Article by CBC News A series of cannabis thefts have been reported in and around Waterloo Region, according to police, as the midpoint of the plant’s harvest season arrives. In the early hours of Sept. 19 Wellington County OPP attended a rural property in Guelph, responding to a break and enter in progress. When police arrived they saw people running toward ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op An illicit weed bust took place in Ontario, this time in the Val Caron area of Sudbury. Don Robichaud, 47, is facing multiple charges after a September 14 Cannabis Act search warrant of a local property executed by Greater Sudbury police unearthed cannabis products, along with food manufacturing equipment. The warrant was obtained after law enforcement received information ...

Article by Kim Phillips, CTV News The OPP says it destroyed over 200 cannabis plants that were confiscated from a Caledon property on Wednesday. Officers say 237 plants, roughly five to seven feet tall, were seized from the address on Heather Street. … There was no word on any arrests or charges. Read the full article here.

Article by David Yasvinski, Growth Op Big grow-ops can sprout in small places. Ontario police put a dent in the province’s resilient black market this week, arresting 11 people and seizing 8,000 pot plants in the small township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan. The Monday raid, which involved members of the Ontario Provincial Police’s street crime unit, organized crime enforcement ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op An Ontario Provincial Police raid executed this week under the Cannabis Act resulted in the seizure of more than 200 cannabis plants. Officers from the Caledon OPP Detachment’s Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU)  and the Central Region Emergency Response Team descended on a Heather Street property on September 16, 101.5 Orangeville Today reports. The search yielded 235 cannabis ...

Article by My Bancroft Now A Killaloe OPP raid has resulted in thousands of cannabis plants being captured Police executed a warrant on Wingle Road in Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan township on Friday. The Killaloe detachment was joined by the East Region Community street crime unit, Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Emergency Response team and the canine unit. According to OPP, ...

Article by Tim Durkin, Quinte News Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) have seized nearly 4,600 cannabis plants in North Marysburgh Ward in Prince Edward County. CSCU officers, along with members of the Prince Edward County OPP Detachment and OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT) executed multiple warrants on September 14, 2020 at three ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press Ontario’s marijuana wholesaler is expanding its expedited delivery service to London, the only city in Southwestern Ontario where the new service is available. But critics of the Ontario government’s cannabis delivery monopoly are questioning why pot shops aren’t allowed to offer the same service. Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the government-run pot wholesaler and ...

Article by CBC News A brand new facility responsible for receiving and distributing Ontario’s cannabis has opened its doors in Guelph. While the facility has not been formally announced, Ontario Cannabis Store has already started recieving product, according to Daffyd Roderick, a spokesperson for the store. Roderick said the Ontario Cannabis Store sold 14 million grams of cannabis to Ontario’s licensed retailers ...

Article by Bill Jackson, Waterloo Chronicle Waterloo’s first retail cannabis store, Bud & Sally, opened with high hopes on Friday, March 13. “What could go wrong?” reads a wryly written press release, announcing Monday that the uptown store has been bought by Meta Growth, one of the country’s largest retail cannabis operations. Back in July, Meta announced it had executed ...