Frustrations aired at city council meeting draw ire of WLIB From wltribune.com Original Article by Monica Lamb-Yorski May 7 2020 Mounting tensions between the City of Williams Lake and Williams Lake Indian Band (WLIB) came to a head publicly this week after a city councillor and the mayor aired frustrations during an…
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From oliverchronicle.com Original Article by Sophie Gray May 2 2020 The local cannabis business is not suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the Oliver and Osoyoos Indigenous Bloom stores are reporting a 28 percent increase in sales since the pandemic hit. The cannabis industry was declared an essential service…
Last month, Kana Leaf on Nipissing First Nation became the first cannabis retail store to open in the area. An application to open another store on Nipissing First Nation, called Northern Zen Cannabis, is still moving through the approval process.
Southern chiefs will engage governments regarding the Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba, with the goal of possibly creating an Anishinaabe and Dakota-led liquor, gaming and cannabis authority.
In Burns Lake, an Indigenous-owned company wants to replace vanishing forestry jobs with new jobs in pot production. Nations Cannabis plans to renovate a former mill in Decker Lake to cultivate 25,000 square feet of marijuana.
"Anyone can get access to seeds, dirt and water," says the cannabis and Indigenous rights activist Ian Campeau — formerly of the Juno-winning A Tribe Called Red, "That’s all it takes to get started."
Alderville chief, council order pot shops to temporarily close amid coronavirus pandemic in a bid to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19.
COVID-19: Tseshaht First Nation declares state of emergency. The Tseshaht Market and Orange Bridge Cannabis store are reducing their hours and implementing physical distancing.
The Key Health and Social Factors for a Cannabis Strategy Forum hosted by the Anishinabek Nation Health Department in early March in Toronto brought together Anishinabek front-line workers to discuss the current challenges that the legalization of cannabis
Two Mohawk communities around the Island of Montreal say despite closing tobacco and cannabis businesses to minimize traffic from outside the community amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shops' non-Indigenous clients keep coming.