Regarding the Winnipeg Sun’s report on the approval of 20 supervised consumption rooms at 190 Disraeli, the City’s response has only deepened the concern — and frankly, the embarrassment.

In the email response from Acting Manager Gord Chappell of Planning, Property and Development, the City now claims that the permit wording was a “plumbing contractor’s mistake” — that the term “consumption rooms” was supposedly entered instead of “sobering rooms.” As Chappell wrote, “Unfortunately, the plumbing contractor described the work as ‘consumption rooms’… We have since corrected the permit so that the term ‘consumption’ was replaced with ‘sobering.’”

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