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Bell: Dreaded Calgary drug site finally toast, the hellscape won't be missed

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29.06.2026

The story ends with a whimper, not a bang.

There is no fanfare as a fight against injustice lasting the worst part of a decade comes to an end.

It is the end of a battle against a failed experiment cooked up by leftie politicians and clueless self-styled experts, an experiment blowing up in the faces of a Calgary neighbourhood just wanting to be left alone.

Only a matter of a few hours now and the drug consumption site at Calgary’s Sheldon Chumir Health Centre will finally and officially be shut down.

It’s one of those things in life where you won’t really believe it until you see it with your own eyes.

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It’s one of those things in life where you soldier on even when social media mouthpieces and the politically correct establishment slime you and the authorities supposed to be in charge ignore you or take their own sweet time in doing the right thing when the wrong thing is right there for all to see.

There was so much to see in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood around the drug site.

If you came down you would not forget what you saw.

You might be frightened as........

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