by Daniel Johnson

John Slipp took over his father’s duty-free store in 1994, which had been started more than a decade earlier.

This month, he closed the Woodstock Duty Free Shop Inc. as lower traffic at the U.S.-Canada border dealt the final blow to a business already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Now, at 59, Slipp says he will have to find another source of income and is advocating for more government support for stores like his.

Fewer Canadians have been heading south in recent months in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, his commen

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