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Ask Your MP to Support Sustainable AGriculture!
Major farming groups and experts agree that substantial pesticide reduction and adoption of organic practices are essential for Sustainable Agriculture and food security. See PCN’s federal submission, and ask your MP to support truly sustainable agriculture.
National PETITION on Asbestos in Drinking Water is Certified!
THANK YOU for taking action! Municipalities across Canada have a concerning number of old asbestos cement water supply pipes that can contaminate drinking water. Public response means that this petition is certified — the Federal Government must publicly respond to citizens’ request that it take immediate steps to assess and act on the health risks.
SCIENCE UPDATE ·
EFFECTS OF WIRELESS RADIATION ON CHILDREN
Mar. 23, 2023 / A major peer-reviewed publication reports that many aspects of child development can be affected by radiofrequency “wireless” radiation, and screen time.
Leading international scientists find impacts on bonding, speech acquisition, behaviour, socialization, learning and addictions. Cancer risks are also increased.
Recommendations include use of wired technologies, that wireless radiation exposures be “ALARA” (as low as reasonably achievable), that physicians query use of tech in well-child visits, and research to prevent and investigate electrohypersensitivity.
Featured Campaign · Sustainable Agriculture
Canada’s most-used herbicide is linked to cancer.
Sustainable agriculture would do without.
A healthy future depends on healthy soil, for healthy food and resilient agriculture. Prevent Cancer Now urges Canada to reduce pesticide use in alignment with international goals. Glyphosate is a good place to start. It is by far the most-used pesticide in Canada, and it is under court-ordered scientific review in Canada and the US.
Pesticides reduction is essential to human and environmental health
A stated goal of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15), in Montreal this past December, is to reduce pesticides by one half. Prevent Cancer Now supports a ban on glyphosate as part of a transition to ecologically based, organic, regenerative growing.
Sustainable agriculture in action — an inspiring example
Organic farmer Rick Clark kicked off the 2023 Guelph Organic Conference with this story — to inspire ambitious vision and goals for the Sustainable Agriculture Strategy consultation by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (open until March 31, 2023).
Award-winning documentary film…
Watch “Into the Weeds” free on CBC Gem
Into the Weeds, Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary about glyphosate and cancer, can be streamed free on CBC Gem.
The film follows groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, whose case was first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits involving tens of thousands of plaintiffs claiming Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) weed killer Roundup, or its industrial counterpart Ranger Pro, contributed to their cancer.
The film follows this trial, while considering the systemic effects of the world’s most widely used herbicide.
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Natural gas is neither a cleaner nor safer form of fuel energy
Natural gas is neither clean nor green, and is not a “bridge fuel.”
France bans Apple iPhone 12 while Canadians remain at risk
Sales of iphone 12 continue in Canada, while France stopped sales due to excessive radiofrequency emissions. There is no record of Industry Canada testing the phones. Testing loopholes might not protect Canadians.
Don’t underestimate ravages of climate crisis when storing nuclear waste
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission should heed Mother Nature’s warning and deny the present proposal. In today’s weather, much less the future, the commission is unlikely to meet its goal to keep nuclear waste secure for hundreds of years.
AFTER COP 15: To preserve biodiversity, we must abandon our dependence on pesticides
Consultations close on July 14th, on the development of Canada’s 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, to achieve promises made at the COP 15 held in Montreal last December. Canada’s high and increasing use of pesticides must be reversed.
A moment with the miracle of a Monarch
“In the dim light, there was a flash of gold. A Monarch chrysalis, attached to a horseradish leaf.”
Take a moment to experience the astonishing emergence of a Monarch butterfly from its chrysalis, in a series of photos by Meg Sears.
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The Futility of Carbon Capture and Storage
Federal tax dollars for Carbon Capture and Storage are a direct subsidy to a very profitable but toxic fossil fuel industry. The Canadian government’s billions for this unproven technology provides a delay for fossil fuels carbon emissions to continue unabated through 2050.
Misconceptions of what ‘net-zero emissions’ actually means will have dire health impacts
Current plans for addressing climate change are incompatible with an acceptable destiny. Our future health, as opposed to dollars, must become our priority.
Canada needs a research institute on environment, health, and well-being
The natural systems we depend on are threatened by human activity, resulting in what the United Nations calls a triple crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
A broad spectrum of groups urges Parliament to expedite the passage of Canada’s first environmental racism bill, ahead of the House of Commons debate
Social justice, health and environmental organizations are calling on MPs to pass Canada’s first environmental racism law. (Canadian Coalition for Environmental and Climate Justice, including PCN)