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Report Rates Strength of Canadian Pesticide Bans

Posted by: Posted date: May 17, 2011 In: General | comment : 1

Although approximately 80 percent of Canadians now live under the protection of some sort of restriction on weed killers and other pesticides, not all of the laws and ordinances are created equally. Today the David Suzuki Foundation issued a report ranking the strength of the bans in the six different provinces that have regulated these toxic chemical products: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/media/news/2011/05/ontario-and-nova-scotia-lead-the-way-on-pesticide-bans/

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