Win on Glyphosate Product Case! - Safe Food Matters

"Trust us, we got it right" isn't good enough. Safe Food Matters and friends won in the glyphosate product renewal case, when on February 18 the Federal Court uled that the renewal of a pesticide product used in forestry and agriculture was not reasonable because Health Canada's decision-making was not adequate.

Canada's pesticide regulator was 'captured by industry' from day one

In Canada's potato province, streams run with pesticides

Streams that run through Prince Edward Island's potato country are contaminated with levels of an environmentally-destructive pesticide that exceed federal safety regulations, Canada's National Observer has found.

Feds stalled release of pesticide health information for years

Canada's pesticide regulator is delaying the release of health and safety data, internal emails, briefing notes and other documents that justify its decision to approve several harmful pesticides, Canada's information commissioner has found.

Family-owned wood treater says chemical ban could shut it down

Perry Vermette, owner of Vermette Wood Preservers, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss his concern that Ottawa's move to ban a wood-treatment chemical called pentachlorophenol threatens the viability of his company. Companies in the industry complain that Ottawa has yet to approve a viable substitute.