Within hours of the Winnipeg Sun publishing its story about permits issued for 190 Disraeli Freeway, the City of Winnipeg rushed out a statement. The response came so quickly it felt like panic. The City insisted there was no permit for a supervised-consumption site, only a temporary use permit for sobering units, and claimed the term “consumption rooms” was entered by mistake.

But the public record tells a different story. There are two separate permits for the same property, approved five days apart. The first, issued October 10, 2025, states:

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