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Manitoba
Organizations
Campaign for
Pesticide Reduction CPR! Winnipeg
Ian Greaves, (204) 889-6021
2-70 Albert Street, Winnipeg Man R3B 1E9
Chemical
Sensitivities Manitoba
Marg Friesen: (204) 261 - 8591
Sandra
Madray: (204)
256 - 9390
The Manitoba
Eco-Network
No Malathion Please…
Resource Conservation Manitoba
City of Winnipeg
& Area Urban
Habitat
Stewardship Resource Program
The Organic Food Council of Manitoba, a chapter of Canadian Organic Growers
ofcm@cog.ca, (204) 779-8546, www.organicfoodcouncil.org
Box 68082, RPO Osborne Village, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2V9
Canadian
Organizations
Canadian
Association of Physicians for the Environment
CROW, Inc. is the
Manitoba member group of the
Canadian
Coalition for Health & Environment (CCHE)
Canadian
Cancer Registry Maps
Canadian
Cancer Society--Position on cosmetic pesticides
Canadian
Cancer Society--Position on pesticides for West Nile virus
Canadian Environmental Law
Association
Coalition
for a Healthy Ottawa
Coalition
for Alternatives to Pesticides--Quebec
Halifax
Pesticide By-law Project
Pesticide
Free Yards from the Sierra Club
Chinook
Group
Read about the
pesticide reform campaign by the Petitcodiac RiverKeeper
in New Brunswick.
Real
Alternatives to Pesticides in the Environment (RATE)
Research,
Advocacy and Information Network
Saskatchewan Network for Alternatives to Pesticides
Sierra
Club of Canada
See this pesticides page from the Society Promoting Environmental
Conservation in BC
North
American
& International Organizations
For more
information on safer alternatives to toxic
chemicals,
contact the Alliance for a
Healthy Tomorrow or at
617-338-8131.
Beyond
Pesticides is an amazing
resource for anyone wanting more
information on pesticides, alternatives and lobbying.
PAN Europe:
Pesticides Action Network Europe
From Prevent Cancer Now comes
the Cancer
Prevention Declaration
Contact Prevent
Cancer Now at info@preventcancernow.ca,
or by phone at 613-482-8124.
Chemical Sensitivity Foundation
This branch of the
US Environmental Protection
Agency
has information on Children's Health.
Children's
Health Environmental Coalition
(CHEC). Check out their HealtheHouse.
The Collaborative
on Health & the Environment (CHE)
Fragranced
Products Information Network
Grassroots
Environmental Education provides information on alternatives,
including a sample Organic Pest Management policy and a video, Our
Children at Risk
Diana Buckland Global Recognition Campaign
from Australia
Northwest
Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
is another supurb
resource.
Organic
Consumers blow the whistle on the EPA, show you how to write a
letter to make a difference, and generally provide a lot of great news.
Pesticide
Action Network North America
(PANNA)
Safer Travel
Directory - www.safertraveldirectory.com
- a booklet meant to
help the chemically sensitive find lodging in 40 states and a dozen
foreign countries.
Science
and Environmental Health Network
The Society
for Vector Ecology has
interesting links.
If you want the real story on, not the stuff from the spin doctors,
check out http://www.prwatch.org
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Facebook Websites
Petition to restrict non-esssential pesticides in Ottawa
* Katya Permiakova (York University Canada) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2370227229
Coalition for a Healthy Calgary
* Laureen Rama (no network) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2360867674
Healthy Lawns, Healthy Brantford
* Sarah McAlister (Waterloo) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2325810757
Ban the cosmetic use of pesticides in Canada
* Matt Casselman (Kingston, ON) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2366354550
Stop Health Canada from upping the allowable pesticide limit
* Erin Ferguson (no network) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2340501172
Agent Orange Association of Canada
* Art Connolly (London, ON) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2343850409
Agent Orange Association of Canada
* Ken Dobbie (Kingston, ON) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246087127
Agent Orange Destroys
* Stephanie Cassel (Rhodes) (creator)
cassn@rhodes.edu
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256146783
Agent Orange Petition
* Lam Le (Cambridge) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2324028584
Agent Orange Awareness
* McKenna Raney (Oxford High School) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2205024715
Agent Orange, not a laughing matter, it needs more attention
* Kai L. (Westfield Senior High School) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2237677122
Millions Against Monsanto
* Patrick Newton Cloonan Thurber (Switzerland) (creator)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2209163750
Facebook (c) 2007
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City
of
Winnipeg
Bugline
Here is the link to the city's webpage,
where, new for 2007, they are now putting the public
notice online. Thanks for that.
This is the Pesticide Use Permit for 2007. All 10 pages of
it. Page one. Two. Three.
four. five, six,
seven, eight, nine,
and 10.
Here are  public notices that appeared up
to the end of March, 2006.
See
the 2005
Public Notice from Insect
Control Branch.
To
view past and/or upcoming agendas /
minutes from Council and its Committees, the City Clerk's Decision
Making
Information System (DMIS) can be
accessed on the Internet.
The Winnipeg
Civic Environmental Committee
Click
here to read the City of Winnipeg's
Park and Open Space Weed Control
Standards and
Procedures.
Buffer information is found on page
8. Read the annual Public Notice
here.
