Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s Food Guide revamp is good for people and the planet, thanks in great part to a new information-gathering process
Author: Courtney Howard
Dr Courtney Howard is an Emergency Physician in Yellowknife, in Canada’s subarctic and board president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Motivated by work on a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) pediatric malnutrition project in Djibouti, and by climate-related health impacts on her Northern patient population, she spends approximately half of her time working at the intersection of climate change and health.
The health case for putting a price on pollution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate change is an emergency causing systemic damage to the health and well-being of many around the world, including Canada