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NORTHBUD $NBUD.ca – #Cannabis Canada: #Pot industry added nearly $8B to #GDP in August, #StatsCan says $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $TRST.ca $OGI.ca

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Cannabis Canada: Pot industry added nearly $8B to GDP in August, StatsCan says

Cannabis sales in Canada expected to double next year to $3.16B: analyst 

Canaccord Genuity cannabis analyst Matt Bottomley expects revenue in Canada’s legal pot sector to more than double next year despite slower-than-expected growth. Bottomley said in a research note to clients that Canada’s cannabis industry should expect $3.16 billion in revenue in 2020, up from the $1.46 billion forecast for 2019. He added Canada’s cannabis retail figures should see a five per cent reduction in overall sales in September from the prior month to $121 million, but said subsequent growth should advance at a five-per-cent monthly clip. Bottomley expects growth in the recreational market to increase by just 7.5 per cent in 2020. Alongside its latest estimates for the Canadian cannabis industry, Canaccord’s analysts have revised sales projections for some of the country’s largest licensed producers such as Canopy Growth, Aphria and Aurora Cannabis.

BRNT secures multiyear white label deal with Valens GroWorks for 2.2M vape pens

BRNT Group, a company which has made its name making high-end cannabis accessories, is getting into the vape game. The company announced on Thursday a partnership with Valens GroWorks to produce a minimum of 2.2 million vape pens over the next two years. The deal, which is believed to be one of the largest publicly announced multi-year white label agreements, is expected to generate over $50-million in gross revenue for Valens, according to a statement released by both companies. The vape devices are expected to be available in select markets starting in the first quarter of next year and roll out across Canada later in the year.

Canadian pot producer hires helicopter to avoid possible frost on outdoor grow

Looking for a novel way to ensure your outdoor crop won’t be impacted by frost? Give your local helicopter pilot a call. That’s what 48North did, according to an Instagram post published by Devin Piche, the company’s master grower. A helicopter is able to float above an agricultural crop and essentially suck up cold air upward away from plants which could be damaged by a potential frost. “The helicopter was used to move warm air in a temperature inversion down into the crop area to keep the temperature above freezing,” according to Connor Whitworth, a 48North spokesperson. The cannabis producer is harvesting the remaining cannabis plants it is growing in its Good:Farm facility. Whitworth declined to further comment on 48North’s outdoor harvest, which it has previously stated expects to yield 40,000 kilograms of cannabis.

Alberta eyes 500 pot shops by 2021, no consumption lounges planned: regulatory official

Alberta is already the country’s market leader in the pot retail space – and it looks like it could get even larger.  Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis expects its store count to grow to over 500 within two years, according to the Calgary Herald, citing an official with the provincial regulator. The regulator has already green lit 306 retail outlets across the province, a number that will likely grow by 200 by 2021. However, cannabis consumption lounges don’t appear yet to be coming out anytime soon and would require legislative approval to establish those types of facilities, the official said.

Canada’s cannabis industry contributed nearly $8B to GDP in August: StatsCan

Canada’s cannabis sector – both the legal and illegal market – contributed $7.92 billion to the country’s gross domestic product in August, a figure that continues to grow from the $7.02 billion last October when recreational cannabis was legalized and above the revised $7.79 billion mark made in July, according to new data published by Statistics Canada on Thursday. The StatsCan figures also show Canada’s legal cannabis industry has grown by 116 per cent in the first 11 months since recreational marijuana was legalized. The black market’s cannabis output has fallen by 22 per cent in that same time, according to StatsCan estimates.

Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/cannabis-canada-pot-industry-added-nearly-8b-to-gdp-in-august-statscan-says-1.1341044

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New Age Metals $NAM.ca – The #Lithium Even #ElonMusk Couldn’t Buy $LIC.ca $LIX.ca $LI.ca $ELR.ca $ATL.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 1:36 PM on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

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The Lithium Even Elon Couldn’t Buy

  • Bloomberg NEF forecasts global demand for lithium will double by 2025 to about 800,000 tons. Electric vehicle batteries will make up the lion’s share of that demand, followed by consumer electronics and energy storage.
  • With this booming demand, the U.S. is desperate to dominate the lithium production market.

By Jon LeSage 

Demand for lithium will be booming over the next few years, and the US wants to increase its share in the global market for the metal used in electric vehicle and cell phone batteries, energy storage, and consumer products.

Bloomberg NEF forecasts global demand for lithium will double by 2025 to about 800,000 tons. Electric vehicle batteries will make up the lion’s share of that demand, followed by consumer electronics and energy storage. With this booming demand, the U.S. is desperate to dominate the lithium production market.

San Diego-based company EnergySource is taking on this challenge by bringing a new lithium extraction technique to market that can reduce lithium costs when compared to importing the metal from a small number of global markets capable of keeping the cost high. It also taps into a specific lithium supply that companies have been trying to access for decades.

