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'People don't judge you': Inside the final days of a safe consumption site in Toronto

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

The Canadian Press visited the Queen Street supervised consumption site on a recent Friday before it shuttered its doors on April 1 .

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

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

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

So far little has changed in the neighbourhood from her vantage point, though it’s only been a few days since the closure.