Welcome 2024 🎆 Jumpstart a new year of health and happiness in the outdoors with a #FirstDayHike! Canadian healthcare professionals recommend spending 2+ hours a week in nature all year round. Start this one on the right foot by stepping into the outdoors 🥾 See you there!

Join us in calling on the Senate of Canada to pass Bill C-226, the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act. Sign the petition here: loom.ly/mWpD5xw #EnvironmentalRacism #EnvironmentalJustice #BillC226 David Suzuki FDN CCECJ

Applications are now open for the 2024 Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems! Be part of the transformation to reduce health systems’ contribution to carbon emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Learn more and apply: cascadescanada.ca/training/summe…

Some good news! The USask Project Green Healthcare team’s glove recycling program deferred over 144 kg of waste from landfill, to be recycled into construction materials instead. You can read more about their work in the link below: medicine.usask.ca/news/2024/mymd…

CFMS HEART just endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. You can learn more about the treaty through the video below, and join as an organization or individual in endorsing the treaty.

Join the newest LATS workshop about Climate Change & Human Health, featuring Dr. Myles Sergeant and Dr. Gurinder Sandhu. The webinar will take place on February 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST. Register here: buff.ly/3SKaS6D

Big Oil’s Lies Cost Lives. We need to stop the advertising of fossil fuel products that are causing millions of premature deaths and threaten our future by fuelling climate change. #C372 #StopFossilFuelAds #CndPoli @CAPE-ACME Charlie Angus

Parents in Alberta worry about the looming wildfire season and its impact on air quality and the health of their families To protect our future, we must ban fossil fuel advertising Excellent oped from Claire Kraatz & Miranda Keller👏

Research on the health harms of fracking questions expansion of this industry healthydebate.ca/2024/04/topic/… via Healthy Debate @CAPE-ACME Doctors for Planetary Health — West Coast Dr Courtney Howard Jane E. McArthur, Ph.D. Dr. Melissa Lem

Join us at CAPE! 🌱 The climate communications manager will be responsible for communications for CAPE’s climate-related campaigns. Learn more here: loom.ly/8zXvsDw

Planetary Health in Canadian Medical Schools Report Card #1: UofC! Head to the link in our bio to view the full report in English and French. While tremendous progress has been made across the country since our last evaluation in 2021, many exciting opportunities are still ahead!

Planetary Health in Canadian Medical Schools Report Card #2: Dalhousie! Head to the link in bio to view the full report in English and French. While tremendous progress has been made across the country since our 2021 evaluation, many exciting opportunities are still ahead!

Planetary Health in Canadian Medical Schools Report Card #3: UofM! Head to the link in bio to view the full report in English and French. While tremendous progress has been made across the country since our 2021 evaluation, many exciting opportunities are still ahead!

New paper in The Lancet Planetary Health "Seasons of smoke & fire: preparing health systems for improved performance before, during, & after wildfires." Our team of experts in smoke, #mentalhealth, #ER, #disasters & policy aimed for a one-stop-shop briefing🧵 thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

Today, 73 organizations and 106 academics sent a letter to PM Trudeau and federal ministers, urging the Government of Canada to end all public financing of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals, ahead of #COP29. It’s time to #StopFundingFossils bit.ly/3N0F3Tz