This supply is nested beneath geothermal power plants that have been operating next to one of the world’s geothermal hot spots — the Salton Sea in the California desert, where the plants have been operating since the 1980s. It’s such a hot market that, not long ago, Tesla chief Elon Musk made a bid on a competitor — Simbol Materials — for $325 million. The company went bust shortly after and Tesla and its competitors have had to wait for another supplier from the rare metal market.

Major lithium projects underway in the US include Piedmont Lithium’s hard rock lithium project in North Carolina; Standard Lithium’s Arkansas Smackover lithium brine project; and Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass lithium claystone project in Nevada. In addition, output last year came from a Nevada-based brine operation, most likely in the Clayton Valley, which hosts Albemarle’s Silver Peak mine.

The actual production in the US can only be estimated, with top lithium producers in the US choosing to withhold production numbers from Investment News to avoid disclosing proprietary company data. The US is one of the nine largest lithium producers in the world, with Australia, Chile, China, and Argentina leading the global industry.

It was the focus of a May conference in Washington featuring speakers from Tesla, the US Dept. of State and Dept. of Energy, as well as Standard Lithium Ltd. and other companies working to develop U.S. lithium mines.

Tesla, Volkswagen, other carmakers, and battery manufacturers are expanding their EV and lithium-ion battery output. They’re frustrated with being reliant on mineral imports without a major push to develop more domestic mines and processing facilities.

US Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who is chair of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said at the May conference that she would be introducing the American Mineral Security Act with Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat. The legislation was written to streamline regulation and permitting requirements for the development of mines for lithium, graphite, and other EV supply chain minerals. The senators see it as part of a plan to offset China’s dominance in the space. 

“Our challenge is still a failure to understand the vulnerability we are in as a nation when it comes to reliance on others for our minerals,” Murkowski said.

The Senate’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is looking at an amended version of the American Mineral Security Act. A similar version of the bill is now being considered in the House of Representatives.

Making electric vehicles has been costly mainly due to the battery packs and the precious lithium used in nearly all of them. Solid-state batteries and other options for EV batteries are being developed, yet lithium is expected to dominate the EV battery space for years. Harvesting that metal inside the US is expected to be a stepping stone to compete with the huge Chinese EV market.

While U.S. lithium production is slowly ramping up, breakthroughs like exploiting the Salton Sea could end up being a game-changer for the industry. The energy division of Berkshire Hathaway has been working with the US Dept. of Energy to resolve the challenges that have blocked lithium extraction at the Salton Sea, and one day soon we may see a true American lithium revolution.

Source: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Lithium-Even-Elon-Couldnt-Buy.html

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Empower Clinics $CBDT.ca Is Laser Focused On The U.S. #CBD Opportunity $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $OGI.ca $FAF.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:41 AM on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Empower Clinics Is Laser Focused On The U.S. CBD Opportunity

  • A leading owner/operator of physician staffed health and pain management clinics.
  • Patient database of over 165,000 patients 
  • Platform generating $4MM USD in revenue annually (2019)
  • Proprietary technology platforms including Electronic Health Records portal and e-Commerce for CBD product distribution
  • Launching CBD extraction facility
  • First extraction system capacity = 6,000 Kg per year.
  • CBD based products are poised to be a $20B global industry by 2022
  • Medical cannabis is poised to be a $100B global industry by 2025

By Anthony Varrell

The last few months have been difficult for the cannabis sector and the recent decline has caught the attention of new capital. Over the last few months, we attended several conferences and met with new venture and private equity funds that are taking a hard look at the cannabis sector following the recent pullback.

Following our meeting with these funds, we became increasingly excited about how the sector will perform during 2020. During the final quarter of the year, we expect to see more tax loss selling and this is a trend to be monitoring. On average, we have seen a drastic improvement from a fundamental standpoint when analyzing companies that are focused on the cannabis sector. This is a trend that we expect to continue on a going forward basis and believe the recent weakness has created opportunity.

The US represents one of the most exciting cannabis markets and we have noticed a significant increase in the amount of interest in this burgeoning market. Over the next year, we expect to see further interest in the US market and expect deregulation to be a catalyst for the businesses that are levered to this opportunity.

During the last month, we have been highly focused on the US cannabis market and have been working to identify companies with specific criteria. When analyzing these cannabis businesses, we are looking for companies that are: 1) led by a management team that is focused on execution and creating value for shareholders; 2) have visible growth prospects and substantial potential catalysts for growth; 3) are attractively valued or misunderstood by the market; and 4) that are levered to states with burgeoning cannabis markets.

