Safe Injection Site

• Ontario moves to ban safe consumption sites near schools, limit new locations

  Ontario is set to ban consumption and treatment services sites within 200 metres of schools and child care centres, which will lead to the closure of 10 facilities.

  Health

  Aug 20
  
• Ontario has a new supervised consumption site. Funding leaves its future in limbo

  Years of rising overdose deaths in the Region of Peel prompted local officials to offer council headquarters as somewhere for people to use drugs safely.

  Health

  May 3
  
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• Contentious day centre, supervised injection site opens in Montreal neighbourhood

  Measures to appease the fears of Saint-Henri residents, who have been vocal surrounding the supervised injection site, were visible on its first day of opening.

  Health

  Apr 15
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• Parents’ doubts persist after forum on Montreal supervised drug use site near school

  Many who attended the meeting said they showed up in an attempt to learn more about the supervised drug-use site, while others were there to protest the project.

  Canada

  Sep 20, 2023
• Hamilton endorses new safe consumption site on Barton Street

  Hamilton's council finalized an endorsement of a community organization's application to provide a safe space on Barton Street for drug users.

  Health

  Feb 23, 2023
• First permanent consumption and treatment site in London, Ont. opening soon

  After a temporary safe injection site opened in 2018, an opening date has finally been set for Carepoint, the first permanent consumption and treatment site in London, Ont.

  Health

  Feb 16, 2023
• Hamilton board of health endorses application for new safe consumption site

  Hamilton's board of health has endorsed a community organization's application to provide a safe space where users can inject drugs in a supervised setting to avoid overdose.

  Health

  Feb 13, 2023
• City receives letters of opposition to east Hamilton safe injection site location

  Statistics presented to the board of health on Oct. 19, show Hamilton had Ontario’s fifth-highest opioid-related death rate in 2020 at 29 per cent above the provincial rate.

  Health

  Nov 16, 2021
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• Two replica pipe bombs found in Vancouver safe injection site: police

  After receiving a call about a potential bomb threat Saturday, a bomb technician from the Vancouver Police Department safely destroyed two replica devices.

  Crime

  Oct 20, 2021
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• Kingston marks International Overdose Awareness Day as numbers rise during pandemic

  For International Overdose Awareness Day, a Kingston mother who lost her son to an overdose in 2017 says there shouldn't be any stigma.

  Canada

  Aug 31, 2021