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Why is there still so much illegal cannabis in a country where cannabis is legal? Trina Fraser is a partner at Brazeau Seller Law in Ottawa, where she specializes in cannabis law. She weighs in on how the illicit market is still operating, and what the legal market needs to do to better protect consumers and their families.
Thousands are expected to flock to the solar eclipse path in Eastern Ontario. the total solar eclipse will cross North America following the St. Lawrence seaway from Belleville to Cornwall before it veers east to the Maritimes. astrophysicist from Queen's University, Nick Arora, gave us the run down to the whole event.Nestled away along the shores of Lake Simcoe's Kempenfelt Bay sits a massive Victorian mansion known as The Woodlands estate. It was the home of one of the few survivors of the ill-fated Titanic Lt. Col. Arthur Peuchen. Mary Harris, Director of History and Research for the Barrie Historical Archive knows the stories well of this particular home.A panel of cannabis industry experts were called in by the government to analyze the potential harms of the plant. 2 years later, they've released several recommendations for the Cannabis Act. Trina Fraser ,Partner at Brazeau Seller Law, and specializes in Cannabis law, helped us piece this all together.
This past October, The Business of Cannabis partnered with Canada 2020, on a policy conference called Canadian Grown. On this episode, Brett Chang and Alex Patterson (Executive Director, Canada 2020) spoke with Trina Fraser, a leading regulatory attorney in the cannabis sector. Fraser is a partner at Brazeau Seller Law based in Ottawa, ON.
Trina Fraser is a co-managing partner at Brazeau Seller Law. Since 2014, her practice has been focused on Cannabis Law. She helps her clients negotiate contracts, develop business strategies, execute transactions and ensure they are complying with regulations. IN THIS INTERVIEW How It All Began Trina completed her business undergrad program at Queens University with an intention of moving forward into finance, accounting, or marketing. In her 3rd year, she took a business law course and felt pulled to pursue studying law further. The first 15 years of her law career, she practiced Corporate Business Law before moving her focus to Cannabis Law. Overcoming Adversity to Stick to the Vision & Mission Working with the ever-changing regulations as the governing organization develops them has been exciting and a challenge. As well overcoming the stigma that is attached to the Cannabis industry regarding the medicinal purposes and recreational use. Operational Wisdom When you are approaching a crossroads and need to make a decision, trust your gut. It is easy to become overwhelmed in the pros and cons and weighing every option, but when you trust in you, you discover that you know what path to take. Connect with Trina at: brazeauseller.com For more Speaking of Business Podcasts visit speakingofbusinessshow.com.
Demi McGoldrick is the Associate Lawyer for wills and estate planning at Brazeau Seller Law. Demi obtained her education in the UK, where she gained experience working for personal injury and corporate law firms. She moved to Ontario in 2018, when she acquired the Bar Admission from The Law Society of Upper Canada. In addition to helping clients with estate planning, Demi is passionate about travel, sailing, and scuba diving. Demi joins me today to share the role of your executor and how it has become far more complicated in recent years. She highlights how to search for, read, and understand the contents of a will and the responsibilities that are part of the executor's role. Demi reveals the best way to talk to beneficiaries and set realistic expectations, in particular to the timeline of settling the will and distributing assets. She also shares a story to portray why it is vital for an executor to safeguard assets, such as a home. “You have to have the original will in order to submit it for probate.”- Demi McGoldrick Today on I’m A Millionaire...So, Now What?: The complications and burdens associated with being an executor. How to locate and search for all wills and why it shouldn’t be kept in a safety deposit box. Reading and understanding all aspects of a will. Communicating timelines with beneficiaries, managing expectations, and holding assets. Executor liability and safeguarding assets. Practical steps for safeguarding a home. A recap of essential steps to take as an executor. Filing and paying taxes on behalf of a deceased person. Resources Mentioned: Email Colleen at colleen.campbell@rbc.com to request a free Executor Duties list Connect with Demi McGoldrick: Brazeau Seller Law Demi McGoldrick on LinkedIn Protect Yourself. Protect Your Family. Protect Your Assets Protecting yourself, your family, and your assets are all essential elements of your roadmap to real riches as well as building and strategizing your financial plans. If you’re ready to build your roadmap to riches and learn how to protect yourself, your family, and your assets join us this spring for our Estate Planning Sessions with RBC Wealth Management. Topic: Your Power of Attorney: Quite Possibly the Most Important Person You Will Ever Hire Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Your Executor: What You Need to Know Before You Hire Yours Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Essential Family Conversations: Protecting Yourself and Your Wishes Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Location details will be provided when you RSVP to the event(s). To RSVP, email Colleen at colleen.campbell@rbc.com Get Ready for Fun Networking & Fundraising! Kick off your high-heels ladies, lace up your golf shoes, and get ready for an exciting, fun way to network with your business peers while raising money for a worthy cause. Join me, Colleen O’Connell-Campbell and Shelley True on September 5, 2019, for the all women’s golf tournament, FORE-Play for Charity - the annual event supporting The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health. The FORE-Play for Charity event features fun ways to network with other Ottawa-based business leaders such as Open Mic, Cocktail Hour, the Red Carpet event, and a unique Makeup and Beauty Bar as well as a Gala Dinner. So if you’re ready to lace up your golf shoes and tee off to support The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health, visit www.truedotdesign.com/foreplay to register today - or, become a sponsor to show the community you’re serious about mental health. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and follow FORE-Play for Charity on Facebook so you never miss an update on this important event. Registration opens on April 1, 2019 Subscribe to the I’m A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast! Thanks for joining us for this episode of I'm A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast - the show bringing you inspirational stories, practical strategies, and fun, frank advice for self-made millionaires and wealthy families. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave a positive review. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with other wealthy families and self-made millionaires on social media!
