A Vancouver city councillor is calling for legal cannabis retail licence fees in the city to be slashed. Independent Coun. Rebecca Bligh says the current annual fee that cannabis retailers pay, $33,958, is incentivizing illegal pot shops and is out of scale with other similar… Read More »Legal pot shop licence fees too pricey, Vancouver councillor says – BC
Lethbridge police have charged two people with multiple drug-related offences following the culmination of a surveillance operation earlier this week. On Thursday, police executed a search warrant on a Lethbridge home they had been surveilling since January, after a report from the Safer Communications and… Read More »Police seize more than $135K worth of drugs from Lethbridge home – Lethbridge
When Celina Aguirre and Alan Cuthbert cancelled their wedding in early 2021, they had already rebooked their May 30, 2020 celebration for Sept. 11 of this year. About 50 of their guests would have been arriving from Mexico, including Aguirre’s mother. The couple had already… Read More »Selling your wedding date: How some Toronto couples are trying to recoup thousands of dollars in sunk costs thanks to COVID-19
Did you recently lose a toiletry bag filled with smokes, pot pills, and cocaine? Good news — it’s been found. The bad news is you probably don’t want to go get it. Read more: Winnipeg police say $40K in cocaine found in Sage Creek drug… Read More »Lost and found? Manitoba RCMP find lost bag full of cocaine, invite owner to come get it – Winnipeg
Shares in Canadian-based cannabis companies are surging this week partly because of a flurry of short sellers covering their bets against the stocks, right as U.S. lawmakers seem to be getting more serious about potentially legalizing the drug. Three of the four biggest companies in the… Read More »Canadian cannabis stocks pop on U.S. legalization push and GameStop-style short squeeze
It was 11:35 at night when the drone with the package marked “HITMAN” was seen hovering over the limestone walls of Collins Bay Institution in Kingston. Such sightings aren’t uncommon. An Access to Information search by the Star found there were 27 reported incidents in… Read More »Smugglers’ drones buzzed this Kingston prison dozens of times in 2019, Star finds
A marijuana grow-op in Watson, Sask., has been busted, says the RCMP. Police said they initially went to a building on Railway Avenue in the community 90 km east of Saskatoon on Jan. 18 after an alarm went off. Read more: Man charged in major… Read More »424 marijuana plants seized at grow-op in Watson Sask.: RCMP
Ottawa police said they seized a loaded rifle and a score of drugs during a downtown traffic stop over the weekend. Front-line officers stopped a vehicle in the area of King Edward and Mann avenues early Saturday, police said in a statement. Officers said they… Read More »Ottawa police seize loaded rifle in weekend traffic stop – Ottawa
Jess Carignan is a flight dispatcher from Quebec City. Justin Niklaus runs a family bakery in Owen Sound. David Halpert publishes a cannabis magazine in North Toronto. This week, they were among the millions of amateur investors who took part in a trading frenzy that… Read More »How a massive ‘dumb money’ movement sent GameStop’s stock price soaring and cost Wall Street millions
MONTREAL – A new research centre created at Montreal’s Polytechnique university will aim to protect ships from pirates – and they’re not talking about Blackbeard or Captain Kidd. Canada’s Maritime Cyber Security Centre of Excellence will combine the expertise of two Polytechnique researchers, Quebec cybersecurity… Read More »New maritime cybersecurity centre to fight pirates on the high seas and the digital world