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 ...
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‘Violation of Our Rules’: AGCO Disqualifies Seven HighLife-Linked Cannabis Lottery Winners
Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post Seven cannabis retail lottery winners linked to HighLife Cannabis Co. were disqualified by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario last week after failing to submit the necessary documentation required to continue in the process of obtaining a licence to set up a cannabis store in the province. The seven were disqualified Friday under ...
Read More »Delta 9 Receives Renewal of Health Canada License and Oils Sales Authorization
Article by Delta 9 Cannabis Inc via Cision News Wire DELTA 9 CANNABIS INC. (TSX: DN) (OTCQX: VRNDF) (“Delta 9” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that on August 30, 2019 it received its renewal license from Health Canada for a term of three years. This license authorizes Delta 9 to cultivate, process and sell cannabis from its Winnipeg production facility. The Company is ...
Read More »Pot Store Applicant Proposing Shop on Site of Illegal CAFE Dispensary Still in the Running
Article by CBC News Despite objections by the city, the Ontario government is allowing a numbered company to proceed with an application for a legal marijuana store at the same Toronto address of a notorious illegal pot dispensary. The company, 11180673 Canada Inc., which is proposing to open a retail cannabis store at 104 Harbord St., is among 29 applicants still in ...
Read More »Ottawa: Pot Shop Locations in Orléans and Carlington Score Spots From Waitlist
Article by Taylor Blewett, Growth Op Ottawa looks poised to get three new pot shops after applicants proposing locations in Orléans and Carlington were moved off the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario waitlist into the group of 42 lucky lottery winners who can apply for cannabis retail store licenses. The AGCO’s second pot shop lottery was held Aug. 20, ...
Read More »Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario Beginning to Weed Out Retail Cannabis Applications
Article by Raymond Bowe, Orillia Matters The provincial agency that oversees retail cannabis in Ontario has sifted through the mountains of applications and begun to weed some out. Last week, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced winners in the second round of the retail cannabis lottery, which included one potential operator in Barrie, who then had the ...
Read More »Privacy Expert Calls Ontario Cannabis Store’s Sale of Postal Code Data ‘Appalling’
Article by Patrick Cain, Global News The Ontario Cannabis Store sells licensed producers data based on customers’ addresses, Global News has learned. That’s contrary to its own privacy policy, a leading privacy expert says. The address data is broken down by the first three characters of customers’ postal codes. The postal areas vary in population. The average one in Ontario has about 25,000 ...
Read More »Guelph Cannabis Store Entry Disqualified
Article by Graeme McNaughton, Guelph Mercury Tribune Those looking to legally buy weed in downtown Guelph may be out of luck. According to a post on the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s website, an application for a potential store at 120 Wyndham St. N. has been disqualified. The AGCO cites the rule under the lottery that selected entries must ...
Read More »Three Cannabis Dispensaries Could Open in East Toronto
Article by Joanna Lavoie, Toronto.com Three new cannabis stores could soon open in Toronto’s east end. The proposed locations for the pot shops are 1303 Queen St. E. in Leslieville; 964 Kingston Rd. in the Upper Beach; and 730 Danforth Ave., Suite 1 in Greektown. Another cannabis retailer has been selected to open up shop in Scarborough in the Birch ...
Read More »Lindsay Cannabis Store Gets Green Light and Peterborough Store Now a Possibility
Article by Jessica Nyznik, PeterboughExaminer A downtown Peterborough location is now on the Ontario government’s cannabis store eastern region waiting list after other applicants were disqualified. Canada Corp. is on the wait-list to open a store at 225 George St. N. That’s where the former Classic Rattan store was, between Services Canada and the Knotanew Book Store, across from No ...
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