Media Release: Concerned Walkerton Citizens, CELA urge — Provincial Safe Drinking Water Legislation Must be Walkerton’s Legacy

Media Release Toronto. The Walkerton tragedy demonstrated the need for legislation guaranteeing the right to safe drinking water, the Concerned Walkerton Citizens (CWC) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) said today. In one of two papers filed with the…

Model Bill: an Act to Conserve Ontario Waters

Title: Model Bill: an Act to Conserve Ontario Waters Resource Type: Report Content: modelbill # of Pages: 74 Date authored: May 2001 Publication number: 402 Author/s: Joseph F. Castrilli Author Organization: Canadian Environmental Law Association

Tragedy on Tap: Why Ontario Needs a Safe Drinking Water Act

Submissions of the Concerned Walkerton Citizens and the Canadian Environmental Law Association to Part II of the Walkerton Inquiry Authors: Richard D. Lindgren, Lisa McShane Grace Patterson, Anne Wordsworth Download Executive Summary and Recommendations, Volume 1 and Volume 2 below.…

Media Release: Anti-Pesticide By-Law Challenged at Supreme Court

Media Release Ottawa. Environmental, health and citizen organizations are in Ottawa today to call attention to the respective roles of municipalities and the federal government in regulating pesticides. The Municipal Role Clarification on the municipal role will be determined in…

Media Release: Environmental and Citizens’ Groups File Pesticide Arguments with Supreme Court

Media Release Toronto. CELA released today its legal arguments filed with the Supreme Court of Canada in an intervention in the court's upcoming decision concerning the powers of Canadian municipalities to control pesticide use on private property. On December 7th,…

Summary of Intervenors Factum of Law to the Supreme Court of Canada – Hudson, Quebec Pesticide Bylaw

Title: Summary of Intervenors Factum of Law to the Supreme Court of Canada - Hudson, Quebec Pesticide Bylaw Resource Type: Legal Submissions Date authored: September 26, 2000 Author/s: Kathleen Cooper, Theresa McClenaghan Author Organization: Canadian Environmental Law Association The City…