ON DECEMBER 4, 2024, amendments to the Community in the province, the only safe consumption site in Thunder Care and Recovery Act within Bill 223 received Royal Bay is set to close – following site closures in Timmins Assent in the Ontario legislature. [...] The Community Care and Recovery Act will shutter the As represented in the name itself, the Community Care operation of many existing safe consumption sites and and Recovery Act touts that banning sites within 200 restrict the ability for new sites to be established. [...] the new Community Care and Recovery Act restricts As a result of this decision, the Supreme Court ordered municipalities from applying for exemptions from Canada’s Minister of Health at the time, Tony Clement the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, making it to grant an exemption to Insite, the first and only safe impossible for municipalities to establish new consumption consumption site in Nort. [...] challenge by the Neighbourhood Group Community Services agency, arguing that the removal of safe The health minister faces critique for disregarding evidence consumption sites violates the right to life, liberty, and from two Ontario government-commissioned reports security of the person. [...] Against the abundance of evidence on the safety and effectiveness of safe consumption sites, this decision poses According to the Association of additional concerns given that the Bill went through three Municipalities of Ontario report, a recent readings and received Royal Assent without discussion study of Toronto’s safe consumption sites or comments from experts, foreclosing any possibility for.
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