<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ontario, Canada: Cannabis Enforcement Tracker</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/ca/on/</link><description>New reports of cannabis enforcement in Ontario, Canada.</description><language>en</language><item><title>23 charged in Project North Star cannabis probe in Ontario</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-region-project-north-star-23-charged/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-region-project-north-star-23-charged/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Arrest</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2026-11-04. York Regional Police charged 23 people and seek one more suspect after Project North Star, an inquiry into a London-supplied illicit cannabis network and online dispensary. Police say the group shipped cannabis by parcel across North America and Europe and seized over 1,550 pounds of cannabis plus hashish and derivatives worth about $4.8 million in London.</description></item><item><title>Second raid in week at Ottawa shop; 1 held, 2.7 kg seized</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ottawa-preston-street-second-raid/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ottawa-preston-street-second-raid/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2026-10-29. Ottawa police searched a Preston Street retail shop for the second time in seven days on 29 October 2026, arresting a 25-year-old man on cannabis, tobacco and proceeds charges. Officers seized about 2.74 kg of cannabis flower, pre-rolls, hash and THC products, plus psilocybin, nicotine vapes and contraband tobacco that are excluded from the cannabis total.</description></item><item><title>Four charged after 95 kg cannabis seizure in export investigation</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/mississauga-95kg-cannabis-export-charges/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/mississauga-95kg-cannabis-export-charges/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2026-09-24. A joint RCMP, Peel Regional Police and Canada Border Services Agency investigation led to the seizure of 95 kilograms of cannabis and charges against four Ontario men. The authorities described alleged offences involving export, distribution and sale, but did not disclose the suspected export route or destination.</description></item><item><title>Eight charged after 5,560 cannabis plants seized in Tyendinaga</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tyendinaga-5560-plants-eight-charged/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tyendinaga-5560-plants-eight-charged/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2026-09-09. Eight people were charged after a September 9 search on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory found about 5,560 cannabis plants and 34 kilograms of cannabis shake. Police valued the plants at C$2.78 million and said the investigation remained ongoing.</description></item><item><title>Four charged after OPP raids Windsor’s 420 Highway cannabis network</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/windsor-420-highway-cannabis-network/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/windsor-420-highway-cannabis-network/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2026-09-02. Four men were charged after an OPP-led team searched three Windsor locations tied to an online cannabis operation called 420 Highway. Officers seized cannabis products, tobacco, packaging equipment and C$24,000; the estimated value of all seized property and equipment exceeded C$365,000.</description></item><item><title>Ontario police seize 8 tonnes and 45,000 plants in Kingsville</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kingsville-greenhouse-45000-plants-raid-2022/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kingsville-greenhouse-45000-plants-raid-2022/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2022-06-28. Ontario's joint cannabis enforcement team raided two greenhouses and two homes near Kingsville on 28 June 2022, seizing more than 45,000 plants and eight tonnes of processed cannabis valued by police at over $61 million. No charges had been laid when the raid was announced.</description></item><item><title>Six charged as Ontario police seize 21,000 plants in Vineland raids</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-vineland-st-catharines-22m-raid-2021/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-vineland-st-catharines-22m-raid-2021/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2021-10-14. Ontario's joint cannabis enforcement team searched two greenhouses and two homes in Vineland and St. Catharines on 14 October 2021, seizing more than 21,000 plants and 181 kg of processed cannabis police valued above $22 million and charging six people.</description></item><item><title>Halton police seize 1,000 kg of cannabis in record bust</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/halton-project-icarus-1000kg-2021/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/halton-project-icarus-1000kg-2021/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2021-08-18. Halton Regional Police concluded Project Icarus, the largest drug seizure in the force's history, with 12 arrests and 44 charges after seizing more than 1,000 kg of cannabis alongside other drugs, guns and cash across the Greater Toronto Area.</description></item><item><title>Project Green Sweep seizes 28,964 plants across York Region</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-region-project-green-sweep/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-region-project-green-sweep/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2020-10-29. York Regional Police seized about $150 million of illicit cannabis during Project Green Sweep in summer 2020, executing fifteen warrants across the region. Thirty-seven people were arrested and 67 charges were laid over grow operations police linked to organised crime abuse of medical-grow licences.