Canada’s chemical romance stands in the way of the right to a healthy environment
Facing droughts, fires, heat domes, crop failures, floods and Arctic blasts, environmental protection cannot be blind to climate change.
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Canada has waited long enough to ban chlorpyrifos
Canada’s three-year phaseout of the toxic insecticide chlorpyrifos risks ongoing harms, as well as dumping of this product on our market, write Meg Sears and Mary Lou McDonald.
Neonic pesticides may harm monarch butterfly eggs
A recently published study suggests that one of the world's most common pesticides may be contributing to the decline of one of its most-loved butterflies.
Federal politicians criticized for ‘regurgitating' pesticide industry lines
Environmental groups say the Commons agriculture committee looking into a ban on imidacloprid is parroting industry lines while ignoring concerns about the pesticides.
Multinationals descend on Parliament as feds review pesticide ban
Environmental organizations are questioning the role of the pesticide industry in a House of Commons consultation on a proposed ban of a pesticide linked to the global decline of honeybees.
Bees won't survive, and neither will we, unless we do this
By focusing solely on honeybees and neonics, the Ontario approach risks missing the forest for the trees.
