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Statement from Cassie Barker, Senior Program Manager for Toxics: Curbing Toxic Flame Retardants Is a Win for Safer Products

Canada’s finalized amendments to product safety regulations will reduce or eliminate toxic flame retardants in tents, play tunnels and kids’ bed canopies—but more action is…

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Ontario Government Weakens Greenbelt Protections and Takes Land Again with Bill 212

Statement by Tim Gray, Executive Director By peddling falsehoods about bike lanes, the Ontario government seeks to distract Ontarians from provisions in Bill 212 that…

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Media Advisory: Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations to Resume in South Korea, Canadian Plastic Pollution Expert on the Ground and Available to Comment

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Between November 25 and December 2, 2024, Environmental…

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Media Advisory: Press Conference on Government’s Failure to Reduce Emissions, Following CESD Report

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People –Representatives from the Green Party of Canada, the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and Environmental Defence…

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Statement from Tim Gray, Executive Director: Proposed Bill Could Keep Billions of Ontario’s Beverage Containers Out of Landfills, Incinerators and the Environment

MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon’s Private Member’s Bill announced this morning seeks to mandate deposit return for non-alcoholic drink containers  Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas…

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