Canada’s Plastic Pollution Problem
The Problem: Less than 11 per cent of Canada’s plastics get recycled. The rest end up in our landfills, lakes, parks and oceans, destroying…Read More
The Problem: Less than 11 per cent of Canada’s plastics get recycled. The rest end up in our landfills, lakes, parks and oceans, destroying…Read More
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation is hosting a Community Engagement Webinar on September 29th about the proposed Highway 413. You don’t need to go….Read More
About The Report: Increasingly, oil and gas companies claim to be part of the solution to the climate crisis—but the reality is very different….Read More
Updated: 21/12/2015 More than fifteen years ago, a tragedy in the town of Walkerton, Ontario made headlines around the world. The town’s drinking water…Read More
Dollar store products, including headphones and children’s toys, contain toxic levels of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and antimony. Our report reveals up to 30 per cent of products tested at Dollar Tree and Dollarama contain heavy metals such as lead and other toxic chemicals such as phthalates, bisphenols and PFAS or “forever chemicals.”
About The Submission: This submission to the Housing and Planning Committee is to show Environmental Defence’s strong support of the recommendation from Toronto’s Chief…Read More
Every day, Canadians are exposed to many chemicals that are linked to health conditions such as cancer, asthma, diabetes and behavioural problems like ADHD….Read More
This past year was a busy one at Environmental Defence. We hosted a celebration of closing polluting coal plants with Al Gore, hosted a…Read More
Requiring automakers to meet Ottawa’s climate goal of reaching 100 per cent electric vehicle sales by 2035 would lead to a 20 per cent reduction in electric vehicle prices because automakers would have to put affordable models on the market instead of just focusing on luxury models.
Anyone who has ever filed their taxes knows that you have to have your paperwork finished before the deadline. But such rules don’t seem…Read More