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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.

The tobacco manufacturer personally removed online ads for counterfeit nicotine products, and products with non-compliant flavours or nicotine levels, and asks the government to take stronger action against illicit vapes and pouches.

The CICC says the under-16 sales ban skips public education, penalizes the most compliant retailers, and was passed without meaningful consultation.

By restricting compliant convenience stores while letting online contraband and underperforming specialty shops run unchecked, Canadian governments are implementing nicotine policies that exacerbate youth access instead of solving it.

The Independent Convenience Stores Alliance (ICSA) calls on governments to expand adult access to federally regulated smoking cessation products through Canada's convenience stores for World No Tobacco Day.

The Canadian Beverage Association addresses proposed age-based energy drink bans.

Though Ontario's alcohol ban in some municipal and provincial parks has been lifted, restrictions still apply. How will this affect c-stores alcohol sales?

Industry leaders identified the restriction as an example of an "unfair and unfounded regulatory burden" placed on small, independent businesses.