Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has released the names of 25 winners of a lottery held to determine who may apply for the province's first cannabis retail licences.
The winners, selected from 17,000 applicants, were drawn at 3:16 p.m. Friday and released this evening.
They are largely entrepreneurs, not corporations.
The two winners from the province's north region are listed as Anton Lucic and Saturninus Partners.
No further information was provided about the winners, including the communities in which they are based.
Winners now have five business days to submit formal applications with a $50,000 letter of credit and a $6,000 non-refundable fee.
Ontario's first private cannabis stores are expected to open Apr. 1
Until then, recreational cannabis can only be legally sold through the province's government-operated website.
The following were named to a north region wait list:
- Arielle Grinberg
- Christopher Douglas Emmons
- Blanchart Arunasalam
- RuzHal Canna Corp.
- Christina Kelly
- Eden Ifergan
- 2600207 Ontario Inc.
- Jayde McElroy
- Justin Femia
- Com3xprt Inc,
- Makwa Resourcing Inc.
- Newman Rosenberg Inc.
- Lena Triebe
- 11183362 Canada Inc.
- Kuljeet Kaur Kang
- Scott Sheehey
- Manan Shah
- Alexander Shorser
- Sabrina Brown
- Ishrat Muhammad
Winners in other parts of the province are:
- Daniel Telio (east region)
- Brandon Iong (east region)
- Patterson and Lavoie (east region)
- Karan Someshwar (east region)
- Heather Conlon (Toronto region)
- Seyedarash Seyedameri (Toronto region)
- Colin Campbell (Toronto region)
- Dana Michele Kendal (Toronto region)
- Hunny Gawri (Toronto region)
- Guruveer Singh Sangha (Greater Toronto Area region)
- David Nguyen (Greater Toronto Area region)
- Tripsetter Inc. (Greater Toronto Area region)
- Alexander Altman (Greater Toronto Area region)
- CGS Foods Inc. (Greater Toronto Area region)
- Gary Hatt (Greater Toronto Area region)
- Steven Fry (west region)
- Lisa A Bigioni (west region)
- Ranjit basra (west region)
- 2674253 Ontario Inc. (west region)
- Santino J Coppolino (west region)
- Christopher Comrie (west region)
- The Niagara Herbalist (west region)
