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Ontario judge grants injunction to keep consumption sites open for now

Published Mar 28, 2025 at 9:03pm

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Ontario judge grants injunction to keep consumption sites open for now

Service user Kevin helps his friend, Kelly, as she prepares to inject herself at Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service in Toronto on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

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 200 metres of schools or daycares.

Superior Court Justice John Callaghan says all sites slated to close under the new law by April 1 can remain open until 30 days after he decides the case.

The Neighbourhood Group, which runs the Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Site in downtown Toronto, launched a lawsuit in December along with two people who use the space.

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