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As the Canadian social scientist Ingrid Waldron reminds us, dismantling environmental racism and allowing environmental justice to flourish is a critical matter of public policy that affects all Canadians.
Young people will need to be persistent if they want to make change in the world. That’s the message McMaster University professor Ingrid Waldron hopes students receive as they hear from three women on Thursday who have been leading fights against industrial impacts on Black and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia.
Environmental racism happens when development, policies or practices lead to more pollution or heightened health hazards in Indigenous or racialized communities, and unequal access to clean water and air, or proximity to green spaces.
Shake Up the Establishment (SUTE)’s recap of the first two Senate Environment committee meetings studying the environmental justice Bill C-226 (An Act to Develop a National Environmental Justice Strategy in Canada) March 2024.
Tune in to this interview with former MP Lenore Zann, discussing Bill C-226: what is it, actions regular folks can take, and why it matters.
Indigenous perspectives and knowledge aim to safeguard planetary health and build climate-resilient healthcare systems.
Climate justice, as both a concept and a movement, acknowledges that the impacts of climate change will vary across communities, leading to unequal effects based on factors such as race, socio-economic status, social class, gender, age, disability, sexuality, geographic location, and other social identities. Learn about the case of Zimbabwe.
Black and brown communities are disproportionately impacted by environmental racism and other by-products of systemic racism. The susu system helped members of Aaliyah’s community create social programs that helped them survive in the face of unwelcoming financial institutions, environmental injustice, and harsh food deserts.
A recorded version of CCECJ’s event: “Exploring Intersections: Gentrification, Environmental Racism, and Systemic Injustice in Black Communities”. Thank you to our speakers and all who attended this impactful event!
In this episode, Dr. Ingrid Waldron positions environmental racism as an urgent health equity issue and highlights how the ENRICH project builds community power through meaningful partnerships, research and collective action.
‘She’s out here trailblazing’: these 10 Black environmentalists are building community. Black Canadian scientists, researchers and environmental advocates discuss the importance of mentors, protégés and friends in their fields.
Environmental justice? Environmental racism? Watch a quick video highlighting how environmental racism manifests in Canada.
On October 25, 2023, coalition members and interested individuals joined a discussion regarding a national environmental justice strategy with guest speaker Amanda Monforton, Director of Policy Development within Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Strategic Policy Branch.
A Harvard Public Health article about tackling environmental racism in Canada. A conversation with the filmmaker and author behind the documentary “There’s Something in the Water”.
Members of Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities share their stories and struggles on environmental racism. This video was produced as part of the ENRICH Project, a collaboration between communities, university researchers and grassroots organizations.
Dr. Ingrid Waldron speaks to the Pointer about environmental racism coming to light with proposed Bill C-226; while new law enshrines environmental justice in Canada.
The three interns that Canada’s Black Environmental Initiative sent to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November may have been the only Black youth the country had inside the venue.
There are growing calls being made at the national level to decontaminate the recycling site in Kanesatake.
Naolo Charles speaks with CTV News regarding COP26.
A putrid smell fills the air and lungs of those living near the shut-down recycling centre in Kanesatake.
Some of the findings of an extensive investigation of the G&R recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land.
Dr. Ingrid Waldron speaks with Canadian Geographic about representation for women and racialized communities.