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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.

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Debunking five myths that oil and gas executives want you to believe

Environmental Defence lawyer and Executive Director both available for comment on federal jurisdiction and obligation to prevent destruction of Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve lands

Environmental, health orgs and businesses call on Canada to Expand the Single-Use Plastics Ban

Wintertime farming practices can help or worsen water pollution and algae blooms

We can not let a “war on words†between governments spill into a war on workers

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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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