THUNDER BAY – There are two companies which have made it to the next step in opening a retail storefront cannabis store in a Northern Ontario community. There are also twenty other potential operators on the current Northern Ontario waiting list.
Under the legislation a storefront location can only be opened in a community with a population of more than 50,000 people. That means for Northwestern Ontario only Thunder Bay will be potentially open for a store.
The City of Thunder Bay city council is expected to approve the opening of such a store.
The legislation in Ontario regarding Cannabis Sales on First Nations is still up in the air – on Fort William First Nation there is a Band Council Resolution preventing the opening of a cannabis retailer for six months.
As set out in Ontario Regulation 468/18, the Government of Ontario gave the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) the mandate to hold a lottery to determine who may apply for Retail Operator Licences. The lottery selection was completed on January 11, 2019 at 3:16 pm EST.
Eligible Expression of Interest Application entries were placed in a common pool and randomly selected using a third-party-certified AGCO lottery software program. KPMG, in its role as fairness monitor, was present to monitor the lottery to assess whether it was conducted fairly and according to the Expression of Interest Lottery Rules.
Expression of Interest Applicants will should have their AGCO file number that was provided in their Application Confirmation email available when checking the lottery results. If you have a question about the lottery results please submit your inquiry via the iAGCO inquiries portal.
The tables below show:
- The Expressions of Interest (EOI) Applicants for each Region that were selected in the lottery. Those on the Selected List for each Region will receive a Notification Letter from the Registrar that will confirm their selection and outline the next steps including how to make a Retail Operator Licence application to the AGCO.
- The first 20 EOI Applicants drawn on the Wait List for each Region. As set out in Lottery Rule 17, an EOI Applicant that is first on a Wait List for a Region will be moved to the Selected List for that Region if a selected EOI Applicant for that Region is disqualified from the Lottery Process by the Registrar, declines the opportunity to make a licence application, withdraws their EOI Application, withdraws an application for a Retail Operator License, or has their Retail Operator License refused or revoked by the Registrar.
Results by Region
*The 6 digit number below is the applicant’s iAGCO file number
Selected: East Region |
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| Daniel Telio 428720 Brandon long 427764 Patterson and Lavoie 413159 PURE ALPHA HOLDINGS 414955 Karan Someshwar 419068 |
Wait List: East Region |
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| RASHI ONTARIO INCORPORATED 422563 Rebecca Donna Gunn 405829 kytsenko holdings ltd 410686 Mohawk-Cana 400408 Dalbeer Brar 413524 Jordan Druxerman 415815 Richard Carter 430609 David Gerry Cynamon 403628 Ikeji Chinyere Julieth 414435 2489820 Ontario Inc 425950 CHAHIRA SALEH 410025 Rachel Martinez 403845 Andrew Rodricks 427934 Lisa James 420330 1906737 ontario limited 419882 Claude Phillip LaFleche 397696 Tiffany Doris MacKay Chen 425238 Constantine Nicitopoulos 413582 Dana Gold 417446 Antoinette Davies 421622 |
Selected: GTA Region |
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| Guruveer Singh Sangha 421776 David Nguyen 423565 Tripsetter Inc. 427833 Alexander Altman 414725 CGS FOODS INC 407223 Gary Hatt 416473 |
Wait List: GTA Region |
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| Kyle Hildebrand 423894 Jean-Sebastien Leroux 428412 Milka Subotic 423491 YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE 422277 Bradley Luke Ufkes 412952 Shelly Ordon 420632 Daniel Victor Jolic 422530 Elsa Li 422588 barbara dahan 406296 2645049 Ontario Ltd 415764 Melanie Lynn Macnab 398285 shahram kouhbad 405050 delroy lindsay 419894 Jerry Cappiello 400993 High Miles Incorporated 421711 Jonathan Andrew Teixeira 422256 Taheer Datoo 401614 Sean post 399457 CannDelta Inc 414613 Chris Gray 421949 |
Selected: North Region |
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| Anton Lucic 428024 Saturninus Partners 423124 |
Wait List: North Region |
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| Arielle Grinberg 397964 Christopher Douglas Emmons 421016 Blanchart Arunasalam 416172 RuzHal Canna Corp. 415415 Christina Kelly 418879 Eden Ifergan 427410 2600207 Ontario Inc. 420297 Jayde McElroy 424348 Justin Femia 412039 Com3xprt Inc 420369 Makwa Resourcing Inc. 421295 NEWMAN ROSENBERG INC. 421442 Lena Triebe 408949 11183362 CANADA INC 412344 Kuljeet Kaur Kang 429133 Scott Sheehey 409050 Manan Shah 408473 Alexander Shorser 430101 Sabrina Brown 426854 Ishrat Muhammad 405423 |
Selected: Toronto Region |
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| Heather Conlon 398788 SEYEDARASH SEYEDAMERI 425239 Colin Campbell 399836 Dana Michele Kendal 408389 Hunny Gawri 423754 |
Wait List: Toronto Region |
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| THCBD Group 406153 Filmon Gebremeskel 422797 Shane McCaffrey 412082 Timothy Richardson 401875 Steven Bromstein 421328 Sanjjeyan Jegathesan 412882 Caryn Humphreys 412770 Vac-Pod Inc. 409277 Three Thirty 426850 Shayan Sharafi 424479 Amandip Singh Chatha 399324 EJR INC. 416312 RedEye Dispensary 408478 Henry Noel Cavan 399418 Tam Khuong 405666 Best Insulation GTA inc. 422533 KS Capital Inc. 399856 Maria Isabel Guzman 424389 Brendan Sullivan 402643 TBD 416308 |
Selected: West Region |
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| Steven Fry 408185 Lisa A Bigioni 412975 Ranjit basra 428461 2674253 Ontario Inc. 405886 Santino J Coppolino 411369 Christopher Comrie 425836 The Niagara Herbalist 399235 |
Wait List: West Region |
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| 836171553RT0001 405757 Mike Duellick 408990 2665475 ONTARIO CORP. 414619 Paul A. Beneteau 428143 Ashley Usher 415319 Jonathon Graham 398481 Crystal and Nathan Wymenga 394897 Jonathan Buma 397769 James Clifford Willougbhy 422939 David MacAleese 415305 GTYOUNG MANAGEMENT 405955 Brandon Poole 431034 Antonios Theodosiou 406338 2673839 ONTARIO LTD. 420918 Dev Pahwa 410623 Tara Brox 420482 Yahya Heydari 423211 Builders Buying Group Canada Inc. 404766 Salim Pradhan 428958 Trudy Westhaver 397307 |
As set out in the Lottery Rule 16, the 25 selected EOI Applicants will be required to submit a $50,000 Standby Letter of Credit, submit a Retail Operator Licence Application and make a non-refundable $6,000 fee payment by 5:00 PM EST Friday, January 18, 2019.
During the Lottery Process if an Expression of Interest Applicant on a Wait List for a Region is moved to the Selected List for that Region, as set out in Lottery Rule 17, the table below will be updated.
