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CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK OFF SEASON VOL 8

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT -  The Hartford Wolf Pack and New York Rangers are working hard developing their roster for the 2022-2023 season but joined other teams in congratulating the Colorado Avalanche for gaining the 2021-2022 Lord Stanley Cup. A few local notables got to grip the Cup. They include ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger Devon Toews, who played at Quinnipiac University. He becomes the first Bobcaever to hold hockey’s golden chalice. He is the third Sound Tiger after Eric Godard (2009 Pittsburgh), who was the first to do it. Carter Verhaeghe (2020 Tampa Bay)s, now with the Florida Panthers, was the second. Ken MacDermid, the son of ex-Hartford Whaler Paul MacDermid, and Bowen Byram, the son of former Springfield Indin, Shawn Byram, also have their name on the Cup. Also as part of the winners is Colorado head coach Jared Bednar. He is a former Springfield Falcons coach. His assistant, Nolan Pratt, is an ex-Beast of New Haven, Hartford Whaler, and Springfield Falcon player and coach. AHL CALDER CUP For the third time in the Chicago Wolves' history, the team captured the AHL title and their fifth minor league title in 25 years (two IHL Turner Cups in 1998 & 2000). The team went 14-4 in the postseason to win the championship in five games over the Springfield Thunderbirds. The Wolves outscored the Thunderbirds 18-4 after losing game one as they plowed through with four straight wins in six days. The championship game was a 4-0 shutout and the first twin shutouts in the finals in 22 years. In the team's championship picture, the AHL suspended Ex-Yale Bulldog Alex Lyon for two games for a two-hand flipping-off of the Springfield crowd, who razzed him all game long. The 29-year-old goalie is a likely Euro candidate. But, should he be signed with another club next year at the beginning of next season, he'll sit out two games after making a Frankie Lessard impression with a two-finger salute done in a late-season game (April 15, 2007) in Portland, Maine, BEFORE the second period started in a scrap with another ex-Pack Trevor Gillies, with then captain Craig Weller at his side. Hartford head coach and GM, the retired Jim Schoenfeld, eventually broke up the battle by wading through a maze of players before a full-scale brawl erupted. MORE ON THE CALDER CUP With 15 goals and 29 points, Josh Leivo won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy playoff MVP with the third highest playoff point total in AHL history. Bill McDougall's unbeatable 52-point performance in 1993 with the Cape Breton Oilers will be forever #1, and Hubie McDonough’s 31 in 1989 with the New Haven Nighthawks, the record McDougall shattered. Jack Drury, son of ex-Hartford Whaler Ted Drury and the nephew of the Rangers President/GM Chris Drury, acquitted himself very well with a 24-point effort (nine goals) in 18 games. The third best on the Wolves team and in the league will get a long look at training camp. Ex-Pack Joey Keane had a good run and deserved a shot up top. Richard Pánik, the ex-Bridgeport Islander, acquired at the trade deadline, got his second Calder Cup (Norfolk 2012) and will likely get another North American offer next year. The Wolves became the third Carolina-affiliated team to capture a Calder Cup. They did it in Charlotte in 2019, as the Whalers affiliate in Springfield, and again in Springfield in 1991, so ironic they won it in Springfield at the Mass Mutual Center, then known as the Springfield Civic Center. This win marked the first Calder Cup awarded in three years because of the pandemic. Former Sacred Heart University player Ryan Warsofsky became the youngest coach to win a Calder Cup. He surpasses Peter Laviolette. It was his second Championship behind the bench. His first came as an assistant in Charlotte. A DEEP TEAM Two players acquired at the trade deadline are both ex-Pack players, Chris Bigras from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Wolf Pack’s Tarmo Reunanen (exchanged for UCONN alum Max Letunov). Unfortunately, he didn’t play one game in the postseason. Reunanen wasted little time after the season ended skedaddling back to Finland to play for Lukko Rauma next year. He played on the third defensive pair in Hartford. Now Bigras will likely be among the next