{"id":306881,"date":"2026-02-24T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:19:11","slug":"quebecs-pilot-project-to-extend-store-hours-will-begin-march-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306881\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec&#8217;s pilot project to extend store hours will begin March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting March 11, retail businesses in Quebec that wish to do so will be able to stay open later on weekends, as part of a one-year pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>The Quebec government will allow eligible businesses, such as stores, boutiques, and hardware stores, to open every day from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., except on statutory holidays.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/08\/quebec-pilot-project-store-opening-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quebec will expand its pilot project regarding store opening hours on weekends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, retail establishments must close at 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>This pilot project stems from trials conducted in recent months in three cities \u2014 Gatineau, Laval, and Saint-Georges \u2014 where businesses could stay open until 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, on a voluntary basis, excluding statutory holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Grocery stores and pharmacies, which already benefit from an exemption to the restrictions on opening hours, are not affected by the proposed changes.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec is also conducting a separate pilot project to allow adult stores to remain open until 11 p.m. every day. This pilot project is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting March 11, retail businesses in Quebec that wish to do so will be able to stay open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-306881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}