Tag: Kathleen Wynne
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WINDSOR INDEPENDENT: Jon Liedtke asks Ontario Premier Wynne if she’ll license cannabis lounges
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Windsor Ontario and I asked her for Windsor Independent whether she would license Higher Limits or other cannabis lounges for onsite sale & consumption of cannabis like how the AGCO licenses establishments.
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AM800: WINDSOR POT ADVOCATE SAYS NEW STORES NOT ENOUGH
AM800 – Gord Bacon – Sept 9 2017 A local marijuana advocate and store owner isn’t completely onboard with the province’s sales pitch. The provincial government has announced sales plans with 10 months left before recreational marijuana is legalized in Canada. Owner of Windsor’s Higher Limits Lounge for medical marijuana, Jon Liedtke, doesn’t think new model […]
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CTV Windsor: Ontario plans 150 LCBO-run pot shops by 2020
CTV Windsor – The Canadian Press – Sept 8 2017 TORONTO — Ontario plans to sell marijuana in as many as 150 dedicated stores run by the province’s liquor control board after Ottawa legalizes its recreational use next summer, the Liberal government announced Friday. Those looking to purchase marijuana when it becomes legal across the […]
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ourWindsor: All options for legal marijuana distribution should be analyzed, says Windsor chamber president
The Ontario government needs to “rigorously and transparently” analyze all of the alternative methods for distributing recreational marijuana ahead of its July 1 legalization date, says the president of the Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce.
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Merry Jane: Canada’s Legalization Plan (Finally) Has a Timeline
Any fears for the future of Canadian cannabis should’ve been arrested on 4/20 when Health Minister Jane Philpott told the UN special session on drugs that the country would introduce legislation for legalization next spring.
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BizX: The Buzz on Medical Marijuana Lounges: To Smoke or Not to Smoke in Public
More than 100 small businesses across Ontario, including two here in Windsor, face an uncertain future if amendments to the Smoke Free Ontario Act and the E-Cigarettes Act come into effect this summer.
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Cannabis Life Network: BILL 45: THE ONTARIO NANNY STATE VS. CANNABIS PATIENTS
Hundreds joined together in Toronto Apr. 9, to protest the Ontario government’s plan to restrict the use and sale of e-cigarettes and vaping.
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The Plaid Zebra: Will Canada’s Cannabis Future Be a Stoner’s Paradise or Corporate Nightmare?
Cannabis businesses today operate on the edge of legality and are locked in a legal no-man’s land where shaping the rules for the future means navigating a maze of regulations that weave through federal and provincial law as well as local bylaws.
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Windsor Star: Liberals discriminate against marijuana users
Jon Liedtke – Guest Column – Windsor Star “These proposals are arbitrary, discriminatory, and serve only to intentionally harm and forcibly segregate some of the most vulnerable and protected members of society.” Jon Liedtke, co-owner of Higher Limits – Canada’s largest & Windsor’s first – cannabis lounge writes as a guest contributor to the Windsor […]
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Civilized: How Ontario’s Landmark Public Vaping Laws Just Went Up In Smoke
[Civilized – James McClure] Medical marijuana patients in Ontario are angered and dismayed by the provincial government’s 180 on vaping rights. Just last November, Associate Minister of Health Dipika Damerla announced that patients would be allowed to vape in public – including at movie theatres, restaurants, sporting venues and public parks, unless site managers specifically banned patrons […]
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CBC Radio Canada: Ontario marijuana “vaping” lounge may be forced to close
[CBC Radio Canada] It has only been open for about a little over a month, and already the Windsor Ontario establishment may be forced out of business by a new provincial anti-smoking law. Jon Liedtke is the owner of “Higher Limits” a vaping lounge where those with medical authorization to use marijuana. One regular customer […]
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The Urbanite: JUDGE COUNCIL CANDIDATES NOW – YOU’LL BE STUCK WITH THEM FOR FOUR YEARS
It’s the time to judge Windsor municipal election council candidates. Following the election, no amount of judging affects the makeup or composition of council, short of a judgement rendering criminal charges.
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The Urbanite: THE ‘DECLINE YOUR VOTE’ EFFECT
The election is over. The Liberals earned a majority government, Hudak is out, Windsor lost representation, but we haven’t discussed the outcome of the grassroots Decline Your Vote campaign.
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The Urbanite: Voting for Dummies: The ease of voting and the ‘dirty little secret of Elections Ontario’
With a looming provincial election scheduled for June 12, the time has come again for empowered citizens to promptly ignore their civic duty.
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ourWindsor.ca: Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation names Sandra Pupatello as new CEO
The Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation has secured a high profile Chief Executive Officer in naming Sandra Pupatello to head the organization.
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ourWindsor.ca: Chamber of Commerce reaction to 2013 Ontario budget
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s minority Liberal government has handed down a budget which just might have gone far enough to appease the NDP to avoid an election. While PC leader Tim Hudak isn’t content with Wynne’s budget, Windsor and Essex Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Matt Marchand expressed that it was a “modestly good budget for Windsor-Essex”.
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ourWindsor.ca: Unionized LCBO employees set strike deadline
There’s a chance that LCBO employees will be going on strike for Victoria Day weekend as 95% of unionized employees have voted in favour of striking and have set a deadline of May 17, the day before the Victoria Day weekend.
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ourWindsor.ca: Premier Wynne visits Windsor, the “Best kept secret in the province”
Premier Kathleen Wynne was in Windsor on Monday to take part in a roundtable discussion centred on job creation, bringing together community and business leaders.
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ourWindsor.ca: Exclusive Interview with Minister Piruzza
Having just been sworn in yesterday, MPP Teresa Piruzza – the newly appointed Minister of Children and Youth Services – is ready to begin her role in Premier Wynne’s cabinet at Queen’s Park.
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ourWindsor.ca: No love for Windsor on Valentine’s Day as Duncan resigns from cabinet
Outgoing Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan announced today that he was submitting his resignation as MPP for Windsor-Tecumseh effective Thursday, February 14, 2013.
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UWindsor Lance: Making Ontario Political History
In choosing Kathleen Wynne over Sandra Pupatello, not only did Ontario Liberal Party delegates send the first female premier to Queen’s Park, they also elected the first openly gay politician one to lead the province’s legislature as well.
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ourWindsor.ca: Who will win McGuinty’s job?
The 2013 Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention is upon us and delegates are poised to elect the first female premiere that the province has ever seen.