By Kelly Hayes August 25, 2015 6pm Video Journalist Global News Time is running out for a Kelowna man who is in a standoff with FortisBC. The man refuses to have a smart meter installed in his rental home. He says he wants to keep his old analog meter but FortisBC says that’s not an […]
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Remove cell Towers from 1145 Fairfield Road and ban cell towers from low-rise apartment buildings
Aug 11
Petitioning Mayor of the City of Victoria, Lisa Helps, City Council, and Telus and 4 others remove cell Towers from 1145 Fairfield Road and ban cell towers from low-rise apartment buildings. Industry Canada’s Safety Code 6, which is designed as a guideline for the “Protection of the General Public,” is based solely on outdated research related to thermal […]
July 30, 2015 A new piece of research led by the University of Southampton has found that the behaviour of fruit flies, which are commonly used in laboratory experiments, is altered by electric fields. The research indicates that the wings of the insects are disturbed by static electric fields, leading to changes in avoidance behaviour […]
Currently there is no central collection point in Canada for important information on tumours CBC News Posted: Jul 17, 2015 11:14 AM The image depicts a 3D rendering of the brain, with a cancerous tumour detected in red and yellow. A University of Alberta researcher is helping to create a national brain tumour registry […]
By EDITOR 14 January 2010 Wireless broadband provider iBurst believes it has definitive proof that a base station it operates in Fourways, north of Johannesburg, is not to blame for health problems afflicting some of the residents there. Residents of the Fourways community of Craigavon have threatened to take iBurst to court to have the base […]
André Fauteux | 25 juin 2015 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck 1858-1947 José Lévesque installed commercial wireless telephone stations from 2001 to 2009. The resident of Saint-Colomban (Quebec) says in late 2005 he […]
by Kaymar Jordan on June 20, 2015. A parliamentary committee has waded into the murky scientific debate over cellphones, warning that the ubiquitous devices may cause cancer, infertility, or learning disabilities and urging parents to shield their children from unnecessary exposure. But several leading Canadian health experts say that cellphones and Wi-Fi devices pose less […]
But several leading Canadian health experts say that cellphones and Wi-Fi devices pose less risk to humans than run-of-the-mill fevers BY SHARON KIRKEY AND GILLIAN SHAW, POSTMEDIA NEWS AND VANCOUVER SUN A parliamentary committee has waded into the murky scientific debate over cellphones, warning that the ubiquitous devices may cause cancer, infertility, or […]
Updated: 12 Jun 2015 Most people simply ask for a Wi-Fi password when they arrive in a restaurant or café offering free Internet access. But things are not so simple for this Xiamen resident. The resident, who goes by the alias Xiao Yue, said that she wanted to find a living environment that was […]