One company that we believe that meets this criteria is Empower Clinics (CBDT.CN) (EPWCF) and today, we have issued on the US cannabis business. The company has substantial growth prospects, a diverse business model, and represents a multi-faceted growth opportunity. Over the next year, Empower is expected to report strong revenue growth as the management team continues to execute on its expansion and advance the franchise model aspect of the business.

Growing Through Strategic Partnerships

One of the reasons we are excited about Empower is due the focus on securing strategic partners to support growth. From a resource’s standpoint, the company has been able to expand into markets that are both efficient and effective. Going forward, we expect to see Empower benefit from the relationships that it has formed and believe that the market underappreciates this aspect of the story.

A few weeks ago, Empower announced a major milestone and entered into a letter of intent to form a joint venture with Heritage Cannabis Holdings (CANN.CN) for the extraction of hemp for CBD oil production, and formulated CBD products. The joint venture will be owned 50/50 by each company and we are bullish on the growth prospects associated with this initiative.

Heritage, via its wholly owned subsidiary Purefarma Solutions, will install extraction units and related downstream extraction equipment inside Empower’s existing 5,000 sq. ft. licensed hemp processing facility. Purefarma will also train and supervise the staff on the proprietary methods of extraction and oil production that it produces in Canada.

We are favorable on the expertise that each company brings to the joint venture and expect this to play a key role in the success of the operation. Going forward, the joint venture plans to secure high quality hemp supply from local growers as construction is completed on the facility. Once operational, the joint venture will start producing proprietary branded products for Empower’s corporately owned physician staffed health clinics in Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona.

Highly Focused on the US CBD Market

Another attractive aspect of the Empower story is related to the hemp-derived CBD extraction facility in Oregon. The company is in the process of constructing a facility equipped with a state-of-the-art extraction system (expected to produce approx. 6,000 kg of extracted product per year) and this should prove to be a major revenue driver in 2020.

Empower has commenced the process to access the more than 1,300 licensed hemp farmers in Oregon and we are favorable on this. These cultivators are known to produce some of the highest quality hemp bio-mass in the US and we find this be significant. Quality of products has become very important following the issues over at Juul and we believe that the joint venture has done a great job by focusing of safety and consistency.

From a distribution standpoint, the footprint that Empower has throughout the US will play a key role in the success of the CBD business. Through Sun Valley Health, a subsidiary of Empower, the company has access to more than 165,000 patients. Through company owned and franchised cannabis clinics, Empower will be able to market to large potential customer base that is clearly open to cannabis.

Empower recently launched an e-commerce platform to sell company branded hemp-derived CBD based products as well as premium health and wellness supplements. Over the next year, we expect to see the company’s CBD product line gain traction within its clinic network and will monitor this aspect of the story.

An Opportunity that is Flying Under the Radar

Over the next year, we expect to see Empower benefit from having a multi-faceted growth model and additional revenue streams. Going forward, we are most excited about the growth prospects associated with the CBD market and the clinic franchise opportunity. Empower has visible growth prospects and we expect 2020 to be a banner year for the business.

One of the most significant developments of 2019 for Empower was the change in the management team. We believe that the transition has been smooth and are favorable on the verticals that the new leadership team has the business focused on. We believe that the new management team better understands how to utilize its assets to capitalize on the cannabis industry and find this to be significant.

During the last year, Empower has transitioned from being only focused on cannabis clinics to being a multi-faceted growth story with leverage to the CBD market. We believe that the CBD opportunity represents low hanging fruit for the company and this is primarily due to the relationships it has with consumers through the clinics.

Source: https://technical420.com/cannabis-article/empower-clinics-is-laser-focused-on-the-u-s-cbd-opportunity/#

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CardioComm Solutions $EKG.ca – #Wearable Devices Useful for Predicting Patient Health Outcomes #Mhealth $ATE.ca $TLT.ca $OGI.ca $ACST.ca $IPA.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:11 AM on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

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Wearable Devices Useful for Predicting Patient Health Outcomes

Wearable devices and accelerometers can be used to estimate health status and death risks in older patients more accurately than other methods used by physicians, experts say.

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By Samantha McGrail

October 30, 2019 – Wearable devices and accelerometers worn like a watch, belt, or bracelet to track movement are a more reliable measure of physical activity and better for assessing five-year risk of death in older adults than more traditional methods, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine. Researchers say that an objective accounting of physical activity outperforms traditional predictors of mortality within five years, such as age, smoking, diabetes, alcohol use, or history of cancer or heart disease.

“We’ve been interested in studying physical activity and how accumulating it in spurts throughout the day could predict mortality because activity is a factor that can be changed, unlike age or genetics,” says Ciprian Crainicanu, PhD, professor of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is also a member of the research team. 

Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers looked at 33 predictors of five-year all-cause mortality, including 30 objective measures of physical activity, such as total activity, amount of time not moving, or amount of time doing moderate to vigorous activity. 

