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Aurora, CanniMed to form Canadian weed giant

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 24, 2018

Two major players in the Canadian medical marijuana market are set to create one of the world’s biggest pot production firms in a friendly $1.1 billion cash-and-stock deal. Edmonton-based Aurora Cannabis announced an agreement Wednesday in which it will ante up on its previous hostile bid for CanniMed Therapeutics and buy all the shares of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cannabis firm Aurora in talks to buy both CanniMed, Newstrike

By GFM Network News January 20, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis is in talks with rivals CanniMed Therapeutics and Newstrike Resources to buy both businesses in a friendly deal that would create the nation’s top weed company, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The deal signals an easing of tensions following an offer in […] Read more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks Aug. 23, 2017 at a Montreal charity event. (PM.gc.ca)

General, Reuters

Trudeau to boost support for NAFTA in U.S. as talks intensify

By GFM Network News January 19, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit three major U.S. cities next month to bolster support for NAFTA as negotiators revising the trade pact tackle major differences, officials said on Friday. The timing of Trudeau’s Feb. 7-10 trip is significant, since it comes after a sixth and penultimate round of talks […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Montreal round of NAFTA talks extended to Jan. 29

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 18, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — The upcoming round of talks in Montreal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be extended by one day and will now conclude Jan. 29, Canadian and Mexican sources told Reuters on Thursday. Trade negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico were originally scheduled to meet from […] Read more

A freight train at Manchac, La., about 75 km east of Baton Rouge. (CN.ca)

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Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

By GFM Network News January 11, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian industries that would be most acutely impacted by the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement are unable to meaningfully plan for a possible post-NAFTA world given the uncertainty of what could replace it, analysts and executives said. With three quarters of Canadian exports landing in the U.S., the […] Read more

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Sector growth to occupy Ontario ag minister in 2018

By GFM Network News December 29, 2017

Ontario’s Liberals will have their agriculture standard-bearer back for the 2018 election. Jeff Leal, Ontario’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, is staying in politics, running for his fifth term as a member of the provincial legislature in the Peterborough riding. Leal, who as a resident of Peterborough is about as rural as any […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

CanniMed asks regulators to step in on hostile bid

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 11, 2017

Reuters — Medical marijuana company CanniMed Therapeutics has asked federal regulators to intervene as it seeks to prevent a hostile takeover by bigger rival Aurora Cannabis Inc. Saskatoon-based CanniMed said Monday it asked the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan and the Ontario Securities Commission to declare that Aurora’s move to take its buyout […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Feds, provinces end dispute on how to split pot tax revenues

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 11, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters –– The Canadian government and the 10 provinces on Monday settled a disagreement on how to split the revenues from a proposed federal tax on the sale of marijuana once the drug is legalized, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said. Morneau told reporters that for an initial two years, 75 per cent of […] Read more

A illegal marijuana grow operation in the RM of Rockwood, east of Balmoral, Man., in June 2017. (Photo courtesy Stonewall RCMP)

Crops, Reuters

StatsCan to add marijuana economic impact to GDP data

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 21, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters — As Canada gears up to legalize recreational marijuana, the country’s statistics agency said on Tuesday it will begin measuring the economic impact of the current illegal use and production of the drug and add it to growth data. Statistics Canada said it will begin tallying the production and sale of cannabis […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Constellation hedges bets on pot boom with Canopy stake

By GFM Network News October 30, 2017

Reuters — Constellation Brands has bought a nearly 10 per cent stake in Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth Corp. for about $245 million, making it the first major wine, beer and spirits producer to invest in legal cannabis. The move by the maker of Corona beer and Svedka vodka comes as Canada and a growing […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall hard, hogs mixed

Alberta Crop Report: Scattered rains, crop conditions

GFM Network News

CFIA rejects beekeeper proposals on U.S. packaged bees

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall hard, hogs mixed

Alberta Crop Report: Scattered rains, crop conditions

Aurora, CanniMed to form Canadian weed giant

Cannabis firm Aurora in talks to buy both CanniMed, Newstrike

Trudeau to boost support for NAFTA in U.S. as talks intensify

Montreal round of NAFTA talks extended to Jan. 29

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

Sector growth to occupy Ontario ag minister in 2018

CanniMed asks regulators to step in on hostile bid

Feds, provinces end dispute on how to split pot tax revenues

StatsCan to add marijuana economic impact to GDP data

Constellation hedges bets on pot boom with Canopy stake

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