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Webinar Recording - Transportation Planning for Equity and Healthy Communities

Topics: Built Environment

This webinar examines how transportation planning decisions affect social equity and public health, ways to evaluate these impacts, and better align transportation policies with community goals.…

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Webinar Recording - Irreversible Extreme Heat: Protecting Canadians and Communities from a Lethal Future

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Urban areas are the hot spots of global warming. Extreme heat, alongside flooding and wildfire, is a key risk to the health and well-being of Canadians. The situation is growing more dangerous, driven…

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Environmental noise

Topics: Nuisance Control

Environmental noise refers to unwanted sounds caused by human activity, such as road noise, aircraft, rail traffic, construction noise, building systems (e.g., ventilation or cooling), or…

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Webinar Recording - Measuring success in food systems planning

Topics: Food

Food systems are the complex web of activities and interactions that include food production, transportation, processing, retailing, preparation, and finally disposal. While these food systems are…

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Marine shellfish poisoning

Topics: Biological Agents, Contaminants and Hazards, Food

Marine shellfish poisoning refers to illnesses caused by eating marine bivalve shellfish (e.g., clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, cockles) that contain biotoxins, which shellfish can accumulate when…

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Webinar Recording - Health Canada’s new lead guideline and results of an Indigenous Services Canada, FNIHB drinking water sampling survey in children's facilities

Topics: Drinking Water, Indigenous Environmental Health, Lead

Health Canada published the revised lead drinking water guideline in 2019. The document included recommendations for sampling protocols to assess lead exposure such as random daytime and fixed…

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Environmental Health Resources for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Topics: Built Environment, Contaminants and Hazards, COVID-19, Infectious Diseases

The transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, occurs primarily via direct contact with or respiratory droplets from an infected person. However, there is evidence to suggest that…

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Canadian green spaces during COVID-19: Public health benefits and planning for resilience

Topics: COVID-19

Key Messages Canadian green spaces saw marked changes in visitation during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These included city parks and provincial and national parks, as well as…

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Lead in drinking water

Topics: Chemical Agents, Children's Environmental Health, Contaminants and Hazards, Drinking Water, Lead, Water

Lead is a naturally occurring toxic metal that can be harmful to human health. Health effects of lead exposure can include neurological, cardiovascular, renal, immunological, reproductive and…

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Human health risk assessments addressing artificial turf and crumb rubber

Topics: Canada, General, Artificial Turf, Chemical Agents, Children's Environmental Health, Physical Agents

*/ Public concern regarding the potential toxicological effects of exposure to artificial turf pitches has led to the publication of numerous human health risk assessments (HHRAs) on styrene-…

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