Category: Articles
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THCK’s West Coast Connection trashes the War on Drugs
By: Matthew Marcone THCK’s West Coast Connection and Product Specialist Dannieul Macaro took aim at the War on Drugs during an interview with Liberty Multimedia on Saturday, November 18, 2017. The War on Drugs is a term loosely used to describe the criminalization of various recreational and medicinal substances including marijuana, psychedelics, heroin, cocaine and…
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ONE Championship and the Many Permutations of Pursuing Immortality
At ONE: Immortal Pursuit, several warriors will fervently pursue their own version of immortality. For Shinya Aoki, that comes in the form of adding the first loss to the pro MMA record of Ben Askren. Shinya is motivated to win another ONE championship title and also to redeem himself on the heels of losing the…
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Marcone’s Mind: Free Trade trumps protectionism
“It’s an interesting thing, in times of war, we blockade our enemies from getting goods from us. In times of peace, we do to ourselves by tariffs what we do to our enemy in times of war.” By: Matthew Marcone The Trump Administration’s decision to slap a 20 per cent tariff on Canadian Lumber has…
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James and the North Shore: A bio on one of Canada’s up and coming bands
By: Matthew Marcone James and the North Shore is a Canadian band performing in the Okanogan, Shushwap, British Columbia area and they have recently returned from their first cross country tour Their style is a combination of Alt/folk, alt/country and alt/pop. basically twangy make out songs for sad people,” said lead songwriter, rhythm guitarist and…
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Entrepreneur sees THCK as $1 billion business
By: Matthew Marcone When Principal Consultant with BizFix Solutions Eric Duffus decided to become a partner in THCK, nobody would accuse him of thinking small. “We’re not a bunch of jokers growing weed in someone’s basement,” said Duffus. “It’s a legi timate operation and we’re trying to make a $1 billion company with this. We…
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THCK President Justin Thomson outlines company vision
By: Matthew Marcone President of THCK Justin Thomson was meant to be in the weed business. “I’ve been into it basically my entire life,” said Thomson. “My dad’s always been an advocate for it and has been smoking for 40 years now. It was something that my brother, sister and I all picked up on,…
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Minister Phillips speaks with Liberty Multimedia on caribou plan during northern visit
By: Matthew Marcone and Jordan Maskell Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips met with Liberty Multimedia during her recent visit to northern Alberta, where she addressed the province’s incoming caribou range management draft plan. The plan has been a major topic of discussion in northwest Alberta, in particular fears surrounding its potential to eliminate…
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Marcone’s Mind – Perspective AI: Internet Comment Police
By: Matthew Marcone Google has decided to use artificial intelligence (AI) to take on a new role – as Internet comment police. I’m constantly warning about the movement towards censorship and its implications on western values, namely that without the right to openly debate, criticize and even offend others pointlessly, people end up killing one…
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The Cohesiveness of Captured Chaos: Ohmslice’s Conduit Record
Improvisation is a game of chance but it’s a game Bradford Reed is all too willing to play. His latest record under the pseudonym Ohmslice came out of a lot of improvisational playing. Conduit is an album that was born in the moment. Bradford described the musicians involved as passive pathways for the magic to…