The small town of Smiths Falls, Ontario, has felt the pain of an increasingly globalized economy. Ten years ago, the Hershey's Chocolate factory there shut down, wiping out hundreds of jobs.

"I think the mood in Smiths Falls is up, that we're over that tough sled we went through for a few years, and I think everybody's confident that we're going to move ahead." CBC Radio's Ontario Morning ...

Now known as Canopy Growth Corp., it is the world's largest publicly-traded cannabis producer and Smith Falls' largest private-sector employer. National Post reports the Hershey plant closed as a ...

Canopy Growth’s Tweed facility in Smiths Falls, Ont., on Feb 13. The cannabis company has laid off workers and will eventually go down to a work force of around 350 employees.

Feb 18, 2014 — When Hershey's had a plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario, you could smell chocolate from miles away. But not a single chocolate bar has rolled off the line since the plant closed in ...

If there's one community in Ontario that's feeling especially buzzed by the federal Liberals' new marijuana legislation, it's Smiths Falls. The town southwest of Ottawa is home to Tweed Inc., one ...