Rainbow Distribution In the News
- Mohawk tobacco firm battling provinces goes ‘all in’
The company is in the midst of a potentially precedent setting legal battle with three Western provinces and the outcome could not only have a major impact on inter-provincial trade between First Nations reserves, but change the face of the tobacco industry in Canada.
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Alberta charges chief, president of Kahnawake tobacco company
Alberta authorities have charged the embattled chief of an Alberta First Nation and the president of a Kahnawake-based tobacco company in connection with the seizure of 16 million cigarettes on the Montana First Nation reserve earlier this year.
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Tobacco files suit against AGLC
After facing legal troubles in three western provinces Kahnawake’s Rainbow Distribution is now going on the offensive. Last week, Rainbow Distribution filed a lawsuit against the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission for $3.999 million, Rainbow Distribution CEO Robbie Dickson said.
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Hot Docs: How the Mohawk tobacco industry caught fire
Where there’s smoke there’s ire, at least when it comes to critics of the tobacco industry on native reserves, evidenced in Ojibway filmmaker Jeff Dorn’s Smoke Traders.
- First Nations defy province
Dakota First Nations are heading for a showdown with the Manitoba government by selling cigarettes at half price and opening an unlicensed gaming centre, starting today.
- Sacred right
Visit the Mohawk community of Kahnawake and the number of smoke shops within the community is staggering. Along the major routes cutting through the reserve, smoke shops line the roadsides. Every second property seems to have a small shed on it selling cigarettes. It seems like everyone is involved in the cigarette trade. And according to a new documentary, Smoke Traders, it’s not far from the truth.
- Mohawk cigarette maker urges Sask. bands to pass own tobacco laws
An executive with an aboriginal tobacco company at the centre of recent seizures of millions of untaxed cigarette in Western Canada urged First Nations in Saskatchewan on Thursday to create their own laws to sell tobacco without provincial interference.
- Native manufacturers should collect
taxes and be held accountable for health costs
Big Tobacco is a big bully. At least, that’s how tobacco manufacturers and retailers on First Nations reserves are feeling as Imperial Tobacco Canada (ITC) Ltd., Rothmans Inc. and Philip Morris USA launched a lawsuit against them.
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Tobacco threatens legal action
The Rainbow Distribution Company is threatening legal action to regain the 15 million cigarettes seized last week by the RCMP and the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) on the Montana First Nation, southeast of Edmonton, Alberta.
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