2026-10-31 from montreal.citynews.ca
More than 100 people, many of whom were in costume for Halloween, sought to highlight the message that “pesticides kill” by staging a “die-in” on Saturday in front of Health Canada’s offices in Montreal.
The participants lay down on the ground in front of the Guy-Favreau complex in downtown Montreal, while people dressed in white coveralls moved through the crowd, pretending to spray pesticides on the protesters.
Children taking part in the event were invited to trace the outlines of the people on the ground with chalk to leave a record of the action. Organizers had placed a cardboard coffin and tombstones in front of the building, each bearing the names of various diseases, to create a cemetary.
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