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Statement from Karen Wirsig, Plastics Program Manager, on the Early Draft of the Proposed Single-Use Plastics Prohibition Regulations

Regulations to ban single-use plastics in Canada are welcome, but improvements are needed  Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and…

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Environmental Groups Sound Alarm Over Implementation of Pay-to-Slay Fund

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, ONTARIO NATURE, WILDERNESS COMMITTEE Fund set up to allow the destruction of species at risk habitats Toronto | Traditional territories of…

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Statement from Julia Levin, Senior Climate and Energy Program Manager, on the U.S. decision to immediately end public financing of fossil fuels overseas

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – United States President Joe Biden has just issued a new policy which orders an…

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Statement from Dale Marshall, National Climate Program Manager, on the Canada Energy Regulator’s 2021 Energy Future Report

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Canadian decision makers in government and business are ill-served by the 2021 Canada’s Energy…

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Statement from Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager, on the Ontario Auditor General’s finding that government’s 2020 Amendments and Sprawl MZOs and have “undermined” the Growth Plan’s “long-term vision”

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Today, Ontario’s Auditor General Bonnie…

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