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May 23, 2023
Lift Expo’s evolution in the Canadian cannabis landscape
Lift Expo returns to Toronto on June 1-3, continuing to build momentum with its redesigned event to meet the needs of today’s industry.
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Lift Expo’s evolution in the Canadian cannabis landscape
Lift Expo returns to Toronto on June 1-3, continuing to build momentum with its redesigned event to meet the needs of today’s industry.
Inside the world’s largest legal cannabis distribution centre
The Ontario Cannabis store, through a third party, operates the largest legal cannabis warehouse in the world.
Herbal Dispatch
The team at Herbal Dispatch brings their legacy savvy to the legal market with a suite of services designed to bring craft cannabis to medical…
Labstat International
Established in 1976 and emerging as the largest independent third party testing company of nicotine containing products in the world, Labstat International began providing analytical…
F1NE Cannabis on micros, community, and their future farmgate
F1NE Cannabis Cultivation, located in St Catharines, Ontario, is working hard to bring unique, quality craft cannabis to the market through its own micro cannabis…
Rogue Processing
Rogue Processing offers state-of-the-art, client-focused, eco-friendly, cost-effective co-packing services to Canadian cannabis companies.
Ontario Micro Growers (OMG) is a four-person team in Ontario looking to help micros find a path to market in the province
Started by a handful of trusted friends and cannabis enthusiasts with different levels of experience in both the cannabis industry and consumer packaged goods, the…
West Blvd Cannabis is Canada’s first culinary cannabis facility
Located in the heart of Mt. Pleasant, West Blvd Cannabis (WBC) is Canada’s first culinary cannabis facility. WBC is the first licensed micro processor approved…
Microcraft Cannabis Workshop focussed on cultivation in Coldstream
Smaller than even the typical micro, Microcraft Cannabis Workshop is operating with a canopy of only around 95m2, a little under half of the 200m2…
Better Cones Are Possible
Are pre-rolled cones really that complicated? Yes and no. On the one hand, we all know what we want out of a cone. There are…
App seeks to shed light on cannabis supply chain
Cropsify, a seed-to-sale software company located in BC, is helping Canadian cannabis producers tell their story while giving consumers a chance to tell retailers what…
Ontario’s Frost Cannabis is focussing on their craft
Scott and Brad Acton are two brothers running Frost Cannabis, a micro producer in Burlington, Ontario for just over a year now.
Vancouver Island’s micro grower Craft Kings focusses on small batch quality
Craft Kings Enterprises is a micro cultivator located within a cannabis business park in Sooke, BC. The 3-person team received their license in February 2021
Vigr Life Cannabis on their two micro cannabis licences
Vigr Life Cannabis Inc. is a micro cultivator and processor operating two licensed facilities in Regina, Saskatchewan, and got their sales licence in June.
Evolved Extraction Solutions
Rooted in Canada to serve an emerging global marketplace, Evolved Extraction Solutions is transforming the cannabis industry with disruptive extraction technology while providing long-term value…
AirMed seed-to-sale business solutions
AirMed was launched in 2015 by a team of innovative thinkers who had been designing compliance-based software for decades and recognized that software solutions need…
Cannara Biotech
With a focus on quality at scale, Cannara Biotech is positioning itself as a trusted source of premium brands and products rooted in cannabis culture,…
MF Cannabis License and Regulatory Consultants
With more than two decades of experience in quality assurance and regulatory affairs, MF Cannabis License and Regulatory Consultants are able to provide skilled licensing…
Green Rose Farms prepares for their second outdoor micro crop
Green Rose Farms is a small sun-grown micro cultivator in New Brunswick, about 20 minutes outside of Moncton.
Censored Edibles brings artfully infused shapes to the adult market
Censored Edibles brings a welcome dose of creative fun while pushing the boundaries of societal taboos, and bringing cannabis along for the ride.
Trygg Collective
TRYGG Collective wants to establish a trusted co-packing solution for cannabis micro-cultivators bringing their products to market.
Evora: Seed-to-sale sale systems need to work for all license types, and sizes
The team at Evora Technologies has been refining their all-in-one cannabis compliance and operations software solution that includes Production Management, Quality Management “eQMS”, as well…
High North Laboratories
High North Laboratories, located in Ontario, focuses their methodologies and operations to specifically address the highly specialized requirements for cannabis testing.
Crown Buds
Crown Buds is a small, family-run micro cultivator based in Glencoe Ontario, a small farming community southwest of London.
