BIG NEWS: Our petition to the Board of Health was successful! Motion to review IAQ guidance PASSED!
Councillor Chris Moise, Chair of the Board of Health, successfully passed a motion for the Board of Health to direct Toronto Public Health to review current IAQ guidance, including information from Health Canada! Read Councillor Moise’s letter HERE and the passed motion HERE (hover over the bold text for the link!).
Thank you to Councillor Moise, and the members of the Board of Health for listening to concerns of the many Toronto residents and organizations to signed on to support our petition. By the time we submitted the petition, we received nearly 1400 signatures, from organizations, community advocates, electd school trustees, and tenant associations representing nearly 10,000 Toronto residents, and the Elementary Teachers of Toronto, representing over 11,000 members.
Read about this and more about what we have been working on in our Jan-Feb 2026 newsletter. If you are not yet only our mailing list, please consider signing up (scroll to the bottom of the page to find the sign-up form!).
February 23, 2025
Petition: Motion to have Toronto Public Health Adopt New Health Canada IAQ Guidance
Right now there is no IAQ policy at any level of government that ensures indoor air is clean and safe to breathe. Change starts with government policy but that policy needs guidance from our public health officials, who have been slow to provide the necessary information on IAQ. However, this September, Health Canada released “Guidance for Indoor Air Quality Professionals“: crucially, it states that pathogens may be transmitted through the air, that CO2 is an indicator of ventilation, AND that the incidence of health issues increases when CO2 rises over 800 ppm, giving a threshold for taking action. This guidance opens the door for IAQ policy…if only our governments would put it into practice. We’ve got a draft motion all ready to go – we just need to show the Board of Health there is broad support for this. Sign our petition and help us get there! Clean air is a human right!
December 13, 2025
News
Decades of neglect and underfunding have brought Toronto’s public schools to the point where the majority of TDSB buildings are in a state of disrepair. Many classrooms lack mechanical ventilation and/or air conditioning, meaning schools are ill-prepared to protect students & staff from the next smoke or extreme heat advisory, and the next wave of respiratory disease. CIATO parents spoke to The Grind about the impact on schools. Read article
November 17, 2025
Community Event
Clean Indoor Air Toronto was at the East End Parents 4 Education community event, helping to raise awareness of the health impacts of poor indoor air quality in schools. Thanks to decades of neglect and underfunding, which has gotten worse with over the past few years with the province’s cost-cutting, poor air quality in Toronto’s public schools is sadly commonplace. We brought a computer fan Corsi-Rosenthal air cleaner, IAQ monitors, and fun activity sheets for kids to learn more about air quality. We had a great time chatting with members of the community and hope to do it again soon!
October 18, 2025
Press Release
Provincial Takeover of TDSB Puts Students’ Health At Risk – Critical Gap Between the Country’s Largest School System and its Largest Public Health Agency Highlighted by Clean Indoor Air Toronto. Read Press Release
October 15, 2025
News
Reporter Saima Desai spoke to Clean Indoor Air Toronto about the increase in COVID-19 cases during the summer months and the outlook for the fall. Read Article
September 15, 2025
News
Reporter Saima Desai spoke to Clean Indoor Air Toronto members for a feature story about indoor air quality in The Grind. Read Article
April 4, 2025
