QUEBEC LAUNCHES HIRING FOR CANNABIS STORES

Quebec’s government-run cannabis monopoly has launched a hiring drive with jobs starting at $14 per hour, but it cannot yet confirm Montreal will be among the cities getting the first wave of pot stores. Candidates without criminal records can apply on the website of the corporation, an independently run subsidiary of the Quebec Liquor Corp. Quebec is looking to open about 20 stores by mid-October. The corporation has signed leases for stores in Lévis, Trois-Rivières, Drummondville and Quebec City. Pot stores must be a certain distance from schools and daycares, and with Montreal’s dense neighbourhoods, finding the right location has proven difficult, spokesman Mathieu Gaudreault said Friday. “Right now we can’t confirm Montreal will be in the first wave,” he said.