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Oshawa could be getting another pot shop by the summer. Ontario-based ‘Sessions Cannabis’ says they’re planning to open a new location in a plaza at 1 Warren Avenue, between King Street and Bond Street, near Park Road. The company was launched about a year ago and says they’ve been able to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic. However Read more...

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has received more than two-dozen applications for proposed retail cannabis stores in Hamilton since March — a figure which could see the number of pot shop locations in the city increase eightfold. The city’s cannabis licensing team has already reviewed 22 of the 27 applications submitted to the Read more...

Rather than trying to set up stores in crowded downtown areas or busy main streets, cannabis entrepreneurs looking to establish retail locations in Windsor-Essex and surrounding regions say they're eyeing smaller markets that provide room to grow.  The advantages, according to Philip Bradbury, CEO of the Higher Limits Cannabis Company Read more...

Even though the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario website indicates no one has applied to the provincial government for a license to sell marijuana in Elliot Lake; an Ontario-based company says it will soon open a store in the city. In a news release, Sessions Cannabis (Sessions) said it is setting up shop on Prince Edward Walk next to the Read more...

So long as they get the green light from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, Windsor-Essex will have two more pot shops in the area soon. Sessions Cannabis plans to open a shop on Division Road in Windsor and on Amy Croft Drive in Lakeshore. Read more Read more...

The marijuana shop proposed for an empty store at the Heritage Plaza on Lansdowne Street West between Monaghan Road and Park Street would operate under the Sessions Heritage on Lansdowne brand if it receives approval to open from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. It's one of 30 stores Sessions Cannabis plans to open across Ontario, Read more...

Collingwood’s first legal pot shop is getting ready to open. The license holder, Louis Laskovski, is partnering with Sessions Cannabis, and they hope to open the doors at 312 Hurontario Street in December. Laskovski was chosen by The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario in a second cannabis lottery held in August. Sessions Cannabis says, in Read more...

A brick and mortar shop prepares to open its doors for business in Collingwood, and it’s creating quite a buzz. The retail cannabis store will mark the first of its kind in the region. “I think Collingwood is ready for this,” said Mayor Brian Saunderson. “It’s a legal product, and we are in a free market economy.” Sessions Read more...

The first legal cannabis retail store in Simcoe County has been unveiled. Media got a first look inside Sessions Cannabis on Hurontario Street, right at the end of Hume Street, in Collingwood on Friday. Store owner Louis Laskovski won the licence in the last government lottery. He says he is really excited to be a part of the Collingwood Read more...

I heard about the cannabis retail lottery on the radio in January 2019, when I was driving home from work. The first 25 legal cannabis stores in the province would be run by a bunch of anybodies lucky enough to get their names pulled out of a (digital) hat. The entry requirements were ridiculously low: 75 bucks and an email address. No Read more...