'It was an experiment. It didn't work,' says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, revealing the Calgary drug consumption site will be closed

It is as official as it gets. Finally,

No precise date has been set yet but it is coming.

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Calgary’s drug consumption site at the inner-city Sheldon Chumir Health Centre is closing.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke the good news at the end of our Christmas interview.

In fact, at the end of the interview, the premier mentioned I hadn’t asked about the fate of the drug site at the Chumir.

It was on my list, at the very bottom, to be asked if time allowed.

But after years of stonewalling I was resigned to non-answer answers, more kick the can down the road responses when politicians refused to face up to the ugliness of the drug

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