CBC Canada
Receiving cannabis shipments has become a routine practice for Taylor Caldwell: she gets a call with the approximate time of delivery, it arrives, she signs the paperwork, then adds it to the store’s inventory.
But Caldwell, general manager of Kindling Cannabis Leaside, said the delivery on Dec. 28, 2024 was anything but routine. She got a call that the order would be there by noon, but she says it never arrived at the shop near Eglinton Ave E. and Laird Dr.
“Nobody showed up. We didn’t hear anything back. When I did finally get a hold of that same delivery driver who called us, he said again that it would be there in about an hour,” Caldwell told CBC Toronto.
When it didn’t arrive, Caldwell said she tried the driver multiple times again, but the calls started going to voicemail. To her surprise, when Caldwell contacted the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) on the next business day — the province’s sole provider of cannabis for licensed stores — she was told the shipment had in fact been delivered, and a representative from OCS sent her the paperwork.
“The initials didn’t even match any of my staff,” Caldwell said. “I suggested to them that there is a store two doors down, and it’s possible that it was delivered to the wrong location.”
Caldwell said the OCS representative confirmed to her the shipment was signed for by the neighbouring shop, and that someone from that business had left it in her back alley. She then proceeded to check her security camera footage for the rear of the store.
Around midnight, one hour after the store closed, an individual is seen dropping off around a dozen boxes in the alley behind her store, according to the footage, which was viewed by CBC Toronto. Not long after the boxes are dropped off, someone else appears.
“It was about two minutes later, almost exactly, that somebody came, opened one of the boxes, looked in to see what it was, and then immediately started stealing them,” Caldwell said.
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