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Sign the National PETITION on Asbestos in Drinking Water
Take action NOW! Canada’s many old asbestos cement water supply pipes can contaminate drinking water. Sign this Parliamentary petition by June 2, urging the Federal Government to take immediate steps to assess and act on the health risks.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Organic growing and pest control: putting nature first
Organic is the only mode of agriculture with a set of principles that put nature first. It regenerates the health of soils, ecosystems, and people.
Organic farmers rely on natural processes, biodiversity, and cycles adapted to local conditions rather than use of synthetic inputs like chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.
More falsified data in a U.S. agency report, after courts ruled that glyphosate causes cancer
The world’s (and Canada’s) most-used weed-killer, Roundup, causes cancer, in the judgement of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. U.S. courts agreed, after research was reviewed and top experts were cross-examined.
Then a U.S. government agency included falsified cancer data in its final report.
Award-winning documentary film…
Watch “Into the Weeds” free on CBC Gem
Into the Weeds, Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary about glyphosate and cancer, opened the 2022-23 season of CBC’s Passionate Eye and can be streamed free now on CBC Gem.
The film follows groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson and his fight for justice against Monsanto (now Bayer). Johnson’s case was the first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits involving tens of thousands of plaintiffs claiming Monsanto’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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The Environmental Injustice of Beauty
The ENRICH Project and partners,including Prevent Cancer Now, hosted a three-part webinar series about the adverse health impacts of toxic personal care products and beauty products. The webinars followed “The Environmental Injustice of Beauty” campaign, to raise awareness about the negative health effects of toxic products, as well as the role of Eurocentric beauty standards influencing product use.
Urge your MP to support sustainable agriculture
Concerns raised during the Federal Sustainable Agriculture Strategy consultation (including Prevent Cancer Now’s submission) were ignored the following day, in an April 1 announcement of a Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. This was no April 1 joke. Agriculture Canada had asked for foundational input into the future of growing food, and the day after presented a fait accompli without including the requested input. The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a $3.5-billion, 5-year agreement starting April 1, 2023, between the federal, provincial and territorial…
In Federal Court: slow chlorpyrifos phase-out highlights systemic issues with Health Canada’s management of toxic chemicals
Chlorpyrifos is toxic and persistent, including causing brain damage in children. After being banned in the EU and the US, sales and use ended within months. Health Canada is allowing three more years of use in Canada.
MPs pass long-awaited legislation to tackle environmental racism in Canada
Advocates for social justice and equity, environmental protection and public health celebrate passage of Bill C-226, the National Strategy on Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act, and are urging rapid passage in the Senate.
PCN in the Media /
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)
Falling Short on the “Right to a Healthy Environment”
Bill S-5 needs to launch important improvements to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. (PCN in the National Observer)
Moving Canada off the toxic treadmill of key chemicals laws
Canada’s chemicals laws are two decades old. Parliament needs to modernize them properly. (PCN in the Hill Times.)
Health Canada should follow global leaders and speed up its ban of a dangerous pesticide
Toronto Star editorial on the agricultural insecticide chlorpyrifos (CPF).