“People can overestimate on surveys how much and when they move, but wearable devices provide accurate data that cuts through bias and guesswork,” explained Jacek Urbanek, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine and a member of the research team. 

All 3,000 adult participants between 50 and 85 years old wore an accelerometer device at the hip for seven consecutive days to track physical activity. Individual data came from responses to demographic, socioeconomic, and health-related survey questions, along with information accessed from medical records and clinical laboratory test results. 

With a focus on fragmented activity, researchers also collected data for two-hour spans throughout the day, and their analysis showed that physical activity, or lack thereof, between noon and two in the afternoon was the highest predictor of mortality risk. 

“The most surprising finding was that a simple summary of measures of activity derived from a hip-worn accelerometer over a week outperformed well-established mortality risk factors such as age, cancer, diabetes and smoking,” says Ekaterina Smirnova, MS, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University and the lead author on the paper. 

While gender proportion was even, men made up 51 percent, and 65 percent of the men died within five years of the study’s follow up efforts.

When comparing the data of those who died within five years and those who survived, researchers said they were able to correctly rank the mortality risk using accelerometers 30 percent more accurately than using information about smoking status, and 40 percent better than using information about whether a person suffered a stroke or had cancer. 

As a result, physicians feel confident that these devices could be used as fitness profiles to help patients change unhealthy behaviors, increase physical activity, and potentially extend healthy lifespan. However, using wearable technology it does not guarantee that one’s risk of mortality is going to be lower with more physical activity.

Consumer-grade mHealth wearables are finally beginning to make their mark in remote patient monitoring programs. 

For example, the extremely popular and user-friendly Fitbit tracker can be used in some RPM programs and also used to identify trends that call for clinical intervention.

A study done by the researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA in May of 2018 recruited 200 patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and had them wear Fitbit Charge 2 trackers for 90 days. 

The average number of steps recorded per day correlated with the patient’s self-reported overall health, physical function, fatigue, and the results that the study found. The findings suggested relationships between physical activity and health, as well as physical function. 

“Our study used a single device with high unity, which simplifies the task of remote monitoring for both researchers and patients,” the researchers reported. “The ability of the device to simultaneously record multiple variables such as heart rate and accelerometer data, also allowed us to more accurately determine the patient’s state, whether he/she is active, sedentary, asleep, or not currently using the device.” 

Because researchers were able to easily access activity data, clinicians monitoring these patients through their Fitbits can get a real-time glimpse of their health and physical function, enough to spot dangerous trends and intervene. 

Wearables to track patient health has a significant correlation, according to the evidence found in recent research.

“An accurate measure of physical activity is a more reliable way for doctors and patients to assess physical activity and intervene to increase it as a potential way to improve health,” noted Andrew Leroux, a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins and co-author of the study report.

Source: https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/wearable-devices-useful-for-predicting-patient-health-outcomes

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BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – #Gradeup Raises $7M To Expand Its Online Exam Prep Platform In #India #Edtech $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
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Gradeup Raises $7M To Expand Its Online Exam Prep Platform In India

  • Delhi-based EdTech startup Gradeup has raised $7 million A Series by Times Internet. The venture capital is the first and only external investor of Gradeup.
  • The online platform helps the students to prepare for most of the undergraduate and postgraduate exams in India with very engaging services.

by StartupWorld Staff         

Delhi-based EdTech startup Gradeup has raised $7 million A Series by Times Internet. The venture capital is the first and only external investor of Gradeup. The online platform helps the students to prepare for most of the undergraduate and postgraduate exams in India with very engaging services.

Founded in 2015 by Sanjeev Kumar, Shobhit Bhatnagar, and Vibhu Bhushan, Gradeup was only a platform to discuss exams in the beginning. Understanding the importance of making an all-in-one platform for competitive exams in India, the founders implemented several advancements in the startup. 

Currently, over 10 million aspirants are using the platform for various exam preps. The platform is useful in four ways. The primary function is to provide an opportunity for exam prep communities. The users can interact with other students who also prepare for the same. Besides, the expert guidance via live sessions improves the students’ potential. 

Students also get the opportunity to learn through daily mock tests. The question papers are designed in the latest form by exam experts. Students can also compare the answers, test ranks, and so on. Gradeup keeps the users updated with the latest exam announcements, as well. 

Gradeup has two Google’s Play Store applications: Gradeup: Exam Preparation App and NCERT Solutions, CBSE & State Board 6th-12th Class. If the former one covers the overall exam preps and solutions, the latter is exclusively for school students of 6th to 12th standards.

SSC, Banking, Railways, Teaching, JEE, GATE, NEET, UPSC, Defense, and State level exams are the major exams the platform focuses on. The fee of coaching depends on the duration and complexity of the exam. However, the price mostly ranges between Rs 5,000 ($70) and Rs 35,000 ($500).

