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The Issues

Hands off the Greenbelt

Tell Premier Ford to keep his hands off the Greenbelt!

Ending Climate Change

Stopping climate change and creating jobs in the clean economy.

Kicking Out Toxic Chemicals

Ensuring safe products are on our shelves.

Safeguarding canada's freshwater

Protecting safe, clean water.

Ending Plastic Pollution

Creating a future free from plastic waste.

Protecting Ontario’s Environment

Environmental rollbacks are allowing more sprawl to pave over prime farmland, aggregate operations to threaten water supplies and industry operations to threaten endangered species.

LATEST NEWS

ATU Canada and Environmental Defence Call on Premiers, Minister Freeland to Save Public Transit in Upcoming Budgets

Irving tops list of busiest oil & gas lobbyists for second month in a row

Public Interest Groups at Supreme Court of Canada to Defend Federal Environmental Law from Alberta Challenge 

Statement welcoming the new federal study to address threats to Rouge National Park and key portions of the Greenbelt removed by the Ontario government

What the Heck’s a DRAP?: A Brief Recent History of the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, from The Rouge Duffins Greenspace Coalition (RDGC)

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Less talk. More action. Whether you have 30 seconds, 30 minutes or 3 hours per month, we have action that you can take to protect Canada's freshwater bodies, our green space and our climate.

When you join with thousands of other Canadians, you can make change happen.

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Tell the O.P.P. to Investigate the Greenbelt Land Removals

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Canada: Environmental racism cannot be ignored.

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PROTECT THE GREAT LAKES: SHUTDOWN LINE 5

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Stop the destructive Highway 413

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