Article by CBC News A Toronto-based company has ordered a recall of a cannabis product sold in Alberta due to contamination concerns. Newstrike Brands and its subsidiary, Up Cannabis, say the recall is a precaution because tests have found mould and microbial contaminates that exceed acceptable limits. The recall involves 1,428 units of one lot of Up Cannabis seven gram dried cannabis ...

Article by Emily Mertz, Global News The Alberta regulator in charge of the legal marijuana market says supply is improving, but not enough to start issuing new cannabis licences. Cannabis was legalized across Canada on Oct. 17, 2018. On Nov. 21, Alberta Gaming Liquor and Cannabis suspended new applications and said it wouldn’t issue any additional cannabis retail licences until further notice. ...

Article by Adam Miron, Ottawa Citizen The year 2018 will forever be remembered as annus cannabis – the year cannabis legalization came to Canada. We talked about cannabis. We wrote about cannabis. We argued about it and we invested in it. We attended conferences, wrote legislation, grew fatigued by the endless canna-talk. Then, after Oct. 17, plenty of Canadians who hadn’t done ...

Article by CBC News The online survey for Windsor residents to comment on cannabis private retail stores ends Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Rino Bortolin, Ward 3 councillor, says the survey is intended to gauge public opinion. “It’s trying to get a sense of where people land on the issue,” said Bortolin — but he doesn’t know where the survey came ...

Article by Sudbury Star Northern Ontario will get two of the first 25 retail cannabis licences that will be issued in the province. On Thursday, the Ontario government said will accept entries next week from those looking to enter a lottery to apply for the first licences to sell cannabis. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says expressions of interest ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly With almost three months into legalization in Canada, the Ontario Cannabis Store has finally stocked their digital shelves with cannabis seeds, meaning cannabis consumers in Canada’s most populous province now have a place they can legally purchase starting material to cultivate cannabis from. Tweed, the flagship brand of cannabis conglomerate Canopy Growth Corporation, released two SKUs today ...

Article by CTV News The Ontario government will accept entries next week from those looking to enter a lottery to apply for the first 25 retail cannabis licences in the province. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says expressions of interest can be submitted online Monday through noon Wednesday, with the draw to take place on Friday and results ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post At first glance, the Supreme Cannabis Company’s facility in Kincardine, Ont., looks something like a trailer park in the middle of a construction site. The only real giveaway that it is the site of a cannabis farm is the pungent smell of pot as one approaches. But behind the handful of trailers, serving as ...

Article by Allysha Howse, Narcity Legal cannabis dispensaries are set to open throughout Ontario in April, and as the official date starts to draw nearer many of us are starting to wonder where and what these new dispensaries will look like. Ontario currently only has a legal cannabis retailer online at the moment but the Ontario Government announced that 25 legal dispensaries ...

Article by David Wilson, Regina Leader-Post Open, then closed, then open again. Authorities across Canada keep surprising illicit dispensaries with all manner of raids, seizures and general disruption… but for some, it never seems to take. Police pull cannabis-filled mason jars from the shelves, and by the next day, operators have restocked. Cities lock the premises, and in almost no ...