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Prevent Cancer Now 2023 AGM and opportunities on the Board of Directors
If you want to stop cancer before it starts, here’s your opportunity to contribute!
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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.
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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…
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.
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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.
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Inhaled or ingested, asbestos causes cancer
Health Canada's 1989 assessment of ingested asbestos is incomplete and out of date. Asbestos is a multi-site carcinogen. Swallowing it can lead to liver and gastrointestinal cancers.
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Canada’s asbestos cement water pipe research — a brief history
Deteriorated asbestos cement pipes can shed fibres into the water and pose a hazard of cancer. Canada’s Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Research (CSIR) in Regina (now closed) produced many studies of asbestos cement (AC) water pipes as a health concern.
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Sustainable Agriculture Strategy – Ambitious success, from the Guelph Organic Conference
Progressive organic farmer Rick Clark’s day-long session at the 2023 Guelph Organic Conference is an example to inspire ambitious vision and goals for Canada’s Sustainable Agriculture Strategy.
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Glyphosate in the courts, in Canada and the US… PLUS, falsified cancer data in a US government report
Courts in Canada and the US have ruled in favour of groups challenging glyphosate risk assessments. Concerns over possible industry influence are heightened with falsification re. nHL in final US ATSDR report on glyphosate.
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