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Trump and Trudeau

Trudeau is doing his own balancing act and he’s walking a tightrope across the Grand Canyon.”

– Travis Kann

The House has returned and so have we!

We’re returning to our weekly schedule, but with a slightly different format. From the survey we had on our site over the break, we learned two things from you: you would like some more of our team’s perspectives and that you like our special episodes.

So, to the first point — we’re going to bring you a more focused, shorter, weekly show. For the first three weeks of the month, we’ll have one person from the firm’s take on the top issue of the week. For the last week of the month, we’ll bring these people back for our panel discussion and talk about what had traction over the course of the month. This allows us to not only track which issues really resonated, but also hold ourselves accountable to what we said would happen.

This week, we’re talking about, what else, Trump and his Executive Order banning travelers from Muslim-majority countries. Travis Kann speaks to Trudeau’s reaction and what we should look for in the coming weeks.

Why we’re doing this podcast

This is kind of like episode 0.5, to set the stage for our first episode. There are a number of competing objectives and goals with legalizing recreational marijuana use. There are also a lot of questions that need to be answered: How will distribution work? Who will be responsible for what? What will be legal on day one?

Welcome to Legalized, our new podcast!

Welcome to Legalized, our new podcast!

You might listen to our first podcast, Political Traction — where we cover the top issues in Canadian politics every week — but there’s one issue that we decided can’t be contained by the parameters of a weekly discussion.

Recreational cannabis use is about to be legalized in Canada. At the end of 2016, the Marijuana Task Force gave recommendations for regulation and the Liberal government has promised to table legislation this spring.

Beyond whether you’ll be able to walk to your local LCBO to freely and legally buy weed, legalization will impact Canadians across industries. It means big business, and not just for growers and cultivators: it means big business for consultants, advertisers, banks, insurance companies; down the line, it could mean big business as a Canadian export.

Canada’s poised to be a global expert in this area. So — how did we get here? What does the current space look like? And where is it headed?

We’re talking about all of this on our new 12-episode show. You’ll hear from the people who have been there since the beginning — pushing boundaries to change policy, become licensed professionals, and prepare for a huge market shift.

Welcome to Legalized. Season starts January 31st.

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The end of prohibition

It’s not a sector that’s going to be focused on grinding up raw cannabis flour and rolling it into papers and smoking it. I think those days are gone.’ —Will Stewart

Allie, Colin and David talk about the climate change plan and recommendations from the Marijuana Task Force. Special guest Will Stewart also weighs in on legalization in Canada.