Exposing Corporate Lobbyists: In-person, Ottawa, Thursday, November 28 Global Insights and Action on GE Trees: Online, Sunday, December 1st Exposing GMO & Pesticide Corporate Lobbyists, Nov 28 ·         Visite guidée à Ottawa & dévoilement de la Cartographie des Lobbys des OGM et pesticides The Quebec CBAN member group Vigilance OGM invites you to join an in-person...Read More

Canadian government regulators colluded with the major biotech and pesticide company Bayer to stop a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. Journalist Marc Fawcett-Atkinson at Canada’s National Observer has exposed how regulators helped Bayer undermine a study that shows high levels of neonicotinoid contamination in wetlands. The strategy was successful in stopping a proposed ban on three...Read More

Resistance in Canada is rebuilding to take on the threat of genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) wheat as the world’s first GM wheat is grown in Argentina and Canadian government researchers are conducting field tests of unregulated gene-edited wheat in Alberta. Click here to read CBAN’s new factsheet on GM wheat. For more information...Read More

US company AquaBounty has closed its genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) salmon “tank farm” in Prince Edward Island and put the building up for sale. Currently, AquaBounty is not producing any GM salmon and has no working fish farm. Our press release today: GM Fish Factory in P.E.I. for Sale: Taxpayers Should Get Their...Read More

Genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) fresh sweet corn has been found in the produce sections of seven Whole Foods Markets in BC and Ontario: in Oakville, Mississauga, Yorkville, Yonge & Sheppard, and Ottawa, and in West Vancouver and Victoria. GM sweet corn could also be in the other stores in BC and Ontario. The...Read More

Last week, CBAN participated in a global scientific conference on genetically engineering trees that happened outside Washington DC. We were part of a small international delegation sent to investigate what researchers and companies are planning. Most of the research to genetically engineer trees is focused on reducing the amount of lignin in trees to make...Read More

There are four genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) foods that could be in the produce section of your grocery store: GM sweetcorn, GM pineapple, GM papaya, and GM squash. For details click here to see our “Summer DIY Guide: Avoiding GM Fruit & Veg”, published in the Watershed Sentinel magazine. The guide gives a...Read More

Canada and the US are using the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement to challenge Mexico’s ban on using genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) corn for making traditional foods. The Mexican government’s submission to the trade dispute panel has just been published and it forms a strong defense of its restrictions on GM corn. The Government of...Read More

The fight over the future of GMO regulation rages on. On February 7, the European Parliament endorsed a proposal to remove regulation from many gene edited GM (genetically modified) plants. The final decision now rests with the EU Council which is comprised of ministers of member states of the European Union. Meanwhile, the South African...Read More

Canada and the US are using the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA) to challenge Mexico’s new ban on genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) corn. Canada does not export any corn to Mexico, but the Government of Canada is participating in a trade dispute to force open the Mexican market. Read our new briefing for background...Read More