Please find the summer edition of our ONEIG newsletter attached to this email as a PDF.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy rest of your summer.
Our thoughts specifically with all those impacted by climate events.
Best,
Your ONEIG executive
Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group
Safe Drinking Water for All
Access to safe water and sanitation for all is essential to life and a matter of environmental and social justice. Unfortunately, there are over 100 drinking water advisories in First Nations across Canada and no national strategy to address urgent water issues.
Environmental Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic compounds harms of historically marginalized communities. Our collective recovery must build stronger, healthier communities, including healthy environmental public policy that challenges structural inequities, including environmental racism.
Climate action
We need our governments to take immediate, future-minded action now to ensure the foundational conditions for human health and wellbeing are sustained for generations to come.