Category: Friday Forensic
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Abattis Bioceuticals (ATT.C): A grift building over several years until regulators couldn’t ignore it anymore
Several years ago, when Equity.Guru boss Chris Parry was writing at Stockhouse, he was called out to a new client – a company called Abattis Bioceutical (ATT.C). Abattis execs had just signed a marketing deal with Stockhouse to help tell their story to investors, and were excited for what might follow. As Parry tells it,…
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Wayland Group (WAYL.C) crumbles, to RTO with illiquid crypto company, CEO Ben Ward dumped
Canadian licensed cannabis producer The Wayland Group (WAYL.C), formerly Maricann, currently halted for not being able to get their financials through three different audit teams, has succumbed. Long halted at $0.74 in Canada, though still trading on the US OTC at C$0.26, Wayland announced late Friday night, when most people were either asleep or into…
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GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) subsidiary gets a sales license, makes product available nationwide
It’s like clockwork, every damn Friday afternoon. I think I’m getting out early to enjoy the weekend, anticipating the chance to get shittered on negronis, only for Health Canada to drop one of their usual Friday afternoon updates on their list of cannabis licenses. And, as per usual, it’s GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) that’s getting another…
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GONE: CannTrust (TRST.V) execs bounced by board after 3 Stooges-like revelations of stupidity
We may never know whether it was the brazen hubris of doing a promotional video in front of an unlicensed grow room filled with illegal plants, or if it was the email trail the Globe and Mail discovered yesterday that showed top brass at CannTrust (TRST.V) were not only aware the company was growing illegal…
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Berz-Erka: Livewell unhalts after 8 months as Eureka 93 (ERKA.C), rolls back 15:1, loses 90% of its value
We talked to the folks behind Livewell a lot, back in the day. Seemed a good deal, certainly a team that talked a good game. Even bought a little personally. But there was always a coda attached. The projections and plans were big. Maybe too big. Here’s me, the first time I covered them. Little…
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Anatomy of a shit-show: Saint Jean Carbon (SJL.V) wants to be a fidget spinner
Over the last few years, we’ve shivved a lot of terrible companies trying to pull a fast one on investors and, almost always, when we do, we face a few weeks of abuse from that company’s faithful. When we said Imagination Park (IP.C) was a bullshit fantasy playing on most people’s ignorance of the virtual…
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Relevium (RLV.V) hit by OTC promo request, reveals worst disclosure ever
We’re in the business of marketing companies to people who like to invest in stocks with a high risk/high reward mindset. Sometimes folks call us ‘pump and dumpers’, usually if they haven’t read our work, but we ultimately only write what we believe to be true and we have a track record of writing negative…
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Fundamental hype: As US MSO’s struggle, is National Access Cannabis (META.V) building the Canadian alternative?
About eighteen months ago, National Access Cannabis (META.V) emerged as part II of the Chuck Rifici master plan of Canadian weed v2.0 domination. His v1.0 domination plan was a company called Tweed, which later became Canopy Growth Corp (WEED.T). At a current $19.5 billion market cap, I guess you’d call that one a win, but…
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Namaste Technologies (N.V) finally posts financials, and they’re rife with bad scenes
If there’s anything good in the financial statements just posted by Namaste Technologies (N.V) – last thing on a Friday afternoon, naturally – it’s that they have a lot of cash, and we finally know just how badly the company was being run last year, before CEO Sean Dollinger was turfed out. The highlights aren’t…
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Aphria (APHA.T) ‘Special Committee’ confirms short seller conflict of interest allegations
Several months ago, Aphria (APHA.T) lost a good chunk of its worth when short sellers accused the company executive and board of (in a nutshell) feathering their own nests by agreeing to acquire properties from themselves, for much inflated prices. Today, after a ridiculously long wait which involved the CEO stepping sideways from his position…
