Media Release: Health Professionals, Labour and Environment Groups Call for a Toronto Pesticide Bylaw

Media Release The Partnership for Pesticide Bylaws, a new collaboration of health professionals and other concerned organizations, held a media conference to announce their call for Toronto to enact a bylaw prohibiting cosmetic pesticide use to protect public health, children's…

Blog: Protecting Children’s Health from Needless Exposure to Pesticides

Blog posted by Kathleen Cooper, CELA Senior Researcher From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court, and Back Again When the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided, in June of 2001, that the small community of Hudson, Quebec had the legal…

Blog: Urban versus Agricultural: Pinning Down the Numbers on Pesticide Use

(Originally published in Intervenor, the CELA newsletter until 2004.) Intervenor: vol. 27, no. 1 - 2, January - June 2002 By Linda Pim, Kathleen Cooper and Karyn Keenan Swirling amidst the debate on pesticide bylaws for Canadian municipalities are plenty…