Title: Health Protection Legislative Renewal: Analysis and Recommendations Resource Type: Report, Response to Consultation Content: ENGO_Subm_on_CHPA # of Pages: 28 Date authored: March 2004 Author/s: Canadian Environmental Law Association
Blog posted by Kathleen Cooper, CELA Senior Researcher From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court, and Back Again When the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided, in June of 2001, that the small community of Hudson, Quebec had the legal…
Read More Blog: Protecting Children’s Health from Needless Exposure to Pesticides
Media Release Today, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a by-law passed by the town of Hudson, Quebec that banned the cosmetic use of pesticides within municipal boundaries, including on private property. The Court held that the municipal by-law did…
Read More Media Release: Victory for Pesticide Reduction and Local Democracy
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…
Read More Media Release: Anti-Pesticide By-Law Challenged at 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,…
Media Release Toronto. Late Friday afternoon, Toronto Environmental Alliance, Sierra Club of Canada, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Parents’ Environmental Network, Healthy Lawns-Healthy People, Pesticide Action Group Kitchener, Working Group on the Health Dangers of the Urban Use of Pesticides, Environmental…