batch to go to Europe. PLAYER MOVES Despite being Florida property, last season, Springfield’s captain, Simsbury resident Tommy Cross (Westminster Prep), was signed by St. Louis the day after the season ended. Despite being just 25 miles from Hartford has never been signed by the Wolf Pack or offered a contract. All his past and present teammates have raved about his leadership skills. He’s been out of the New England area just three times in his playing career as a youth with the Ohio Jr. Blue Jackets (USHL); in his first pro year, he played half a season with South Carolina Stingrays (ECHL) and one season with the Cleveland Monsters (Columbus) as an AHL free agent. He has been a New England regional fixture playing at BC in college and Providence in his early AHL years. MEMORIAL CUP The Saint John (NB) Sea Dogs, the Memorial Cup host team, and a long shot at upending the Hamilton Bulldogs, did so in a 5-3 win. Future Bridgeport Islander William Dufour won the Memorial Cup Stafford Smythe MVP with a goal and an assist in the championship win. 39 days after firing head coach former Pack, Ranger, and Springfield Falcon Gordie Dwyer and his entire staff, including his assistant ex-New Haven Nighthawk Paul Boutilier, after a first-round QMJHL President Cup playoff first-round loss exit to Rimouski, they’re crowned champions. They won with an interim head coach in UNB’s Gardiner MacDougall. He had won the Canadian University championship a few months ago, and he acidly replied after the win, while being interviewed by TSN, "I’m glad I picked up the phone.” The Sea Dogs advanced with an improbable semifinal win against the QMJHL Shawinigan Cataractes. They built a first-period 3-0 lead. Dufour then showed why he was the QMJHL scoring champ firing off a natural hat trick and four total in the first ten minutes of the second period to secure a 5-3 come-from-behind win. Dufour already has signed his three-year entry-level contract (ELC) and will likely start next year in BridgeportHowever, heHe is still WJC eligible and was a finalist for the CHL David Branch Player of the Year Award. Hamilton upended Shawinigan 4-3 in overtime in the semifinal’s victory. He snatched what seemed to be a narrow win by Shawinigan, who scored late before Jan Mysak (Montreal) ended their dreams. Saint John, the host city, was the home crowd favorite. They became the first QMJHL team since Saint John in 2011 to win the championship in thy last hockey game in North America this season. AND MORE Ex-UCONN defenseman Yan Kuznetsov (Calgary), who missed a wide-open net late in the second, a year removed from Storrs, and undrafted captain Vincent Sévigny, the son of ex-Pack Pierre Sévigny, played his very last junior game both got to hoist the Cup and he scored in the first two minutes of the game. At the QMJHL annual holiday mid-season trading deadline, Victoriaville acquired Sévigny. One other CT connection was winger Cameron MacDonald, a Nova Scotia native from the Selects Academy at South Kent Prep U-15 team, and one game with the CT Jr. Rangers (NCDC) scored in the contest. There were several finalists for Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Awards. Incoming Wolf Pack Dylan Garand (Kamloops-WHL) for Goalie of Year won the award. Coach of the Year honors went to former Springfield King Brian Kilrea Award, a legendary OHL coach, one of the finalists was former Ranger/Whaler James Patrick of the WHL Winnipeg Ice. CHL IMPORT DRAFT Before CHL Draft occurred before the NHL made their selections, only 27 players were chosen out of the 120 slots. One move made before the draft was the rights of Brad Lambert, nephew of former Nighthawks player and Sound Tiger head coach and now the Islanders head coach Lane Lambert was traded by the Saskatoon Blades, who took him in the 2020 Import DraftThen, they were traded to the Seattle (WA) Thunderbirds. He is eligible for next week’s 2022 NHL Draft and is likely to be taken in the top ten picks. Next year is his last junior-eligible season for the Finnish forward. His cousin Jimmy is signed to start next year in Bridgeport. PLAYER AND COACHING MOVEMENT The Florida Panthers signed former Whaler head coach Paul Maurice. The Pack’s Anthony Greco signed with Frölunda HC (Sweden-SHL) for next year. Bridgeport Islander Aatu Räty finished the year in Park City with a solid eight-game audition (two regular season and six playoff games). This follows a