Dr. Jon Gerrard, Manitoba Liberal Leader, recommends we ban Dursban., May 22, '08.
CBC exposes Winnipeg's failure to keep its promise of ecological insect control within 3 years, May '08.
Mike Warkentin eats his
words. Read Fog of
Stupidity in the Uptown Mag,
June 21, '07.
A Manitoba man is the first
Canadian to get WNv in 2007. He found out after donating
blood. He doesn't like mosquito repellants; they're "sticky". Read the
CBC report.
6000 Canadians suffer acute pesticide poisoning
incidents. Manitoba has no records.
Read the report and media from the rest of Canada, June
21, 2007. Happy Summer Solstice.
Penni Mitchell
did an amazing job of explaining why no one should use 2,4-D. Thanks to the
Winnipeg Free Press for publishing this on June 10, 2007.
Read about some of the media coverage of
the non-essential pesticide hearings held in May 2007 at Winnipeg
City Hall.
We know that
pesticides make people irritable, but this is going too far. Read
about these pesticide crimes in today's
headlines, August 5, 2006.
Read more about
these August 2, 2006 headlines from Democracy Now:
Scientists: EPA OK'ing Harmful Pesticides
Under Industry Pressure and Bhopal
Survivor, Campaigner Dies of Apparent Suicide And the
article as it appeared in the New York Times, Unions
Say E.P.A. Bends to Political Pressure.
David Suzuki explains what's good and
bad about
Canada's new Pest Control Products Act.
Spray
Big or Go Home????????? Where do they find these guys?
from Monday June 26 in the Winnipeg Sun. On Saturday,
June 24, The Winnipeg Sun published this argument from the (same) other
entomologist disputing the migrating insect theory, Insect
expert disputes Taz, and a letter to the editor from Dave Nickarz, Fogging
doesn't work, in response to this assinine opinion piece by Ian
Shanley, published Friday the 23rd, Please
stop the mosquito madness. Here's CROW's response, yet to be
published, Dumb
and Dumber.
CTV has been covering the story of Robin
Fay's flight from town on Friday, June 23 before fogging starts.
CBC
interviewed Councillor Donald Benham on Friday, June 23.
Here's an excerpt, "'We've used malathion for a long time. It hasn't
worked, didn't get rid
of the mosquitoes.' We're the only city, the only municipality, that
uses malathion. Why is that? Are all the rest wrong? None of them have
mosquitoes? Of course they have mosquitoes. They've learned other ways
to deal with them." CBC also have a web page called Malathion
vs Mosquitoes.
The Winnipeg
Free Press printed this opinion piece on Sunday, June 10, 2006, PESTICIDES
ARE BAD: JUST ASK
ANY GATOR, Alligator tears. Read the original piece, and
CROW's
response, which was submitted June 11 and published June 20. The
day before the city's June 21 fogging
announcement. Read the version sent to City Councillors here. (This
one discloses that the decision is based on city-wide average of 3
nights of counts including 26, 196, and 88. So much for the new
green policy.) Then buffer up.
Then call your politicians.
To quote MP Pat Martin, Winnipeg's handling of the fogging issue is
"retarded."
London Bans Pesticides:
"If
you don't give up, you win sooner or later."
The
Charlottetown Guardian has a terrific article about the special risks to women and
children of pesticide exposures, quoting the PEI Advisory Council on
the Status of Women.
June 1,
2006 Globe and
Mail
Want a full-time job? Live
chemical-free
Ordinary citizens have achieved the extraordinary! April 3,
2006 the final stage of the Pesticide Code of
Quebec has come into effect. Congratulations to all of us!
More great news this week! Brandon
becomes the first prairie city to enact a pesticide bylaw.
Bravo! Read how this story was reported in the news. Read the bylaw.
