Ontario’s cannabis store regulator is again doubling the number of Retail Store Authorizations (RSA) it is issuing per month. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) said it is picking up its pace with the goal of issuing 20 RSAs per week, …
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Cannabis Customers Have Been Complaining Ontario’s Pot Is ‘Too Dry’
More than two years after the legalization of cannabis in Canada, the majority of Ontarians consuming pot still buy it from the illegal market because they find it offers better quality, according to Ontario’s auditor general. Bonnie Lysyk’s annual rep…
Ontario criticized for not properly monitoring cannabis inventory
Ontario’s adult-use cannabis regulator has not been adequately monitoring the movement of marijuana products in the province’s growing number of retail stores, according to Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk. Ontario marijuana stores had 84,228 fewer…
Local Barber Hangs Up His Scissors And Opens A Family Cannabis Shop
In this Following Up feature we return to the former Good Times Hairstyles now the CANJA cannabis shop on Surrey Street where getting buzzed has taken on new significance. When GuelphToday last spoke to local barber Lore Bortolon in June 2017 he was ce…
Coronavirus: Cannabis Retailers Plead With Ontario To Allow Reopening In Lockdown Zones
They’re considered essential but you will not find anyone inside pot shops in Toronto and Peel Region, the provinces two lockdown zones. “All we’re asking for is an opportunity to do right by our customers in the community, have a consistent playing fi…
Brock Receives Almost $1M In Funding For Cannabis-Related Research
Funding will help researchers examine the increase in substance use-related hospitalizations since recreational cannabis was legalized in Canada. The federal government’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded nearly $1 million in fu…
Supply-demand imbalance grows for Canadian cannabis edibles
Makers of edible cannabis products in Canada continue to stock more goods than they’re able to sell, the latest data from Canada’s cannabis regulator shows. In August, federal license holders, provincial distributors and retailers held almost 10 millio…
Dispensaries Pivot As Regions In Ontario Start New Lockdown Orders
Dispensaries Pivot As Regions In Ontario Start New Lockdown Orders
The number of cases of COVID-19 has spiked in the province of Ontario causing new lockdown orders.
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Cannabis delivery, curbside pickup return to parts of Ontario — but for how long?
Private-sector Ontario cannabis retailers may once again offer home delivery and curbside pickup during a month-long pandemic lockdown in two heavily-populated regions, but it remains unclear how long the government will continue permitting those servi…
Cooking with Cannabis in Downtown Windsor
The legalization of marijuana in Canada has inspired some to take their kush to the kitchen. “We never knew how interested people were about cooking with cannabis until we started seeing the cookbooks flying off the shelves,” says Sam Katzman, owner of…