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DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES

 

13. DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES

 

13.1 Western Alliance Credit Interest Rate Swap

 

On March 27, 2025, the Company entered and closed a $7,000,000 credit facility with Bridge Bank, a division of Western Alliance Bank (“WAB”), which is a national, FDIC-insured commercial bank. The Company incurred financing costs of $263,374 in connection with closing the loan. The Company intends to use the loan proceeds to support existing growth initiatives, provide additional working capital, and refinancing a small amount of existing debt. The credit facility has a term of four years and bears interest at a rate equal to the greater of a) the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 4.9% and b) 9.0% per annum. Based on the current SOFR rate of 4.3%, this implies a current interest rate of 9.2% per annum. The facility amortizes over a six-year period and there are no prepayment penalties. Interest will be paid on a monthly basis. On September 9, 2025, the Company amended the credit facility limit to a maximum of $12,000,000 and a further $5,000,000 was drawn.

 

On May 14, 2025, the Company executed an interest rate swap transaction with WAB for Tranche 1. The Company will bear interest of 8.07% per annum whereas WAB bears 4.32520% plus 400 bps interest per annum. The interest rate swap gives rise to a derivative liability, which was initially recorded at $92,124.

 

On September 15, 2025, the Company executed an interest rate swap transaction with WAB for Tranche 2. The Company will bear interest of 7.53% per annum whereas WAB bears 4.1739% plus 400 bps interest per annum. The interest rate swap gives rise to a derivative liability, which was initially recorded at $24,644.

 

The derivative liability was remeasured at March 31, 2026, and was estimated to be $70,664 for both tranches.

 

13.1 Western Alliance Credit Interest Rate Swap (continued)

 

The following is a summary of movements in the interest rate swap during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and year ended December 31, 2025:

 

       
Interest rate swap   $  
Balance, December 31, 2024     -  
Initial recognition     116,768  
Unrealized loss     20,273  
Balance, December 31, 2025     137,041  
Unrealized gain     (66,377 )
Balance, March 31, 2026     70,664  

 

13.2 Warrant liabilities

 

On January 1, 2026, as a result of the change in functional currency from CAD to USD (Note 2.1), certain warrants previously classified in equity no longer met the criteria for equity classification as the warrants possess exercise prices in CAD and no longer represent an instrument for providing the Company with fixed proceeds in exchange for a fixed number of its shares due to foreign exchange. As such, the warrants are accounted for as derivative liabilities measured at fair value. The previously recorded equity balances associated with these warrants were derecognized at their fair value measured on January 1, 2026 with the resulting difference recorded within paid in capital. No gain or loss was recognized in earnings upon reclassification.

 

The warrant liabilities are subsequently measured at fair value at each reporting date, with changes in fair value recognized through profit or loss. The fair value of the warrant liabilities was determined using a Black-Scholes option pricing model, which incorporates significant unobservable inputs (expected stock price volatility and estimated term) and is classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

               
    March 31,
2026
    December 31,
2025
 
    $     $  
Balance, beginning of period     -       -  
Fair value of warrants on reclassification     1,539,665       -  
Unrealized gain on changes in fair value     (770,714 )     -  
Balance, end of period     768,951       -  

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company recorded an unrealized gain on changes in fair value of warrant liabilities of $770,714 (Q1 2025 - $nil).

 

 

 

 

The warrant liabilities were measured using the following weighted average inputs in the Black-Scholes option pricing model:

 

                                               
Date   Expected dividends     Expected volatility     Risk-free
rate of interest
    Expected term
(years)
    Exercise price     Closing
price per
common share
 
January 1, 2026     0 %     74.74 %     2.90 %     2.76     $ 0.164(CAD$0.225 )   $ 0.51(CAD$0.70 )
March 31, 2026     0 %     76.27 %     2.90 %     2.52     $ 0.161(CAD$0.225 )   $ 0.30(CAD$0.42 )

 

As at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the following warrants were issued and outstanding:

 

           
Expiry date   Number of
warrants
outstanding
    Weighted
average
exercise price
 
October 5, 2028     4,000,000     $ 0.16(CAD$0.225 )

 

13.3 Derivative liabilities

 

The Company has determined that the conversion feature embedded in the Company’s convertible debentures constitute a derivative liability and they have been bifurcated from the convertible debentures on closing and recorded as a conversion feature of $4,793,472, with a corresponding discount recorded to the associated debt, on the accompanying balance sheets to be amortized over the term of the convertible debentures.

 

The following is a summary of movements in the conversion feature during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and year ended December 31, 2025:

 

     
Conversion feature   $ 
Balance, December 31, 2024    12,504,180 
Conversion    (6,644,436)
Realized loss on conversion    (5,859,744)
Balance, March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025    - 

 

Significant assumptions used in calculating the fair value of the conversion feature of the convertible debentures at the date of issuance and December 31, 2024, are as follows:

 

                                       
Date   Expected
dividends
    Expected
volatility
    Risk-free
rate of
interest
    Expected
term (years)
    Closing
price per
common share
 
December 5, 2022     0 %     112.3 %     4.53 %     4.00     $ 0.11 (CAD$0.14 )
July 13, 2023     0 %     100.6 %     4.53 %     4.00     $ 0.17 (CAD$0.23 )
August 17, 2023     0 %     100.6 %     4.81 %     4.00     $ 0.19 (CAD$0.25 )
December 31, 2024     0 %     80.5 %     2.92 %     2.53     $ 0.65 (CAD$0.93 )

 

 

 

14. SHARE CAPITAL

 

14.1 Capital stock

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Subordinate Voting Shares (“SV Shares”) and Multiple Voting shares (“MV Shares”) at no par value and an unlimited number of preferred shares issuable in series. The SV Shares can be converted into MV Shares at a conversion ratio of 1,000:1, and the MV Shares carry 1,000 votes per share.

 

14.2 Dividends

 

The directors may declare dividends on one or more class of shares to the exclusion of the others or declare dividends at different rates on different classes of shares, at their discretion. No dividends shall be declared on SV Shares or the MV Shares if to do so would reduce the value of the net assets of the Company to less than the paid in capital of the common stock.

 

No dividends were declared on the Company’s SV Shares or MV Shares during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and the year ended December 31, 2025.

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company’s subsidiary Golden Harvests, LLC, declared and paid a dividend of $56,800 (Q1 2025 - $nil ) to its non-controlling interest holder.

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company’s subsidiary, GRMA, declared and paid preferred return distributions on the voting preferred units of GRMA (the “GRMA Units”) of $28,356 (Q1 2025 - $nil) to its non-controlling interest holder.