“Courtney Howard, right, presents a letter on behalf of more than 150 Canadian doctors and medical students to Catherine McKenna, Canada’s minister of Environment and Climate Change at the COP 21 conference in Paris. (Courtney Howard/Twitter)”
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) took an historic stand Aug. 26 when general council delegates agreed to divest CMA of its holdings in fossil-fuel companies.
“In 2009, the Lancet called climate change the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century.”
“Courtney Howard hails from the mist and moss of North Vancouver and has spent the last few years hospital-hopping around Canada, working in ERs in BC, Ontario, Quebec and way, way up there in the Northwest Territories.”