Ontario court to hear challenge against law shutting down Toronto's supervised consumption sites

Encampments now banned in parks beside schools and daycares

Guelph city council passed a change to the sensitive public space bylaw that bans encampments in parks and green spaces sharing a property line with a school or daycare

Court hears Ontario consumption sites free to relocate contrary to past statements

Ontario’s new law on supervised consumption sites does not ban them entirely and those deemed too close to schools and daycares are free to relocate farther away, government lawyers argued in court Tuesday.

Ontario consumption sites free to relocate, court hears, contrary to past statements

TORONTO — Lawyers for the province say Ontario's new law on supervised consumption sites does not ban them entirely and those deemed too close to schools and daycares are free to relocate farther away.

Toronto supervised drug-use site challenging Ontario law that will close 10 sites

The province passed legislation last year that banned supervised drug-use sites deemed too close to schools or daycares and is moving to an abstinence-based treatment model

Toronto supervised consumption site challenging Ontario law that will close 10 sites

TORONTO — Dozens of supporters packed a Toronto courtroom – and two overflow rooms – on Monday as a supervised consumption site challenged the legality of a new provincial law that will soon shut down 10 such sites and prevent new ones from opening.