At EnsembleIQ, Michelle manages the Star Women in Convenience Awards, the CSNC Impact Awards and the Future Leaders in Convenience + Car Wash Awards. Follow Michelle on LinkedIn.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

8/13/2026
2026 Star Women in Convenience Awards is close to SELLING OUT!
Limited tickets and tables available. Here's why you want to be there on September 23rd!

Michelle Warren
8/11/2026
Des informations sur le secteur, à votre façon: Convenience Store News Canada parle votre langue
D’un océan à l’autre, nous vous proposons les dernières nouvelles sur les dépanneurs, les stations-service et les stations de lavage automobile en Français, en Coréen, en Pendjabi et en Aanglais.

Michelle Warren
7/27/2026
Maximize beverage alcohol sales: Winning strategies for Canadian holiday weekends
Convenience retailers can drive revenue with these 10 tips to meet immediate and take-home consumer needs.

Michelle Warren
7/26/2026
Announcing the 2026 Star Women in Convenience Winners Panel
Leaders from North Sun Energy, Petro-Canada | Suncor, Circle K | ACT and Harnois Énergies | Proxi to explore the triumphs, challenges and future trends facing women in retail at September 23rd event.

Michelle Warren
7/16/2026
Susana Pulla of 7-Eleven Canada to deliver keynote at 2026 Star Women in Convenience Awards
Join leaders from across Canada in Toronto on September 23 for "Leading with impact and heart: Building a lasting legacy in the convenience channel."

Michelle Warren
7/8/2026
In the battle against retail shrinkage, is your data the real culprit?
Convenience-gas retailers are losing billions to inventory inaccuracies. If you aren’t securing the mobile devices powering your daily operations, you’re leaving a digital back door wide open to preventable loss.

Michelle Warren
7/2/2026
Competition Bureau clears BVD-Cenovus deal with fuel station sale
Regulator says divestment of Niagara-area Petro-Canada-branded station prevents loss of local price competition.

Michelle Warren
6/24/2026
2026 Star Women in Convenience winner: Jasmine Ahluwalia
SHINING STAR

Michelle Warren
6/22/2026
Alimentation Couche-Tard finds upside in 'volatile' gas market: CEO
In Canada, the customer was even "more resilient," boosting fuel volumes 2%.

Michelle Warren
6/17/2026
NB Liquor fails to meet bilingual obligations at agency stores: commissioner
Decision comes after customer complains that convenience store staff at a New Brunswick Liquor Corp. outlet in Saint-Antoine de Kent, N.B., could not offer him service in French.

Michelle Warren