Blog post from Meg Sears, PhD and Chair, Prevent Cancer Now. Originally published December 16, 2020, in National Observer.
Chronic disease is on the rise — and stopping it requires a new Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Tag: chronic disease
Virtual Hill Days call on federal government to keep its promise to strengthen toxics and pollution law
Environmental, health and clean cosmetics groups ask for immediate reform to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. The groups are joined by hundreds of concerned citizens in calling on the federal government to fulfil its promise to reform the country’s two-decade old pollution prevention and toxic chemicals law.
Reinstating the definition of “danger” in the Canada Labour Code
Title: Reinstating the definition of “danger” in the Canada Labour Code Letter to Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Resource Type: Letter Content: L-HonMA-Mihychuk-CLC-reinstate-defn-of-danger_0 # of Pages: 4 Date authored: February 8, 2016 Publication number: 1056…
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Technical Discussion Paper on Proposed Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards
Title: Technical Discussion Paper on Proposed Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards Response to EBR Registry Number 012-1594 Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: 1018-CELASubmissionDrinkWaterStandards # of Pages: 8 Date authored: February 12, 2015 Publication number: 1018 Author/s: Theresa McClenaghan…
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Environmental Equity
Presentation to York University, Faculty of Environmental Studies, ENVS 6325 Critical Planning Workshop Author: Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher, CELA. Download slide deck here: Environmental-Equity-York-Univ-FES-Planning-Workshop
Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Policy Implications
Part 3 in this series summarizes the challenges that exist in evaluating scientific evidence of associations between chemical exposures and health outcomes, particularly for endocrine disrupting chemicals and related challenges to existing regulatory approaches.