June 26, 2009
by Jon Steinman
In some provinces across the country, walking outside your house in the morning will no longer be greeted with a breath of fresh chemicals being applied to your next-door neighbour’s lawn.
Quebec was the first to implement a province-wide cosmetic pesticide ban, similar to those within municipalities being enacted throughout Canada on the use of chemicals [...]
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May 27, 2009
by Jon Steinman
“Researchers were able to demonstrate that current scientific knowledge does not sup¬port the idea that a switch to organic and sustainable agriculture would drastically lower food production and lead to hunger.” – M. Jahi Chappell, co-author, Organic Agriculture and the Global Food Supply
On April 22, the Province of Ontario implemented a ban on the “cosmetic” [...]
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