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Is disposable safer than reusable? Let’s consult the science
Since the beginning of the pandemic in North America, many companies such as Starbucks, Bulk Barn and Tim Hortons have rightly taken steps to limit contamination in their restaurants and stores. But as more and more companies follow suit, we’re tackling the questions: are single-use packaging and containers actually safer? Is the fear of contamination…
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SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION DURING COVID-19
Let’s start off by being realistic: it’s probably safe to say that the coronavirus pandemic won’t come to an end in 14 days. For the last ten days, most of us have been spending a great deal of time glued to our screens, scrolling through our social media accounts (we’re social animals, after all!), all…
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Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau about Oil package bailout midst coronavirus crisis
COVID-19 is presenting real and immediate risks to people's health and livelihoods. It is appropriate and necessary for the federal government to make major interventions to keep people safe and healthy, to keep food on our tables and roofs over our heads.
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No New Money For Oil and Gas Companies—Give It To Workers—Say Large Collection of Groups Representing More Than One Million Canadians
March 24, 2020, Ottawa—A large collection of health, faith, environmental, labour and social justice groups, representing one million three hundred thousand Canadians, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau…
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Indigenous rights and forest protection: more important than ever!
On this International Forest Day 2020, it seems to me more important than ever to highlight the daily struggle of millions of peoples around the world who protect forests, especially the Indigenous peoples.
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Health and the Reuse Revolution: Zero waste living in a time of crisis
A Blog Series with Tips, Tools, and Reflections. In recent weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has sparked a wider conversation about how people who want to continue to avoid disposables, support reuse and refill alternatives, and push for zero waste solutions can proceed, while being mindful of health. We aren’t the health experts, but we can…
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Why we HAVE to make this stimulus green
We have an opportunity to come out of this public health crisis set up for a better future.
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Hope in a crisis
Friend, We’re experiencing a moment unlike any that a person living today has ever witnessed. Like many of you, I’ve been gripped by anxiety and sometimes outright fear, worrying about…
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10 simple ways to care for each other during the COVID-19 pandemic
The new coronavirus, COVID-19, has many of us glued to the news cycle, concerned for vulnerable loved ones, and adapting our lives to deal with the changes the pandemic is…
