Article by Guy Quenneville, CBC News Nearly a third of the 51 cannabis retail stores planned for Saskatchewan remain unopened — just over a month out from a potentially key deadline. In June 2018, the Saskatchewan government announced 51 people or groups who had a chance to open one of the province’s legal pot shops. Would-be sellers were told they ...

Article by Jason Viau, CBC News Canadian tourism bureaus use controlled substances such as alcohol to entice people to attend wine cycling tours or craft brewery events, but when it comes to cannabis tourism the same push is virtually non-existent. “I think we need to get on board or people are going to take their interests elsewhere,” said Jessilin Deschamps, manager of Windsor ...

Article by Anisha Dhiman, Growth Op What kind of reputation do cannabis companies have with Canadians?  When Quebec market research and analytics company Leger conducted a nationwide online survey in January of this year, Aurora Cannabis Inc. took the lead with a reputation score of 18; followed by Canopy Growth Corp. (14). CannTrust Holding Inc. came in third (6). The study, titled Leger’s Corporate Reputation Study, evaluated ...

Article by Soj Ramsay-Taylor, Leafly Every September, the Toronto International Film Festival beckons thousands of stars and stargazers to the streets and theatres of downtown Toronto. This year’s TIFF is the first since legalization, and visitors may be curious about where they can find some green to elevate their cinematic experience. If that sounds like you, here are the cannabis stores closest ...

Article by CTV Windsor Residents in the Windsor area who want to buy recreational marijuana in a retail brick and mortar store may be able to do that this fall. The man who owns Windsor’s first retail cannabis licence wants to open his shop in November. Kirk Anastasiadis tells CTV News he is excited to be one of 42 applicants ...

Article by Jesse Staniforth, Leafly In the immediate aftermath of Ontario’s second scandal-plagued cannabis retail-license-application lottery, much discussion focused on the hundreds of applications made using a series of physical addresses associated with cannabis retailer HighLife. However, an anonymous Reddit user posting under the handle u/AGCO_Lottery dug deeper into the applications data and found that HighLife was far from the only ...

Article by Kevin Maimann, Star Edmonton Police let three Edmonton store owners off with warnings for illegally selling vape pens containing cannabis last month. Edmonton police said Thursday that they seized about $1,500 worth of cannabis products from three separate businesses on Aug. 21, following a joint investigation with the city into retailers selling cannabis without municipal and provincial licences. ...

Article by CBC News The CEO of the Ontario Cannabis Store is retiring. The agency that oversees the province’s online cannabis retail portal and supplies retail stores announced Patrick Ford’s departure Thursday. Ford served in the position for a year and helped launch the agency leading up to cannabis legalization last year. Prior to his job at the agency, Ford worked at the ...

Article by Trevor Wilhelm, Growth Op Things should get rolling at Windsor’s first legal pot shop by the start of November. Kyriakos (Kirk) Anastasiadis said Wednesday his new joint at 545 Ouellette Ave. should be past regulatory hurdles, renovated, stocked and open by Nov. 1. “I’m just excited to get working on this and bringing some good business and positivity ...

Article by CBC News The City of Kitchener could see a second cannabis store open up shop, after 12 prospective retailers were disqualified from the application process for not submitting documents required by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and a thirteenth withdrew its application. That opened a spot for a numbered company, 2208292 Alberta Ltd., to be bumped from the wait list. The ...