Mar 5, 2017
CHARLOTTETOWN. March 5, 2017 Growing concern over corporate marketing for a genetically modified (GM) apple in a March 7 webinar for high-school students has led groups to write a joint letter to provincial Ministers of Education, asking them to remove this product...
Mar 5, 2017
Click here for CBAN’s background on the webinar and the program “Agriculture in the Classroom” Friday, March 3, 2017. Charlottetown – Today, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Kids Right to Know, the Council of Canadians and Earth Action PEI...
Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Ottawa. Agriculture Committee recommends transparency in regulation, against transparency in the marketplace The House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food is recommending greater transparency in the regulation of...
Sep 15, 2016
Thursday September 15, 2016. Ottawa. Reports that Bayer has confirmed its $66-billion takeover of Monsanto are triggering concerns over increased corporate control in the seeds and pesticides markets from groups monitoring the impacts of genetically engineered crops...
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016. Ottawa. The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), Ecology Action Centre, Living Oceans Society and the Quebec network Vigilance OGM are expressing concerns over Health Canada’s approval of the world’s first genetically modified (GM) food animal,...
Dec 7, 2015
Monday December 7, 2015. Ottawa. Canada’s safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) foods, crops and animals is a closed-door process that is profoundly untransparent, says a report released today by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). “For twenty...
