Press Releases

Pour le droit des pays d’étiqueter les aliments OGM

Regroupement québécois contre les OGM (RQcOGM) Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) Ottawa, Montréal et Québec, le 30 avril 2010 - Une coalition réunissant un large éventail d’associations de consommateurs, d’agriculteurs et de groupes environnementaux et de...

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MPs listen to Canadians ahead of industry on GM Crops

Groups applaud MPs for moving Bill C-474 to Committee for study Ottawa. Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Last night, Parliament passed Private Members Bill C-474 through second reading, in spite of intense pressure from the biotech industry. The Bill, which would require...

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Controversy Grows Over Brier Corporate Sponsor Monsanto

Halifax, Thursday, March 11, 2010 – The corporate sponsor of this week’s Brier, biotechnology company Monsanto, is under intense scrutiny from environmental, consumer and farmer groups in Nova Scotia, and across Canada and the world. “Many curling fans might be...

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Stop GE Alfalfa from Contaminating Canadian Farms

Canadian Farm and Consumer Groups Urge U.S. Department of Agriculture to Stop Monsanto’s New GE Seed Saskatoon, March 3, 2010 - Today a number of prominent Canadian farmer and consumer groups urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) not to permit the...

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Canadians Join Global Day of Action Against Monsanto

Challenge approval of new eight-trait GM “SmartStax” corn Friday, October 16, 2009 - Today Canadians opposing Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops will join the first “International Day of Action Against Multinational Corporations” that has been initiated by the...

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GM Flax Contamination from Canada Soars to 28 Countries

But Canadian farmers still have no answers Ottawa, Monday, October 5, 2009 – 28 countries, including more European countries as well as Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Thailand, have now been affected by contamination from genetically modified (GM) flax in Canadian exports...

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Maïs OGM approuvé sans évaluation de salubrité

Le Canada ignore les normes internationales sur la salubrité alimentaire Ottawa et Montréal, mercredi 29 juillet 2009. Le Réseau canadien d’action sur les biotechnologies (RCAB) et le Réseau québécois contre les OGM (RQcOGM) exigent que le gouvernement fédéral retire...

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