Nine Ontario supervised consumption sites to close despite injunction, minister says
- The Ontario provincial government plans to close nine supervised consumption sites on Tuesday, despite a court injunction allowing them to stay open temporarily.
- A tenth site in downtown Toronto will remain open due to the injunction.
- Provincial officials claim the closures aim to 'protect vulnerable children and youth' from nearby 'concentrated disorder'.
- Melissa Kwiatkowski stated that the closure will cause 'significant harm, including loss of life' according to the Advertiser.
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9 Ontario Supervised Injection Sites Become Addiction Recovery Hubs
Nine Ontario supervised consumption facilities located within 200 metres of schools and child care centres have been closed and transformed into addiction resource hubs as part of a provincial push to move away from drug injection sites. March 31 marked the official deadline for supervised drug injection sites near schools or day care facilities to secure government funding for their shift to the new recovery-based model, the provincial governme…
Guelph supervised drug consumption site now closed
People struggling with addiction, as well as harm reduction professionals, felt a glimmer of hope last week when news spread that a pause had been placed on the forced closure of ten Ontario supervised consumption sites. But nine of the ten sites still had to close permanently on March 31, including those in Guelph and Kitchener.
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