Article by Caitlyn Gowriluk, CBC News Winnipeg-based cannabis producer Bonify has had its sales licence reinstated by Health Canada, after it was suspended in February over an investigation that revealed the company sold illegal product at stores in Saskatoon, Regina and Moose Jaw, the company announced Wednesday. The third-party investigation into Bonify came after Health Canada recalled two of the ...

Article by Kathleen Saylors, Woodstock Sentinel-Review As the weather gets chilly, Southwestern public health is warning people they’ve seen a spike in the number of complaints about people smoking and vaping indoors around their workplace.  Kristina McCarthy, a tobacco enforcement officer with Southwestern public health, said complaints about smoking in the workplace typically spike at this time of year. With ...

Article by Tom Morrison, Chatham Daily News Outdoor cannabis could be the next crop added to the long list of products grown in Chatham-Kent. The municipality often promotes how local growers produce more than 70 types of crops, but so far legal mass-scale cannabis has been restricted to indoor facilities. However, a new company called 7 Farms Down is working ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen A small community in the Ottawa Valley near Golden Lake that hosts a handful of illegal pot stores might be getting a legal one. Sherry Lee Ann Kohoko has been awarded the right to apply for a cannabis store licence on Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation territory, according to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op Hundreds of potential candidates arrived at a job fair hosted by the city of Waterloo and licensed producer James E. Wagner Cultivation (JWC Corp.). The licensed producer (LP) has plans to fill roughly 50 positions for its newly-repurposed cultivation facility on Manitou Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, and the company has plans to hire up to 400 workers. Available ...

Article by Kieran Delamont, NOW Toronto Mark Spear might be a thorn in the side of the Canadian weed industry. Or he may be a heel. He certainly stands out when it comes to gently pissing off the ones writing the rules on the Green Mile of corporate weed on Bay Street. In an industry hyper-obsessed with compliance and brain-numbing pontifications ...

Article by David Yasvinski, Growth Op A new app from FIGR Inc. is helping consumers figure out what cannabis is all about. The Budtender app, available for Android and iPhone devices, provides access to SENTRI—a platform that traces plants from seeds to shelves—and can help customers zero in on which strains may work best for them. “Transparency in the industry ...

Article by Hemp Industry Daily Beer giant Molson Coors has set a December date to roll out a line of CBD-infused beverages in Canada with partner Hexo Corp. The portfolio of drinks hitting shelves in Canada will be called Flow Glow and start with two flavors with 10 milligrams each of CBD: Goji+Grapefruit Raspberry+Lemon The companies also plan to roll ...

Article by Josh Aldrich, Growth Op Educating employers about cannabis in the workplace is one still one of the major stumbling blocks for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. The CFIB released an overview of their year-long study of the issue as legal weed celebrated its first birthday on Thursday. About 10% of their Manitoba members reported a cannabis related ...

Article by Dan Clark, Law.com Even small cannabis companies in Canada should begin building an internal compliance regime to avoid increasing regulatory enforcement and securities class action suits, according to the Canadian Securities Litigation Outlook report published Wednesday by Cassels Brock & Blackwell. Wendy Berman, a Cassels partner in Toronto who co-authored the report with fellow partner Lara Jackson and lawyers ...