Legal Action Against Bill 223 - Media Coverage

Legal Action Against Bill 223 - Media Coverage

• Legal action against supervised consumption site legislation (CP24): https://www.cp24.com/video/2024/12/10/legal-action-against-supervised-consumption-site-legislation/

• Toronto supervised drug-use site operator files legal challenge against Ontario over site closings (The Globe and Mail): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-group-launches-legal-challenge-to-ontario-closing-supervised-drug-use/

• Ford government’s supervised consumption site law violates charter, Toronto group claims in lawsuit (Toronto Star): https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ford-governments-supervised-consumption-site-law-violates-charter-toronto-group-claims-in-lawsuit/article_b0f0ce4a-b70b-11ef-8e1f-9feba49f6b79.html

• Ontario's supervised consumption site law violates Charter, group says in legal challenge (CBC News): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-supervised-drug-consumption-sites-legal-challenge-1.7406760

• Ontario’s Unconscionable Supervised Consumption Sites Shutdown (Filter):
  https://filtermag.org/ontarios-unconscionable-supervised-consumption-sites-shutdown/

• Ontario’s Supervised Consumption Site Law Violates Charter (AM 800 Windsor – CKLW on iHeart): https://www.iheart.com/podcast/962-the-shift-with-patty-handy-100700683/episode/ontarios-supervised-consumption-site-law-violates-247773495/

• Toronto health board votes to intervene in supervised consumption site legal challenge against province (CBC News) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-public-health-report-supervised-ocnsumption-sites-1.7435932
• Ontario hired private investigators to surveil safe consumption sites - here's what they reported (Toronto Star) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ontario-hired-private-investigators-to-surveil-safe-consumption-sites-heres-what-they-reported/article_f7659170-e3f8-11ef-8278-778b47974e58.html#tncms-source=login

On Monday, January 13, 2025, former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne, former Toronto mayors John Sewell, David Crombie and Barbara Hall, and Toronto city councillor Chris Moise held a public forum in support of supervised consumption sites. 

• Closure of supervised consumption sites could become Ontario election issue, former mayor says (CBC News): 
  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/drug-consumption-sites-community-meeting-1.7430373
• Former Toronto mayor John Sewell discusses efforts to save supervised consumption sites (CP24): https://www.cp24.com/video/2025/01/14/former-toronto-mayor-john-sewell-discusses-efforts-to-save-supervised-consumption-sites/

On February 20, 2025, former mayor John Sewell and former Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, wrote an op-ed about the success of supervised consumption sites: https://www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/no-failed-experiment-here-supervised-consumption-sites-save-lives-in-ontario-and-beyond/?lang=en
 

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