For two years a coalition of Toxic Free Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment have been working for province-wide restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides — and now delegates to the Union of B.C. Municipalities have listened. 
Toxic Free Canada, the new voice of LEAS, was launched across the country in time to support and celebrate Earth Day. For all the information about our national right to know labelling campaign, please visit our new website at www.toxicfreecanada.ca.
From plastic bottles to pesticides, Toxic Free Canada believes you have a right to know what harmful chemicals are in the products you and your family might be using every day. We give you the facts and practical solutions to stop your exposure to toxins at work, school and in the home.
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The community of Seton Lake has erected a pink cross to commemorate those lost to cancer, or suffering from it. We are working with community members and the band's environmental committee to study what toxins they are being exposed to.
The federal government has exempted the deca form of PBDEs from its new regulatory ban, making Canada's regulations inferior to those in Europe and leaving Canadians vulnerable to the effects of this toxic chemical. 
bisphenol-A, declaring the toxic chemical a dangerous substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Health Canada has proposed to ban polycarbonate baby bottles but no action has been proposed for many other products that contain BPA. How will consumers — especially pregnant woman wanting to avoid exposure — know what those products are? The issue has underlined the need for right to know hazard labelling that will identify products containing the toxic chemical.
Public demand for right to know labelling has prompted the industry lobby group to propose listing ingredients by 2010. But the proposal would leave consumers without right-to-know hazard labelling. 
The Labour Environmental Alliance Society (LEAS) today applauded the action of Burnaby City Council in taking “an historic step to protect public health and the environment.” The council voted unanimously February 18 to frame a leading-edge bylaw controlling the use of cosmetic pesticides and also agreed to forward a resolution to the Union of B.C. Municipalities urging the province to ban toxic cosmetic pesticides throughout the province.
CancerSmart author Sean Griffin explains that right-to-know labelling of consumer products would help to ensure that manufacturers would remove hazardous chemicals from their products. LEAS Executive Director Mae Burrows says we need provincial and federal legislation to protect the public from unknowingly being exposed to toxins in common household products.
Groups across the country have issued a joint position paper calling for new hazard labelling regulations that will give Canadians the right to know what toxic ingredients may be in the household and personal care products they use. But the chemical industry is opposing hazard labelling, claiming it will create trade irritants.
LEAS executive director Mae Burrows was honoured with a Partnership award from the Canadian Cancer Society.
LEAS has partnered with Option Consommateurs in Quebec to bring you the CancerSmart Guide in French, Diminuez les risques de cancer : Guide du consommateur averti.
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