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The Queen Street supervised consumption site in Toronto shuttered its doors on April 1 .

A new Ontario law came into effect banning such sites within 200 metres of a school or daycare.

A judge heard the case in late March and granted an injunction to allow 10 such sites to remain open.

Nine of the 10 sites had already agreed to transition to the province’s new abstinence-based model homelessness and addiction recovery treatment hubs, or HART hubs.

Site managers often said they could not control what happened outside its walls, Dellert says.

She says she has been woken up at all hours of the night , threatened numerous times and feels like an outsider in her own neighbourhood.

Dellert has no idea what to expect now that the site has stopped offering supervised consumption services.

So far little has changed in the neighbourhood from her vantage point.

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