Experts Urge Cautious Use Of Wireless Devices As Health Effects Reassessed

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Wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets have certainly made staying in touch and plugging into the digital world easier and more convenient. But the increasingly ubiquitous nature of the technology is also raising concerns about possible adverse health effects from exposure to the electromagnetic radio-frequency waves that these devices emit. Worries about exposure to […]

MPs On Health Committee Seek More Warnings About Cellphones, Wi-Fi, Baby Monitors

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OTTAWA — The federal government should do more to warn Canadians about the dangers of Wi-Fi, cellphones and baby monitors, some MPs on the Commons health committee say. “We are in a soup of radiation from cellphone and cellphone towers, and baby monitors and iPads,” Conservative MP Terence Young told The Huffington Post Canada. Health […]

National Brain Tumour Registry Being Created By Alberta Researcher

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Currently there is no central collection point in Canada for important information on tumours An Alberta researcher is helping to build a national brain tumour registry to help find missing clues to what causes brain tumours and other information that could help to improve survival rates. “At this moment we don’t know how good our care is,” […]

Awareness Campaign Needed on Cellphone Use, Wi-Fi Radiation Risks amid Conflicting Government Reports

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With the Canadian government on summer vacation and a fall election looming, it will be up to the next wave of politicians to respond to calls for action on radiation risks associated with the use of cellphones, smartphones and other wireless devices. The fact that the government itself has made such a call would seem […]

Workers Health and Safety Centre of Ontario Warns of RF Exposure

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A federal government committee report recommends greater precaution and tougher exposure guidelines to protect Canadians against radiation from wireless devices. Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation and the Health of Canadians, a report of the all-party House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, was released in June following public hearings into Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 guideline on […]

Connecting City a Major Priority

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Toronto lagging compared with rest of world, while big players disappoint on bringing cellphone service to subway Five out of 10. That’s the rating Toronto’s connectivity gets from North American venture capitalists, Mayor John Tory says. “I’ve always been told as mayor or when I was in the industry that we have the tops in […]

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