Labour Market News

Fruitvale and Slocan Valley Co-Op members have voted in favour of combining the two organizations into the Valley Co-Op Marketplace. The new organization will launch on November 1, 2026 and will operate the previous organizations’ combined five gas bar and convenience store locations and one cardlock site. The merger is intended to strengthen operations and improve services.

Pitch Indoor Sports Ltd., a 10,000-sq.-ft. indoor turf facility, opened in Sarnia

Green Leaf Fuel, based in Boyle, is planning to build approximately 25 more commercial card lock fuel stations across northern Alberta and northern BC over the next five years.

Gen7, an Indigenous-owned gas station, opened a new location in Enderby on March 17. The business will reinvest a portion of its profits to supporting local programs and infrastructure.

Workers at Red River Co-op locations across Manitoba have voted to ratify a new five-year collective agreement. The contract contains the highest wage increases in a decade, including additional increases for pharmacy assistants.

The Wilson’s Group of Companies has announced that the Capital City Station is shutting down on February 28. The company said that reduced demand was behind the decision to close the bus terminal. According to the company, three casual workers will lose their jobs.

La Maison du bonbon Candy King, a candy store in downtown Sherbrooke, is permanently closing

Couche-Tard, a chain of convenience stores and gas stations, is closing its location in Forestville

HTEC has announced the start of operations at its new Burnaby Clean Hydrogen Production Facility. The facility provides hydrogen to fuel HTEC’s station network. The facility was built with funding and support from the Canada Infrastructure Bank, PacifiCan, the National Research Council of Canada, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions, and BC Hydro.

A new Canco gas station opened on October 3 at Westside Road on Okanagan Indian Band Part 1. Bub’s Convenience Store also runs out of the station.

Pickle’s Pumps, a gas station, will be opening on October 11 in North Bay along Highway 17

The N.B. Premier states that the province remains committed to eliminating the carbon adjustor charge that is applied to fuel and paid by consumers. The Canadian Fuels Association says that this move will result in dire consequences for retailers.

Gen7, an Indigenous-owned retail gas and convenience store, is opening in Enderby in late fall 2025. The company is also opening a new location in Cache Creek which is expected to begin operations in summer 2026.

Prince Rupert has launched a hydrogen refueling station pilot project on Kaien Road. The fueling station will be used for hydrogen production and dispatching.

A Petro-Canada service station has opened in Dauphin. The new gas station, Anishinabe Aki, is a partnership between the Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation and the Ebb & Flow First Nation.

Construction has begun on a new Commercial Card Lock Fueling Station at the Johnston Road Co-op in Port Alberni.

The City of Edmonton is piloting a mobile hydrogen refueling station, the first in Alberta, for use with the city’s fleet of hydrogen powered vehicles. The $6.9M station, funded by Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), can fuel approximately 45 light-duty vehicles or 10 transit buses per day.

The first business in the Naawi-Oodena urban economic development zone is scheduled to open at the end of June 2025. The $1B, 109-acre south Winnipeg development is a project of the Treaty One Development Corp, a partnership of seven First Nations. Its first retail venture, a gas bar called Oodena Gas & Convenience, has hired 25 staff.

Kaatza Adventures is expanding its water vehicle rental business at Cowichan Lake with the addition of two pontoons, four seadoos as well as fliteboards and safety equipment.

Esso, an oil company, inaugurated a commercial refuelling station for heavy vehicles in Portneuf-sur-Mer. The refuelling station includes a convenience store and showers for truck drivers.

WestJet is suspending U.S. routes from Calgary and Edmonton due to declining travel demand, affecting flights to Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and Atlanta. The airline cites trade tensions and shifting travel patterns as key factors while expanding domestic and European routes.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation has entered into agreements for a 50 percent interest in the Greenlight Electricity Centre Limited Partnership, which is developing a power generation facility to serve data centre customers. Pembina also secured the sole NGL extraction rights from the Yellowhead Mainline natural gas pipeline and is advancing engineering of an up to 500 million cubic feet per day straddle facility.