Don’t let the federal government privatize your water – a lesson from Mapleton, ON
Communities across Canada must learn from the example in Mapleton and reject any attempt to privatize these critical infrastructure and services. Water ...
Hindsight: 2020 Part 2 – climate policy, fossil fuel industry and land defense
While 2020 will always be remembered for the horrifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many lessons to be ...
Public-private partnerships have no place in Canada’s post-COVID just recovery
Written by Vi Bui and Dylan Penner The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and amplified many structural inequalities in our societies ...
The Council of Canadians submission to the Canada Water Agency Consultation
The new Canada Water Agency must play a key role in implementing the human right to water and sanitation at ...
Suspending water quality monitoring: oversight or disaster capitalism?
This week, the Council of Canadians learned that the federal government has suspended water quality monitoring activities since the beginning ...
(Recording) Webinar: The human rights to water and sanitation in international law
A webinar series examining the 10 year history of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation. On July 28, 2010 ...
(Recording) Webinar: Gender justice and the human right to water and sanitation
Hear from the water justice activists, trade unionists and policy experts who led the campaign for the recognition of this ...
What is missing in Ontario’s new water management framework?
Ontario has proposed making changes to the permit process that allows bottled water companies to extract groundwater ...
