In launching public consultations for a new safe consumption site location, Wab Kinew’s NDP government couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start. Prairie Research Associates sent out invitations by email on Friday morning to a selected audience, telling them the only in-person session would be held Tuesday night at Siloam Mission — in other words, a rush job — with limited seating and no guarantee of entry.

Before they could finish their lunch on Monday, Housing and Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith, police chief Gene Bowers, Mayor Scott Gillingham and other officials were told by owners of a neighbouring business that it wasn’t going to fly.

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“None of the individuals we have spoken with received the invitation directly,” wrote Kelly and Gladys Miranda, on behalf of

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