Environmental issues

Pikangikum Health Authority, which is located in Pikangikum First Nation, a fly-in Ojibwe community in northern Ontario, is implementing RNAO’s Adopting eHealth Solutions best practice guideline (BPG). In March 2026, RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun, President NP Lhamo Dolkar and President-Elect Sue LeBeau paid a special visit t...

RNAO released its highly anticipated ECCO 4.0: Enhancing Community Care for Ontarians report during a media conference held at Queen’s Park on May 12. The report provides a comprehensive vision and urgent call for health system reform based on evidence and principles of equity.The report’s 16 recommendations provide a blueprint ...

I grew up participating in Boy Scouts, camping as often as I could. I always felt a connection with nature and a need to protect it. My fears about climate change grew after experiencing the wildfire smoke in Ottawa in the summer of 2021. Not only was climate change real; it was happening. I wondered how bad it would be in the f...

Call it good timing or a sign, but either way, it was a simple email to Rob Samulack from a faith-based environmental conservation group that changed everything. With it came the opportunity to visit Glasgow, Scotland for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP26). This once-in-a-lifetime chance to join t...