Glyphosate
Montreal first Canadian city to ban golf course pesticides
The city has banned the use of 32 highly toxic pesticides on golf courses due to the risk they pose to human health and the environment, including several considered safe by Canada's pesticide regulator. The ban extends to glyphosate, a controversial and widely-used herbicide that is neurotoxic, disrupts the endocrine system and can cause cancer.
Critics want ‘mature’ discussion about pesticide
Following revelations that the country's agriculture department downplayed warnings about glyphosate, advocates argue that the country must have a tough talk about reducing use of the controversial chemical.
‘To say nothing is not public service’: former Agriculture Canada official raised red flags on pesticide
A former official in Canada's agriculture ministry accused the federal pesticide regulator of failing to assess the health risks posed by the controversial chemical glyphosate, a key ingredient of Roundup, months before leaving the ministry.
How a common — and contentious — pesticide is impacting Canada’s forests
A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia has been tapped to study the ecological impacts of glyphosate-based pesticides on forests.
Canada is ‘among the worst’ for pesticide rules
Canada falls behind nearly 90 per cent of countries in the world when it comes to banning harmful pesticides, including the European Union and Brazil.
Feds consider upping allowable pesticide residue limits on our food
There is growing concern about the harmful impact of pesticides on human health, agriculture and biodiversity, prompting calls from researchers to reduce their prevalence.
Judge rules professor’s firing unjust but not linked to views on controversial herbicide
She also ruled Rod Cumberland was wrongfully dismissed and ordered the Maritime College of Forest Technology in New Brunswick to pay him $48,644.57 for the seven-month notice period he was owed.
Petitions push feds to ban glyphosate
The battle to ban glyphosate, Canada's most widely used pesticide, has made it to Parliament.
Cross-country flights, confidentiality affidavits and handwritten notes. One woman’s Byzantine quest to see Ottawa’s pesticide data
When Sheryl McCumsey set out to learn about the health and environmental impacts of pesticides used in Canada, she did not expect a wild goose chase.
Trudeau and Biden meet as North American summit in Mexico begins
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are meeting face to face this morning as the North American Leaders' Summit begins in earnest.
Glyphosate protesters celebrate win against aerial spraying in Nova Scotia
The 13 sites people have occupied have not been sprayed with glyphosate, and the yearly spraying period is coming to an end.
Anti-glyphosate camps pop up in Nova Scotia forests while spraying is underway
As of Wednesday, protesters are camped out around or on 10 aerial herbicide spray sites in N.S., adding to a smaller number of occupations that have been up since Sept. 1.
Glyphosate spraying in N.B. akin to ‘eco-genocide,’ Indigenous communities say
Community members used to harvest food and medicine along the transmission lines. Now they can't, says Wolastoq Grand Chief Spasaqsit Possesom (Ron Tremblay).
Teacher’s fight against glyphosate pitted him against N.B.’s most powerful interests
Rod Cumberland has long fought against glyphosate, a herbicide that the forest industry in New Brunswick relies on.