GUEST: Trina Fraser, Cannabis Lawyer and Partner at Brazeau Seller Law
Demi McGoldrick is the Associate Lawyer for the trust and estate planning company, Brazeau Seller Law. Demi’s expertise is helping families plan for passing on their estate, which includes drafting a will and setting up powers of attorney. Demi has worked for notable firms such as Scotiabank. Her educational merits include a Diploma in Legal Practice in Law from the University of Edinburgh, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Law from the University of Washington. Demi joins me again today to share her advice for your digital assets regarding estate planning. She highlights why you need to recognize and address your online digital presence which may include your PayPal, Amazon, social media accounts, email addresses, and cryptocurrency accounts. She also explains the different ways you can document and protect your digital assets in your will and with your executor. “It's important to think about digital assets not just as an asset, but as a potential liability if it's not safeguarded.” - Demi McGoldrick Today on I’m A Millionaire...So, Now What?: What are digital assets? The problems and emotional distress that can occur from having no provisions for digital assets. The first steps of documenting and provisioning digital assets for an executor. How to catalog your digital assets. Why it is vital to protect against identity theft. How to provision your digital assets in your will. Three Key Steps to Provisioning Your Digital Assets: Acknowledge your digital assets have value. Take time to catalog all of your digital assets. Decide who will have authority over your digital assets. Connect with Demi McGoldrick: Brazeau Seller Law Demi McGoldrick on LinkedIn Protect Yourself. Protect Your Family. Protect Your Assets Protecting yourself, your family, and your assets are all essential elements of your roadmap to real riches as well as building and strategizing your financial plans. If you’re ready to build your roadmap to riches and learn how to protect yourself, your family, and your assets, join us this spring for our Estate Planning Sessions with RBC Wealth Management. Topic: Your Power of Attorney: Quite Possibly the Most Important Person You Will Ever Hire Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Your Executor: What You Need to Know Before You Hire Yours Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Essential Family Conversations: Protecting Yourself and Your Wishes Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Location details will be provided when you RSVP to the event(s). To RSVP, email Colleen at colleen.campbell@rbc.com Get Ready for Fun Networking & Fundraising! Kick off your high-heels ladies, lace up your golf shoes, and get ready for an exciting, fun way to network with your business peers while raising money for a worthy cause. Join me, Colleen O’Connell-Campbell and Shelley True on September 5, 2019 for the all-women’s golf tournament, FORE-Play for Charity - the annual event supporting The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health. The FORE-Play for Charity event features fun ways to network with other Ottawa-based business leaders such as Open Mic, Cocktail Hour, the Red Carpet event, and a unique Makeup and Beauty Bar as well as a Gala Dinner. So if you’re ready to lace up your golf shoes and tee off to support The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health, visit www.truedotdesign.com/foreplay to register today - or, become a sponsor to show the community you’re serious about mental health. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and follow FORE-Play for Charity on Facebook so you never miss an update on this important event. Registration opens on April 1, 2019 Subscribe to the I’m A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast! Thanks for joining us for this episode of I'm A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast - the show bringing you inspirational stories, practical strategies, and fun, frank advice for self-made millionaires and wealthy families. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave a positive review. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with other wealthy families and self-made millionaires on social media!
