After Furor From Locals, Quebec Open to Moving Services From Montreal Drug-Use Site

The Quebec government says it wants to meet the demands of Montrealers fed up with a housing project in the city’s southwest that caters to unhoused people living with addiction or mental health issues. After defending the project for months, Montreal municipal officials are now asking the province to relocate day centre services at Maison Benoît Labre, which is across from an elementary school and includes a supervised drug-use site. Parents and local residents had opposed the centre before it opened earlier this year, and now that it’s in operation, they say they’ve witnessed open drug use and aggressive behaviour, including when children are around....