SHARE CAPITAL (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Statements Line Items

Disclosure of number and weighted average exercise prices of share options [Table Text Block]

Expressed in Canadian dollars	Year Ended			Year Ended
	December 31, 2018			December 31, 2017
						Weighted
	Number		Weighted average	Number		average
	of shares		exercise price	of shares		exercise price
Outstanding, beginning of year	5,792,800		$4.00	4,458,050		$3.93
Granted	1,262,500		$3.80	1,572,000		$4.32
Exercised	(127,000	)	$2.65	(60,000	)	$3.03
Cancelled	(940,500	)	$4.15	(177,250	)	$5.49
Outstanding, end of the period	5,987,800		$3.96	5,792,800		$4.00
Options exercisable at the end of the period	4,946,300		$3.96	4,509,600		$3.91

Disclosure of range of exercise prices of outstanding share options [Table Text Block]

Expressed in Canadian dollars
	Options Outstanding			Options exercisable
	Number	Weighted Average	Weighted	Number	Weighted
	Outstanding	Remaining	Average	Exercisable	Average
Price	as at	Contractual Life	Exercise	as at	Exercise
Intervals	December 31, 2018	(Number of Years)	Price	December 31, 2018	Price
$2.00 - $2.99	1,009,500	1.4	$2.65	1,009,500	$2.65
$3.00 - $3.99	1,250,500	4.4	$3.80	478,400	$3.80
$4.00 - $4.99	3,727,800	2.4	$4.37	3,458,400	$4.37
	5,987,800	2.6	$3.96	4,946,300	$3.96

Disclosure of detailed information about options, valuation assumptions [Table Text Block]

	Year Ended	Year Ended
	December 31, 2018	December 31, 2017
Weighted-average fair value of option in CAN$	$1.96	$2.30
Risk-free interest rate	2.05%	0.85%
Expected dividend yield	0%	0%
Expected stock price volatility	69%	73%
Expected option life in years	3.79	3.86

Disclosure of deferred share units [Table Text Block]

Expressed in Canadian dollars	Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
		Weighted		Weighted
	Number	Average Grant	Number	Average Grant
	of units	Price	of units	Price
Outstanding, beginning of year	548,392	$3.44	510,560	$3.39
Granted	103,884	$3.68	37,832	$4.11
Redeemed	-	-	-	-
Outstanding, end of period	652,276	$3.48	548,392	$3.44
Fair value at period end	652,276	$2.94	548,392	$3.02

Disclosure of share appreciation rights [Table Text Block]

	Year Ended			Year Ended
	December 31, 2018			December 31, 2017
			Weighted			Weighted
	Number		Average Grant	Number		Average Grant
	of units		Price	of units		Price
Outstanding, beginning of year	911,993		$3.80	579,660		$4.20
Granted	-		-	489,000		$3.30
Exercised	(96,661	)	$2.21	(46,668	)	$2.21
Cancelled	(121,332	)	$3.96	(109,999	)	$4.38
Outstanding, end of period	694,000		$3.99	911,993		$3.80
Exercisable at the end of the period	553,679		$4.16	212,672		$3.69

Disclosure of performance share units plan [Table Text Block]

	Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
	Number of units		Number of units
Outstanding, beginning of year	200,000		325,000
Granted	446,000		200,000
Cancelled	(30,000	)	-
Settled for shares	-		(193,825	)
Settled for cash	-		(131,175	)
Outstanding, end of period	616,000		200,000

Disclosure of detailed information about diluted earnings per share [Table Text Block]

		Year Ended
		December 31,			December 31,
		2018			2017
Net earnings (loss)	$	(12,439	)	$	9,684
Basic weighted average number of shares outstanding		128,600,421			127,340,834
Effect of dilutive securities:
Stock options		-			416,739
Performance share units		-			200,000
Diluted weighted average number of share outstanding		128,600,421			127,957,573
Diluted earnings (loss) per share	$	(0.10	)	$	0.08