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Ontario New Tobacco Tax Stamp

Ontario Adopts Federal Tobacco Stamp Effective April 1, 2013, and subject to a transition period, Ontario will adopt the federal tobacco stamping system for marking packages of cigarettes and packages of fine cut tobacco that are sold in Ontario, as announced in the 2012 Ontario Budget. The Ontario-adapted federal stamp will replace the yellow tear […]

Latest Beer And Wine Agency Convenience Store

The beer cave is show here in the new LCBO Agency store inside a greenfield build Mac’s Milk Store. The full service convenience store build at an approximate cost of $3 million in this rural community. Dave Bryans, CEO of OCSA is pictures here opening the single serve cooler door for a happy customer.

Toronto Crime Stoppers Launches Gas Theft Awareness Campaign

Crimestoppers partners with Canadian Fuels Association, Ontario Convenience Stores Association and Canadian Independent Petroleum Marketers Association on province-wide initiative. October 16, 2012 — If you ever thought stealing gas was not a crime, think again. Today it was announced that Toronto Crime Stoppers in cooperation with the Canadian Fuels Association, the Ontario Convenience Stores Association […]

Convenience stores take legal action against City of Toronto plastic bag by-law

November 15, 2012 – Toronto – Citing the harm to Toronto businesses, the Ontario Convenience Stores Association (OCSA) has moved forward with legal action against the City of Toronto to halt the implementation of the City’s proposed plastic bag by-law, which is set to take effect on January 1, 2013. On behalf of its members […]

Toronto Council Withdraws Bag Ban

November 28, 2012 – Toronto – The Ontario Convenience Stores Association announced today it was pleased that Toronto City Council has decided to withdraw its controversial plastic bag by-law, which was set to go into effect January 1, 2013. While the OCSA is still studying the impact of the Council decision and the resolutions it […]

New Credit Card Rules

NEW CREDIT CARD RULES New regulations that apply to credit cards and loans offered by federally regulated financial institutions are now in effect. The regulations enhance consumers’ access to clear information about key details of these financial products, such as interest rates, fees and penalty charges. They also strengthen consumers’ rights by limiting certain business […]

Reverse The Bag Ban Coalition

A 15 year old tree yields 700 paper bags On Monday October 29th, the fight against the plastic bag ban was assembled at City Hall to announce that a coalition has been formed to challenge Toronto’s City Hall’s decision to ban plastic bags effective January 1, 2013.  The ReverseTheBagBan.ca coalition is comprised of environmentalists, manufacturers, recyclers, […]

Help Us Cut Red Tape

The 2012 CCSA State of the Industry Report describes in detail the amount of regulations and policies that convenience store retailers face in their small business. Please read the following report that describes in detail the regulations across Canada and the cost to the small business owners. Click here to view the 2012 State Of […]

Paper Bags Cost More

Paper bags that will replace plastic t-shirt bags will cost substantially more to retailers.  Some estimate that the current charge of 5 cents per bag will be increased to as high as 15 cents per bag.  Retailers that have experimented with paper bags made from recycled fibres had to discontinue their use because of paper […]