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In this April 20, 2015 file photo, a Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf flies on Parliament Hill during a 4/20 event in Ottawa, Ontario. Another big first for the marijuana industry is in the books: A major Canadian grower, processor and distributor has completed an initial public stock offering in the United States, raising $153 million, just as Canada prepares to legalize the drug nationwide. British Columbia-based Tilray Inc.'s shares began trading Thursday, July 19, 2018, on the Nasdaq stock exchange, initially priced at $17. It quickly jumped to more than $21.

Pot Week III: Are you late to the weed stock party?

October 17, 2018 00:18:25
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In this April 20, 2015 file photo, a Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf flies on Parliament Hill during a 4/20 event in Ottawa, Ontario. Another big first for the marijuana industry is in the books: A major Canadian grower, processor and distributor has completed an initial public stock offering in the United States, raising $153 million, just as Canada prepares to legalize the drug nationwide. British Columbia-based Tilray Inc.'s shares began trading Thursday, July 19, 2018, on the Nasdaq stock exchange, initially priced at $17. It quickly jumped to more than $21.

Pot Week III: Are you late to the weed stock party?

October 17, 2018 00:18:25

Time for some high finance. A few years ago, you could buy stock in emerging marijuana production companies for a couple of bucks...

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Milani Staeheli-Hildebrand, 5, is pushed on a swing by her mom Rahel Staeheli at a playground near their home in Surrey, B.C., on Wednesday April 11, 2018. Staeheli has been trying to register her daughter, who begins kindergarten in September, for French immersion school without success due to a shortage of French immersion teachers in the province.

Pot Week II: Daddy, are you doing the weed?

October 16, 2018 0:16:01

Look, kids have a lot of questions—and starting tomorrow, more of them than ever before are going to be about marijuana. It’s only...

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Cannabis at an undisclosed location in Alberta, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015.

Pot Week I: What happens to your local dealer?

October 15, 2018 0:15:42

Canadians spent $5.7 billion on marijuana last year. Nearly all of it on the black market. That’s an entire industry off the books....

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A polar bear is seen walking across the street in Churchill Man., as the Olympic Flame arrives in town Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Manitoba government documents indicate polar bear encounters have reached record levels on the shores of Hudson Bay.

Climate migration: Coming to a town near you

October 12, 2018 00:17:53

Churchill, Manitoba is smaller than it used to be. Around the world, other communities impacted by climate change are shrinking as life within...

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In this Sept. 13, 2009 file photo, singer Kanye West takes the microphone from singer Taylor Swift as she accepts the "Best Female Video" award during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year, and he’s expressing his pain all over Twitter. West has unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, acknowledging he was wrong for taking an award from the country sweetheart at the MTV Video Music Awards. But he says he "bled hard." He says he had to cancel his tour with Lady Gaga and even lost employees.

I’ma let you finish, but every celebrity is political now

October 11, 2018 0:16:54

Today, Kanye dines with Trump. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift helps register voters for democrats. The most famous long-running feud in music has reached the...

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