Will Biden’s focus on environmental justice spur change in Canada?

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U.S. President Joe Biden signed on Day 1 an executive order that called for prioritizing environmental justice and holding polluters accountable for disproportionate harm to communities of colour and low-income communities. Flickr photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY INGRID WALDRON AND LISA GUE

February 3, 2021

In 1967, Northern Pulp started discharging wastewater in Boat Harbour, N.S. After a ruptured pipe spilled untreated effluent into a wetland in 2014, the Pictou Landing First Nation set up a road blockade, but it would be another six years before the province closed th...

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