iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Jan 25, 2021 9:39am Committees set for virtual, in-person meetings on Parliament Hill (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Montreal-based scent-detection-technology company Stratuscent Inc. is seeking assistance from Technofinance Inc.’s Denis Dumas to help it access an Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada program to improve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the agriculture sector. According to its website, Stratuscent Inc. is a digital nose that “can detect individual chemicals, chemical mixtures, and everyday odours with incredible accuracy.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. Grains Council wants to engage the government on reducing transportation-sector emissions, as well as the development of Clean Fuel Standard regulations, and has hired Kate Mah of PAA Public Affairs Advisors Inc. to help.
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Drawing data from the Canadian Community Health Survey for 2007 through 2016, cannabis use among the 4,667 participants rose from 27.7 per cent in 2007-2008 to 34.4 per cent in 2015-2016. Weed use increased throughout the study period, the study adds.
An earlier study by U of A researchers, involving adult patients attending cancer centres, cited 43 per cent of participants reported any lifetime use of cannabis, the lion’s share of them getting their weed from friends, with just 10 per cent getting it from regulated medical dispensaries and six per cent by other means.
Of those who reported consuming cannabis within six months before the survey, 36 per cent were new users. “Their reasons for use included cancer-related pain (46 per cent), nausea (34 per cent), other cancer symptoms (31 per cent) and non-cancer-related reasons (56 per cent).
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Dec 14, 2020 11:49am Former Finance Minister Bill Morneau Andrew Meade/iPolitics
Former finance minister Bill Morneau is a hot topic on the Hill again, this time on the lobby circuit, where he’s now officially known as “Bill Morneau, OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation) Nominee.”
Morneau’s former director of operations, Sharan Kaur has been granted a rare exemption under the Lobbying Act to reach out to government officials on behalf of her one-time boss from Nov.10 until March 17, 2021, albeit under strict parameters.
As per the publicly posted notice, Kaur “may only communicate with public office holders from Global Affairs Canada and the Prime Minister’s Office, solely to arrange meetings, or to obtain or provide documents and information regarding [Morneau’s] candidacy as Secretary-General of the OECD.”