7/13/2026 The illicit tobacco trade is a billion-dollar, nationwide crisis that fuels organized crime and exploits weak legal enforcement. As local convenience stores bear the devastating financial brunt, the CICC is working with the AGLC to protect these frontline businesses.
6/2/2026 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.
4/10/2026 CICC pens open letter encouraging Nova Scotia government to consider expanding beverage alcohol sales to convenience stores.
3/12/2026 Ontario's win for convenience stores and Manitoba's risky milk price freeze.
1/27/2026 Like Prime Minister Carney's call for "middle powers," to adapt to a new, emerging world order, so too must corner stores. The channel is changing, but we aren't powerless. We’re the definition of grassroots and ubiquity is our strength.
12/16/2025 As an industry, we’ve worked hard to become the most responsible retail channel in the country, and we are proud of that honour.
11/18/2025 The danger of focusing on the big and ambitious, is that we take for granted the entrepeneurs in our neighbourhoods.
10/23/2025 Fewer closures and growing community connection are reasons to be optimistic: From navigating supply chain disruptions to new trade realities, operators are redefining resilience and finding growth through innovation and local pride.
10/1/2025 CICC’s president Anne Kothawala opened the event by addressing the channel's challenges, growth and opportunities. Here is an excerpt from her welcome.
8/26/2025 At its core, Convenience Week highlights how convenience stores serve as community hubs.
7/29/2025 From economic stats to heartfelt connections. Here's how we made it personal.
6/3/2025 Legal tobacco sales have dropped 13% in units and 8% in value for the year ending March 31.
