The Government of Canada finally released the final regulations to ban six single-use plastics! This includes the production and sale of stir sticks, straws, ring carriers (six pack rings), foodservice ware made from or containing problematic plastics, cutlery, and checkout bags.

Read our full statement here. 

We know this is only the beginning. A lot more needs to be done to tackle the plastic crisis and we want to see these actions take place faster.

If you want to continue taking action on plastic, it's not too late to join Sierra Club and the Great Lakes Plastics Pollution Solution Coalition for Plastic Free July!

In its 17th year, the Ontario Biodiversity Council (OBC), came together to achieve the actions set by the Ontario Biodiversity Strategy 2005. In 2011, with support from the Ontario government, Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy was renewed as a 10-year strategy, aligning with the Convention on Biological Diversity’s global Strategic Plan and its 20 targets, collectively known as Aichi targets. The 10-year strategy is a blueprint, championed by OBC, for an ecologically sustainable future for Ontario, its biodiversity and its people — something well worth pursuing.

The health of the great lake of Ontario, which is a Seneca translation of the words Beautiful Clear Lake, is one of the significant issues facing the province for which it is named. The health of the Great Lakes and its tributaries are threatened by the curses of urban sprawl and expressways.

ICAN members celebrated when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force last year, having been ratified by 50 countries. Canada not being one of them. The Treaty makes it illegal for United Nations member states to develop, test, produce, acquire, possess, use or threaten to use nuclear weapons.

Recently, when reviewing the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Bacher V. GR CAN Investments, I received grim news of brutal events in the Amazonian rainforest. This showed the similarity of the assaults of the woodlands of the Carolinian life zone, Canada’s most biologically diverse biome, with another critical cradle of species diversity on our planet.

Have you ever experienced “smog” or haze during the summer? This is due to a range of air pollutants in the lower atmosphere layer, the troposphere. Air pollutant is an umbrella term for any contaminant that impacts air quality. One of these air pollutants is ozone, which is present in both the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere.

Hike and raise funds to support Sierra Club Ontario, and join a growing community of participants who are passionate to do more to protect our environment!

Join us July 9 to 24 to "take a hike" - on a mountain, on a favored walking trail, indoors with your walking group, or even around your neighborhood - just make some time to hike, walk, wheel, climb or paddle and help raise funds for Canada's only national democratic, grassroots organization fighting every day to protect our beautiful planet.

Register today and make a positive difference for the environment and for your community!

City: Toronto, ON
Date: Saturday, July 13 at 1:30 PM
Event Host: Mary Kainer

Area: Stanley Park to Roncesvalles Ave and Queen Street West

Proceeds support the Ontario Chapter!

City: Pickering, ON
Date: Saturday, July 23 from 10 AM to Noon
Event Host: Kristina Jackson and John Bacher

Area: Seaton Trail (rsvp for trail location)

Description: Easy to moderate 2 hour hike

Proceeds support the Ontario Chapter!

Image Credit Friends of Seaton Trail (www.seatontrail.org)