Robert's Rants
Robert's Rants
A personal blog on the Canadian pesticide industry and other pet peeves and interests

2023 Polluter of the Year goes to……(pretend drum roll)

Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow! The Queen of carbon monoxide herself, The Right or Left Honorable Olivia Chow. Oh, c’mon Robert, she’s all about green and trees and tree huggers and peace on earth, good will blah blah So here’s why she’s the only nomination. Bike Lanes. I repeat: BIKE LANES Another OMG Robert, bike […]

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I just committed a pesticide, call the cops! Or the MOECC

It’s 3:25 am, another night of not sleeping, and i just devoured a left over hot dog and a homemade chocolate shake. so you lie awake at night and your mind roams. And tonite I’m dwelling on all the ”cide” words, which generally regard killing something. Herbicide, pesticide, homicide, genocide, biocide, even molluscicide of all […]

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So that was it? Another summer shot to hell

It’s gotta be the age, or post C19, or something that makes time seem to fly by. What happened to the summer, and all the fun bugs that go with it? Anyone see uptick in overall treatments? “Not really” or ”meh” is the answer I get most of in the back. Ants? Plenty hot enough, […]

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Fires and fish kill….never good.

The city of Toronto has just had an environmental event with contaminated water breaching a local waterway that feeds into Lake Ontario. A large chemical supplier/warehouse catches fire, and in order to contain the 7 alarm inferno from other chemical warehouses a vast amount of water was thrown at the blaze. The end result was […]

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Let’s take the regional pesticide bans one step further, and bypass Health Canada in the process.

I’m bewildered at how local government can override all the data and research and chemists, ecologists, microbiologists, toxicologists, MD’s and Phd’s who work at Health Canada in the PMRA. That means the PMRA’s highly valued, educated, and respected scientists put in years of work for nothing? It certainly doesn’t guarantee the pesticide can be used. […]

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Trudeau coughs up $4bn for affordable housing! 7 new Toronto home starts!

A slight exaggeration but not that far off. As the new average home price hits $700k, we’re going to make some 5800 families happy. and thats all good, but Take that same $4 billion and hire 32,000 nurses and/or police and/or teachers at $125,000 each. Imagine the effect on 20 hour emergency room visits, and […]

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Read the Label…if you can!

Okay, so my ranting about this label issue and a major gap in communications that needs addressed continues! The fine print is too damn fine. Simple enough. The whole pest control manufacturing industry, at least those still dumb enough to be in the pesticide business, are required to put a label and a booklet/pamphlet/Directions For […]

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