stellar Finnish season between Kärpät Oulu and Jukerit. He is one of four Islander Finnish prospects invited to the Finnish camp to try to be on the WJC team for the redux event scheduled for August 9-20. The four include Räty, Eetu Liukas, Matias Rajaniemi and a long shot is Aleksei Malinen. The Rangers have forward Kalle Väisänen from TPS Turku. The US will open up against Germany on August 9th. Latvia was added to the tournament to replace a banned Russian team because of the invasion of Ukraine. All players eligible for WJC in December can play even if they have turned 21 in the eight months preceding the tournament. All games will be played at Rogers Place in Edmonton, and the WJC 2023 tourney will be played in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick, next year. All WJC Games will be on the NHL Network. MORE MOVES Ex-Pack Darren Raddysh signs a two-year, two-way contract extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning paying $750K-$775K-NHL/$250K-AHL. Current teammate and another ex-Pack, Sean Day, gets a one-year extension in Syracuse and a nice raise to a two-way deal for $750K-NHL/$200K-AHL. Mathieu Olivier, the son of former New Haven Knights Simon Olivier, was traded from the Nashville Predators to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a fourth-round draft pick. Former Avon Old Farms Winged Beaver, Nick Hutchison, who wandered the hockey map last year with Adirondack (ECHL) and after a brief stay with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and half of a year with the Manitoba Moose and former UCONN Husky and fellow Adirondack Thunder (ECHL) himself, Jarrod Gourley both sign one-year AHL deals with Utica. Ex-Pack Patrick Newell departs Sterjen (Norway-NEL) for Fehérvár AV19 (Hungary-IceHL) next season. Ex-Pack Shawn “Odie” O’Donnell heads from Dornbirner EC (Austria-IceHL) to EHC Freiburg (Germany DEL-2). Ex-Pack Danny Kristo heads from Västerviks IK (Sweden Allsvenskan to HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). He started last year at HC Kladno (Czech Republic-CEL) (Czechia), the Jaromir Jagr owned team he still plays for. Another ex-Pack, Simon Denis, comes back to North America from the Tokohu Free Blades (Japan-ALIH) and signs with Toledo (ECHL). EVEN MORE MOVES Patrick Harper (New Canaan/Avon Old Farms) heads from HPK Hameelina (Finland-FEL) to Mora IK (Sweden-SHL). He started last year in Milwaukee. Phillip Samuelsson, the eldest son of former Whaler/Ranger and assistant coach at Avon Old Farms and the Wolf Pack, leaves Oskarshamn IK (Sweden-SHL) and skates over to Fischtown (Germany-DEL). Ex-Pack/Sound Tiger Joe Whitney, who had the shortest reign as a Pack team captain (two days faster than Cole Schneider) for half a season, hangs them up after a four-year career in Europe with the Iserlohn Roosters (Germany-DEL) after starting in Finland. Ex-Sound Tiger Matt Donovan leaves for Europe again after departing Milwaukee for Adler Mannheim (Germany-DEL) next year. Ex-Sound Tiger Josh Winquist, who split last year between Reading (ECHL) and Allen (ECHL), departs from the Allen (TX) Americans for HC Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). Reunanen joins 33 AHL’ers that have signed in Europe and the first American or AHL’er to sign in Russia defenseman Randy Murphy from Grand Rapids. STILL MORE D3 college commits Kevin MacKay from Aberdeen (NAHL) commits to Trinity College (NESCAC) of Hartford, and Bailey Irwin of Stouffville and Burlington (OJHL) heads to Albertus Magnus (NCAA I independent) in New Haven. One of the state's most prestigious public high school programs has a new coach. Hamden hired just their sixth bench boss in school history in just retired former West  Haven special education school teacher Bill Reynolds. Reynolds, 70, is a former two-time champion at the school in his youth, and his brothers both played there. He coached at the Division II level at Cheshire and Guilford. He has ALWAYS wanted to coach Hamden and is fulfilling à lifelong goal and dream. He wanted the job when Bill Veneris got the job over thirty years ago. He replaces ex-Pack Todd Hall, who stepped down after twenty years back in April. A usually plumb job in high school circles both in Hamden and West Haven, but both schools are experiencing dwindling player numbers, and both could shockingly become co-op programs in a few years. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

