{"id":181858,"date":"2025-12-08T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181858\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:57:06","slug":"quebec-plans-to-expand-pilot-project-allowing-stores-to-stay-open-longer-on-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181858\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec plans to expand pilot project allowing stores to stay open longer on weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec is taking steps to end a long-standing rule that forces most retail stores to close at 5 p.m. on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Poulin, Quebec&#8217;s minister responsible for the economy and small and medium enterprises, says the province&#8217;s retailers need more flexibility to be able to compete with online sellers such as Shein and Temu.<\/p>\n<p>The province implemented a pilot project last year that allowed retailers in three cities to stay open until 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, except for holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin says the government is proposing to expand that pilot across the province and allow retailers to be open until 9 p.m. seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>He says Quebec is the only jurisdiction in North America that limits opening hours for stores, with exceptions that include grocery stores and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin says the proposed rules will be subject to a 45-day consultation period after they are published on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-181858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}