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The new Whole Foods Market in the Glebe is defying provincial law by opening for business on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act lets some businesses stay open, but also seeks to provide consumers and employees with a common day of pause.
Retail outlets that can stay open include:
Stores may also remain open in locations established as tourist areas by specific municipal bylaws, such as the ByWard Market.
Minimum fines for opening businesses on prohibited days of retail operation are $500 for the first offence, $2,000 for a second offence and $5,000 for a third or subsequent offence.
Retail outlets may be fined as much as $50,000 or the total amount of gross sales for the holiday, whichever is greater.
The city says it’s up to police to enforce the law.
A worker reached at Whole Foods on Friday morning referred inquiries to the company’s corporate communications department.
But in earlier media reports, store manager Lisa Slater said the store would stay open in order to be “here for our community.”
“The community is out and about, they’re not working and we want to be able to serve the community and give them what they want,” Slater told CBC Ottawa.
The province requires retail businesses to close on nine specified days each year. They are:
The City of Toronto has enacted a law that essentially exempts it from the province’s rules.
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Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act lets some businesses stay open, but also seeks to provide consumers and employees with a common day of pause.
Retail outlets that can stay open include:
- stores that sell handicrafts;
- book or magazine stores that are less than 2,400 square feet with a maximum of three employees;
- pharmacies that are less than 7,500 square feet in size;
- nurseries, flower shops, gardening centres; and
- gas stations.
Stores may also remain open in locations established as tourist areas by specific municipal bylaws, such as the ByWard Market.
Minimum fines for opening businesses on prohibited days of retail operation are $500 for the first offence, $2,000 for a second offence and $5,000 for a third or subsequent offence.
Retail outlets may be fined as much as $50,000 or the total amount of gross sales for the holiday, whichever is greater.
The city says it’s up to police to enforce the law.
A worker reached at Whole Foods on Friday morning referred inquiries to the company’s corporate communications department.
But in earlier media reports, store manager Lisa Slater said the store would stay open in order to be “here for our community.”
“The community is out and about, they’re not working and we want to be able to serve the community and give them what they want,” Slater told CBC Ottawa.
The province requires retail businesses to close on nine specified days each year. They are:
- New Year’s Day (Jan. 1);
- Family Day (the third Monday of February);
- Good Friday (the Friday before Easter Sunday);
- Easter Sunday;
- Victoria Day (the last Monday before or on May 24);
- Canada Day (July 1);
- Labour Day (first Monday in September);
- Thanksgiving Day (the second Monday in October);
- Christmas Day (Dec. 25)
The City of Toronto has enacted a law that essentially exempts it from the province’s rules.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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