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Herbicides, Insecticides

Neonic update

The International Task Force on Systemic Pesticides is back, with yet more damning indictment of persistent, pervasive neonicotinoid…

September 12, 2017

Herbicides, Research

Why worry about mucky mouse butts and cancer?

Objection to Glyphosate Registration Glyphosate is the most-used herbicide in Canada and around the world, and according to…

June 20, 2017

Herbicides, Legal action, Pesticides

How a bureaucratic manoeuvre bought another year for Atrazine

Atrazine most famously causes male tadpoles to develop into reproductively functional females, when grown in the lab equivalent…

April 20, 2017

Food, Insecticides, Pesticides

Phasing out Canada’s number one insecticide

A blow for health and the environment, or a great corporate strategy? Canadian “green” social media is a-buzz…

March 21, 2017

Pesticides, Insecticides, Legal action

Neonic Hearing Update: Federal Commons Committee now inviting NGO to hearing

House of Commons committee to open hearings on neonic pesticide with industry-biased panel 11th-hour invitation to testify issued…

March 6, 2017

Communities, Indigenous, Industry-impacted

Prevent Cancer Now recognized Ada Lockridge for decades of cancer prevention work, for constantly seeking answers for important questions affecting her community, for inciting change in Sarnia’s industrial heart, and especially for her keen intellect, energy and spirit of love for humanity and the environment that underlies her actions.