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The Barbados Road Tennis Association needs a constitution and auditors - Frederick Blunt - Patrick Craigwell - Barbados.

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Basketball féminin: Secaucus, n ° 17 Bayonne se qualifie pour la finale du tournoi du comté d’Hudson

Lorsque le jeu de milieu de gamme normalement efficace d’Alyssa Craigwell a été hors de propos dans le premier, le junior Secaucus n’a pas hésité à tirer. Au lieu de cela, Craigwell a fait quelques pas en arrière vers la ligne des trois points et, par conséquent, a rapproché Secaucus d’un titre du comté d’Hudson. Craigwell, qui a raté cinq de ses six tirs dans la nuit, a réussi quatre tirs…

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On Saturday, February 22, 2020, join Caribbean Equality Project for its 5th annual Love is Living Our Values Equally benefit, an intimate evening in celebration of queer & trans Caribbean love and liberation at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, from 6pm - 9pm in Queens, NY.

FEATURING:

Keynote Addresses by Staceyann Chin & Nhojj

Storytelling Panelists: Antoine Craigwell | Shivana Jorawar | Wladimir Lewis-Thomas de Rosier | Sai Ali | Julius Owens

Cultural Performances by Sundari Indian-Goddess | Jahlisa A. Ross | Rajeev Singh | Detoxx Bústi-ae

Hosts: Robert & Khadieme of the stushanbush Podcast

When: Saturday, February 22, 2020 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning: 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432

Purchase Tickets + Information: https://CEPlove2020.eventbrite.com

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Their Majesties the King George V and Queen Mary with the little Princess Elizabeth of York, at Craigwell House, Bognor. To the young Princess Elizabeth, King George V was “Grandpa England” and he spent as much time with her as his duties allowed because she so delighted him. There was even a sweet story of an astonished Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram who arrived for an audience to find him crawling about on all fours entertaining Lilibet, as the young Elizabeth was known.

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King George V and Princess Elizabeth, Craigwell House, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, during his convalescence in 1929

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Craigwell outlines plans for netball - Barbados Today http://dlvr.it/RYMjX4

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The Caribbean LGBTQ+ Immigrant Storytelling Panel at our 5th Annual “LOVE: Living Our Values Equally” benefit at @jamaicaartscenter. Panelists: Antoine Craigwell, Founder & CEO of DBGM Monique R. Binford, Gilead Sciences, Inc Shivana Jorawar, Co-director of the Jahajee Sisters Dr. Wladimir Lewis-Thomas, Education Activist Melvin Owens, Licensed Mental Health Professional Sai Ali, Trans-Advocate, Caribbean Equality Project #CEPLove2020 #CaribbeanEqualityProject Photo credit: Double 00 Photo (at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KoOlRBtUK/?igshid=1heyvmjh16d2o

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Icons, RockStars, & Innovators: Katrina Craigwell

Icons, RockStars, & Innovators: Katrina Craigwell

What makes you an Icon?

Your authentic and influential leadership style that has contributed to your trailblazing career success. You have broken barriers, overcome adversity, and as a result, are a role model to many.

Katrina Craigwell is Head of Global Employer Brand for JPMorgan Chase, managing brand initiatives to attract top talent to the firm. Her team oversees research, brand…

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CANTLON: WOLF PACK ON THE ROAD FOR THREE

