Article by Samantha Craggs, CBC News Legal Ontario cannabis shops will average as much as $1.25 million per month in sales when they open in April, says a Brock university business expert. And some insiders say that estimate is too low. Michael Armstrong, an associate professor at Brock, says Quebec’s dozen retail cannabis shops are making about $900,000 a month in sales, and ...

Article by Kate Bueckert, CBC News When 25 retail cannabis stores are allowed to open in the province on Monday, none will be having a grand opening in Waterloo region and that’s a problem for police, says Chief Bryan Larkin. The provincial government opted to allow a limited number of stores to open as of April 1, although not all ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star Ontario’s halting foray into the retail cannabis world is set to begin Monday, when the province’s first 25 recreational pot shops are scheduled to open. Though many of those initial stores — selected in a January licensing lottery that saw 16,905 people and companies enter — will not open on time, hundreds more will follow over the coming ...

Article by City News The address of the fifth and final cannabis shop in Toronto has finally been revealed, just six days before all the stores are set to open. Canna Cabana will be located at 435 Yonge St., just south of Carlton. While it’s unknown whether all five stores will be ready for the public on April 1, as ...

Article by Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star Day one for pot shopping might come a bit later than April 1, but when Sudbury’s two cannabis retailers do flip the signs on their doors to read “open,” they are anticipating a flood of patrons. “If it’s anything like Alberta, there were four-hour lineups,” said Eddie Grinberg, spokesperson for the Highlife outlet ...

Article by Peter Nolan-Smith, Daily Hive There’s a rush on the province, as the 25 Ontario lottery winners of cannabis retail licenses ramp up to open for business. The earliest any can start doing business is April 1, and in the country’s most populated city, it is looking like only one location will be open when the month kicks off. ...

Article by CBC News Ontario’s first legal cannabis retail shops are set to open their doors next week, but some of the 25 licence holders are still wading through the lengthy approval process and might not be ready for business. Ontario is the last province in the country to open brick-and-mortar cannabis stores since Canada legalized recreational marijuana on Oct. 17, ...

Article by Kraig Krause, Global News The finishing touches are being put on one of Ontario’s first legal pot shops in the heart of downtown Kingston. Spiritleaf is set to open its doors to the public on April 1, a day that could not come fast enough for store owner Daniel Telio. “This has been a hectic process, but I’m ...

Article by Teviah Moro, The Hamilton Spectator You’d be no April Fool to bet legal cannabis retail outlets won’t be open in Hamilton next week. Two applicants, Hello Cannabis Store in Dundas and Canna Cabana Hamilton in the east end, say they’re working day and night to meet the province’s April 1 deadline. But both say they won’t make it. “We ...

Article by Ian Froese, CBC News A Winnipeg cannabis producer will face no criminal charges from the RCMP after a third-party investigation revealed it sold unlicensed product. But Bonify is facing a new challenge: a lawsuit from a former executive who was stripped of his job after the unauthorized product was discovered, alleging he was wrongfully dismissed. A third-party investigation found former Bonify executives hired an outside agent to ...