ENRICH is a community-based research project on #enviroracism in Mi'kmaq & African Nova Scotian communities in #NS led by Dr. Ingrid Waldron - @iwaldron2165
One of these members is the ENRICH, an organization
who works tirelessly to examine and address the effects of environmental racism and climate change on Indigenous, Black, and other marginalized communities. We are honored to work together. https://t.co/XnnX2U3zOv
"A climate justice movement has emerged to position climate change as a civil rights issue with human rights implications": Read Dr @ingrid_waldron's new case study and blog addressing the intersection of environmental justice and climate policy. https://t.co/U1gwKe0cRO
For a deeper dive, Dr. @Ingrid_Waldron looks at how structural determinants of health interact with climate change vulnerability and environmental racism in African Nova Scotians and Mi’kmaw communities in #NovaScotia. https://t.co/2VEbEjllis
3- End environmental racism: the province should update it existing environmental decision-making process to include a race-equity lens by 2021.
@inwhosebackyard@ingrid_waldron
If you are interested in following my work as the HOPE Chair in Peace & Health in the Global Peace & Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, please follow the Facebook page for the HOPE Chair here: https://t.co/aVWf63XzVZ
Pleased that Bill C-230 was approved at amendments yesterday. Only the Conservatives chose not to support. It's now on the way to 3rd reading in the fall.
Excited to receive the NFRF Exploration Grant to work with @bajanjules27 @pmarignani, other researchers at Dalhousie and McMaster, and environmental activist @DelisleLouise to look at cancer disparities in the African Nova Scotian community in Shelburne.
How Canada is moving to end the systemic ‘environmental racism’ that has been the toxic burden of racialized and Indigenous people for decades https://t.co/q2ORTIe09X via @torontostar
Excited to be working with Dr. Ellen Sweeney (Atlantic PATH), Dr. Juliet Daniel (Biology, McMaster), Dr. Paola Marignani (Medicine, Dalhousie), Dr. Jong Song Kim (Medicine, Dalhousie), Dr. Charles Hostovsky (Planning, Dalhousie), and others on this on this grant.
CBC Information Morning's feature on the Sisterhood Initiative, which will address Black women's health and mental health needs in Halifax Regional Municipality @DalNursing@DalHealth https://t.co/bQfl9Rr8bi
Please join me and Paul-Émile Cloutier (President and CEO of HealthCareCAN) for this episode of Deep Dive, where we discuss health leadership and advocacy. @HealthCareCAN