With cozy thoughts after Family Day weekend, please find the latest edition of the Ontario Nurses for the Environment (ONEIG) Interest Group's newsletter attached.
Our Winter 2023 issue includes updates on COP15 in Montreal and insights on environmental adventures.
All the best!
Your ONEIG executive team
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.
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.
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.