Advocates celebrate milestone, call on Senate to prioritize Bill C-226
Media Release: MPs pass long-awaited legislation to tackle environmental racism in Canada
Tag: environmental racism
Making the Links: A Northern Ontario Toolkit for Environmental Protections, Health, and Equity
This Toolkit has been created to pair critically urgent environmental issues with legal mechanisms for change and public advocacy. It has been developed with and for Indigenous and settler communities, and individuals throughout Northern Ontario. It is meant to be a foundational resource so that both individuals and practitioners can have ready access to solutions for environmental health issues.
Expedite Bill C-226, National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act
CELA and other civil society organizations - advocates for social justice and equity, environmental protection, and public health - urge federal ministers to expedite passage of Bill C-226, An Act Respecting the Develpoment of a National Strategy to Assess, Prevent and Address Environmental Racism and To Advance Environmental Justice.
Blog: Social Justice Priorities Require Federal Funding and Attention
Canada’s federal budget for 2022 will be released this spring and has major implications for environmental social justice issues. This blog outlines environmental social justice issues that urgently need federal funding and attention.
Bill C-230 the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act
CELA and other NGOs have signed on to a letter written by the Canadian Coalition for Environmental & Climate Justice asking for the Prime Minister to prioritize the re-introduction of Bill C-230, the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental…
