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Ottawa to phase out pesticides linked to bee deaths | The Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/08/14/ottawa-to-phase-out-pesticides-linked-to-bee-deaths.html

OTTAWA—In what is being hailed as a victory for troubled bee populations,
the federal government is moving to ban the outdoor use of pesticides that
are widely applied to canola, corn and soybean crops in Canada, the Star
has learned.

Beekeepers and environmentalists have blamed the pesticides
<https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/05/ontario_bees_dropping_like_flies_elmwood_beekeeper_blames_corn_pesticide.html>
— called neonicotinoids — for contributing to honeybee die-offs in recent
years. On Wednesday, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency
(PMRA) will announce a plan to phase out the outdoor use of two
neonicotinoids — thiamethoxam and clothianidin — over three to five years
due to concerns about their effects on aquatic invertebrates, according to
two people who were informed in advance of the decision this week.