A new independent report from an Expert Panel appointed by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) urges caution on releasing genetically engineered insects for pest control. The report also shows the importance of independent scientific analysis. The report was commissioned by Health Canada’s Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency to investigate the scientific, ethical and regulatory challenges...Read More
Join us Thursday, September 21, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The topic for our information session is Introducing Fundamentals of Nutrition. A sneak peek into Mississauga’s virtual classes & some great nuggets to improve your health! Please email us at mississauga@csnn.ca to receive your Zoom invitation!Read More
Hope I got your attention now ! 😊 Do you want to continue to access Natural Health Products ( NHP’s) & choose your own health care plan ? Bill C-47 was passed on June 22nd, 2023. This bill must be repealed and your help is urgently needed. NHPPA is by far the best...Read More
Earlier this summer, CBAN participated in a global strategy meeting in Brazil to advance the fight against genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) trees. We learned a lot about how the development of GE trees is connected to the industrial plantation model and how these monoculture tree plantations impact communities and the land. Like genetically...Read More
We’ve just started, and the country is already on the move. People are angry, and they should be. It’s only been since June 10, that NHPPA’s Discussion Paper was released, and followed up by two national calls with Shawn Buckley and the team. Those calls clearly sounded the alarm of the deep and real threat to the entire NHP...Read More
On May 3, the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced her decision to allow many new gene edited seeds onto the market without any government environmental safety assessments and without any notification from companies. If you missed it, click here to read CBAN’s e-news update and reaction. Si vous l’avez manqué, cliquez ici pour...Read More
The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food has decided to exempt many new gene-edited GM seeds from government regulation. Combined with the similar May 2022 decision from the Minister of Health, this decision means that Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will not check any safety data from product developers and that companies can...Read More
The Supreme Court in the Philippines has halted the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) “Golden Rice” and GM eggplant. The decision is a response to a petition filed by the farmer-led network MASIPAG on October 12, 2022. “We welcome this move by the Supreme Court in issuing the Writ of Kalikasan on Golden Rice...Read More
We have won a critical fight in the campaign to stop genetically engineered trees. Thanks to your action, the Board of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the world’s leading forest product certifier, has decided to back away from a process that would have put forests at risk and opened the door to overturning the FSC’s...Read More
There is unprecedented corporate consolidation in the global seed and pesticides markets, dominated by the four companies that also control most of the world’s genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) seeds: Bayer, Sygenta, Corteva & BASF. These four companies dominate the markets but they also lead the political pressure campaign in Canada to remove government...Read More
