Article by Jelena Martinovic, Benzinga Fire & Flower Holdings Corp is poised to acquire three Ontario-based dispensaries. The cannabis company — and its subsidiary Fire & Flower Inc. — agreed to buy Satica Cannabis in Toronto by obtaining all of the issued and outstanding shares of 2673801Ontario Inc. The store is located at 480 Bloor Street West. The price tag includes $750,000 in cash, the ...

Article by Ken Mann, Global News Several city councillors are voicing concerns about the proliferation of provincially-licensed cannabis stores in Hamilton. Currently, there are about a dozen pot shops in operation throughout the city, but the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario website shows 53 others in the application stage. Ward 8 Coun. John Paul Danko says they are “clustering” to target ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Regina Leader-Post A new policy brief confirms what comics from Sara Silverman to home-grown weed hero Seth Rogen have said for years: Canada’s legal cannabis industry is headed by white males and could be made fairer and better by adding diversity. Speaking about the cannabis industry from a North American perspective, Silverman took part in comedy ...

Article by Monte Sonnenberg, Simcoe Reformer Norfolk County wants to hear more about a special fund the Ontario Provincial Police has established for the disposal of massive cannabis seizures. At the Oct. 7 meeting of Norfolk’s Police Services Board, Det.-Insp. Jim Walker, head of the OPP’s Cannabis Enforcement Task Force, mentioned that the OPP has set aside money for this ...

Article by Ezra Black, MTL Blog COVID-19 has upended many aspects of our lives, and to cope, Quebecers have been smoking tremendous amounts of pot from the SQDC. And let’s not be overly judgemental. The social, psychological and financial stressors of this pandemic have been a challenge and we needed something to take the edge off. But did you know that buying legal cannabis in Canada ...

Article by Marijuana Business Daily Leadership positions in Canada’s regulated marijuana sector continue to be held predominantly by white males, according to a  statistical analysis released this week. The new analysis from the University of Toronto’s Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation included 700 executives and directors across 166 licensed cannabis producers and 56 parent companies. It concluded that 84% of those leaders ...

Article by Sam Riches, Growth Op As Canadians start harvesting their homegrown cannabis, police are seeing a spike in reports of sticky-fingered bandits. That was the case recently for London’s Mike Nutt, whose backyard camera captured a thief hopping the fence, hacking down his plants, and then absconding, all in less than a minute. “He’s lucky I didn’t catch him,” ...

Article by Brendon Bernard, Growth Op Although employment in cannabis manufacturing started to slide in March and continued shrinking through June as some of Canada’s largest producers announced layoffs, not all the official data is downbeat. Indeed Canada tracked cannabis-related job postings by tallying those mentioning terms like “cannabis” and “budtender” in their job descriptions, excluding those that also feature phrases ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Regina Leader-Post The teaming of Toronto-based Cronos Group Inc. with actor/best-selling author Kristen Bell is meant to get toes tapping and life relaxing. Co-founders Cronos and Bell are betting consumers are ready to do their Happy Dance, the name of a new multi-purpose CBD brand that seeks to redefine self-care, notes a statement Wednesday from Cronos. The ...

Article by Rachel Browne, Vice News Two years after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, Black and Indigenous people, and women, are significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at licensed cannabis producers, new research shows. And experts say there needs to be more effort to bring racialized people, who have been disportionately criminalized by cannabis prohibition, into the legal fold. White people are ...