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In 2009, Citizens for Public Justice and Canada Without Poverty founded Dignity for All, a non-partisan campaign which calls for a national anti-poverty plan for Canada. [31] Every year on October 17, the Dignity for All campaign marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with events across Canada.
Ecojustice Canada (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund prior to September 2007), is a Canadian non-profit environmental law organization [1] that provides funding to lawyers to use litigation to defend and protect the environment. [2] Ecojustice is Canada's largest environmental law charity.
The current School of the Environment traces its history to three institutes at the University of Toronto. In 1959, the Great Lakes Institute was founded by Prof George Burwash Langford to study the impacts of pollution on the Great Lakes, [4] and the geologist Roger E. Deane served as its first director. [5]
He is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he was formerly the director of the Centre for Ethics. He also teaches at the School of Public Policy and Governance . [ 1 ] Heath's webpage at the University of Toronto declares his work "is all related, in one way or another, to critical social theory in the tradition of the ...
Beyond the Headlines (BTH) is a weekly radio show that provides fair and balanced analysis of pressing public policy issues in Canada. [27] The one-hour program airs from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST every Monday on CIUT 89.5FM, the University of Toronto’s campus radio station.
It is a place where people and groups meet for discourse and engagement in social justice. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1979. [1] It worked with Jamie Swift in researching and publishing about social analysis in Canada. It is situated in Loretto College, part of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto.
Catherine Mary McKenna PC (born August 5, 1971) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, McKenna was the minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021.
Climate justice also tries to address the social implications of climate change mitigation. If these are not addressed properly, this could result in profound economic and social tensions. It could even lead to delays in necessary changes. [15] Climate justice actions can include the growing global body of climate litigation. [16]