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings CROMWELL, CT - The Hartford Wolf Pack got home to get a change of clothes, recuperate, and practice before heading back out on the road, leaving Tuesday afternoon for Utica for two games with the Comets and then another in Hershey to play the Bears, completing a four-game road trip. The Wolf Pack are 7-3-0 in their last ten games while the Wolf Pack's overall record has been great 23-9-2-5 (53 points). They are in first place in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of Hershey. In a stunning turnaround from last season, at home, the Wolf Pack are 16-1-0-2. On the road, it's been spotty. They're currently under .500 at 7-8-2-3. Head coach Kris Knoblauch would like to see that change. “We’ve been Jekyll and Hyde on this. We're a different team at home than on the road. We need to bring our home game to the road and play better, simple as that.” Last Saturday’s 3-0 loss in Wilkes Barre/Scranton to the Penguins came after a superb effort in a 6-3 win over the Charlotte Checkers. It was the polar opposite performance and Knoblauch did not mince words about it. “We didn’t play well enough. We were awful as a whole. We lacked quality scoring chances. Credit to them (the Penguins). They didn’t give up a whole lot of chances or space. We just didn’t fight hard enough to make chances.” Defenseman Mason Geersten admitted the Penguins were tough to play against. “We could have done better, but it was our first time playing them this year. They were very difficult to play against. We’re gonna have to do a better job this weekend getting on top of things early. We've got to bring our swagger with us on the road.” Goalie Tom McCollum, who wore #33 in his Wolf Pack debut, was not the problem. “I was very pleased with his play. He played very well, kept us close. We just didn’t generate enough offense to support him or have the defensive support at times. I really liked how he handled the puck for us. Clearly, he handles it differently from Igor (Shesterkin), but he did a very good job in the game.” The team travel bus saw another new face - Libor Hajak. As expected the past two weeks, the Rangers assigned him to the Wolf Pack as part of a conditioning assignment. "Libor is going to be playing a lot. He's gonna play 20-25 minutes a game and he's gonna be paired up with (Joey) Keane as one of our combinations. (Mason) Geersten (Keane's season defensive partner) will be moving up to wing (fourth line)," Knoblauch said. Hajak will wear number 25. There's no set number of games he'll play during his assignment. This is the first defensive corps change in about two months. It will be Geersten's second game at forward for the Wolf Pack. The other was in Providence. “He played very well for us in that one game, so let’s hope we get the same play for him. It's an adjustment,” said Knoblauch. Geersten joins a long list of Wolf Pack defenseman who have played the swing position of Playing forward. Others include Todd Hall, Craig Weller, and Dale Purinton. It’s a challenge he wants to take. “I had a good game there it was a lot of fun, sure it's very different, but whatever it takes to help the team,” remarked Geersten. Maybe if there is a shootout he might get a chance? “Hey, you never know what could happen,” Geersten laughing at the suggestion. One face heading due North is defenseman Jeff Taylor. He was reassigned to Maine to get some playing time with the Mariners. With the possibility of playing 30 games, he dressed for just eight and was a healthy scratch the other 22. The Nieves, Lettieri, and Gettinger line is expected to contribute. “The whole line has been solid for us and Vinni has been making some finishes. We’ve been getting good defense like winning draws and that really has helped their offense.” Knoblauch was still mulling over who he was going to put in the net. ”It’s not my call if they asked me, 'Do you want Igor back?' My answer would be, 'Yes' like any other coach,” Knoblauch said with a laugh. It's likely that during the NHL All-Star break that Shesterkin will be reassigned to Hartford. NOTES: Gettinger didn’t practice today and will be a game-time decision with a lower-body injury. Two former Wolf Pack players were among the NHL three stars for last week. Defenseman Tony D’Angelo was acknowledged for his sterling five-point effort against Colorado. The other is goalie, Cam Talbot, who is now on the other side of the Battle of Alberta. he helped Calgary in a 4-3 win Saturday for the Flames vaulting them into first place. Current Wolf Pack Phil Di Giuseppe was recalled Sunday. Pack captain, Steven Fogarty, reassigned to Hartford was scratched from last night’s 6-2 win over the Islanders. Philippe Hudon (Choate Prep) goes from Norfolk (ECHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL). Defenseman Jan Olenginski of Loomis Chaffe School (Windsor) commits to St. Lawrence University (ECACHL) for 2022-23. UCONN (7-10-4 overall, 4-7-2 HEA) has a critical Hockey East meeting tomorrow in Bridgeport against the University Maine Black Bears (10-8-4 overall, 4-6-2 HEA) at 7:00 pm at the Maine Black Bears. This UCONN’s third Hockey East game in the Park City losing to ND 6-1 back in 2015 and beating Maine 6-3 in 2017. The two teams are tied with New Hampshire for seventh place in the conference all three have 10 points The game will be carried on NESN Plus and the feed will be picked up by TSN in Canada. The two schools haven’t seen each other since October of last year. The Huskies lead the series 5-2-3, but are looking to end a four-game losing streak and are winless in five straight. The Huskies head to Boston for a date with the 12th ranked team in the nation Northeastern Saturday at Matthews Arena in another Hockey East matchup. UCONN return next week to Bridgeport for the inaugural CT Ice tournament featuring Sacred Heart University, Yale and Quinnipiac University, the other three state Division I college hockey programs. Read the full article

