“The question always comes down to implementation.” “We have a plan and we have a good plan,” McKenzie said. Kieran McKenzie said a progress report about Windsor’s Climate Change Adaptation plan was expected to be presented at council on Monday. We need them to see that these are real things that will matter to the lives of the people living in this region today and in the future.” We need our leaders to hear us that we care. “We don't get that action from municipal, provincial or federal governments on these issues unless we're really pushing them and I know that there's been a lot of energy in this community for a long time around things like active transportation and so forth,” McArthur continued. “It's really a shocking revelation when you think I can't go outside and breathe air which is fundamental to life without putting myself at risk.”Īccording to McArthur, “We can't continue to go this way and expect that we're going to be living healthy lives or in a region that sustains our health and well being.” “The events of this past summer really crystallized for a lot of people that the air that we're breathing is potentially harmful to our health and well being,” McArthur said. McArthur hopes solutions can be discussed to then be brought forward to local political leadership for consideration and implementation. Jane McArthur, with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) is among the several local, national and international speakers taking part. “We thought again, like everyone else who could smell and see it that something really needed to be said because these decades long efforts have, by and large, have produced not the kind of regulatory controls and pollution abatement that we had all thought was coming.” And we're not hearing that from governments,” Brophy told CTV News. “We're not going to get a pass and we need to take action. “I think what happened when we saw that Detroit was listed as ‘the most polluted city in the world,’ it should have been really, focused our mind that we're in the center of this thing too.” “Hopefully that will act as a stimulant to further discussions and to actions to demand regulatory controls.” “We want to give a snapshot here of the wide range of concerns,” said WOW member Jim Brophy. A conversation about what can be done locally and beyond will follow. The event will host an array of speakers, each of whom will present a brief summary of their particular concerns and perspectives in a rapid-fire panel discussion. “The recent pollution caused by a record number of climate-change-fuelled wildfires has reignited the need to implement immediate community protections and strong regulatory action.” “We can’t be lulled into accepting the persistent daily poor air quality, which impacts all of us, especially poorer and more racialized communities and First Nations reserves.” “For decades, toxic air pollution and its consequences for our health have been known,” Randy Emerson, WOW spokesperson, said in a release. The group said smoke-filled skies earlier this year across the Windsor-Essex region re-triggered decades’ old concerns about the health impacts air pollution has, hoping the webinar will spark political action. The black lace she wears early on feels very Dolce & Gabbana, 1950s Sicily, and the era also bubbles back up in the cropped pants and short-sleeve cardigan she wears to happily run around her manse (it feels very in-line with the Audrey Hepburn-type uniform she loves rocking in her normal, non-music video life).Windsor-Essex On Watch (WOW) is sponsoring a free virtual hour-long public discussion on air quality concerns in the wake of a summer that saw recording-breaking heat, storms and wildfire smoke. The song is catchy and she is fierce with a golf club (and a knife, ax, and scissors), but what we need to discuss is how beautiful the various dresses and two-piece sets she slips into are. Any T-Swift news goes 'round our office like wildfire, so when I got a must-watch email from Nikki, I plugged in my headphones, grabbed a note pad, and got to work. The just-released music video for Taylor Swift's single "Blank Space" feels kind of like a movie when you watch it, gorgeous wardrobe included.
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