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CBC News

 

An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a company in Alberta.

 

The Kestrel, made by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., will be prototyped and tested later in August, the company announced.

 

The vehicle, which holds a driver and up to three passengers, will have a top speed of 90 kilometres an hour and a range of 40 to 160 kilometres before needing to be recharged, depending on the type of battery, the company said in an email to CBC News Monday.

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THE SUDBURY STAR

 

Greater Sudbury's first annual Cannabis Festival was not without its share of controversy.

 

The city denied organizers a permit to use Memorial Park grounds. Organizers were also denied insurance from the city and several other insurance companies, said co-organizer Kayla Guse.

 

Insurance companies said they were high risk, she said.

 

The day before the festival, Friday at about 4 p.m., organizers discovered they were without permit and insurance. They decided to go through with the event anyway, calling it a peaceful protest.

 

Due to the problems, many of the musicians booked to play in the park Saturday afternoon backed out at the last minute, said Guse. Read more »

By: Heidi Ulrichsen - Sudbury Northern Life

 

Speaking loudly to be heard over top of a Bob Marley tune blaring in the background, Jamy McKenzie shares the ways in which marijuana has changed his life.

 

McKenzie, who has a number of medical conditions, including cystic fibrosis, diabetes and metabolic myopathy, said he used to be paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.

 

Since he was given a prescription to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, his pain has lessened, and he's been able to walk and function normally. He said he's also been able to get off a lot of his medications.

 

McKenzie was one of the organizers of a July 31 event in Memorial Park in support of the “hemp-cannabis movement.” Read more »

By Ken Alexander - 100 Mile House Free Press

 

The 100 Mile House Industrial Hemp Project is up and running again, as a student co-ordinator has been hired and a test plot has been seeded.

 

Project manager Erik Eising was in 100 Mile last week to meet with Horse Lake resident Robin Diether who was hired as the project student co-ordinator on June 30.

 

Eising says they had numerous applications for the student co-ordinator position and Diether was the one who stood out for the four-person selection panel.

 

Diether has already started maintenance and observation work on the test plot and will have numerous tasks to perform throughout the growing season.

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By. Joan Silver, 100 Mile House Free Press

 

It started as a dream; the dream was turned into a goal and the goal into action.

 

That’s how Western Regional Management Ltd. general manager Jammi Kumar describes the industrial hemp project in 100 Mile House.

 

A small, but dedicated, group of producers has been growing hemp since 2006 but those producers want to ensure they have a market for their product and that is now possible.

 

Kumar says a group of investors is prepared to offer producers a purchase agreement and invest about $2 million to set up the primary processing facility.

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(Resource News International, Published: Western Edition Country Guide) -- Canadian farmers are expected to grow more hemp this year, as demand for both the seed and fibre is increasing, and the crop can offer good returns to producers, according to an industry official.

"This year there is a lot of optimism in the market," said Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance, an industry group based at Steinbach, Man.

"We had some very strong movement on the food side of the business," she added, noting both exports of processed hemp seed and domestic demand were strengthening.

As a result, she said, the area seeded to hemp across the country was expected to increase from about 14,000 acres in 2009, to 25,000 acres this spring.

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