Canada Sprays Cancer-Linked Glyphosate from Helicopters Over Forests and Families (Exclusive)

Canada is dumping poison from the sky. On August 24th, RAIR Foundation USA filmed three Ontario women who are leading the charge to stop the government’s aerial spraying of glyphosate — better known as Roundup — across forests and communities that families depend on for food, water, and life itself.

Officials claim the chemical is needed to “manage” forests and protect young pine trees from competing vegetation. In reality, the spraying kills everything in its path — plants, wildlife, soil health — while exposing nearby towns to a toxin internationally linked to cancer, water contamination, and ecological collapse.

This is not forest management, it is chemical warfare against the land and the people who live on it.

Donna Burns: Exposing the Poisoning of Crown Land

Donna Burns, Vice President of the Ontario Land Owners Association, sounded the alarm about a disturbing practice in Renfrew County. A private company, Ottawa Valley Forest Inc., is managing Crown land and conducting aerial spraying of glyphosate over roughly 1,000 acres between Du Rivier and Stonecliffe. This chemical, internationally linked to cancer, water contamination, and ecological destruction, is being dumped from helicopters onto forests bordering communities where families camp, forage, and hunt.

Burns stressed that the government and its partners are presenting this spraying as lawful and responsible stewardship, when in reality, they have no sweeping authority to poison these lands. The public has been deliberately left ignorant of their property rights, creating the illusion of compliance. The Ministry of Natural Resources claims the practice protects forests, but in truth, it violates Ontario’s own Endangered Species Act and federal environmental protections. Glyphosate does not “manage” forests — it annihilates them, killing plants, animals, and habitats alike.

This is being done under the guise of environmental care, Burns warned, but in reality, it is part of a centralized agenda where bureaucrats and private corporations wield power over land that rightfully belongs to the people. Crown land is not government property — it is shared, lived on, and depended upon by citizens, and must never be treated as a chemical dumping ground.

Burns pointed to Quebec, where in 2001, citizens successfully forced a ban on aerial glyphosate spraying after massive public opposition. That decision not only safeguarded health and the environment, it also created new forestry jobs in manual management. Ontario could achieve the same — but only if citizens act.

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Charity Parisian: From Concerned Mother to Reluctant Organizer

Burns’ warnings were followed by young mother and environmental activist Charity Parisian, who explained how she stumbled into leadership. One night, after putting her four children to bed, she saw the Ministry’s announcement about spraying and went looking for a protest to join. Finding none, she created one herself. By morning, she had launched the “Stop the Spray in the Ottawa Valley” group, sent a barrage of emails, and begun organizing a demonstration outside the Ministry’s Pembroke office.

Armed with a background in environmental technology, Parisian dismantled the forestry company’s claim that glyphosate was needed to protect white pine saplings from berries and shrubs. This isn’t responsible forestry, she argued — it is plantation-style farming disguised as conservation. Worse still, chemicals won’t simply kill raspberries and blackberries, but will poison entire ecosystems, weaken soils, and leave behind tinder-dry ground primed for wildfires.

Parisian offered a proven alternative: grazing sheep to naturally clear competing vegetation. In Alberta, she explained, entire flocks are contracted to graze cut blocks, fertilizing the land with manure instead of saturating it with toxins. It is cheaper, sustainable, and preserves biodiversity — the exact opposite of what glyphosate spraying achieves.

Stacy Foley: The Human Cost of Chemical Dependence

Local business owner and holistic nutritionist Stacy Foley brought a deeply personal perspective. Once addicted to processed foods and alcohol, she turned her life around through clean living and saw firsthand the role chemicals play in modern disease. Herbicides and pesticides, she told the crowd, are poisoning the soil, crippling plants, weakening animals, and making people sick.

Foley warned that glyphosate is at the heart of rising inflammation, obesity, autoimmune disorders, and gut conditions like SIBO. Healthy soil creates healthy plants, animals, and people. Unhealthy soil produces disease, degeneration, and despair. “If we stop the spray,” she said, “we protect not just our forests but our children, our grandchildren, and generations yet to come.”

While local mothers and landowners fight spraying on the ground, international scientists are sounding alarms about glyphosate’s deeper, long-term dangers.

Dr. Stephanie Seneff – MIT Senior Research Scientist

Glyphosate has been the focus of extensive research by Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a senior scientist at MIT with multiple PhDs. In 2021, RAIR Foundation interviewed Dr. Seneff about her alarming findings: she argues that glyphosate exposure and the mRNA COVID injections may trigger similar biological effects, leading to prion-like diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob (“mad cow”) and neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson’s

In her 2021 interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Stephanie Seneff described glyphosate as a “slow-kill” chemical. It works quietly, disrupting gut microbes, stripping away vital minerals, and even mimicking the amino acid glycine in proteins. This, she argues, damages enzymes, weakens collagen, and undermines the body’s natural defenses.

Seneff noted that Canada has done more testing than the United States. The results, she said, show glyphosate “in surprising places.” Meanwhile, U.S. use has exploded to over 100,000 tons a year.

She also pointed to a strong correlation between glyphosate spraying on wheat and the rise of celiac disease. Gluten intolerance, she argued, is not random. It tracks directly with chemical exposure.

Her warning could not be more explicit: glyphosate is already saturating the food chain. Now, Ontario is dumping it from helicopters onto forests and near towns. That makes exposure cumulative, compounding, and dangerous —  but it can still be stopped.

The voices from Renfrew County — Donna Burns, Charity Parisian, Stacy Foley, along with international experts like Stephanie Seneff— all converge on the same truth: glyphosate is not safe, not necessary, and not lawful when sprayed over people’s land and lives. Whether through food, water, or aerial application, the poison seeps into everything we depend on: soil, forests, animals, and human health itself.

Quebec has already shown that public pressure can end this practice. Ontario can do the same. But it will only happen if ordinary citizens refuse silence, stand together, and demand an end to chemical warfare disguised as “forest management.”

This is not just about forests. It is about sovereignty, survival, and the right to live free from state-mandated toxins on our food and on our properties. Ontario must follow Quebec’s lead: stop the spraying, protect the land, protect the people, and protect the future.

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