Article by Mike Hager and Hina Imam, Globe and Mail Vancouver’s outlaw cannabis shops are expected to gradually fade away after a B.C. Court of Appeal decision last week removed any hope the stores could continue to operate outside the bounds of the provincial and municipal licensing rules. Vancouver was once home to more than a hundred illicit cannabis retailers ...

Article by Shelby Knox, Newstalk 1010 St. Catharines’ second potential cannabis store is still awaiting approval. According to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s website the application for the Corner Cannabis Store planned for Ontario Street is still ‘in progress.’ If final approval is granted, Corner Cannabis would become Niagara’s third pot shop; The Niagara Herbalist is already set ...

Article by Allan Benner, The St. Catharines Standard Niagara’s third cannabis store is ready to open its doors, as soon as it gets the OK from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Although Jon Conquergood, chief executive officer of Ontario Cannabis Holdings, previously expected Corner Cannabis to be open by mid-January at 395 Ontario St., he said the business ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network Although dried cannabis flower became available back in 2018 with federal legalization, consumers were forced to wait over a year for the release of any vaping products. Over the past month, vape pens have slowly begun to hit the market, but in contrast, there is still little to no dabbable extracts for sale legally – one product has been released, ...

Article by Tara Deschamps, CTV News Soon after cannabis products started flying off shelves following legalization, Canopy Growth Corp. had a $26.9 million problem. The Smiths Falls, Ont.-based company told investors and analysts during a November conference call to discuss its financial results that it was grappling with $20.5 million worth of product being returned from provincial retailers and bracing ...

Article by Ministry of the Attorney General The Ontario government is launching consultations in order to provide consumers more choice and convenience on cannabis while giving the private sector enhanced ability to compete against and combat the criminal market. “Ontario continues to take a responsible approach to cannabis retail sales across Ontario, allowing private sector businesses to build a safe ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News About a fifth of Ontario’s population — 2.8 million people — live in places where selling cannabis is illegal. For over a year, almost no Ontario community had cannabis retail whether it wanted any or not and stores opened slowly compared to most other provinces. But as Ontario seeks to quickly expand its cannabis store network ...

Article by Dave Dormer, CTV News Strathmore RCMP is asking for the public’s help to identify a pair of suspects caught on camera breaking into an area cannabis store last week. Police were alerted to a break-in at The Garden — a cannabis retail store in Strathmore — about 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 30. Two men entered the store and ...

Article by Andres Markwart, Cannabis Life Network  a dismissal of the appeal, the three judges on the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously ruled against several prohibition-era dispensaries on February 4. Justices Peter Willcock, Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten, and David Tysoe ruled against the eleven dispensaries, of which included Weeds Glass & Gifts Ltd., Cannabis Culture, and Karuna Health Foundation, upholding the 2018 decision by B.C. Supreme Court Chief ...

Article by Nichola Saminather, Reuters via Yahoo Finance Aurora Cannabis said Chief Executive Terry Booth will retire and Executive Chairman Michael Singer become interim CEO as the beleaguered marijuana producer announced C$1 billion ($752.79 million) in impairment charges on Thursday. The company also cut about 500 jobs, including about 25% of corporate positions. Aurora’s U.S.-listed stock fell 13% in after-hours ...