</description></item><item><title>$7.3M cannabis seized in Chatham-Kent greenhouse raid</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/chatham-kent-greenhouse-raid/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/chatham-kent-greenhouse-raid/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2020-09-16. Chatham-Kent police raided a large commercial greenhouse on Maynard Line on 16 September 2020, seizing 7,300 plants valued at more than $7.3 million. A 48-year-old London man was later charged with cultivating marijuana for the purpose of selling.</description></item><item><title>Project Woolwich raids seize 100,000 cannabis plants across Ontario and BC</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/project-woolwich-niagara-raids-2020/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/project-woolwich-niagara-raids-2020/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2020-08-13. Ontario police raided sites in the GTA, Niagara, Leamington and British Columbia on 13 August 2020, arresting eight people and seizing more than 100,000 cannabis plants and 2.5 million Canadian dollars in Project Woolwich.</description></item><item><title>Eight charged as Project Dos raids seize 3,900 cannabis plants</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-project-dos-raids-2019/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-project-dos-raids-2019/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2019-04-25. Toronto police executed 29 search warrants across four southern Ontario cities on 25 April 2019, arresting eight people in a drug-trafficking investigation codenamed Project Dos. Officers seized 3,905 illegally grown cannabis plants alongside cocaine, ketamine, precursor chemicals and cash, a haul police valued at up to 17 million dollars for all drugs combined.</description></item><item><title>Ottawa police raid seven dispensaries and arrest nine</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ottawa-dispensary-raids-nine-arrested/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ottawa-dispensary-raids-nine-arrested/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2016-11-04. Ottawa police raided seven marijuana dispensaries across the city on 3 and 4 November 2016, arresting nine budtenders. Officers seized marijuana, hashish, oils, edibles and cash, and laid trafficking and proceeds-of-crime charges.</description></item><item><title>Toronto police raid 43 dispensaries and arrest 90 in Project Claudia</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-project-claudia-raids-2016/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-project-claudia-raids-2016/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2016-05-26. On 26 May 2016 Toronto police executed 43 search warrants at storefront cannabis dispensaries across the city, arresting 90 people and seizing 325 kg of dried cannabis, resin and hashish plus hundreds of kilos of edibles. The force cited public complaints and product safety; dispensary supporters called the crackdown a waste aimed at a legalising city.</description></item><item><title>Ontario police destroy close to 2,700 plants in Project O-SABOT</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-project-o-sabot-2700-plants-2013/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-project-o-sabot-2700-plants-2013/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2013-08-21. Four southwestern Ontario police services with the Canadian Armed Forces seized and destroyed close to 2,700 outdoor cannabis plants between 19 and 21 August 2013 in Project O-SABOT, the Ontario arm of the national Operation SABOT.</description></item><item><title>Markham realtor jailed five years for 54-house grow-op scheme</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/trac-markham-grow-op-scheme-sentence/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/trac-markham-grow-op-scheme-sentence/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2009-12-22. Markham real estate agent Phu Nhi (John) Trac was jailed for five years and fined more than $1 million on 22 December 2009 for running Canada's largest-known grow-op scheme: 54 rented Toronto-area houses yielding 27,550 plants worth over $30 million. Charges against his wife and brother were dropped; his lead accomplice fled and remains wanted.</description></item><item><title>Project OSABOT eradicates 4,700 outdoor plants in southwestern Ontario</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-project-osabot-eradication-2009/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ontario-project-osabot-eradication-2009/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2009-09-18. Five police services with military support seized and destroyed about 4,700 outdoor marijuana plants across southwestern Ontario between 14 and 18 September 2009. Police valued the haul at close to 4.7 million dollars and reported no arrests from the five-day operation.</description></item><item><title>Police raid Toronto's Kindred Cafe and charge two staff with trafficking</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kindred-cafe-toronto-raid-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kindred-cafe-toronto-raid-2008/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2008-11-20. More than a dozen Toronto police officers raided the Kindred Cafe on 20 November 2008, taking two employees into custody on marijuana trafficking charges after undercover buys of cannabis-laced treats.</description></item><item><title>40,000 cannabis plants seized in cornfield near Pembroke</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/pembroke-b-line-road-40000-plants-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/pembroke-b-line-road-40000-plants-2008/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2008-09-18. Ontario Provincial Police executing a search warrant on 18 September 2008 found more than 40,000 cannabis plants hidden between corn rows at 1970 B-Line Road near Pembroke, calling it the largest grow operation in Canada's history with a street value of about $40 million.