environmental racism

“Aamjiwnaang will no longer be known as the community that is a victim of Chemical Valley, but we will be known for our environmental leadership,” said Chief Janelle Nahmabin, elected in September of 2024.

What many Canadians are blissfully unaware of is that aging asbestos cement water pipes make up a large number of water main breaks.

Over the past year, Indigenous communities across Canada have faced a number of crises — from natural disasters to the poisoning of air and water supplies by industry. We spoke with Patty Hajdu about this tumultuous time.

Patty Hajdu says the First Nations Clean Water Act will be “another tool” for nations to curb environmental racism and protect their waters — but that Conservative actions in the House have only obstructed its progress.

The discovery that pollution from a paper mill is contributing to long-standing mercury poisoning afflicting the nearby First Nation is another example of how widespread and persistent the problem has become, federal MPs say.

The link between human rights, human health and an unhealthy planet is clear to us as physicians. The federal government must also make these connections.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, like many Indigenous communities, disproportionately bears the brunt of climate change impacts despite having contributed minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

A private member’s bill that would require the federal government to examine the links between race, socio-economic status and environmental risk passed third reading in the House of Commons Wednesday with the support of the Liberals, NDP and Greens.

MPs lambasted federal and provincial governments in question period Friday for failing to hold polluting corporations accountable in the wake of tailings leaks in northern Alberta.

It is time for governments to consider the emerging science on fracking and human health in their energy policy decision-making.

Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD student who researches ways to make outdoor recreation and environmentalism accessible for Black people.

Her entry into environmental justice came by chance in 2012 when an activist asked Ingrid Waldron to research environmental racism in Nova Scotia.

Parliament has begun a lengthy winter break, but more than a hundred bills are still on the table and ready to be picked up when lawmakers return to Ottawa in late January.

The area saw a close race in 2018 when NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa only beat his Progressive Conservative competitor by 1,467 votes.