The climate emergency is a public health crisis

We need a strong health-centred approach in the federal government’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to global heating.

New Health Minister Mark Holland should take ambitious action on carbon pollution as a common-sense and science-based way to respond to the challenges we face together, write Melissa Lem and Helen Boyd.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MELISSA LEM, HELEN BOYD

October 11, 2023

As fires, heat, smoke, and floods swept across Canada this summer, so, too, did critical impacts on health-care systems and community health. On the eastern and western shores of the country, families mourned the deaths of children and firefighters. Dangerous smoke still fil...

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