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Dr. Elaine MacDonald is senior scientist and program director of healthy communities at Ecojustice Canada.

Canada needs an agenda to end pollution from toxics and plastics

  • Voluntary measures for polluters will never measure up: we need rules that reduce pollution.
Opinion | BY CASSIE BARKER, ELAINE MACDONALD | October 9, 2025
Polling has found that an overwhelming majority—nine in 10 people in Canada—want to see federal action to tackle plastic pollution and forever chemicals like PFAS. With Health Canada finding that 98.5 per cent of people in Canada have PFAS in our blood, it’s no surprise that people want safer products, write Cassie Barker and Elaine MacDonald. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Canada needs an agenda to end pollution from toxics and plastics

Opinion | BY CASSIE BARKER, ELAINE MACDONALD | October 9, 2025
  • Voluntary measures for polluters will never measure up: we need rules that reduce pollution.

Canada needs an agenda to end pollution from toxics and plastics

Opinion | BY CASSIE BARKER, ELAINE MACDONALD | October 9, 2025
  • Voluntary measures for polluters will never measure up: we need rules that reduce pollution.
Polling has found that an overwhelming majority—nine in 10 people in Canada—want to see federal action to tackle plastic pollution and forever chemicals like PFAS. With Health Canada finding that 98.5 per cent of people in Canada have PFAS in our blood, it’s no surprise that people want safer products, write Cassie Barker and Elaine MacDonald. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Government’s ambition on newly updated environmental law falls flat

  • The feds need to go back to the drawing board on the implementation of Bill S-5 changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD | October 21, 2024
Steven Guilbeault
Steven Guilbeault
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has essentially announced a plan to make a plan for a chemical watch list, which is out of step with the urgency of the toxics crisis, writes Elaine MacDonald. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Government’s ambition on newly updated environmental law falls flat

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD | October 21, 2024
  • The feds need to go back to the drawing board on the implementation of Bill S-5 changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Government’s ambition on newly updated environmental law falls flat

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD | October 21, 2024
  • The feds need to go back to the drawing board on the implementation of Bill S-5 changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Steven Guilbeault
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has essentially announced a plan to make a plan for a chemical watch list, which is out of step with the urgency of the toxics crisis, writes Elaine MacDonald. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

What does Health Canada’s latest biomonitoring study say about the state of Canada’s toxics law?

  • In 2010, Canada was the first country to declare bisphenol A (BPA) toxic and to ban its use in polycarbonate plastic baby bottles based
Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | September 18, 2017
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and the federal government have a golden opportunity to strengthen Canadians’ protections from toxics and to reduce health inequities by updating CEPA. Canada must get back on track when it comes to acting on toxics. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

What does Health Canada’s latest biomonitoring study say about the state of Canada’s toxics law?

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | September 18, 2017
  • In 2010, Canada was the first country to declare bisphenol A (BPA) toxic and to ban its use in polycarbonate plastic baby bottles based

What does Health Canada’s latest biomonitoring study say about the state of Canada’s toxics law?

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | September 18, 2017
  • In 2010, Canada was the first country to declare bisphenol A (BPA) toxic and to ban its use in polycarbonate plastic baby bottles based
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and the federal government have a golden opportunity to strengthen Canadians’ protections from toxics and to reduce health inequities by updating CEPA. Canada must get back on track when it comes to acting on toxics. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Reducing pollution makes economic sense

  • A ground-breaking report of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development recommends 87 changes that would significantly strengthen the
Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | June 19, 2017
It remains to be seen how Environment Minister Catherine McKenna responds to a report from the House Environment Committee that recommends 87 changes that would strengthen the Canadian Environmental Protection Act The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Reducing pollution makes economic sense

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | June 19, 2017
  • A ground-breaking report of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development recommends 87 changes that would significantly strengthen the

Reducing pollution makes economic sense

Opinion | BY ELAINE MACDONALD, MUHANNAD MALAS | June 19, 2017
  • A ground-breaking report of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development recommends 87 changes that would significantly strengthen the
It remains to be seen how Environment Minister Catherine McKenna responds to a report from the House Environment Committee that recommends 87 changes that would strengthen the Canadian Environmental Protection Act The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
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