Study shows targeting well-to-do best way to encourage change
BOB BURTT, WATERLOO REGION (Apr 3, 2006)
*Rich
addicted to green lawns*
UN Upholds Moratorium on
Terminator Seed Technology - March 31, 2006
www.banterminator.org
"Health Canada cared not one bit about the possible deaths or
hospitalizations of Canadians due to its actions..." Read that
article
from Thu, March 30, 2006 in the The Calgary Sun. Health Canada suit ignored well-being
Read his very
informative and interesting article from the Ottawa Citizen, March 5,
2006, You are what you
eat... breathe... scrub... lather... spray...
Read this
March 7, 2006 release from Pesticide Action Network North America,
Pesticides
- A Greater Threat to Children
From:
Environmental Science & Technology, Jan. 18, 2006
CANADA'S
SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS PESTICIDE BAN
Canadian cities successfully by-pass industry's legal challenge to laws
that keep pesticides off lawns and gardens. By Janet Pelley
New study proves chemical
mixtures
more toxic than exposures to a single chemical.
News of Bush's
attempts to push human
pesticide experiments through EPA has been leaked and is being
hotly
contested by US Senater Barbara Boxer. Go Babs!
Read this
letter to the editor regarding Port Moody, B.C.'s recent pesticide ban,
outlining the Canadian Cancer Society's position on pesticides, from
Wed 11 Jan 2006, The Tri-City News, Pesticides dangerous and
not necessary.
Read this Media Release by
the
Canadian Coalition for Health & Environment for the 2006
election. What will politicians do about pesticides?
U.S. Supreme
Court Protects Salmon: No-Spray Buffers To Stay In Place
Court refuses to consider pesticide industry petition to overturn
buffers.
Read the media release by Earthjustice, January 9, 2006.
In case you would like to read the complete story, not
the truncated version that appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on
November 2, 2005, check out If you think
your job sucks, consider Peter Kershaw's. Read it to the very
last paragraph, and your blood will run cold, too.
Revealed: health
fears over secret study into GM food
Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain
developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, 22
May 2005
In other news from the UK, read about the pesticides campaign by Georgina Downs.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues
allowing human pesticide testing. Read this May 9, 05 press release by
the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
In the U.S., there is some reason to cheer.
Supreme
Court Affirms Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm.
Those bad boys at Monsanto are at it again. Now they've
been fined for bribing
Indonesian
officials. Read this January 11th release from PANUPS.
Sierra Club of Canada Press Release, January 10th 2005: Environmental group withdraws from pesticide hearings
in protest
Dow Chemical Is Told to Curtail
Dursban Sales. Read this Washington Post article from December 29th.
Is the EPA backing off its promises to DOW to delay Dursban
phaseout? Read this December 20th release.
Bayer backs out of GE in India!! Read this December 20th
media report from PANUPS.
Avoid buying your gasoline from Co-op and Husky. See why
in this media release from the Sierra Club of Canada about the neuro-toxic fuel additive MMT.
Read The
Sad Truth about the Stark Rise in Childhood
Cancer, reprinted from The Chicago
Tribune issue June 17, 2003, by Samuel S. Epstein and Quentin D. Young.
Dr. Samuel S. Epstein is chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition
and professor emeritus of environmental and occupational medicine at
the University of Illinois.
Friends of the Earth release a stunning Media Advisory
on November 23rd,
US Plans To
Allow Experimental GM Crops To Contaminate Food
Prague, November 23, 2004. The Environmental
Investigation Agency (EIA) is launching a campaign to convince United
States supermarkets to stop selling food, such as tomatoes,
strawberries and nuts, grown or treated with the deadly chemical methyl bromide.
Letter to the Editor of the Winnipeg Sun, October
27, 2004
See this CP article from July 24, 2004 on CNews for an excellent review of the issues this
past summer.
The Canadian Coalition
for Health & Environment releases this  Media Release on
July 22, 2004 after their Secretary is jailed in Winnipeg.
CBC does a good story on
malathion with numerous links, also on July 21, 2004, Experts split on malathion's
safety, efficacy.
The Manitoban covered the story well on July 21,
2004.
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