An advocacy group says a recent string of overdose deaths in a pocket of Canada's most populous city highlights the need for new overdose prevention sites.
The Toronto Overdose Prevention Society is calling on the province to reverse a decision to pause the opening of such sites, a move detailed by the health minister earlier this week.
Toronto police rang alarm bells about the overdoses on Tuesday night, saying there had been seven deaths in the force's densely-populated 14 Division over a 12-day span.
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott has said that the government would make a decision on the fate of the overdose prevention sites, as well as more permanent facilities aimed at
fighting the opioid crisis, by the end of September.
It was just last month, a funding agreement was reached between the province and Positive Living Niagara to open a site on Queenston Street in the Garden City
We learned earlier this week, that safe injection has been put on hold.