She cited crime rates up to 250 percent higher in neighborhoods with safe injection sites. The sentiment has been echoed across Canada. Lauren Lemoine, 63, lives near Ottawa's slated-to-close ...
Jones justified the closures by pointing to "altercations, stabbings, shootings and even a homicide in the vicinity of these sites." She cited crime rates up to 250 percent higher in neighborhoods ...
Canada, after two decades of leading on treating addiction as a health issue, is suddenly facing pushback on supervised sites for injecting narcotics that prevent overdoses but are being blamed for ...