Demi McGoldrick is an Associate Lawyer for Brazeau Seller Law, a firm that specializes in estate and trust planning. She helps create estate planning solutions for clients and their families, drafts wills and powers of attorney and assists executors with estate administration. Demi obtained a Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of Edinburgh Law School as well as the Bar Admission from The Law Society of Upper Canada, following her move to Ontario. Demi joins me today to share how important it is for millennials to prepare estate planning documents. She explains what traditional estate planning means and how it differs for millennials. She explains what happens if you die without a will and how the law considers common-law spouses, which are more commonplace for the millennial generation. She also touches on how estate planning differs when there is more debt than assets. “Having a will gives certainty and the ability for you to appoint who will manage your estate.” - Demi McGoldrick Today on I’m A Millionaire...So, Now What?: How Demi helps families with estate planning. How the estate planning perspective is different for millennials. What is a traditional estate plan? Why millennials and anyone over 18 should create a will. What happens when someone dies without a will. The legal complications that can arise from dying intestate. How the law sees common-law spouses when someone dies intestate. What happens when there is more debt than assets. Demi McGoldrick’s Fun Frank Advice for Self-Made Millionaires & Wealthy Families: A good will is worth its weight in gold. Connect with Demi McGoldrick: Brazeau Seller Law Demi McGoldrick on LinkedIn Protect Yourself. Protect Your Family. Protect Your Assets Protecting yourself, your family, and your assets are all essential elements of your roadmap to real riches as well as building and strategizing your financial plans. If you’re ready to build your roadmap to riches and learn how to protect yourself, your family, and your assets, join us this spring for our Estate Planning Sessions with RBC Wealth Management. Topic: Your Power of Attorney: Quite Possibly the Most Important Person You Will Ever Hire Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Your Executor: What You Need to Know Before You Hire Yours Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Topic: Essential Family Conversations: Protecting Yourself and Your Wishes Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Time: 2pm - 4pm Location details will be provided when you RSVP to the event(s). To RSVP, email Colleen at colleen.campbell@rbc.com Subscribe to the I’m A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast! Thanks for joining us for this episode of I'm A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast - the show bringing you inspirational stories, practical strategies, and fun, frank advice for self-made millionaires and wealthy families. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave a positive review. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with other wealthy families and self-made millionaires on social media!
Alan Carter Interviews Trina Fraser, a partner at the Brazeau Seller Law, on illegal pot and the response to the black market for cannabis.
Cannabis. Pot. Marijuana. Whatever you call it, Canada called it legal on October 17, 2018. More and more, the topic is going to come up; at your place of work, your place of worship, your hangouts and most importantly, your home. Toronto Star has assembled dedicated journalists and outside experts to help walk you and yours through this major cultural shift in our day to day lives. In conjunction with the Toronto Star/TPL series, Star Talks, join Star Editor Irene Gentle and a panel of experts as they start the cannabis conversation and how it will impact your family, your health and your community. This event was recorded on October Monday, September 17 in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon, a part of our ongoing series, On Civil Society. Panelists: Irene Gentle: Editor, Toronto Star Trina Fraser: co-managing partner at Ottawa business law firm Brazeau Seller Law, and head of the firm’s CannaLaw group. Her area of expertise is cannabis law. In addition to acting for licensed producers and (soon-to-be) licensed retailers of cannabis in Canada, Trina advises cannabis industry participants such as clinics, software/application providers, service providers and investors. Dr. Melissa Snider-Adler: chief medical review officer for DriverCheck and a Board-certified addiction medicine physician. She teaches residents at Queen’s University’s Family Medicine department about addiction medicine and also provides expert opinions and assessments of health-care workers who may be struggling with substance use. With the upcoming legalization of cannabis, Melissa has been speaking at conferences and to companies across Canada about the impact of legalization on the workplace. Mitchell Osak: managing director of Business Consulting at Grant Thornton, one of Canada’s largest advisory and accounting firms. He has extensive experience consulting to the cannabis industry including licensed producers, investors and governments. Mitchell is also a cannabis thought leader, speaking and writing extensively on global cannabis industry trends, regulatory issues and consumer behaviour. Click here for a transcript of this episode.
Trina Fraser is a partner with Brazeau Seller Law, specializing in Business Transfer and Acquisitions, Cannabis Law, Corporate and Commercial Low, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Technology Law. She sat down with us to talk about her journey in cannabis law as we approach legalization in October, 2018.
Trina Fraser is a partner with Brazeau Seller Law, specializing in Business Transfer and Acquisitions, Cannabis Law, Corporate and Commercial Low, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Technology Law. She sat down with us to talk about her journey in cannabis law as we approach legalization in October, 2018.