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Other Income (Expense) | 18. Other Income (Expense) The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) provides an employee retention credit (“CARES Employee Retention Credit”), which is a refundable tax credit against certain employment taxes of up to $5,000 per employee for eligible employers. The CARES Employee Retention Credit was initially equal to 50% of qualified wages paid to employees during a quarter, capped at $10,000 of qualified wages per employee through December 31, 2020. Additional relief provisions were later passed by the United States government, which extended and slightly expanded the qualified wage caps on these credits through December 31, 2021. Based on these additional provisions, the CARES Employee Retention Credit is now equal to 70% of qualified wages paid to employees during a quarter, and the limit on qualified wages per employee has been increased to $10,000 of qualified wages per quarter. The Company applied for and received a CARES Employee Retention Credit equal to $0 and $972,888, respectively, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and $0 for each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2024. These amounts were recorded in other income on the unaudited condensed consolidated statement of loss and comprehensive loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024. On May 25, 2023, the Company and Grown Rogue International, Inc. (“Grown Rogue”) entered into a strategic agreement whereby Grown Rogue will support the Company in the optimization of its cannabis flower products. As part of this strategic agreement Grown Rogue granted the Company 8,500,000 warrants to purchase subordinate voting shares of Grown Rogue on October 5, 2023. Subsequently, on October 9, 2024, the Company and Grown Rogue mutually agreed to terminate the strategic agreement. As part of the termination agreement, the Company forfeited 4,500,000 of the previously granted 8,500,000 warrants. The Company’s remaining 4,000,000 warrants were revalued at a fair value of $1,272,440 and $2,270,964 at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. The fair value was derived from a Black-Scholes valuation using a stock price of $0.40, an exercise price of $0.165, an expected life of 3.27 years, an annual risk free rate of 3.79%, and volatility of 100%. The three and six-months ended June 30, 2025 saw a change in fair value of $479,465 and $998,524, respectively, which was recorded as other expense in the statement of net loss and comprehensive loss for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2025.
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