Province
of Manitoba
Government
of Manitoba Home Page (English)
Contact
your Member of the Legislative Assembly
Make a fippa request with the Freedom
of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Health
Info Guide
Manitoba Agriculture & Food, Pesticide Safety
Manitoba Regional
Health Authorities
Manitoba Labour, Workplace Safety
& Health, Pesticide Hazard & Safety
Information
Manitoba Labour, Workplace Safety
& Health, Organo-phosphate and Carbamate
Pesticide Exposure: A
Physician's Guide
Manitoba Pesticide Approvals Branch
Canada
Health
Canada's Pest
Management
Regulatory Agency (PMRA)
registers
pesticides used in Canada.
Health
Canada’s West
Nile Virus
website
Pesticide
Science
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency malathion docket
Pesticides:
A Public Health Perspective,
Toronto Public Health Environmental Protection Office, October 1998
Public Health Mosquito Management
Strategy: Managing
mosquitoes and insect-borne diseases with safety in mind
Pesticides and You, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002, Beyond Pesticides/National
Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides.
Check out Haz-Map, an in-depth
resource which allows you to research occupational hazards by chemical,
occupation, or symptom.
Health,
Beauty
& Cleaning Products
Healthy
baby care from The Less Toxic Guide.
Recipes for Safer Cleaners by
Pamela Lundquist, Children's
Health Environmental Coalition
Check out Aviva. They offer natural health
information and products including natural bug repellent, cosmetics,
cleaning products and much more.
According to Breast Cancer Action Montreal,
LESS THAN 5% of money raised for breast cancer research
goes towards research into prevention.
Wendy Mesley from CBC's Marketplace has
done a supurb expose on the hazards of household cleaners, and the
inadequacy of current safety legislation, called A
toxic brew.
This Bay area newspaper has a toxic body burden
website, including a quiz to give you an educated guess about your
own toxic body burden.
Winnipeg
is home to one of only two Healthy
Home Stores
in Canada. Visit them for cleaning and building supplies.
Norwex
cleaning products require no chemical
cleaners. E-mail
to order.
The Environmental Health Association of
Nova Scotia has put together an Internet
self-help guide (www.lesstoxicguide.ca)
for those who want to cut potentially harmful substances out of their
lives.
Clean Production Action, an environmental
organization based in Montreal, has set up a website (www.safer-products.org) that
evaluates products that may contain potentially harmful chemicals,
ranking them by corporate name.
A safety assessment
of personal care products from
the Environmental Working Group:
The Collaborative on Health & the
Environment
http://www.informinc.org/cleanforhealth.php
has numerous resources to be ordered, such as Cleaning for Health.
The Green
Guide
Check out the Safer Shopping Guide and Skin Deep,
a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you
by researchers at the Environmental
Working Group.
Organic
Food
Have you
heard about Growing
Up Organic? Manitoba's day care centres will be healthier now.
When you can't always get organic food,
it's good to know which conventional foods are safest to eat. See
the list of most
& least pesticide-contaminated produce from the folks at
Environmental Working Group.
Learn more about Earthshare: www.earthsharemanitoba.ca
Winnipeg's Vegetarian Restaurant
Guide: http://www.ivu.org/wva/WinnipegGuide.html
Here
is an amazing resource for all things
organic in Canada:
www.planetfriendly.net/organic
Eat
with compassion. Find kind food near
you: www.eatkind.net
An
on-line organic food store: http://www.eatit.ca/
An
on-line organic food store: http://www.freshoption.ca
Manitoba's
ethical food market: http://www.freewebs.com/foodguide/
A
Manitoba supplier of organic beef: http://www.triplecbeef.ca
Room
to Grow offers organic bedding plants
and other garden treats: http://www.roomtogrow.info
Organic
Food Council of Manitoba: http://www.cog.ca/manitoba.htm
Organic
Producers Association of Manitoba: http://www.opam.mb.ca/
David
Suzuki's on-line newsletter, organic
food edition: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/WOL/Challenge/Newsletter/oct2004_buylocal/
Please
check out the Eat
Well
Guide. It is a new on-line guide
to finding sources of meat, eggs
and dairy that is produced by non-factory farming methods. Do a search
for your area. If the place where you buy your good meat, eggs and
dairy is not listed, please go to the “Add
Listing” and enter the
info. (Thanks to Cathy Holtslander of
Beyond Factory Farming for this link.)
A
recipe for pesticide-free latkes
(potato pancakes) from
Beyond Pesticides
Environment
To
help know what to buy and what to avoid,
you can order the CancerSmart Consumer Guide from the Labour Environmental
Alliance Society
based in Vancouver.
If
you want to know what's really going on
in Canada, check out the Council of Canadians website: www.canadians.org.
Friends
of the Earth Canada are doing
great things, too: www.foecanada.org.
Take
action to protect the ozone layer. See
the Greenpeace
ozone layer campaign.
Take the Suzuki
Nature Challenge! David Suzuki
Foundation http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
Global Exchange is
an international human rights
organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social
justice. Since our founding in 1988, we have increased the US public's
global awareness while building partnerships worldwide.
http://www.globalexchange.org/
GoodWork Canada at www.GoodWorkCanada.ca
offers employment for those interested in environment, peace,
alternative media, organics, sustainable living and similar areas.
Since it was
founded in 1985, the Rainforest Action
Network has been working to protect tropical rainforests and the human
rights of those living in and around those forests. http://www.ran.org/
For documents on Envirobuild's auditing process,
references and information on LEED visit www.envirobuildcanada.com
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