Three years ago the province announced it would replace the Safeworks site with two others elsewhere in the city, but it has yet to provide details on its closure plan
The Safeworks site, which is housed in the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre, provides a hygienic environment for people to use drugs under medical supervision. A sanitation worker makes their rounds just outside the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in downtown Calgary on May 2.
Mr. Williams, in a letter sent to Ms. Gondek in early October, asked for council’s input to transition services away from the Safeworks site into recovery-oriented care. The mayor, during the debate on Oct. 30, said it was “garbage” that city council was even debating a motion on the issue. “If we don’t push back against the provincial government to do their job themselves, they’ll never do it,” she said..
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