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 ...
Water Policy – Alternative Federal Budget 2020 Recovery Plan
In 25 years of Alternative Federal Budgets, this edition of the AFB stands out: reflecting a chapter of history as ...
Stop Nestlé executive’s appointment to Swiss agency in charge of water aid
The Council of Canadians is joining with allies in Canada, U.S. and Europe to oppose the appointment of Christian Frutiger, ...
Blue Communities
The Blue Communities Project encourages municipalities and Indigenous communities to support the idea of a water commons framework, recognizing that ...
Lead water crisis reveals federal government’s inaction on water issues
Earlier this week, an investigative report by several media outlets revealed dangerously high levels of lead in tap water across ...
Palmater: First Nations’ water problems a crisis of Canada’s own making
In a recent and hard-hitting article in Policy Options, Pam Palmater, a Mi’kmaw lawyer from Eel River Bar First ...
Government inspection reports reveal complaints with bottled water
Bottled water that smells like "urine," tastes like "old socks" or reeks of "diarrhea." These were some of the ...
Guelph chapter member says grassroots can fight water commodification
Cameron Fioret, a PhD student at the University of Guelph and member of the Guelph chapter of the Council ...