Over 30 million people enroll for the competitive exams in India. The growing EdTech startups helped many students to crack the exams with the practical method of learning at an affordable fee. The sector is booming, along with the performance of students appearing exams. Aiming more students, Gradeup is planning to strengthen the services and extend the platform all over India.

Source: https://www.startupworld.com/news/gradeup-raised-7m-dollars/

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PRIMO Nutraceuticals Inc. $PRMO.ca – Ask Our Experts: What’s The Big Deal About #CBD? $CROP.ca $VP.ca NF.ca $MCOA

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:54 PM on Monday, November 4th, 2019

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Ask Our Experts: What’s The Big Deal About CBD?

  • CBD is used by all types of consumers, purchasing CBD-infused products for a variety of reasons
  • A recent Gallup survey found that one in seven Americans report using CBD for a range of medical and therapeutic purposes

By New Frontier Data

Q: There is a lot of media coverage about CBD, and it seems to be appearing all over the place. Who is buying all the CBD products?

A: CBD stands for cannabidiol, the second-most popular among active ingredients of the cannabis sativa plant. Cannabis contains hundreds of cannabinoids, each of which presents unique qualities and potential benefits.

CBD is used by all types of consumers, purchasing CBD-infused products for a variety of reasons. A recent Gallup survey found that one in seven Americans report using CBD for a range of medical and therapeutic purposes.

With passage of the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill which federally legalized hemp for the first time since World War II, the market for hemp-derived CBD products has seen explosive growth. Mass-marketed, hemp-derived CBD products have found their way onto retail shelves everywhere from grocery stores, coffee shops, and cosmetics retailers to veterinarians’ offices and nutritional supplement shops nationwide.

That said, there remains confusion regarding to what extent CBD is legal. The DEA has asserted that only GW Pharmaceutical’s patented Epidiolex is legally permitted to incorporate CBD oil in products. Yet attorney Garrett Graff of Hoban Law Group, who specializes in cannabis law and is part of a group who brought an appeal against the DEA ruling, has challenged that.

“It’s our understanding that cannabinoids derived from industrial hemp so long as below the 0.3 percent THC threshold are, in fact, lawful pursuant to the farm bill under federal law,” Graff posited. Since the FDA has not approved any CBD products at all, “at this point, we simply agree to disagree, and those products remain on the marketplace,” he explained.

New Frontier Data is engaged in several ongoing CBD research projects examining the marketplace in the United States and globally, and expects to release several reports about CBD consumer behaviors, patterns of use, and engagement with the market. Among the first slated for release as part of New Frontier Data’s upcoming Cannabis Consumer Insight Series of white papers is Marijuana Consumers’ CBD Use, examining the preferences and behaviors of consumers already familiar with cannabis and cannabis-derived products.

Findings from the research indicate that nearly a third (30%) of cannabis consumers are using CBD products, or nearly twice the previously reported rate among the general population. Such consumers also tend to be women (57%), especially under the age of 35 (43%), consistent with much of the current marketing of CBD products as health and wellness brand targeted specifically to women consumers.

Other key insights from the report found that:

Cannabis consumers who purchase CBD-only products are high-retention customers: Among cannabis consumers who purchased a CBD product, the overwhelming majority (85%) indicated that they were likely to make additional CBD purchases within the next six months. The current market is at an inflection point for CBD brands, as consumers are enthusiastically purchasing and trying these products, but most likely have weak brand loyalty. Identifying core consumers and developing a unique brand identity in the CBD space is am imperative for success in the near term.

Understanding the specific cannabis consumers who are most interested in CBD will be key to capturing the most lucrative consumer segment: New Frontier Data has identified nine fundamental “Cannabis Consumer Archetypes“. Among those categorized cannabis consumers, it is the Modern Lifestylers, Medical Purists, and Functional Dependents who are most likely to have purchased a CBD product. However, as access to CBD products increases, it is expected that a broader base of consumers will integrate CBD into both their daily lives and as a complement to current cannabis use.

Source: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/19/11/14717727/ask-our-experts-whats-the-big-deal-about-cbd

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CLIENT FEATURE: Tartisan Nickel $TN.ca Kenbridge Property Hosts M&I Resource of 7.14 Million Tonnes of 0.62% Nickel + 0.33% Copper $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:04 PM on Monday, November 4th, 2019

Investment Highlights

  • Kenbridge property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14 million tonnes at 0.62% nickel, 0.33% copper
  • 17.5 (21.8 fully diluted) percent equity stake in Eloro Resources and 2 percent NSR in their La Victoria property

Kenbridge Ni Project (ON, Canada)

  • Advanced  stage  deposit  remains open  in  three  directions,  is  equipped with a 623m  deep  shaft  and  has  never  been  mined. 
  • Preliminary  Economic Assessment completed and updated returned robust project 
    economics and operating costs including  a  NPV  of  C$253M  and  cash costs of US$3.47/lb of nickel net of  copper credits.
  • Plans for Kenbridge include updating PEA, advancing the project through to feasibility and exploring the open mineralization at depth

FULL DISCLOSURE: Tartisan Nickel Corp. is an advertising client of AGORA Internet Relations Corp.

