Ruth Grier
Grier has eloquently combined passion and reason on environmental health issues in a decade’s worth (1985-95) of high-profile work with the NDP in Ontario, and has played a key role in changing the way we think about environmental carcinogens and toxics in this province, both as health minister and as a grassroots activist. She’s still the queen of unglamorous community spade work – like helping stop an Etobicoke skate park from damaging wetlands.
