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Cannvas MedTech

Cannvas MedTech was a Toronto digital cannabis education and analytics company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Its free platform Cannvas.Me offered physician-backed courses and interactive tools rather than selling cannabis. It changed its name to EuroLife Brands in August 2019 and the shell later became Plant & Co. Brands and then Happy Belly Food Group.

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What they build

Cannvas.Me — a free cannabis education platform with physician-backed courses and interactive tools

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About

Shawn Moniz told a special HealthTO edition in May 2018 that his route into cannabis was personal: his father, then 74, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and worked through cortisone shots and pharmaceutical treatments before the family started researching alternatives — and reacted to the suggestion of cannabis with the question of whether his son was trying to get him arrested. Moniz said the family's research stalled because the information was scattered, uncurated and not in a form anyone could work through step by step: hemp versus cannabis, THC versus CBD, which method of ingestion, what interacts with existing conditions. That gap became Cannvas.Me, a free education platform with physician-backed content, launched in October 2018. The company said it deliberately avoided funding from licensed producers to keep the content unbiased, listing publicly instead. It reported around nineteen staff across Vancouver and Toronto in 2019. In August 2019 it changed its name to EuroLife Brands Inc.

Backers

Publicly listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange and funded through private placements. The company said it deliberately did not take money from licensed cannabis producers so its education content would stay unbiased.

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

Quick answers

What did Cannvas MedTech do?

It ran Cannvas.Me, a free digital platform of cannabis education courses and interactive tools with physician-backed content, and analysed the resulting data. It did not grow or sell cannabis.

Why did Shawn Moniz start it?

He told the HealthTO stage that his father's rheumatoid arthritis led the family to research alternatives to pharmaceutical pain treatment, and that the information they needed turned out to be scattered and not curated into anything a patient could follow.

What happened to Cannvas MedTech?

It changed its name to EuroLife Brands Inc in August 2019. The listed entity later became Plant & Co. Brands Ltd in December 2020 and Happy Belly Food Group Inc in September 2022 — a different business from the one described here.

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