Category: Team Pump
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![Choom Holdings (CHOO.C) snared in forgery scandal as location appeal reportedly contained fake support letters]()
Choom Holdings (CHOO.C) snared in forgery scandal as location appeal reportedly contained fake support letters
National cannabis retail chain Choom Holdings (CHOO.C) was embarrassed Monday after details of its 27-page appeal to the Vancouver Board of Variance asking that body to overturn a rejected dispensary location were revealed to be forgeries by the Vancouver Sun newspaper. When Postmedia News contacted the businesses whose names and logos appear on letters supporting…
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Hertz Donut: The robbery attempt going down at Hertz (HTZ.NYSE) has been approved by a judge
The Greater Fool Theory is the single greatest driving force of the markets right now. Balance sheets can eat a dick. Growth potential is irrelevant. Past performance and profits don’t even rate. All that matters is, “Yes, I’m trading like a moron, but there are ten other morons who’ll buy my mistakes for more money…
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Media Central (FLYY.C) announces end of journalism for alternative weeklies Georgia Straight and NOW
When a company shows up out of nowhere and announces they’re buying a newspaper, but that nothing will change if not for the better, that they have money and resources to compliment what’s already there, and that journalism will always be at the core of what they do, don’t buy it. It’s always a lie.…
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![Speakeasy (EASY.C) completes $2m loan with interest rate just 5% shy of what’s considered loan sharking]()
Speakeasy (EASY.C) completes $2m loan with interest rate just 5% shy of what’s considered loan sharking
I break laws sometimes. I speed on the highway. I possess more than the 30 gram legal limit of weed products. I sneak food into the cinema, or used to when the cinema was a thing we did in polite society. I’ve been drunk and disorderly, broken noise bylaws on a Saturday night, and I…
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![Ravenquest (RQB.V) CEO George Robinson resigns, company alleges he’s holding records hostage]()
Ravenquest (RQB.V) CEO George Robinson resigns, company alleges he’s holding records hostage
For a company that once upon a time figured a great business model in the cannabis sector would be to tattle on other license holders in an effort to be installed as replacement licensees, Ravenquest (RQB.V) sure was terrible at handling it’s own business when it got right down to it. The company lost access…
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Canopy Growth Corp (WEED.T) to detonate another $800m in assets in bid to find balance sheet harmony
There’s no doubt a lot of people invest in a sector by just plopping their dough behind whichever company is the biggest, or the one they’ve heard of most, without actually looking at the fundamentals of that company. This is as much a cemented belief for me as the belief that songs that get played…
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![European office supplies manufacturer takes Wayland Group (WAYL.C) weed grow for $12.3m]()
European office supplies manufacturer takes Wayland Group (WAYL.C) weed grow for $12.3m
The Wayland Group (WAYL.C) announced Thursday Austria-based Ring Holding International AG will purchase their Maricann assets, which essentially make up their entire business, for the bargain price of $12.3 million as part of ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. The purchaser of the Maricann assets is a family office with a core focus on the manufacturing of lever…
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The market is up, but it’s all theatre: Don’t let The Fed’s buying suck you in
Trust me, there’s nothing I’d like more, as the publisher of a financial markets-focused media outlet, than to tell you all it’s time to buy back in on these ailing markets. I’ve got clients who’d reward me well if I were to convince you that it’d be a good idea to buy their stock in…
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Invictus MD Strategies (GENE.V) kicked off Venture Exchange after screwing up everything for three years straight
Invictus MD Strategies (GENE.V) announced tonight that, in accordance with its efforts to work through creditor protection proceedings, it has been kicked off the Venture Exchange. On the upside, if Invictus’ history of going back on news releases is anything to go by, we’ll receive another release inside ten days that the bankruptcy proceedings have…
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Wayland Group (WAYL.C) selling once hyped foreign assets for pennies on the dollar
As part of an ongoing process to deal with its bankruptcy, Wayland Group (WAYL.C) is dispensing with several foreign assets that were once touted as being amazing international opportunities, and it’s doing so at prices you can afford. The courts have granted approval for WAYL to get rid of its Colombian subsidiary, Colmed Pharmaceuticals, which was…
