Electrosmog Exposure
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Health Canada needs to issue warning about Wireless Baby Monitors
October 25, 2011. Open Letter to the Honourable Aglukkaq (Federal Minister of Health) and Ms Pieterson (Director General, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate) Dear Honourable Aglukkaq and Ms Pieterson, Thank you for taki
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Peterborough City Council disagrees with cell tower site
October 12, 2011. Open Letter to Peterborough Mayor Bennett and City Councilors In response to the article, "City council disagrees with cell tower site," in the Peterborough Examiner on October 12. I would like to thank Councilor Andrew
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Advice for Health Canada regarding Wi-Fi, cell phone antennas, and other forms of radio frequency emitting devices.
October 8, 2011. On October 4, 2011, Health Canada issued a warning for those under the age of 18 to limit their cell phone use. Click here for document. This warning comes 5 months (May 31, 2011) after the World Health Organization classified ra
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Ontario School replaces Wi-Fi with Wired Internet
September 9, 2011. Another school has decided not to play Russian roulette with the health of students and staff. Pretty River Academy, a private school in Collingwood, Ontario, with 150 students attending kindergarten to Grade 12 replaced w
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Open Letter to Steve Jobs
August, 31, 2011. Steve, I am a long-time Apple user. My first Apple computer was the Apple 512k that I used as a "portable" computer for several years. You opened the world of technology to so many people who could intuitively use a Mac with n
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Cell Phones & Head Blemishes in Adolescents: Is it Melanoma?
August 28, 2011. A hair stylist in Toronto noticed discolourations on the scalp of adolescents. The marks were often in the temporal lobe near the ear although some were on the top or back of the head. Since most of the blemishes were cover
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How to properly read a scientific paper–Adolescent brain tumours and mobile phones.
August 17, 2011. Scientific documents published in peer-reviewed journals are intended to be read by scientists with specific areas of specialization. A layperson, a journalist and even a scientist–who specializes in a different field–may fi
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Mercury in broken CFL bulbs can exceed safe exposure levels for humans!
July 6, 2011. Finally someone measured the mercury content of compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs! We have been told that these bulbs contain 0.5 mg of mercury and that lower mercury-content bulbs will be produced in the future, yet many bulbs
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Conflict of Interest: the Wireless Industry and ICNIRP
July 5, 2011. Who to believe? Ironically, two reports published days apart have totally different takes on whether or not microwave radiation is harmful. Both are review articles but that is where the similarity ends. In one publication [Long-t
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Health Canada confused about WHO Classification
July 1, 2011. Health Canada seems to be confused about the recent WHO/IARC classification of radio frequency electromagnetic fields as a "possible human carcinogen." Ms Beth Pieterson (Director General, Environment and Radiation Health Services
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