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Protests against closure of Ontario consumption sites held in Toronto, other cities | Globalnews.ca

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Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government announced last summer that it would close the consumption sites, including five in Toronto .

The government has also banned new sites from opening as it moves away from harm reduction to an abstinence-based approach.

Opioids killed more than 2,600 Ontarians in 2023 , the last full year of data available.

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