Author: Chris Parry

Traditionally, mid-to-large sized public companies stick to their knittting. A biotech company stays in biotech, a weed company stays in weed, a gold company shies away from oil and gas.…

In my opinion, journalism – actual journalism – isn’t just about reporting what you see that’s wrong in the world, but working to get the things that are wrong.. righted.…

Years ago, after the graphite spike and before the lithium boom, the cobalt jump, and the vanadium moment, rare earths had a hot second in the sun. It wasn’t a…

When I watch a mining-based TV show like those regularly seen on the Discovery Channel, and some mucky-booted, sun-beaten wanderer busts out their trusty gold pan or their metal detector…

Liquor e-commerce platform LQR House (LQR.Q) made a bold but carefully worded announcement in January of this year that seemed like one of the greatest deals ever. A $1 per…

Allow me to back into the lede a bit here. THE STORY OF ROCKERFELLER VS THE WORMS In the early part of the 20th century, the American South was known…

What a time to be alive; there was a period in our civilized history where getting alcohol on a Sunday was a tough racket, now we’re exploring the safe supply…

Our friends at Beyond Lithium (BY.C) went on an absolute spree over the last year, accruing more lithium projects in Ontario than any other explorer. We asked repeatedly what they…

“Respect the work.” This is a phrase every resource investor should have posted above their trading monitor, every day, for the rest of their lives. It’s the one thing that…

Little old Ashley Gold Corp. (ASHL.C), a budding resource company with a growing reputation for doing a lot with a little, recently took a significant step in expanding its portfolio…

Mining is an industry often characterized by its robust challenges and immense rewards. Leading the charge in this dynamic sector is Nine Mile Metals (NINE.C), under the visionary leadership of…

Several years back, Hugh Rogers was in my office talking about his cannabis company. Way back then, the plan was to grow in Germany and be first on the continent,…

There’s no better due diligence in the psychoactive drug space than Health Canada. Loads of pharma companies have investor decks that promise they’ll one day be in the psychedelics business,…

In Canada, if you look backwards over the timeline, you’ll often find public companies have been other things back in the day. Risen, fallen, tapped out, rolled back, reemerged as…

If you’ve been around here for a while, like going back three years or so ago, you may recall a former client company in Perimeter Medical Imaging (PINK.V). I really…

I was feeling every ounce of my chest cold, the thing everyone apparently has, the one that’s going around, the one that’s not covid but who could tell. I was…

Lophos Holdings (MESC.C) is a Canadian public company – the only public company – specifically focused on the quickly liberalizing psychedelics sub-sector of Peyote and Mescaline. You may be sitting…

Over the last few days, holders of Benton Resources (BEX.V) stock have been eating steak and getting measured for yacht wear. Bastards. If you want to know why, it’s because…

If you factor in all the rollbacks and the sell-offs and the flat years and the crashes, the downturns and boardroom battles and pivots and losses, Tisdale Clean Energy Corp…

Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C), a company that specializes in creating treatments and tests for diseases that don’t have many existing options available, has made a deal with a health research group…

Just days after Tempus Resources (TMRR.V, though not for much longer) dropped a middling resource update and ‘big news’ that they were extending the option on a lithium property, CEO…

Our sales guy was having a rough day. Markets down, and for quite some time. Lots of companies on their third month of saying, “maybe in a couple of weeks.”…

We often consult with public company leadership teams about their strategy in talking to the market, and most CEOs we meet come in one of two extreme flavours. The first…

About a week ago, we noted a company we’ve been watching for a while, Nicorp Developments (NB.T) had gone on a run. The run hadn’t coincided with any real news.…

Conventional wisdom in the junior mining world is, if your stock price isn’t ramping up, and the market isn’t giving love to anyone, the one thing to do in a…

A few weeks back, in what has become a seminal Equity.Guru piece about the quickly legalizing safe supply drug space, I tore into PharmaDrug (PHRX.C), which was lurching into strategic…

Back at the dawn of Covid-19, a load of public companies started pumping out news releases that claimed they were going to be entering the medical space. In the best…

I remember the day Karim Rayani called me up and said, “I’ve got a plan for Marvel Resources (MARV.V) and I said, “Cool, okay, I guess,” and he got a…

UPDATE: Niocorp has ripped a further $1+ since this article was posted, now sitting at $7 and showing the first signs of profit taking. We talked up Niocorp Developments (NB.T)…

A year ago, when I first talked to the team behind Beacn Wizardry and Magic (BECN.V), nobody paid any attention. Like, literally, nobody. I loved the idea of a local…