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Category: Media Release
Media Release: Advocates call for Ontario to improve tracking of heat-related deaths
Advocates from the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), The Advocacy Centre for Elderly (ACE), The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), and the Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN) are raising the alarm about the growing impact of heat-related deaths in Ontario, as the incidence of extreme heat days increase due to the intensifying climate crisis.
Media Release: City of Winnipeg Says Yes to the Nuclear Ban
Winnipeg City Council voted in favour of a resolution supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) following a youth-led initiative advocating for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ (ICAN) Cities Appeal. Winnipeg joins Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Victoria, Montréal and nine other Canadian municipalities in endorsing the ICAN Cities Appeal.
Media Release: New Blue Box program put business interests ahead of protecting the environment
Today, Minister Yurek announced changes to Ontario’s Blue Box recycling program. Unfortunately, this long-awaited shift of responsibility for Blue Box recycling from municipalities to the businesses who make, use and sell packaging will do little to reduce plastic pollution. Known as “extended producer responsibility,” the announcement signals that the new rules are light on measures to reduce plastics that end up in landfills, incinerators and the natural environment.
CELA is hiring a 2022-2023 Articling Student!
Are you interested in an articling opportunity in environmental, administrative law, and social justice? CELA is hiring now for a 2022 - 2023 Articling Student. Please visit our Articling at CELA page here for details. The deadline for applications is July…
Canada’s pesticide regulator continues to back-track on promised neonics ban
Environmental groups dismayed by continued use of bee-killing imidacloprid, request audit of federal pesticide regulation