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ThreeD Capital Inc. $IDK.ca – Key Investment Themes In #Crypto Networks $HIVE.ca $BLOC.ca $CODE.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 2:45 PM on Monday, November 4th, 2019

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Key Investment Themes In Crypto Networks

By: Matt Spoke

I’ve been an entrepreneur in this wild cryptocurrency industry for over 5 years. My focus has been on leading a team of core developers to build an open decentralized protocol that solves real problems for real users. I’m not alone in this endeavour. There are at least a few dozen of my peers leading projects with broadly similar goals.

To the outside world, we’re all crypto geeks building alternatives to Bitcoin. That said, there are nuances in the designs and goals of various projects that form the basis of some early investments theses that leading funds have adopted to guide their selection criteria when looking at digital assets.

Without getting into all the specifics, for the purposes of this article, I want to focus only on the specific digital asset classes that are native to their own networks or blockchains, rather than tokens built into “dApps” or other similar models.

The reason this is important is because there are an increasing number of funds, both institutional and not, that are looking at digital assets as the next asset class to include in their diversified portfolios that include everything from public equities, to real estate, to gold, to bonds and other instruments. Who knows, maybe the next time you check your pension, your favourite digital asset could be in it.

As such, it’s helpful to have a standard way to think about the differences and similarities among digital assets, such that they can be categorized for investment decisions.

To the outside looking in, this industry can be extremely opaque to understand and evaluate. How value will be created, on what time horizon and how does one form opinions on the quality of the project they’re looking at. While there is infinite nuance between projects, protocols, dApps, etc., most digital assets fall within common buckets, that have formed the informal standard crypto theses. This mental model is helpful for any observer, technologist or fund that has been researching or thinking about allocating capital or time into this industry. It also might help us understand new opportunities for value that fall outside of these established categories (more on this later).

In speaking to a prominent investor in the cryptocurrency industry recently, he summarized this very simply:

“I understand and believe in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Everything else is just playing copy-cat and trying to play the same game.”

In a broad sense, this is generally how the industry has evolved. Bitcoin became dominant, and then many built alternatives (“alt”-coins) broadly solving for a similar goal, and then Ethereum introduced a new type of protocol that was quickly followed by its own inspired alternatives – something that Chris Burniske of Placeholder Ventures refers to as “Ethereum Killers”.

The funds investing in this industry have had to build their theses around this reality. As such, you’ll often find funds with a deep conviction for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and then, to a lesser extent, a series of “hedges” into alternatives that could grow in relevance and in some cases potentially overtake the projects that first inspired them. Many of these alternatives have taken different technical approaches, but in general seek to solve the same problem and target the same ‘blockchain-converted’ developer or investor audience.

These investment themes behind Bitcoin and Ethereum are similar in that they are both digital assets, but they’re different in the problems they seek to solve.

Bitcoin established a category of digital assets that Multicoin Capital likes to refer to as “Global, State-free Money”. This theme focuses on a growing need for a global form of money that is independent of institutional trust and provides a digital alternative to gold. The need for such an asset is to address the >500m people in the world who live in countries with greater than 10% inflation, and to provide a place for people to store their wealth that is safe from seizure and “portable” across geographic boundaries.

Although it’s unclear how to measure the size of that addressable market, the thesis implies a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity in this category.

Ethereum, on the other hand, professed to be building a “world computer” or in other contexts, the basis for a “decentralized internet”. This category of digital assets known as “decentralized internet” projects is what primarily caused the run up of the ICO markets in 2017-2018. Believers in this thesis argue that the causes of many of the inequities online today stem from the overly “centralized” nature of the internet’s infrastructure, such that incentives lead towards monopolization of online services – think Facebook and Google. As such, there is a massive interest in owning a piece of the “fuel” that will power the renewed internet infrastructure of the future.

On top of this thesis are companies building utopia as they see it. These ideas range from a system of finance that is open and alternative to banking, a system of identity independent of governments, to other lofty and worthy ideas that would find their homes in the “decentralized internet” category.

Within these two broad categories, there are nuances and further sub-categories, but at the highest level, this is a helpful frame to better understand where a particular project fits, and what alternatives it should be compared against. This framing should also help to better understand why Bitcoin and Ethereum are fundamentally not competing technologies, but why EOS, Tron, and Cardano have yet to prove why they’re contenders to supplant Ethereum, their category king. As with categories in other online industries, we’ll likely see a market where 75% of the value is dominated by the category leader, and the rest spread among its competitors.

