Despite injunction, advocates worry Ontario drug consumption sites risk closing without funding [Video]

Harm reduction workers and advocates are celebrating a court injunction that will temporarily keep 10 supervised drug consumption sites in Ontario from closing but say they fear for their long-term future if the province refuses to fund them.

On Friday, an Ontario judge said all sites slated to close under a new provincial law by April 1 can remain open while he considers a Charter challenge of the legislation that bans the sites from operating within 200 metres of schools or daycare centres.

However, a spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the ruling doesn’t change the province’s …