2025 HELD Media Release
Français As Canadians face increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, health, education and legal experts are sounding the alarm on a growing crisis: extreme heat in schools and child care […]
2024 HELD Media Release
On Healthy Environments for Learning Day, environmental and child health advocates cite growing concern about indoor air quality in educational settings; Prominent national institutions issue urgent call for government action.
2023 HELD Media Release
On Healthy Environments for Learning Day, environmental and children’s health advocates call on all levels of government to accelerate the switch to electric school buses.
2022 HELD Media Release
Mould, Pesticides, Toxic Chemical Exposures Reported in Survey of Canadian Child Care Professionals.
CPCHE releases Position Statement on Climate Change
The impacts of climate change are apparent and will continue to worsen without strong action. Children’s health and well-being are increasingly at risk from the adverse affects of climate change, including heat stress, trauma from extreme weather events, increased risk of vector-borne diseases, and growing levels of eco-anxiety.