With 25-30+ launched or soon-to-be live networks looking to compete in Ethereum’s category, its quickly become saturated. At the current state of adoption in our industry, we’re nearing an oversupply of novel technical solutions and a real need for actual usage. Networks have collapsed into mirror-like narratives (build a dApp here!), use cases (build DeFi here!), and are all seemingly speaking to the same audience.

So when looking at how this market might evolve, the real breakthroughs will likely lie with projects that have a disproportionate chance of dominating these two categories or projects that define a brand new category with massive market potential. More on this next week.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattspoke/2019/10/30/key-investment-themes-in-crypto-networks/#78f4be1d3774

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BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – #EdTech startups can address shortage of #MachineLearning experts in #India $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 12:37 PM on Monday, November 4th, 2019
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EdTech startups can address shortage of machine learning experts in India

  • Edtech startup: Enhanced outreach of technology is resulting in industries and end users taking a leap of faith into the world of new concepts.
  • Machine learning (ML) is one such domain that has around 10x jobs at present as compared to the situation, five years ago.

By Ankush Singla

EdTech startup: Enhanced outreach of technology is resulting in industries and end users taking a leap of faith into the world of new concepts. Several industries have polished their approach in designing an outcome for the new generation to mould something new and relevant, according to the trends of the future. Machine learning (ML) is one such domain that has around 10x jobs at present as compared to the situation, five years ago.

This situation has shaped up due to various contributing factors including huge popularity of machine learning. Fortune 500 companies are integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into their processes and Indian firms are following suit. Machine learning is responsible for shaping the business landscape. Business analytics and intelligence teams are able to analyse terabytes of data in seconds using different methods like recognition, diagnosis, regression, prediction and many more.

Machine learning focuses on the development of algorithms which helps those machines teach themselves grow, develop and respond to new data. The reason machine learning has become hugely popular is because it has helped all the companies (from various industrial sectors) get exact and real time insights and mitigate the strategy level risks, if any.

While on the one hand, we are amazed by these developments; there is a concern on the other hand too. Yes, machine learning is the most in-demand skill right now but is our talent pool really equipped with the required skills. The answer is “No”. Demand for machine learning experts will continue to increase in the coming years and will probably outpace the current supply of talent pool in the next three-four years.

According to the LinkedIn economic graph, the jobs in ML have been a turning point in the technological trends as compared to the other umbrella domains. The number of jobs which were five years ago is now 9.8 times, thus, helping to provide an asset to the industry. Educational institutions have always provided the industry with the required set of skills but with an increased demand in such a short time, they have been unable to come up with a solution on such a short notice. In order to cater to the current industry trends, EdTech startups have come with excellent “Industry-Vetted Course Curriculum”.

EdTech startups create a perfect amalgamation

EdTech startups don’t focus on just teaching theoretical concepts but rather provide an online learning which is no less than the offline classroom approach. There are online videos which can be accessed anytime and from anywhere. Since the videos are self-paced, it is made sure that they cater to the speed of every individual.

EdTech startups create a perfect amalgamation by getting industrial experts on board and creating a course curriculum as per the exact needs of the ML industry. In order to make sure that the student doesn’t deviate and follows the curriculum, virtual / physical assistance is provided which analyse the performance of each and every student on a daily basis and customised approach is recommended.

They are deploying algorithms to bring a personalised touch for every student, thus ensuring a better application-based learning. We have experienced and welcomed this new way of mobile teaching which takes care of every individual student’s needs, comforts and results at the same time.

EdTech companies have come up with the content which not only satisfies the need of the industry but can also be imparted to anyone in due amount of time; thus, fulfilling the requirement of the ML domain. Several factors which have enabled these startups develop skilled ML experts are: self-paced learning; industry-vetted content; regular industrial interaction through bootcamps and webinars; individual learning and development system; real-time actionable insights;  and industrial projects which can be deployed in companies.

Machine learning is one of the most promising technologies of the last decade and it is the perfect time to realise we have a companion since “Machines also Learn”.

Source: https://techobserver.in/2019/10/25/edtech-startups-can-address-shortage-of-machine-learning-experts-in-india/

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PyroGenesis $PYR.ca Receives $345K Milestone Payment from RISE Energy Technology Center AB $LMT $RTN $NOC $UTX $HPQ.ca $DDD.ca $SSYS $PRLB

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 8:41 AM on Monday, November 4th, 2019
  • Further to its previous press release dated October 17th, 2019, the Company has received a milestone payment of approx. $345K from RISE Energy Technology Center AB
  • Contract, originally announced last January, is for a 900-kW plasma torch system which was won in a competitive bid process.