</description></item><item><title>Project Tropical Storm shuts 18 GTA grow-ops; 31 arrested</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-project-tropical-storm-grow-ops-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/york-project-tropical-storm-grow-ops-2008/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2008-05-16. York Regional Police ended a two-year probe into a Toronto hydroponics supplier with raids on 18 grow-ops across the Greater Toronto Area in May 2008, seizing 3,288 plants worth C$12.5 million. Thirty-one people were arrested on more than 200 charges.</description></item><item><title>3,100 plants seized at North Stormont mushroom farm</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/nordik-mushroom-farm-3100-plants-2007/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/nordik-mushroom-farm-3100-plants-2007/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2007-03-06. Ontario Provincial Police raided the former Nordik Imperial Mushroom farm in North Stormont on 6 March 2007, seizing 3,100 marijuana plants in the largest indoor grow operation found in eastern Ontario. Eight people were arrested and charged with production and possession for trafficking.</description></item><item><title>Police raid 22 units in a Jane Street highrise and seize 6,000 plants</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-jane-street-highrise-grow-op-2006/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-jane-street-highrise-grow-op-2006/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2006-11-23. Toronto police raided 22 units across nine floors of a highrise at 2600 Jane St on 23 November 2006, seizing about 6,000 marijuana plants and 30 pounds of dried cannabis. Three men including the building's superintendent were charged.</description></item><item><title>21,000 cannabis plants seized on a three-football-field farm at Iroquois Falls</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iroquois-falls-21000-plants-2005/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iroquois-falls-21000-plants-2005/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2005-07-24. Ontario police raided a remote farm near Iroquois Falls on 24 July 2005, seizing more than 21,000 cannabis plants growing in straight rows over three football fields. A 39-year-old Toronto man was arrested and charged with producing a controlled substance.</description></item><item><title>Police shut an industrial grow-op with 2,800 plants in Sarnia's south end</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sarnia-industrial-grow-op-2800-plants-2005/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sarnia-industrial-grow-op-2800-plants-2005/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2005-01-25. Sarnia police and the OPP shut down an industrial-building grow operation in Sarnia's south end on 25 January 2005, seizing about 2,800 marijuana plants and 13.6 kg of dried cannabis. Two Sarnia residents were charged.</description></item><item><title>Seven sentenced over 30,000-plant Barrie brewery grow-op</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/barrie-molson-brewery-grow-op-2004/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/barrie-molson-brewery-grow-op-2004/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2004-12-03. Seven men who pleaded guilty to production and possession for trafficking were sentenced on 3 December 2004 over the 30,000-plant cannabis factory found in Barrie's former Molson brewery that January. The judge called them minor players, not the controlling minds; the organizers behind the estimated $120 million operation were never charged.</description></item><item><title>Toronto police raid Compassion Centre serving 1,200 patients</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-compassion-centre-raid-2002/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/toronto-compassion-centre-raid-2002/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2002-08-13. Toronto police raided the Toronto Compassion Centre at Bathurst and St Clair on 13 August 2002, seizing medicine for about 1,200 patients and arresting staff; the club's two founders were charged with possession and trafficking and the charges were later dropped.</description></item><item><title>York police seize 8,600 cannabis plants in Vaughan warehouse raid</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vaughan-bradwick-8600-plants-2001/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vaughan-bradwick-8600-plants-2001/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2001-11-20. York Region police raided a 10,000-square-foot indoor greenhouse at 100 Bradwick Drive in Vaughan on 20 November 2001, seizing more than 8,600 plants they valued at $8.5 million; two Toronto men were charged.</description></item><item><title>Project Greenhouse raids 17 homes across Waterloo Region and Toronto</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/project-greenhouse-kitchener-raids-2001/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/project-greenhouse-kitchener-raids-2001/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2001-06-22. Police raided 17 homes across Waterloo Region, Guelph and the Toronto area on 22 June 2001 in a six-month sting called Project Greenhouse, seizing almost 2,000 marijuana plants. Twenty-three people were arrested.</description></item><item><title>Police seize about 200 medical-marijuana plants from activist's Udora farm</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/udora-wakeford-medical-marijuana-raid-2001/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/udora-wakeford-medical-marijuana-raid-2001/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Ontario, Canada, 2001-03-02. York police raided a farmhouse Jim Wakeford had rented in Udora on 2 March 2001 and removed about 200 marijuana plants he was growing for himself and other holders of federal medical exemptions. About eleven days later provincial police stopped his taxi, seized a pound of marijuana and charged him with possession for trafficking.</description></item></channel></rss>