Since its legalization in 2018, Canada’s cannabis industry has undergone significant evolution—marked by rapid expansion, early missteps, and more recently, cautious stabilization. While economic turbulence, regulatory hurdles, and lingering stigma ...

As of April 2025, Canada’s economic landscape presents both challenges and opportunities for emerging industries such as cannabis and psychedelics. While the nation has seen significant investments and regulatory changes ...

You don’t need a degree in economics to know we’re having a bad year. With staggeringly high inflation rates, rising interest rates and a stock market that’s had a horrible ...

The emerging industries space which include psychedelics, plant protein, esports and more, continues to rapidly expand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by technological advancement and busy capital markets. In our ...

This summer, two small but important amendments to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) came into effect. These amendments eased restrictions on governance so that Ontario businesses can operate more efficiently, ...

On July 14, 2021, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released a discussion draft of a detailed cannabis reform bill which, if enacted, would restore the deductibility of all expenses related ...

Regulatory support will always trail behind public acceptance and one prominent example of this is the US’s outdated Internal Revenue Code Section 280E as it relates to the cannabis industry.  In a long well-publicized battle, Oakland-based Harborside Inc. (listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange and operator ...

Employers in Canada’s emerging industries like cannabis, psychedelics, and agritech are concerned about how upcoming changes to the taxation of stock options will impact their ability to recruit top talent. ...

It’s no secret that the cannabis industry has faced some challenges since legalization. Though regulations are changing in favour of the industry’s growth, residue from past taboos and fumbled launches ...