Mauve et Herbes / CANNA Canada Research
Initially intended to be a micro facility, Fournier eventually opted for a standard licence allowing him a slightly larger indoor facility, as well as a…
The Micro Collective on getting their first two licences, and plans for more
The Micro Collective, seeking to develop several dozen cannabis production licences across Canada has reached a significant milestone in January with their first micro cultivation…
Everest Craft Family – a unique cost-saving solution for Canadian cultivators
Everest Craft JV Partnership will provide radical cost-saving solutions for craft cannabis growers without processing licenses.
Sugar Cane Cannabis on their new micro cultivation licence
The Williams Lake First Nation passed a significant milestone last week with the issuance of a micro cultivation licence to their Sugar Cane Cannabis production…
Life Cycle Botanics ready to supply genetics to growers
Life Cycle Botanics is a cannabis nursery operating on BC’s Vancouver Island getting ready to begin supplying new genetics to commercial cultivators, especially those in…
Micro processor Uniik Organica brings topicals and creams to market
Uniik Organica is a micro processor in Quebec with a line of body care products being launched in provinces in 2022.
Sweetgrass Cannabis
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Metro Green Logistics providing warehousing, packaging, delivery solutions for cannabis industry
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Puregene
A Switzerland-based company is looking to work with Canadian cannabis producers to help them breed more stable, and unique varieties.
La Feuille Verte – a long road to legal cannabis
Dany Lefebvre knows all about patience. He’s been waiting nearly a decade to see his vision for a cannabis business unfold. And, he knows it…
Behind the scenes at BC’s Organnicraft
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Kootenays Finest Craft Cannabis brings legacy to legal
Kootenay towns from Nelson, Cranbrook, Casltegar, and Creston now have a Kootenay brand they can call their own.
Nova Scotia’s Jazz Cabbage brings their first product to local market
Nova Scotia’s first-ever “seed-to-sale” cannabis micro-producer is hitting shelves at retail locations in November.
Kootenay cannabis collective hoping to find path to market
A collection of outdoor cannabis growers in BC’s Kootenay region are pooling resources to get their crop to market this fall.
Pineapple Buds head to market
Pineapple Buds is a micro cultivator located on Osoyoos Indian Band land near Oliver, BC, with a focus on what the owner Kyra Horvath says…
Cannabis License Experts
Cannabis License Experts is a compliance solutions provider for the cannabis industry, providing pre and post-licensing support for both the production side and retail side…
Smoker Farms brings legacy experience to the micro market
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
New Brunswick’s Wildwood Flowr focussing on regenerative cannabis production
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
KRFT
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Alicanto Gardens
Alicanto Gardens is a new, family-run micro cultivator in Manitoba that hopes to have its first products on the shelves in Manitoba later this summer.
Franklin Enclosures
A Canadian company focusing on custom-built, fully sealed indoor growing & processing rooms, Franklin Enclosures offers commercial-scale buildings that satisfy Health Canada licensing and GPP…
CannDelta Regulatory Consulting
CannDelta is a regulatory and scientific consulting firm specializing in cannabis licensing in Canada. Founded by Dr. Sherry Boodram and Dr. Lucas McCann in 2018,…
Alberta’s UpRyze Cannabis
Housed inside a 10,000sq ft facility in Acheson, UpRyze has spent the last several months growing out crops, dialing in their flowering rooms, and building…
Black Kettle Farms in Langley, BC
Licensed in December 2020, Black Kettle has already sold out of their first batch of flower, Rainbow Driver, in Alberta. And, they expect to have…
A&L Canada Laboratories
Founded 35 years ago as a soil testing and agronomy research laboratory for all kinds of agricultural applications, A&L Canada Laboratories is one of the…
BC Cannabis Inc on the micro model serving First Nations in BC
Led by owner Albert Eppinga, the first of three micro cultivation facilities in Sooke under the BC Cannabis Inc. brand was licensed on April 9….
This BC company wants to bring more clarity to cannabis strain names and genetics
The founder and CEO of Lighthouse Genomics, Tim Harvey has been working with a handful of researchers since 2016, taking samples of cannabis plants from…
Salt Spring Island’s Magi Cannabis
Magi Cannabis is a small, family-run micro-cultivator on Salt Spring Island, in British Columbia. Josh Beckett and his partner Nadine are long-time islanders, with deep…
Covert Valley Reserve
Covert Valley is a husband and wife team who began making the transition from an ACMPR personal production licence to a micro cultivation licence in…
Alberta’s iNaturally Organic on their path to market
iNaturally Organic Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emprise Canada Inc, and a holder of multiple micro-processing licenses, operating in Alberta. The company manufactures cannabis…
Origin Coast on micro cultivation and starting small
Licenced in February 2021, Origin Coast is a micro cultivator and processor located in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Okanna Craft on their long transition into the legal rec market
The family behind Okanna Craft is another success story of a legacy BC grower transitioning into the legal recreational market, but the process wasn’t easy,…
Robert W Ritchie aka Bob’s Better Buds
Operating as Bob’s Better Buds, Ritchie is one of the few licence holders in Canada with an indoor and outdoor operation on one site under…
Pistol and Paris
Pistol and Paris is taking a different approach to entering the micro cannabis market, pivoting away from growing and looking instead to help other growers…
Ovation AG Ltd
Shortly after legalization, Ovation AG began construction of an indoor facility inside an existing barn on the farm on the shore of Lake Huron. They…
Grump Weed’s aeroponic micro cannabis
Grump Weed is a micro cultivator and processor in Manitoba who, in partnership with a BC-based micro-processor, has products just beginning to arrive on shelves…
Activation Laboratories
Founded in 1987, Actlabs offers analytical testing services for the cannabis industry out of their 200,000 sq ft. headquarters in Ontario.
