Mississauga, Ontario-based The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings (TGOD) is in the midst of executing a turnaround the company hopes will allow it to shrink debt, generate positive cash flow and avoid being easy prey for a takeover. TGOD - which specializes in organic...
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Medical cannabis reimbursements for Canadian veterans soar past CA$100 million
Medical cannabis reimbursements by Veterans Affairs Canada reached an all-time high last year, offsetting an overall decline in spending among the general population.
Search underway for new heads of three provincial cannabis wholesalers
The three biggest adult-use cannabis wholesalers in Canada are seeking permanent leadership after a string of unrelated departures. The monopoly cannabis wholesaler and retailer in Quebec appointed an interim president to take over for the departing Jean-François...
Hexo leapfrogs competitors with CA$925 million deal for rival cannabis producer Redecan
Canadian cannabis producer Hexo Corp. struck a definitive deal to buy one of the leading adult-use producers in the country by market share in a cash and stock deal worth 925 million Canadian dollars ($766.4 million).
Saskatchewan versus Colorado cannabis markets two years after legalizationÂ
Regulated cannabis markets in Canada’s 13 provinces and territories are coming into their own more than two years after legal recreational products started hitting shelves in significant numbers.
Denmark to make cannabis cultivation law permanent, extend struggling medical scheme
Denmark’s trial scheme for medical cannabis will be extended beyond the end of 2021, when the temporary program had been set to expire, the country’s Ministry of Health announced Tuesday.
Aurora Cannabis shares make debut on Nasdaq after firm departs NYSE
Edmonton, Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis has left the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and followed some of its Canadian competitors onto the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Aurora, which lost 1.4 billion Canadian dollars ($1.2 billion) through nine months of its fiscal...
Canada’s sixth-biggest city to consider lifting ban on cannabis stores
Mississauga - Canada’s sixth-largest city by population - is going to have an opportunity to reconsider its existing ban on legal cannabis stores in early June, MJBizDaily has learned. The city, which is near Toronto, is among nearly 70 municipalities in Ontario that...
Canada’s legal cannabis market continues to erode illicit market’s share
The gap between Canada’s legal and illicit cannabis markets continues to widen, the latest Statistics Canada data suggests. Household spending on adult-use cannabis products in regulated channels grew to 918 million Canadian dollars ($800 million) in the final quarter...
More Canadian cannabis firms filing complaints about rival businesses
Canadian cannabis companies formally cried foul about their rivals’ business practices nearly 200 times last year, the highest number of complaints lodged with Health Canada in years and nearly double 2019 levels.
Canada approves fourth medical cannabis vaporizer license
Health Canada approved a cannabinoid inhaler made by Tel Aviv, Israel-based Syqe Medical, the company announced, making it only the fourth medical device license granted for a cannabinoid vaporizer by Canada's federal regulator of therapeutic products. The license...
Samuel Adams brewer to research cannabis beverages in Canada
The Boston Beer Co., the maker of Samuel Adams, announced plans to establish a subsidiary in Canada to research nonalcoholic cannabis beverages.













