CELA lawyer Richard Lindgren provides an update on CELA's successful 5 year-long battle to obtain Environment Ministry records on water well safety.
Blog: CELA Wins Five-Year FOI Fight on Water Well Safety
Tag: public health
Webinar: Northern Focus: A webinar on Forestry, Sustainability and Public Engagement
Join CELA and Environment North for our second annual Northern Services legal education webinar series where students from Bora Laskin Law School in Thunder Bay profile their research on critical health and environmental issues affecting Northern Ontario.
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.
Blog: Time to Fix Amendments to Toxic Substances Law
CEPA is Canada’s primary law for protecting human health and the environment. Yet Bill C-28, containing the first major amendments to CEPA in over 20 years, seeks to fix things in the Act that are not broken, and fails to correct things in the Act that are not working. The Canadian public should not have to wait another 20 years to fix in 2040 what is already long overdue for reform today.
Blog: Tracking of Heat-Related Deaths
Blog post by Conrad Oliver, CELA Student In the middle of January, while Ontarians dig themselves out of our most recent winter storm, it may seem absurd to be sounding the alarm about the dangers of extreme heat. But, as…
Blog: Get the Lead Out! CELA’s Submission Addressing Removing Lead from Our Drinking Water
New blog post outlining CELA's recommendations to remove lead from our drinking water.
