Avr 17, 2008
Ottawa, 17 avril 2008. La ruée vers l’éthanol attise une crise mondiale sur toute la planète. C’est le constat qui sera transmis par des leaders de mouvements paysans et experts agricoles des quatre coins du monde lors de forums tenus à travers le Canada et le Québec...
Avr 3, 2008
Will MPs vote for Monsanto or Canadians? Ottawa April 3, 2008 – Today the House of Commons will debate a Private Member’s Bill (C-517) proposed by Gilles-André Perron, Bloc Québécois MP for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles. If adopted, this bill will legislate the...
Fév 27, 2008
February 27, 2008 Ottawa – This week the proposal to build a biofuels plant in PEI came under fire at a hearing of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food that is examining Bill C-33, a Bill that would mandate the use of biofuels in...
Nov 8, 2007
For Immediate Release, November 8, 2007 Ottawa, Nov 8, 2007 – Today in Ottawa, Montreal and Arva ON, 3 delegations of farm and civil society leaders from the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) observed a minute of silence and delivered letters of...
Juin 6, 2007
Ottawa, June 6, 2007 – On June 1, 2007 the United States Justice Department gave the green light for Monsanto’s $1.5 billion takeover of the world’s largest cotton seed company, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) — the US company that developed and patented...
Mai 31, 2007
Ottawa, May 31, 2007 – Today, a Private Members Bill to ban “Terminator technology” – seeds genetically engineered to be sterile after first harvest – was tabled by Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko, Agriculture Critic for the New Democratic Party and MP for B.C....
