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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.”
Read MoreOur work is based on research, science, and a strong understanding of the facts. Below you will find our archive of reports, guides and media backgrounders that are available for download. You can find our government submissions here.
Climate change
About The Report: The modeling being presented here shows Canada can do the hard work required to achieve our fair share of carbon emissions reductions – 60% reductions by 2030. Not only is this worth doing, Canadians will be better off. Household energy bills would fall; there would be more good, green, stable jobs; communities...
Climate change
About The Report: Canada’s federal government provided or announced at least $18 billion in federal support and subsidies for fossil fuel companies in 2020. But that total is an underestimation, as we’re missing a lot of public transparency from the government and oil companies around this financial support, especially tax breaks. It’s been more than...
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About The Report: This report shows how the tactics employed by the Alberta Government to harass, silence and intimidate critics of the oil industry are similar to those used in autocratic regimes such as Russia, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. The report outlines three main tactics employed in Alberta that are common to the “petro-state playbook”: ...
Climate change
About The Report: This brief investigates the actual state of employment in Canada’s fossil fuel industry. It explains why the clean economy transition is manageable for workers in fossil fuel industries and should start now. And it provides ten principles that we should be following to make this transition fair and effective. This brief summarizes...
Climate change
About The Report: Ontario’s Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks recently outlined his government’s progress on its Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan, and claimed to be lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Our new report Yours to Recover: A Progress Report on Ontario’s Climate Change Actions presents evidence that Ontario’s emissions are actually rising as a result of government...
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