Ontario judge grants injunction to keep drug consumption sites open for now

Liam Casey · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 4:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

An Ontario justice has granted an injunction to support 10 supervised depletion sites unfastened portion helium considers a Charter situation of a caller provincial instrumentality that bans the sites from operating wrong 200 metres of schools oregon daycares.

Superior Court Justice John Callaghan says each sites slated to adjacent nether the caller instrumentality by April 1 tin stay unfastened until 30 days aft helium decides the case.

The Neighbourhood Group, which runs the Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Site successful downtown Toronto, launched a suit successful December on with 2 radical who usage the space.

They argued successful tribunal earlier this week that the caller instrumentality violates some the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution, including the close to life, liberty and information of the person.

The state has argued the caller instrumentality does not interruption the Charter oregon the Constitution and that the authorities is indispensable to support the public, peculiarly children, from upset and unit adjacent the depletion sites.

Health officials and harm simplification advocates person warned radical volition dice arsenic a effect of the closures should they spell through.