Canada

*  Canadian Coalition for Health and Environment - West Nile virus, bylaws; Multiple Chemical Sensitivities; submissions made to Pesticide Management Registration Agency (PMRA)
http://www.cche-info.com/

* Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment  (CAPE) - CAPE has several resources available including an 11 minute movie on the health effects of pesticides and a poster promoting pesticide-free parks.

*  Canadian Environmental Law Association - Publication 475 "Toxic Substances - Focus on our Children" has an especially good analysis of the faults of the current risk assessment (starting on p. 62)
http://www.cela.ca

* David Suzuki Foundation - pesticide work. The DSF is the only Canadian group still actively working on the pesticide issues (July 2008). They have written many reports.

* Organic Agriculture Center of Canada; serving students, farmers and consumers; great issues (include pesticides, food safety), links; discussion forum and more
www.organicagcenter.ca

* Partnership for Pesticide Bylaws http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/english/special_collections/fulltext.shtml?x=787

at Children’s Health and Environment http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/english/

*  Sierra Club- pesticides - some fact sheets, bylaws, history of pesticide regulation in Canada, Take action
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/health-environment/pesticides/index.shtml

* World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada); under resources: WWF-Canada "Information on POPs"; "Reducing your Risk: a Guide to avoiding hormone-disrupting chemicals"; or search "pesticide"
www.wwfcanada.org/en/default.asp

 

Provincial

*  Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides - Quebec - West Nile virus; Quebec Pesticide Code; alternative resources for apple trees, golf courses, list of low impact pesticides
www.cap-quebec.com

* Coalition for a Healthy Calgary  http://www.healthycalgary.ca/ working for a pesticide bylaw in Calgary.

*  Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa - info for doctors, updated news, very complete section on pesticide FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), excellent fact sheets and background documents; bylaws
http://www.flora.org/healthyottawa/index.html

*  Concerned Residents of Winnipeg
http://www.crowinc.org/

*  Nature-Action Québec (accessible in French at present; English under construction)
www.nature-action.qc.ca

* Pesticide Free Ontario
http://www.pesticidefree.ca/

* Problems Pesticides Manitoba. Overspraying people and properties not wanting to be sprayed should not be legal and should be considered misuse. However, it often fall through the cracks between Transport Canada, the provincial aerial sprayers associations, the PMRA and provincial pesticide agencies. This group gives general and Manitoba-specific information and help on how to register complaints and concerns when oversprayed by agricultural pesticides.

contact: Mary Anne Nylen; Box 1376 Neepawa, Manitoba R0J 1H0E-mail: prairieorchardorganics(attyahoo.ca