May 6 – North America’s first Pesticide Ban

from Today in Canadian History · host Marc Affeld

The town of Hudson, Quebec passed North America's first ban of the non-essential use of Pesticides on this date back in 1991. To learn more, we spoke with Ashley Jensen of the Canadian Cancer Society.

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