The Safari Flower Company
The Safari Flower Company is a standard cannabis cultivator and processor in Ontario focussing on smart craft cannabis batch formats of new genetic entrants for…
Lady Jane Labs
Lady Jane Cannabis is a micro cultivator and processor in New Brunswick, focussing on pheno hunting new and unique cultivars for their small processing facility…
Carmel Cannabis’ small batch approach
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Cotyleden
Recently licensed in December 2020, Cotyleden is one of only 14 cannabis nurseries currently operating in Canada. Nick Trueman, the company’s founder and a long…
Pathogenia Lab
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Golden Peak Cannabis
Golden Peak Cannabis, owned by husband and wife team Tom Devost and Renee Desjardins, recently harvested their first crop – a Tiger Bomb cultivator that…
Elevated Signals
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Evora Technologies Inc
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
KinHana Cannabis
Cheryl Wilson runs KinHana Cannabis with two of her daughters in Muskoka, Ontario. Licensed in November 2019 for micro cultivation and medical sales, KinHana hopes…
Tricanna Industries Inc.
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Tidal Leaf Farms
Lee McMahon says starting a small cannabis farm, Tidal Leaf Farm, on his family’s Nova Scotia farm has been a dream come true.
Choklat
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
HRVSTR
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
McIntyre Creek Cannabis
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
420 Consulting
Helping growers navigate medical cannabis licensing since 2008, Justin Smith formally created his 420 Consulting service in 2016 as a service to connect those wishing…
Whippletree Organics, Captured Light Organics, and Nuvem Nurseries
Canada’s first cannabis microplex was recently licensed in Victoria, BC, housing a cannabis nursery and two micro cannabis licences in one building.
GrowerIQ
Founded in 2017, GrowerIQ is a seed-to-sale software system for cannabis licensed producers. The company also offers licensing, cultivation, and business process consulting services.
Keystone Labs
Keystone Labs was founded by Jodi McDonald in 2005 and has been providing analytical testing services for cannabis since 2015.
Segra International
Segra’s focus pivoted into honing the technology of plant tissue culture for cannabis and building a diverse library of stabilized cultivars for both research and…
SunLeaf Farmacy
SunLeaf Farmacy is a micro cultivation licence holder in New Brunswick, licensed in September 2019, run by Tamara Follet who has made a name for…
Dionamix Scientific
With over 10 years experience of product innovation in chemical analytical instruments, Dionamix Scientific brings IP-rich analytical instruments directly to cannabis growers in Canada.
Uniik Organica
Denise Penczak had been making a magnesium cream for muscle pain to manage issues related to cancer. Her company, Uniik Organica, has a line of…
Annapolis Valley Craft Cannabis
Adam Webster, his father Donald, and his mother Deenie started Annapolis Valley Craft Cannabis as a way to better utilize their relatively small plot of…
The Kootenay Outdoor Producer Co-op
The Kootenay Outdoor Producer Co-op received their first two licenses in late March of this year.
Zevk Cultivation
Muhammad Shahbaz is the co owner and CEO of Zevk Cultivation in Weyburn Saskatchewan, who just received their cultivation licence in June 2020.
Rosebud Cannabis Farms
Che’ LeBlanc, the Founder and CEO of Rosebud Cannabis Farms, has been growing cannabis for over twenty five years, describing himself as a second generation…
Taima Extracts Inc.
Taima Extracts Inc. is a cannabis extraction company at the licensing stage with Health Canada, looking to focus on a culture-based, high quality approach to…
EXKA
EXKA specializing in the research, innovation and development of cannabis-based pharmaceutical products, niched in the category of advanced technical and scientific services.
