Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health Canada authorized the emergency use of strychnine to address what it says is millions of dollars worth of damage caused by ...

The emergency registration of strychnine for use on gophers in areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan may actually hamper control ...

Al Crisalli Jr. took this photo in the Tehachapi Valley of a baby California Ground Squirrel, probably coming out of its ...

Producers in the Moosomin area are eligible to access strychnine for gopher control after the governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta received approval for a revised joint Emergency Use Request for ...

The SaskSPCA says the pest-control poison leads to “a slow, painful and inhumane death” for Richardson’s ground squirrels, ...

Annual gopher control efforts are underway in Regina, where the city’s parks manager says her department expects more pests ...

The regulatory agency banned the use of two-per-cent liquid strychnine two years ago, citing risks to wildlife species — especially species-at-risk like the swift fox and burrowing owl — that can ...