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  • British Columbia implements tax on carbonated beverages

    Starting on Canada Day, British Columbia will add provincial sales tax to all carbonated beverages that contain sugar.The new rules span bottled and canned soda, as well as beverages dispensed through soda fountains, soda guns and vending machines.Finance Minister Carole James announced in her budget last week that the 7% provincial sales tax will takes effect on July 1 and is expected to generate $27 million in revenues in the 2020-2021 budget year.Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico, Chile, France, Portugal, Norway and Hungary charge an excise tax of 20% on such drinks, while eight cities in the United States also levy sugar taxes, including Berkeley, Calif., where a University of California study published last year in the American Journal of Public Health found sugar-drink consumption was down almost 52% in some neighbourhoods and water consumption was up 29%.The B.C.
  • Feds' electric car rebate uses nearly half its three year budget in eight months

    Transport Minister Marc Garneau is thinking about expanding the government's rebate program for people who buy electric vehicles after eager car-buyers gobbled up nearly half the funds in just eight months.
  • Labour action continues at Federated Co-op

    Pension funding behind unrest at Co-op Refinery Complex On December 3, 2019, 729 unionized workers at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex, an 800-acre site in the city’s northeast sector that produces up to 145,000 barrels per day, went on strike to protect what they saw as a challenge from management on their pensions.
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  • Carbon tax rebate amounts reduced in four provinces

    The federal government has decreased the carbon tax rebates Canadians can expect in the new year in three provinces that have not adopted carbon pricing models that meet federal requirements.
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  • Wake up to how coffee can drive revenue

    Turn your c-store into a hot (beverage) destinationPouring effort into creating a positive coffee experience for customers has some serious perks, as both convenience store owners and their java partners can attest.
  • 7-Eleven Canada ups its coffee game with $1 promotion

    7-Eleven Canada's 7Rewards loyalty members can now score delicious hot beverages for $1 every day of the month.
  • 7-Eleven Canada promo offers free hot beverages on the 7th and 11th of the month

    7-Eleven Canada is running a new promotion designed to make it a go-to destination for hot beverage drinker: Registered 7Rewards members can get a free small hot beverages on the 7th and 11th of every month until the end of the year.
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