Media Release: Ontario Plans to Ban Sale and Use of Cosmetic Pesticides

Media Release Happy Earth Day Ontario! Toronto: Chock up another victory for pesticide reduction and, in time for Earth Day, a green-tinged government responding to public aspirations. “With polls consistently showing over 70% support for banning cosmetic pesticide use, the…

Media Release: Top Health, Environment Leaders Urge World-Class Pesticide Ban

Media Release Joint media release and statement from coalition of 15 organizations Unprecedented coalition includes OMA (Section on Pediatrics), Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), Children’s Hospital Toronto— Ontario’s top health and environment organizations today urged the McGuinty government to enact…

Media Release: CELA in cheering section for Province-wide ban on non-essential pesticides

Media Release Toronto: The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) strongly supports Dalton McGuinty’s proposal for provincial legislation to ban the non-essential or “cosmetic” use of pesticides. “With nearly 130 municipal bylaws in Canada, many of them in Quebec and Ontario,…

Pesticide Bylaws and the Courts

Title: Pesticide Bylaws and the Courts Informed Decision-Making on Cosmetic Pesticide Use Conference Resource Type: Presentation Content: 519PestBylaw_Courts # of Pages: 45 Date authored: September 24, 2005 Author/s: Theresa McClenaghan

Proposed Integrated Framework for the Health-Related Components of Categorization of the Domestic Substances List under CEPA

Title: ENGOs' Comments on "A Proposed Integrated Framework for the Health-Related Components of Categorization of the Domestic Substances List under CEPA 1999" Resource Type: Report, Response to Consultation Content: 516_PIF_CEPA # of Pages: 38 Date authored: August 30, 2005 Author/s:…

Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Cancers in Canada: A Best Practices Review and Recommendations  Executive Summary

Title: Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Cancers in Canada: A Best Practices Review and Recommendations  Executive Summary Content: BPRev_FinRep_ExecSum # of Pages: 17 Date authored: May 2005 Author/s: Anne Wordsworth Author Organization: National Committee on Environmental and Occupational Exposures, a…