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A broad spectrum of groups urges Parliament to expedite the passage of Canada’s first environmental racism bill, ahead of the House of Commons debate
Social justice, health and environmental organizations are calling on MPs to pass Canada’s first environmental racism law. (Canadian Coalition for Environmental and Climate Justice, including PCN)
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Falling Short on the “Right to a Healthy Environment”
Bill S-5 needs to launch important improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. (PCN in the National Observer)
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Moving Canada off the toxic treadmill of key chemicals laws
Canada’s chemicals laws are two decades old. Parliament needs to modernize them properly. (PCN in the Hill Times.)
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Health Canada should follow global leaders and speed up its ban of a dangerous pesticide
Toronto Star editorial on the agricultural insecticide chlorpyrifos (CPF).
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Canada has waited long enough to ban chlorpyrifos
By Meg Sears (PCN) and Mary Lou McDonald (Safe Food Matters) in the National Observer.
May 13, 2021 saw a ray of hope for public and environmental health in Canada. After 53 years of use, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) quietly issued a three-year plan to ban the persistent, toxic insecticide chlorpyrifos.
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Chronic disease is on the rise — and stopping it requires a new Canadian Environmental Protection Act
By Meg Sears (PCN) in the National Observer
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