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CANADA Flowr
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Canadian cannabis producer Flowr cuts 40% of staff, sells assets to save cash 

Canadian cannabis producer The Flowr Corp. eliminated 40% of its workforce and sold a large parcel of land…

News June 27
CANADA Canadian cannabis sales
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Canada’s adult-use cannabis sales rebound to record CA$372 million in April

Canadians bought a record 372.4 million Canadian dollars ($287 million) worth of regulated adult-use cannabis products in April,…

News June 22
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Aurora Cannabis cutting 12% of workforce in ‘reorganization’

Aurora Cannabis is cutting 12% of its global workforce as part of a corporate restructuring, the Edmonton, Alberta-based…

News June 22
CANADA Cannabis Beverages
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Health Canada: No new marijuana beverage rules before fall 2022

Canadian cannabis companies awaiting a potentially major regulatory overhaul they hope will pump new life into the country's…

News June 17
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Canada’s ‘cannabis strategy table’ offers chance for tax, regulatory reforms

Canadian marijuana insiders say a new federal "cannabis strategy table" bringing together industry leaders and government officials will…

News June 13
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Neptune latest to retreat from Canadian cannabis industry

Neptune Wellness Solutions is the latest business to retreat from Canada’s increasingly competitive cannabis industry.

News June 9
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Canadian cannabis sales rebound strongly in March to record CA$358.8M

Canadian sales of regulated recreational cannabis hit an all-time high of almost 358.8 million Canadian dollars ($279.6 million)…

News May 26
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Arizona’s Item 9 Labs strikes $12.8M deal for Canada’s Sessions Cannabis

Item 9 Labs Corp., an Arizona-based company that invests in marijuana-related businesses, signed an agreement to acquire Wild…

News May 25
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Canadian cannabis producers’ overdue excise taxes more than triple to CA$52M

Unpaid federal excise duty is piling up in Canada’s cannabis industry, with excise debt more than tripling to…

News May 25
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