CanMar Recruitment
Formed in late 2017, CanMar Recruitment has been serving as a one-stop staffing and business solution agency for all aspects of the cannabis industry, not…
Dunn Cannabis
Logan Dunn of Dunn Cannabis in Abbotsford, BC just received a licence to cultivate cannabis on June 26th, but has been working towards this day…
Good Buds
Started by two brothers who say they fell in love with Salt Spring Island and its potential for great outdoor cannabis, Good Buds is now…
Budding Gardens Inc.
Budding Gardens was started by Jim Vanden Berg in early 2019. He’s currently growing out his first crop of Bruce Banner inside his 12,000 ft…
Coastal Resource Mapping
CRM is helping indoor & outdoor cannabis growers use mounted and drone-operated cameras, including infrared, to better manage plant health by identifying things like nutrient…
Cropsify – cannabis business platform
The Lift Expo has been a staple in the Canadian cannabis scene since 2016, bringing different aspects of the industry together for networking, education, and…
Willow Weed
Approved for a micro cultivation license in May 2020, Saffer-Spiro’s Willow Weed is a passion project of he and his father. The father and son…
National Cannabis Distribution
National Cannabis Distribution is a private cannabis wholesaler serving the non-medical Saskatchewan cannabis market. The business, started in late 2018, serves to connect cannabis producers…
Shelter Cannabis
Shelter Cannabis is a Saskatchewan-based cannabis processor who is emerging as one of the premier access points for the first micro cultivators who are bringing…
West River Cannabis
West River Cannabis, near the West River of Pictou in Nova Scotia, sits across from his father’s nursery, West River Greenhouses. Although just licensed in…
Coulson Cannabis
Coulson Cannabis, founded by Cody Coulson, is a cannabis processor in Ontario focusing on solvent free extraction of small batch craft cannabis for supply of…
Sweet Valley Cannabis
Sweet Valley Cannabis has been growing cannabis in British Columbia for almost two decades. Now they want to help other growers find a way to…
Cypress Craft
Cypress Craft is a family run micro cannabis cultivation facility in North Cypress, Manitoba, located on the Oliver family’s 4th generation farm where they grow…
Mother Labs
The second cannabis nursery licensed in Canada, Mother Labs Inc. has been turning out clones from their genetic bank of about 150 cultivars to dozens…
Weathered Islands Craft Cannabis
Weathered Islands bills itself as focussing on Legendary Texada Genetics, especially those bred for success outdoors in Canada’s climate, and plans on soon beginning to…
Canadian Cannabis Exchange
The Canadian Cannabis Exchange is a B2B exchange for cannabis and hemp products in Canada, as well as a data provider of market insight for…
Hidden Harvest Inc.
Wilson says he’s a plant enthusiast in general and became more aware of the cannabis industry when he worked as an healthcare advisor to Bedrocan…
Habitat Craft Cannabis Ltd.
Habitat’s small indoor facility, a retrofit of the same building that once housed their MMAR operations, is home to about 1,000ft2 of flowering space for…
ProgenyBio / CanGenX Biotech
By taking samples of a plant and sending it in as a tissue culture sample, ProgenyBio could then ‘clean’ the plants of various negative pathogens…
mindiCANNA Inc.
MindiCANNA is one of the first two micro cultivators recently approved in Quebec. The company, who also operates a consulting service for cannabis applicants decided…
Craft Depot
Craft Depot currently works with over 100 cannabis licence holders, both cultivators and the processors seeking to buy their product. Aldred says his goal is…
Hearst Organic
Getting licensed is only part of the story. Now that Hearst Organic has been licenced for about nine months, Lacelle says he has learned more…
Inplanta Biotechnology
Located on campus at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta, Inplanta Biotechnology is home to three small greenhouses and several breeding rooms and labs….
Delta 9 Bio-Tech Inc.
John Arbuthnot, CEO and co-founder, started Delta 9 Bio-Tech with his father in 2012 and has helped steer the company through many changes. Now he…
ANC Cannabis
ANC’s retrofitted facility currently includes, along with the associated administrative space, four flowering rooms, one vegging room, and one propagation room, all within their 200m2…
GTEC Holdings
GTEC Holding’s success in the “small batch” indoor cannabis markets, says Singhavon, can provide some valuable lessons for new licence holders entering the legal cannabis…
Sea Dog Farm
While most larger licence holders may build out complex and expensive facilities, Sea Dog Farm’s approach is a testament to coming at the process from…
North 40 Cannabis
Licenced in July 2019, North 40 Cannabis has made a splash with their high quality, small batch products. Gord Nichol is proud of his company’s…
Because You Cann
When Health Canada’s micro cannabis licenses emerged in 2018, Serena Donovan felt it would be a great opportunity to work with a plant she had…
Euphorium IV:XX
Denis Gagnon has been growing flowers and vegetables and raising livestock on his farm near Merrickville Ontario for over thirty years, selling at farmers markets,…