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Ontario Pulls Funding for Last Provincially Supported Supervised Consumption Site
The province will double HART hub funding to $6.3 million as the Kingston site closes and converts to an abstinence-based model.
- On Friday, Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Ontario will pull funding for the last remaining supervised consumption site in Kingston, transitioning it to a government-funded HART hub.
- This decision follows the province's announcement last month to cut funding for seven other sites in Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara, Peterborough, and London, giving them a 90-day wind-down period.
- The government stated the move "responds directly to local concerns over public safety," and Jones said Ontario will double annual funding for the hub to $6.3 million.
- Kingston Community Health Centres, which operates the site, began planning for closure immediately after the announcement, with operations ceasing on Sept. 30.
- Organizations including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Amnesty International have condemned the defunding, warning the closures could lead to increased overdoses and deaths.
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Ontario is pulling funding for the last remaining provincially funded supervised drug consumption site, after announcing funding cuts at seven others last month. The province says in a press release that the site in Kingston will close on Sept. 30 and immediately transition to the government’s abstinence-based model — a homelessness and addiction recovery treatment, or HART, hub. It says the move “responds directly to local concerns over public …
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