The Alberta government has halted grant funding to Lethbridge's only supervised consumption site after a government-ordered audit found $1.6 million of public money unaccounted for. Luan has also asked Alberta Health Services to set up a mobile supervised consumption site in Lethbridge until the government can find a longer-term solution. ARCHES, initially founded in 1986 as the Lethbridge HIV Connection, renovated an old nightclub building and opened a supervised consumption site in February 2018. With supervised consumption services under the microscope by the government, Fitchett said employees have been worried about the future of provincial funding. Supervised consumption sites help prevent the spread of disease, such as Hepatitis and HIV.

Source: CBC News July 16, 2020 11:26 UTC