Article by National Post A Toronto-based pot producer is taking over the former Maple Leaf Foods meat plant in Winnipeg. GrowForce Holdings has announced it will open its flagship cannabis cultivation facility in the city’s St. Boniface Industrial Park. It says the 11,000-square-metre facility will employ 150 to 200 people once it’s fully operational next year. GrowForce CEO Rishi Gautam ...

Article by CBC News One of 24 Newfoundland and Labrador retailers approved to sell marijuana once it is legal has turned down its retail license, saying the province’s rules favour large corporations. Dee Dee’s Shop was approved by Cannabis N.L. to open a marijuana business in the Flatrock area of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula, but owner Danielle Campbell said it decided to decline ...

Article by Sen. Paul McIntyre, The Province The federal government’s proposal to legalize marijuana is now before the Senate. Much of the testimony that senators are hearing is disturbing, particularly when it comes to the implications for the Canada-U.S. border. Officially, the Trudeau government claims that there will be no impact on cross-border trade and travel once pot is legalized in ...

Article by Kristine Owram, Bloomberg via Global News Canada’s biggest marijuana company has applied to become the first pot producer to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Canopy Growth Corp., which already trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WEED, said Monday it expects its shares to begin trading in New York under the symbol CGC ...

Article by CBC Radio Put away the gummy bears, lollipops and chocolate bars — at least the ones containing THC. When marijuana is legalized in Canada this year, edibles won’t be included on the approved list in 2018. That’s a mistake, according to Sylvain Charlebois, a food policy researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In a survey he co-authored, he found that ...

Article by Pete Evans, CBC News Aurora Cannabis will buy medical marijuana firm MedReleaf for $3.2 billion in stock, cementing the company’s status as the biggest company in the fast-growing cannabis space. The two companies had been linked in talks for weeks, but both said nothing was imminent when rumours first emerged earlier this month. Something seemed to have changed since then, however, as the two ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, Straight Cannabis City councillor Melissa De Genova plans to introduce a motion to require dispensaries in Vancouver to carry cannabis grown by federally licensed producers. “The majority, if not all, retail stores licensed by the City of Vancouver MMRU [Medical Marijuana Related Use], as well as those open without a license, do not obtain their supply from licensed producers regulated ...

Article by Elise von Scheel, CBC News The Trudeau government’s representative in the Senate says the chamber will extend its session into the summer if that’s what it takes to pass two new laws to regulate recreational cannabis use. Sen. Peter Harder told CBC Radio’s The House he’s made it clear to his colleagues that bills C-45 and C-46 must be passed before ...

Article by Joan Bryden, National Post Senators are being encouraged to postpone a vote on a bill to legalize recreational cannabis by a now-former employee of the Conservative’s chief critic of the legislation. Sen. Claude Carignan said Friday he did not authorize Malcolm Armstrong, whom he’d hired on contract to advise him on the marijuana issue, to propose delaying the ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, Straight Cannabis ‘This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.’ Imagine seeing that frustrating prompt on videos you’ve hosted on your channel for several years, perhaps even a decade, without notice—or worse, that your channel and the hundreds of hours worth of video content you’ve uploaded have been ...