Registration: $50 per person
Date: November 17 & 18, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

*Please note all registrants will receive access to 11 Legal Toolkit recordings and slide decks for 90 days. *Registrants will also receive a link to join the Zoom Meeting Sessions on November 17th and November 18th.

Hosted by Anastasia Lintner of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and including numerous lawyers from Ecojustice and The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Toolkit is designed to educate nonprofits active in the environmental field about the legal tools available to protect our air, water, land, and human health.

Participants will receive a nuts and bolts overview of the laws that protect our environment. You'll access recordings of the following:

Using Access to Information Tools Effectively (54 min)
Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice and Charlotte Ireland, Paralegal, Ecojustice
Verified by the authors in August 2021 as up to date.

Using Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights (34 min) and (9 min)
Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Torts: What They Are and How to Protect the Environment Against Them (1 hr 1 min)
Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association
This recording was reviewed by the author and deemed up to date.

Private Prosecutions: Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands (34 min)
Ramani Nadarajah, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association.
This recording was reviewed by the author and deemed up to date.

Environmental Assessment: The [dead] Letter of the Law (52 min)
Joseph Castrilli, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Municipal Planning: PPS, Growth Plans, OPs, and Much More (17 min)
Jacqueline Wilson, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Reviewing Environmental Decisions (43 min)
Robert Wright, Former Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice

Submissions on Enforcement Matters to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (33 min)
Caitlin McCoy, Commission for Environmental Cooperation Secretariat

Advancing Indigenous Rights (27 min)
Kerrie Blaise, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association and Petri Bailey, Intern, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Indigenous Law & Canadian Law: Challenges and Opportunities (58 min)
Kerrie Blaise, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Peter Hillson, Intern, Sustainability Network, Petri Bailey, Intern, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Fight for Your Right to a Healthy Environment (58 min)
Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice

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https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/environmental-law-toolkit-workshop-2021