Ontario is pulling funding for the last remaining provincially funded supervised drug consumption site, after announcing funding cuts at seven others last month.
The province says in a press release that the site in Kingston will close on Sept. 30 and immediately transition to the government's abstinence-based model — a homelessness and addiction recovery treatment, or HART, hub.
It says the move "responds directly to local concerns over public safety" associated with consumption sites, and the province will double its annual funding for the hub, bringing it to $6.3 million.