MONTREAL, Nov. 04, 2019 – PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (http://pyrogenesis.com) (TSX-V: PYR) (OTCQB: PYRNF) (FRA: 8PY), a high-tech company, (the “Company”, the “Corporation” or “PyroGenesis”) that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes plasma atomized metal powder, plasma waste-to-energy systems and plasma torch products, announced today that, further to its previous press release dated October 17th, 2019, the Company has received a milestone payment of approx. $345K from RISE Energy Technology Center AB (the “Client”).

This contract, originally announced last January, is for a 900-kW plasma torch system which was won in a competitive bid process.

Following the success of the Factory Acceptance Test last month, PyroGenesis’ team performed the SAT of the high-power plasma torch at the Client’s facility in Sweden where the torch has been installed and operated under the Client’s parameters. This milestone payment is connected to the successful Site Acceptance Test (“SAT”) where the torch has been installed on the Client’s reactor, upon which a series of tests are now being conducted. A final payment is also expected towards the end of month once all tests are completed.

PyroGenesis’ 900-kW plasma torch is to be tested to replace fossil fuel burners in the iron ore induration (pelletization) process. Pelletization is the process in which iron ore is concentrated before shipment, thus significantly reducing the cost of transportation. In conventional technology, the process heat is provided by diesel/fuel burners. The combustion, in the burners, of natural gas, heavy oil and/or pulverized coal results in the production of greenhouse gases such as CO2. Plasma torches are therefore an environmentally friendly alternative.

According to management a typical pellet plant producing 10 million metric tonnes of pellets annually, emits approximately one million metric tonnes of CO21. The total world pellet production of 400 million metric tonnes of pellets corresponds to the production of about 40 million metric tonnes of CO2, and represents a potential market for torch sales in excess of $10B worldwide.

1 M. Huerta, J. Bolen, M. Okrutny, I. Cameron and K. O’Leary, “Guidelines for Selecting Pellet Plant Technology”, Iron Ore Conference 2015 Proceedings, Perth, WA, July 13-15, 2015

Separately, further to the Press Release dated October 9th, 2019, wherein it was disclosed that a $6.4M payment was expected within 2-4 weeks, the Company confirms that this the payment is still on schedule.

On a separate note, further to a Press Release dated September 18th, 2019, the Company provides the following additional information with respect to the agreement with Independent Trading Group (“ITG”). The agreement is for an initial term of three (3) months (the “Initial Term”), renewable for subsequent one (1) month terms (each an “Additional term”), unless PyroGenesis or ITG provides at least thirty (30) days written notice prior to the end of the Initial Term or an Additional Term. The Company has agreed to pay ITG a service fees of $5,000 per month, plus applicable taxes. There are no performance factors contained in the agreement between ITG and the Company, and ITG will not receive any shares or options from the Company as compensation for the services it will render.

About PyroGenesis Canada Inc.

PyroGenesis Canada Inc., a high-tech company, is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of advanced plasma processes and products. We provide engineering and manufacturing expertise, cutting-edge contract research, as well as turnkey process equipment packages to the defense, metallurgical, mining, advanced materials (including 3D printing), oil & gas, and environmental industries. With a team of experienced engineers, scientists and technicians working out of our Montreal office and our 3,800 m2 manufacturing facility, PyroGenesis maintains its competitive advantage by remaining at the forefront of technology development and commercialization. Our core competencies allow PyroGenesis to lead the way in providing innovative plasma torches, plasma waste processes, high-temperature metallurgical processes, and engineering services to the global marketplace. Our operations are ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified, and have been since 1997. PyroGenesis is a publicly-traded Canadian Corporation on the TSX Venture Exchange (Ticker Symbol: PYR) and on the OTCQB Marketplace. For more information, please visit www.pyrogenesis.com.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements containing the words “may”, “plan”, “will”, “estimate”, “continue”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “expect”, “in the process” and other similar expressions which constitute “forward- looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements reflect the Corporation’s current expectation and assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, our expectations regarding the acceptance of our products by the market, our strategy to develop new products and enhance the capabilities of existing products, our strategy with respect to research and development, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, and uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process. Such statements reflect the current views of the Corporation with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and other risks detailed from time-to-time in the Corporation’s ongoing filings with the securities regulatory authorities, which filings can be found at www.sedar.com, or at www.otcmarkets.com. Actual results, events, and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Corporation undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statements either as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) nor the OTCQB accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.

SOURCE PyroGenesis Canada Inc.

For further information please contact:
Rodayna Kafal, Vice President Investors Relations and Strategic Business Development, or
Clémence Bertrand-Bourlaud, Marketing Manager/Investor Relations,
Phone: (514) 937-0002, E-mail: [email protected]

RELATED LINK: http://www.pyrogenesis.com/

Source: GlobeNewswire (November 4, 2019 – 8:35 AM EST)

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