A week after the Doug Ford government announced the closure of 10 supervised injection sites in Ontario within 200 metres of schools, harm reduction activists had moved on from denial and were well into the second Kubler-Ross stage of accepting the dire news — anger.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents many of the staff members at the five Toronto injection sites set to close by the end of March 2025, organized a press conference Monday to express their collective rage.