January 9, 2024. At the request of the United States and Canadian governments, a trade dispute panel has rescinded an invitation to Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to submit official comments in the dispute under the Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement...
GE tree currently under US government risk assessment does not work says The American Chestnut Foundation Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – Halifax. In a major turnaround, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) has announced it is discontinuing its development of the...
Environmental groups call for a ban on releasing GMOs into the wild Halifax, Ottawa, Sutton, November 8, 2023. Today, the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) released an Expert Panel report commissioned by the Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada on...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Documents received via Access to Information show that the biotechnology and pesticide industry lobby group CropLife Canada worked in a joint committee with federal government departments called the “Tiger Team” to design new regulatory...
May 3, 2023 -Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food has approved changes to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) regulatory guidance that, along with similar changes permitted by the Minister of Health in May of 2022, allow product developers to assess the...
4 APRIL, 2023 – The Board of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the world’s leading forest product certifier, decided [1] at their March meeting to back away from a process that critics charge would have put forests at risk and would have opened the door to...
