Carbonleo President and CEO and Royalmount visionary Andrew Lutfy announced a public participation process to enhance the Royalmount project. Royalmount will seek input from key stakeholders, experts, leading organizations and the public in general as it refines the many components of its new development.
Over the coming months, Royalmount will be conducting a series of in-person and online consultations to discuss potential areas for improvement and new opportunities for the metropolitan and local communities. It will also organize ideation roundtables with professionals and experts from various sectors, while conducting field workshops with citizens. An enhanced version of the project will be presented in the Fall and citizens will discover the next iteration of this ambitious undertaking.
An Ontario numbered company behind Tweed, located at 1025 Wellington Rd. S, is one of seven store owners forfeiting an additional $25,000 to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) for failing to be in business by April 30, a spokesperson for the regulator confirmed.
Eleven owners previously had $25,000 drawn from their letters of credit submitted to the AGCO – a condition for applying to open a marijuana retail outlet – for not opening by mid-April.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union put out a scathing statement critical of Doug Ford’s government in Ontario, calling the premier’s plan to privatize the cannabis industry in Ontario “incompetent.”
The structure made of repurposed shipping containers on a busy street in Toronto’s downtown core is as much a gathering place as it is a marketplace. The parcel of city-owned land — sprawling by downtown standards — was vacant for years before it was leased out and turned into Stackt, a retail hub.
On a sunny weekday afternoon in late April, young people lounge on the Astroturf that covers part of the space, taking photos of each other with a clear shot of the CN Tower as their backdrop.
To their left is the marketplace: black shipping containers that were carefully designed to look haphazardly stacked on top of each other, three high in some places. The shops — including a cafe and a doughnut joint — are on the first storey, while the second two levels are purely decorative.