It is 💔 that we must produce plans to help kids with life-threatening harms of #climatechange -amplified #wildfires they did not cause.
Caroline Hickman, climate psych researcher, likens our societal expressed love for kids + failure to protect to child abuse.
Let's do better.

🙏 @CAPE-ACME for meeting & making the critical link between health &climate change.🙏 Senator Stan Kutcher Dr Courtney Howard Dr. Joss Reimer Robb Barnes for your time and consideration of a Secretariat linking health,infrastructure &environment to drive change. Health Canada and PHAC Charlie Angus

The primary care clinic in Rafah that I worked at in February 2024, the Tal Al-Sultan Primary Health Care Center, is no longer operational. The former clinic is currently being used as a morgue because there is nowhere else to place the increasing number of dead bodies.

Ads from Canada Action, a group that promotes the #LNG industry, were found to be 'misleading' by Ad Standards Canada, but the ads ran in print and on billboards because the regulator has no enforcement authority, leaked documents reveal. nationalobserver.com/2024/05/28/new…

When I joined ⁦Canadian Medical Association⁩ board 6 yrs ago there were few women & ⁦@CAPE-ACME⁩ had a handful of staff. Rotated off today celebrating CMA co-presidents ⁦Dr. Joss Reimer⁩ & ⁦Dr. Kathleen Ross⁩ in the company of 17 CAPE staff ⁦Senator F. Gigi Osler⁩ ⁦& co 😊
Onwards!

Canada's advertising watchdog, Advertising Standards Canada, ruled this ad inaccurate and misleading. False messages like this distort the truth and delay climate action. #greenwashing @CAPE-ACME

To all #PlanetaryHealth people in #Ottawa - this is going to be great - please share with your teams! The joys and benefits of sustainable mobility solutions and more🍿
Green is Health CFMS HEART 🌎 PEACH HEALTH ONTARIO uOttawa's PHPM Program Husein Moloo Sehjal Bhargava, MD Melanie Bechard

Climate change and air pollution adversely impact mental health.

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The new TMX pipeline is now operating, triggering a major increase in tankers in Burrard Inlet.
But a credible emergency response plan to protect human health + safety if a major oil spill happens in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet does not exist.
@CAPE-ACME
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Who gains from war?

Who will not ceasefire?

The Global North Military-Defence-Political-Industrial-Complex

I refer 'social admissions' regularly. I thank Internal Medicine who are compassionate and understanding. Not a patient failure, but a policy failure. Thank you - Catherine Varner Andrew Baback Boozary Andreas Laupacis CMAJ cmaj.ca/content/196/17… - 1/2

Despite all the signs that we need to be doing more, faster, the political conversation around climate is to do much less: Remove the carbon tax & eliminate the clean electricity standard. Written by Joe Vipond @CAPE-ACME & Steve Bentley That Bentley from The Climate Lens nationalobserver.com/2024/05/06/opi…

Our Impact Partners at @CAPE-ACME participated in a press conference that focused the #INC4 spotlight on the harm plastic pollution poses to human health & justice. Kudos to those raising awareness on this critically important aspect amid #plasticstreaty negotiations.

113 groups signed an open letter in solidarity with the Aamjiwnaang community who are facing benzene pollution. Plastic pollution comes in many forms. We need a global plastics treaty that protects communities. Ecojustice EnvironmentalDefence @CAPE-ACME ow.ly/NNu150RolLy

113 groups signed an open letter in solidarity with the Aamjiwnaang community who are facing benzene pollution. Plastic pollution comes in many forms. We need a global plastics treaty that protects communities.
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Ecojustice EnvironmentalDefence David Suzuki FDN

INEOS @s_guilbeault Ecojustice @CAPE-ACME Society of Native Nations EnvironmentalDefence David Suzuki FDN UN Environment Programme RELEASE: 100+ organizations call on Canadian Environmental Minister Steven Guilbeault (@s_guilbeault) to ensure the INEOS Styrolution plant in Sarnia, Ontario, is closed until the Aamjiwnaang First Nation is satisfied. Justin Trudeau #PlasticsTreaty #INC4 ecojustice.ca/news/toxic-che…

INEOS Steven Guilbeault Ecojustice 'Plastic production threatens human health at every stage of life ... microplastics are being found in our blood, lungs, placental tissue, and even crossing the blood-brain barrier.' - Dr. Sehjal Bhargava, @CAPE-ACME #PlasticsTreaty #BreakFreeFromPlastic #BeatPlasticPollution

Ottawa climate people!!! Come hang out on Earth day and spread the word and a petition to ban fossil fuel advertising in Ottawa. Hope to see you there!!!

Please RSVP: Earth Day Canvass horizonottawa.ca/20240422_earth…
Eugenie Waters ForOurKids_Ottawa Husein Moloo Robb Barnes