Health-care professionals say the climate crisis is a health emergency that perpetuates environmental injustice.

Alongside the calls from First Nations communities have been the calls from physicians. They, too, see the effects of environmental racism, including for their patients.

It is time to shift our lens and bring into focus that our society’s plastic addiction has become a matter of life and death.

The legal right to a healthy environment and environmental justice is fundamental as we work towards a future of improved environmental and human health.

In a historic move, the United Nations Human Rights Council recently voted in favour of recognizing the right to a healthy environment. This right has already been recognized by 156 countries. Canada is not yet one of them.

For communities that are marginalized, a strengthened CEPA will be the backbone of a just transition. 

Leading environmental and health groups in Canada are calling on all federal parties to prioritize CEPA modernization in this session of Parliament and to pass a strengthened bill before the end of the year.

To address climate change, toxic exposures, and environmental racism, it's time to get out our crayons, connect the dots, and bring the bigger picture of planetary health into view.

Improved science communications are needed on the role of environmental and workplace hazards in breast cancer causation, writes Jane McArthur.

Canada's cornerstone environmental protection law hasn't been updated since 1999, and modern-day exposures, including those in some workplaces, are inadequately addressed under the legislation in its current form, write Atanu Sarkar and Jane McArthur of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.