Season Of Change

• Ontario announces new rules restricting pesticides linked to bee deaths

  Ontario’s farmers will have to reduce their use of a widespread pesticides linked to bee deaths by 80 per cent in the next two years, according to new final rules issued today by Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

  Environment

  Jun 9, 2015
  
• Senate Committee asks feds not to delay results of pesticide re-evaluation

  Senators, part of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, are asking the federal government to finish their re-evaluation of neonicotinoids pesticides. Neonics are widely suspected of contributing to bee losses around the world.

  Canada

  May 27, 2015
  
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• Banning neonics will have smaller impact on agriculture than industry estimates: leaked draft report

  Banning neonics will have a minimal effect on corn and soybean yields, an internal federal government draft report shows.

  Canada

  May 21, 2015
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• Proposed ban of suspected bee killer sets off massive fight in rural Ontario

  Bees in Ontario have been dying in record numbers, close to 60 per cent last winter alone.

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2015
• Getting the facts on honey production

  Honey bees in Ontario are dying in record numbers and the provincial government says a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids is partly to blame.

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2015