Article by Kayla Goodfield, CP24 The first cannabis retail licence in Toronto has been granted to a Queen Street West store. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced on Thursday that it has approved and issued the first licence in the Toronto area to The Hunny Pot Cannabis Co., to be located at 202 Queen Street West. Licences ...

Article by Ken Mann, Global News Across Hamilton, 14 illegal cannabis dispensaries remain in operation. Deputy Police Chief Dan Kinsella provided the city’s police services board with that update on Thursday afternoon while adding that the service remains “steadfast” and “committed” to shutting them all down. Kinsella also says that investigators are dealing with the new phenomenon of “pop-up dispensaries,” ...

Article by CityNews The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has approved the first three licenses for cannabis shops in the province, including the first store in Toronto. The Hunny Pot Cannabis Co. is scheduled to open at 202 Queen Street West and is one three proposed legal pot storefronts for the city. License applications for Ameri, which has plans ...

Article by Darren MacDonald, Bay Today Some clarity is emerging about the cannabis stores slated to open next month in Greater Sudbury. It has been known for weeks that a location will open on Marcus Drive, a Highlife marijuana store linked to Anton Lucic, one of two winners of the cannabis store lottery for the right to open an outlet in ...

Article by Mark Pare, Guelph Today With retail cannabis stores possibly opening up at the beginning of next month, it seems Guelph’s hopes for one is up in smoke. For now, at least. In early-January, 25 companies were named as eligible to apply for a license to open up a shop. Right now, 18 of the 25 companies have applied and ...

Article by Greg Mercer, Waterloo Region Record via Toronto Star Ontario’s lottery system to dole out the first wave of cannabis shop licences is producing some unusual results across the province. Canada’s most populated province will allow privately owned retail marijuana sales starting April 1, after the Ford government abandoned a plan for government-run stores last summer. The first 25 ...

Article by CBC News It’s been less than five months since cannabis was made legal in Canada, and Finance Minister Tom Osborne says Newfoundland and Labrador has the third-highest per capita supply in the country. “I think it’s fair to say demand is probably greater than we anticipated, which is probably a good thing for the NLC in terms of regulator ...

Article by Ottawa Business Journal Health Canada is looking into whether two cannabis companies’ sponsorship of a children’s charity event last October is in violation of promotion restrictions within the Cannabis Act. Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp. and fellow pot firm Halo Labs were among the sponsors of an Oct. 23 event in support of Kids, Cops & Computers for ...

Article by Dan Zakreski, CBC News The Saskatoon Cannabis Clinic is a big-time drug dealing operation. The employee handled the day-to-day cash accounting at the store and had access to operation’s encrypted website and its master list of 3,000 customers. He knows where the store got its drugs from and how they got to Saskatoon. That the store continues to operate in broad daylight in the heart of ...

Article by Ben Leeson, The Sudbury Star The process to open privately operated cannabis retail stores in Greater Sudbury continued to move forward this week, with one of the applicants, Saturninus Partners, moving into the eligibility phase of Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario review process, and another, Anton Lucic, nearing the end of a public notice period. Saturninus and ...