Petition Presented in Provincial Legislature March 12. Kelowna. Today, Lana Popham, MLA for Saanich South and BC NDP Agriculture Critic, presented a petition in the British Columbia Legislature with 5536 signatures representing 19 BC communities, asking the House to...

Proposal for “Low Level Presence” would remove Health Canada from safety evaluation of some GM foods March 7, 2013. Ottawa. Today, a representative of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Coordinator Lucy Sharratt, told the House of Commons Agriculture and...

Thursday 28 February 2013 GM Opponents ask Premier to Ban GM Salmon Egg Production in PEI Charlottetown – Islanders Say No to GM Salmon is calling on Premier Ghiz to ban the production of genetically modified (also known as genetically engineered or GE) Atlantic...

February 25, 2013 Today, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network responded to the newly released annual ISAAA (International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications) report on the global adoption of genetically modified (GM also called genetically...

Groups denounce government approvals as reckless Ottawa. Monday, November 19, 2012. Today, civil society groups Équiterre, Nature Québec, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Prevent Cancer Now, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, and...

A Sample of Quotes from Transcripts of CSTA Coexistence Workshop “Developing a Coexistence Plan for Alfalfa Hay in Eastern Canada”, October 24, 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Click here to view the full proceedings. The meeting minutes also note: “Some participants in all...

Policy of coexistence of GM alfalfa is “utterly absurd", say local farmers. NATIONAL FARMERS UNION Grey County Local 344 and Region 3 (Ontario) (Kitchener) – Today farmers and consumers are protesting industry plans to prepare for the release of genetically modified...

Séralini et al. GM corn safety study in context: Introduction and basic comparison, CBAN, September 27, 2012. 3 page pdf.

September 20, 2012, Ottawa. The first-ever GM food safety study to test over the entire life span of laboratory rats (2 years) was published yesterday and found serious health impacts from eating Monsanto’s genetically engineered (also called genetically modified or...