the Ontario Ministry of Health is cutting all its funding to the Fred Victor Centre and South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto, as well as other remaining government-funded SCSs in Ontario.

(three others in Toronto run by Street Health, Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Site and Casey House, are not affected, because Ontario doesn't fund them at all.)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-drug-consumption-sites-toronto-9.7128193

#SCSSaveLives #HarmReduction #Toronto

Toronto Public Health: Paramedics received 35 per cent more overdose calls over the holidays this year compared to the last two years. [CBC]

Gee, I wonder if that's because the government forced the closure of a number of supervised consumption sites. 🤔

#SCSSaveLives

Supervised Consumption Sites save lives, and i imagine they're better at it than any outfit preaching abstinence

"In April, the province closed 9 supervised consumption sites in Ontario — including 4 in Toronto — that were located within 200 m of schools/daycares. The province is now working to transition the spaces to abstinence-focused HART hubs."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parkdale-queen-west-community-health-centre-parkette-closed-drug-use-1.7620772

#SCSSaveLives #PWUD #ONpoli

yesss! an Ontario judge has granted an injunction to keep 10 supervised consumption sites open while he considers a Charter challenge of a new provincial law that bans the sites from operating within 200m of schools or daycares.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/injunction-ontario-consumption-site-1.7496602

#SCSSaveLives

135 unhoused people died in Toronto in the first half of last year alone. that's an average of around FIVE PER WEEK. the biggest number died outdoors, the next biggest number died in shelters. [CBC Metro Morning]

#HousingForAll #SCSSaveLives

the Ontario government has hired outside private investigators to spy on supervised consumption sites in Toronto: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-private-investigators-supervised-consumption-sites-1.7437603

#SCSSaveLives #ONpoli #TOpoli #ProvincialOverreach

closing five of Toronto's supervised consumption sites will hamper Toronto Public Health's ability to provide life-saving services, while increasing the workload of paramedics
— TPH report

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tph-report-supervised-consumption-sites-ontario-1.7431843

#SCSSaveLives #PWUD #MoralPanic