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A budding industry: How spin-off cannabis businesses are rolling out in Ontario

These entrepreneurs see business opportunities beyond the mere growing and retailing of pot products. But can the province really become a destination for cannabis-related tourism?

David Rockne Corrigan

Health

How Indigenous-focused care is helping people in recovery from addiction

Clients of the Mino Ayaa Ta Win Healing Centre, in Fort Frances, have access to Elder support, fishing, and snowshoeing — all part of an effort to provide culturally appropriate treatment.

Daina Goldfinger

Hubs Video

Music Without Borders

Ontario Hubs field producer Jeyan Jeganathan visits the International Symphony Orchestra in Port Huron, Michigan.

Doug Ford’s government presented arguments against the federal carbon tax at the Ontario Court of Appeal this week. from the article Lights, camera, overreaction: How the Tories turned carbon-tax court proceedings into spin

Opinion

Lights, camera, overreaction: How the Tories turned carbon-tax court proceedings into spin

OPINION: An Ontario court allowed the carbon-tax fight to be live-streamed — but a tweet that Doug Ford sent out during the proceedings may have justices regretting that decision.

John Michael McGrath

Opinion

On the federal carbon tax, here’s why we can’t all just get along

OPINION: On the first day of arguments before Ontario's highest court, the province's lawyers made it clear that the judiciary won’t be able to make peace between Ottawa and skeptical provinces.

John Michael McGrath

Ganuk, who weighs in at nearly 1,100 pounds, was born in Quebec in 2009. (Courtesy Mathilde Loubeyres.) from the article Why these Ontario polar bears are ready for their close-ups

Northeastern

Why these Ontario polar bears are ready for their close-ups

American researchers were looking for the ideal place to test aerial-imaging technology for detecting animals in the wild — and they found it at the Polar Bear Habitat in Cochrane.

Claude Sharma

Health

Why finding treatment for addictions is so difficult in northern Ontario

In Red Lake, as in many remote communities across the province, finding counselling services, withdrawal-management support, or residential treatment can be a battle in and of itself.

Daina Goldfinger