Joint Letter on the Urgent Action Needed on Cooling Standards in Ontario Childcare Classrooms
Joint letter to Premier Ford calling for urgent action on cooling standards in Ontario child care facilities.
September 4, 2025
Joint letter to Premier Ford calling for urgent action on cooling standards in Ontario child care facilities.
CPCHE joined 30+ organizations in a collective response to the federal government’s public consultation on the proposed addition of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI).
There is an urgent need for planning, investment and policy change to ensure that all schools, early learning and child care settings in Canada are climate-ready and equipped to protect children from heat-related health risks, and to mitigate adverse impacts on learning associated with elevated temperatures.
31 Organizations call for the immediate passing of strong federal oil and gas methane regulations. As organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of children, communities and our environment in Canada, we recognize the urgent need to reduce methane emissions and emphasize that robust regulations are critical at this moment.
Methane is a powerful climate pollutant, with a global warming potential more than 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. It is a major driver of the accelerating climate crisis, which threatens the safety and stability of our communities.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) in schools and child care settings has become an increasing concern in Canada with elevated wildfire smoke exposure and knowledge
about airborne virus transmission, including COVID-19.
In Canada, approximately 2.2 million children travel to and from school every day on over 50,000 school buses, making 792 million
school bus trips each year. The majority of school buses are still fueled by diesel.
The Vision is intended as a framework to support collective efforts towards a world-class child care system in Canada that supports and promotes child health and well-being, now and into the future.
CPCHE advocates for, supports, and promotes strong policies and actions on: reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change, investing in climate solutions, supporting climate adaptation measures for health.
Twenty-two of Canada’s top health organizations, representing more than 300,000 health professionals, have signed a Call to Action on Climate Change and Health, asking all political parties to treat climate change as a public health emergency and develop action plans to bring Canada in line with international climate emissions targets.
Français This report summarizes the findings of RentSafe baseline research over the past three years and offers recommendations for action to improve intersectoral action and capacity to ensure healthy housing conditions for all people of Ontario. It represents the culmination of the 3-year collaborative RentSafe initiative led by CPCHE and
Health and environmental groups working on child health issues and chronic disease prevention are deeply concerned about the pervasive, multiple exposures to chemicals known and suspected of disrupting endocrine (hormone) function.
The development of this Vision and Strategy for Children’s Health and Environment in Canada builds on years of work by the partner organizations of the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE).
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 settings due to the escalating effects of climate change. HELD 2025 Campaign: Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Settings
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.
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.
Mould, Pesticides, Toxic Chemical Exposures Reported in Survey of Canadian Child Care Professionals.
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.
Healthy Schools Day proposes ‘do-able’ actions to reduce children’s exposure to diesel emissions from school buses.
Response to your correspondence of May 12, 2025, forwarded by the
Office of the Prime Minister, regarding the Government of Canada’s actions on
extreme heat and the protection of children in schools and childcare settings.
In a letter to the Prime Minister and other federal leaders, CPCHE raises concerns about the implications of Bill C5 for children’s environmental health protection and Indigenous rights.
Letter sent to The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada HELD 2025 Campaign: Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Environments Response
Français Subject: Call for Action to Protect Children from Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Settings Letter sent to: Prime Minister and Members of Federal Cabinet and Premiers and Members of Provincial/Territorial Cabinets: HELD 2025 Campaign: Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Environments Response
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to express our enthusiastic support for the recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment through the modernization of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) through Bill S-5, Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act.
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to express our interest in the proposals brought forth by Health Canada regarding the introduction of enhanced labelling requirements for chemicals in consumer products under the CCPSA, and to urge decisive action to operationalize the public’s right
The Government of Canada supports Bill C-226 and, like the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment, has called for its timely passage through Parliament. Last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the Government’s support for this bill, which aligns with the federal government’s plan to develop an environmental justice
Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and additional signatories urge the Government of Ontario and the Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy to consider the impacts of Bill 23 on the environments in which children live, learn, and play.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and additional signatories welcome HESA’s work to explore key factors affecting children’s health in Canada.
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to urge the Government of Canada to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make vital improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to urge the Government of Canada to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make vital improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to urge the Government of Canada to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make vital improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
We applaud the Canadian government for introducing the Canada Greener Homes Grant
as an important measure for addressing home energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. We think it will have a lasting and significant impact.
We write today as the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to urge the Government of Canada to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make vital improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) welcomes this opportunity to provide input to regulatory developments under the new Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA).
We are writing to urge you to declare triclosan a toxic chemical under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and strictly limit its use, in light of growing scientific evidence of its risks to human health. We are particularly concerned that this persistent chemical, known to interfere with endocrine function,
On behalf of The Sandbox Project, we wish to draw your attention to, and encourage your support for, the continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, an internationally recognized, longitudinal population-based birth cohort investigating the origins of chronic childhood illnesses.
On behalf of the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE), I’d like to thank you for the opportunity to provide input on the enhanced content of the early childhood section of the Ministry’s website. We strongly support the dissemination of practical information to help parents ensure
their
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is a national partnership of environmental, public health, medical, disability advocacy and child-centred organizations that, since 2001, have been working together across traditional boundaries to advance the protection of children’s health from the risks posed by toxic chemicals and pollutants.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) are concerned about the implications for lifelong health of early environmental exposures to toxic substances. The two partnerships represent 21 organizations that are active in Ontario and nationwide on issues of children’s environmental
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an innovative and multi-sectoral collaboration of medical, environmental, public health and child care organizations, formed in 2001. We are very pleased to note that the Canadian Paediatric Society will soon become a CPCHE partner.
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an innovative and
multi-sectoral collaboration of organizations, formed in 2001. Much of our work includes
educational and advocacy efforts to reduce and prevent fetal and childhood exposures to toxic substances.
We congratulate the Canadian government for its support of a legally binding global instrument to reduce human sources of mercury at the United Nations Environment Program Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Global reduction and elimination of human sources of mercury is necessary for the protection of the environment and the health
The Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals – Infant Development (MIREC-ID) proposal could position Canada as a global leader in research on the potential links between environmental exposures in utero and child health outcomes. The recently launched MIREC study is addressing a critical need for biomonitoring research to assess maternal and
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the Canadian Chemical Producers Association (CCPA) have spent the past year in a multistakeholder dialogue about environmental risks to children’s health.