About Pesticides
BC IPM Applicator Death
"The connectionwas as plain
to Debbie
as the spectacular
hanging baskets
Brad was famous for
in downtown Peachland:
a link existed between
the pesticides
Brad used
and
the cancer
that took him.
When it came to
pesticide use,
Brad would have assumed
that what he was using
was safe . . ."
Do Pesticides Cause Cancer?
Dave Preston
Peachland View
March 15, 2007.
Help BC go Pesticide Free!
The Canadian Cancer Societycontinues to lead BC's
health and environmental
groups' advocacy for a
province-wide ban.
See Coalition's Feb 3, 2012
ban statement.
Review ban legislation
given to BC's Environment
Minister in 2010.
Join the CCS's "Pesticide Free
BC" Facebook discussions.
Take action! to help BC
go pesticide free.
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Our "Right to Know"
"The choice, after all,is ours to make.
If having endured much,
we have at least
asserted our
“right to know”
and if, knowing,
we have concluded
that we are being asked
to take senseless
and frightening risks,
then we should
no longer accept
the counsel
of those who tell us
we must fill our world
with poisonous chemicals,
we should look about
and see what other course
is open to us."
Rachel Carson.
Silent Spring. 1962.
p. 277 – 278.
Ont Ban Protects Vulnerable
"You can havea healthy lawn and garden
without the unnecessary risk
posed by using
conventional pesticides
for purely cosmetic reasons.
We are reducing
the risk to our health
and to the environment,
and protecting
the most vulnerable
of our citizens, our children."
Ontario Minister
of the Environment
April 21, 2010
on first anniversary
of Ontario's ban.
Nova Scotia Limits Exposure
"We are making it easierfor the people
of this province
to limit their exposure to
unnecessary chemicals."
Nova Scotia Minister
of Environment announcing
April 1, 2011
pesticide ban regulations.