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Before the summer season kicks in, thank you for the blessing of encountering my first ever winter season (or maybe my last) in now one of my most favorite cities in the world, Edinburgh. 😄 Great people, great food, great sights to visit, and great weather! 😁 I really adored how they preserved the old buildings and/or how they reused them to living spaces without changing the facade. From the info we got from chit-chat with locals, this building and the inner abbeys was used to be brewery but now changed to living spaces. Really loved the brick road. Have a great weekend everyone! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 📍Craigwell Cottage, Calton Rd, Edinburgh, Scotland 📸: iPhone XS 18mm #jirehjournals . . . . . . . . . #thediscoverer #travelwriter #traveldeeper #photooftheday #explore #instagood #woogoph #FilipinoTravel #worldnomads #getoutside #travelstoke #passionpassport #outdoors #beautifuldestinations #stayandwander #iphone #iphonexs #Shotoniphone #iphonography #momentlens #momenttravel #momentgear #shotonmoment #momentcamera #friday #weekend #edinburgh / on Instagram https://ift.tt/2EEbsvq

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Kenyon Farrow, Earl Fowlkes, Carmen Vasquez & More To Lead "In My Mind" Conference For LGBTQ Mental Health Awareness

Kenyon Farrow, Earl Fowlkes, Carmen Vasquez & More To Lead “In My Mind” Conference For LGBTQ Mental Health Awareness

On October 5 and 6 in New York, NY, LGBTQ leaders of color in the physical health, mental health and community industries will speaks to members of the community in various panels regarding mental health awareness to LGBTQ people of color at the In My Mind conference.

Coordinated by the founder of the Depressed Black Gay Men organization, Antoine Craigwell, In My Mind conference brings Earl…

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Cannabis edible and topical products will be available to Canadian consumers by the middle of December, according to media reports. Rules to regulate the products are expected to be released by the federal health agency Health Canada on Friday and would go into effect on October 17, one year after Canada legalized cannabis with the passage of Bill C-45. Initial regulations only included provisions that allowed the sale of cannabis flower and oils.

Once the new regulations for cannabis edibles and topicals go into effect in October, manufacturers would be given 60 days to implement them before products go on sale in December.

Sources speaking with CTV News on the condition of anonymity revealed that the regulations are expected to limit the amount of THC in edible products to 10 milligrams per package. Edibles would also be subject to strict requirements to lessen their appeal to children, including limitations on the packaging and the shape of products. THC capsules are also expected to be allowed by the new regulations, which would limit the potency to 10 milligrams of THC per capsule and 1,000 milligrams THC per package.

Cannabis products will not be permitted to contain tobacco, nicotine, or added caffeine. Alcoholic beverages infused with cannabis will also not be allowed.

Cannabis packaging is expected to have requirements including child-resistant features and plain labels that do not advertise dessert or confectionary flavors. The use of logos and celebrity endorsements is also expected to be restricted, leading many cannabis industry insiders to maintain that branding and marketing products could be challenging.

Greg Boone, the CEO of cannabis firm Dosecann, said in a press release that his company has been looking forward to the release of the final regulations.

“That will get us into the full production of these edibles or value-added products,” he said. “And the goal is to build inventory to be able to satisfy the market that we believe exists across the country for these types of products.

Proposed Regulations Criticized

When the draft regulations were released in December of last year for public scrutiny, many cannabis consumers and businesses were critical of the proposed rules. Jessika Villano, the owner of Buddha Barn dispensary in Vancouver, was opposed to rules stipulating that no more than 10 milligrams of THC are allowed per edible serving and that each serving must be sold separately in child-resistant packaging. With some medical marijuana patients taking doses of 500 or even 1,000 milligrams of THC daily, Villano fears that the cost and all of the packaging will become overwhelming.

“I feel that Health Canada is creating an environmental nightmare,” Villano said.

Andrew Grieve, the CEO of cannabis edibles manufacturer Zenabis Global Inc., said that his company had plans to produce multi-serving packages in an effort to reduce packaging.

“We’ve been working really hard to reduce our packaging overall,” Grieve said. “We’ve been making progress on that point. From a corporate social responsibility standpoint, we think it is very important to reduce packaging wherever possible.”

Yannick Craigwell of edibles company Treatsandtreats said that he fears that the over-regulation of cannabis products will enable the illicit market to continue to survive.

“If there’s a need, people are going to fill that need. If there’s a financial reward for filling that need, that’s the whole premise of the black market,” Craigwell said.

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