Mary Lou McDonald
About Mary Lou McDonald
Mary Lou is a lawyer, with an Honours undergrad from Carleton University and a law degree from the University of Calgary. Over her extensive career, she has practised natural resources law in Calgary (at what is now Norton Rose Fulbright), and renewable energy law in Toronto (as in-house counsel for Algonquin Power, Sprott Renewables and Potentia Renewables). She is currently counsel for Canadian group Safe Food Matters Inc.
Mary Lou practices yoga and meditation, and is committed to the long game, the high road and staying positive.
Health Canada's dangerous call on pesticide rules
Health Canada and the pesticide industry are using made-up and irrelevant science to drive the bus on maximum residue limits in the wrong direction, writes food safety advocate Mary Lou McDonald.
Pest regulatory agency needs to up its game
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has been told by the court it needs to better explain how it is protecting Canadians and the environment from the risks of pesticides.
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.
