He fears 'persecution', but wanted to speak out about widespread worry that impending legalization will destroy his industry.
Meet Phil, a cannabis producer who runs an illegal marijuana facility in the Kootenays
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U.S. investors eye Canada as testing ground
They are pining for a chance to see how a market booms when national legalization arrives.
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Corporate cannabis: Inside the billon-dollar industry tucked away in southeast B.C.
Since the early 1970s, the Kootenay-Rockies region has been a key player in Canada’s pot industry.
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’I’m ready to come home,’ Canadian on death row hangs hopes on Liberal government
A Canadian on death row in Montana has
been living on borrowed time since
admitting he murdered two young men
more than three decades ago, but he
says he has renewed hope he might be
able to return home with the support of
Justin Trudeau’s government.
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9 break-ins, 4 alleged sex assaults at Laval over weekend: Cops
Quebec City police say they are investigating at least nine break-ins at a Universite Laval student residence over the weekend, with four people alleging they were victims of crimes of a sexual nature.
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Jim Prentice remembered: Rona Ambrose chokes back tears in Parliament address
OTTAWA — Former federal cabinet minister and
Alberta premier Jim Prentice was remembered in
Ottawa on Monday, days after he and three others
died in a plane crash.
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Alberta man charged with child pornography, bestiality
RED DEER, Alta. — Police have charged a man in
central Alberta with making child pornography and
bestiality.
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Red Deer man admits luring 15-year-old girl on Internet and having sex with her
A Red Deer man admitted in court Monday to luring a 15-year-old Edmonton girl with fetal alcohol syndrome that he met on the Internet and repeatedly having sex with her.Gordon Lyle Gill, 25, pleaded guilty in Court of Queen's Bench to charges of sexual interference and Internet luring.
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Fake cop admits role in fake kidnapping
A young Winnipeg man has admitted to posing as a police officer while staging the supposed kidnapping of a teenage friend.
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RCMP arrest man who rammed gate at rural Alberta airport, drove onto runway
RCMP say a man being pursued by Mounties forced the closure of a small airport in Edson, Alta., after he drove through a security gate and onto a runway before his pickup truck caught fire.
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From black market to grey: Why the illicit pot market is no longer dominated by criminals
Street-front dispensaries are becoming
commonplace, law enforcement has relaxed,
and marijuana prices are lower than ever.
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Everything you need to know about roadside testing
For decades, police have used a breathalyzer to test whether a driver has had too much alcohol. So what does that mean for pot?
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How pot legalization will impact the workplace
Some workers could be denied access to jobsites and potentially fired for testing positive for marijuana, even though tests can’t confirm whether they were high on the job
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32 charged in Canada-wide human trafficking probe: Cops
Police say 32 people have been charged with 78 offences in a six-day co-ordinated investigation into human trafficking across Canada.
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Child luring charge against Surrey, B.C., Mountie approved
A charge of luring a child has been approved against an RCMP constable who was the target of a vigilante sting operation in Surrey.
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Langley, B.C. gang member charged with murder of Hells Angel
The man accused of killing Hells Angel Bob Green was out on bail at the time of the shooting on drug trafficking charges that he faces with Green’s cousin.
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Clamour for electoral reform subsiding: PM
Is Justin Trudeau laying the groundwork
for reneging on his promise to make the
2015 federal election the last to be
conducted under the first-past-the-post
voting system?
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Chretien says no pill for stupidity in thinly-veiled shot at Donald Trump
Former prime minister Jean Chretien says
U.S. Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump is “taking away the dignity
of public life.”
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Postmedia reports quarterly loss of $99.4 million on steep declines in print advertising
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., Canada’s largest newspaper company and the owner of the Sun, says it intends to reduce staffing costs by 20% after it reported steep declines in revenue and print advertising in the fourth quarter of 2016.
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Montreal can appeal pit-bull ban suspension
The city of Montreal will be allowed to appeal a Quebec Superior Court decision to suspend its pit-bull ban.
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