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In The News

 

Click: Toronto Sun
  A union representing 45,000 Ontario teachers warns against WiFi in the classroom. 
                                     The Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association wants all computers in the classroom 
                                     to be hardwired. Read full report 

Click: Vancouver Sun  WiFi Equipped Schools Pose Potential Health and Safety Risk
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Click: Global News proves that Health Canada is wrong when it says WiFi is "SAFE". It also demonstrates
                                    how 
people's heart rate can change suddenly when exposed to pulsed microwave radiation 
                                    from
 
devices such as WiFi. Some students have reported extreme heart palpitations 
                                    inside Simcoe County Schools since WiFi was installed. October, 2010


Click: Toronto Sun
 Health Canada is confused about the World Health Organization's warning that wireless devices
                                    including wireless internet are possible causes of cancer.  Dr. Jonathan Samet is the chairman of
                                    the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer.  He says the warning refers to
                                    microwave radiation from all wireless devices including wireless internet or WiFi. July, 2011

Click: CTV News Ontario private school throws out WiFi and replaces it with safer, faster wired internet. 
                                 September, 2011

Click: Telegraph The influential Council of Europe recommends WiFi be banned from schools. The Council of
                               Europe has 47 member states and is highly influential in policy-making. Click for News Release
                               Click for full document. May, 2011

Click: CNN World Health Organization (WHO) reclassifies microwave radiation from wireless communication devices
                      and mobile phones as classification Class 2B "possible carcinogen." This is the same class as lead,
                      DDT and car exhaust. Click for Press Release  Click for Journal of Nature article May, 2011       

Click: Ottawa Citizen National Research Council Press reports that many Canadians are being exposed to
                                       dangerous levels of radiation in its journal Environmental Review. It concludes that a new 
                                       biologically based guideline is needed, instead of the dangerous, outdated thermal
                                       guideline. Click for full study  November, 2010

Click: Toronto Sun The Union that represents Ontario teachers, ETFO, has voted to investigate the safety of wireless
                                    internet in schools. August, 2011

Click: CBC News confirms no safety testing on microwave radiation from WiFi on Children. September, 2010

Click: Montreal Gazette reports that microwave radiation from devices such as WiFi and cordless phones can cause
                                            erratic heart rates. October, 2010


Click: National Post reports that Laptop can Damage Sperm and Decrease Fertility. Click full study October, 2010 

Click: Globe & Mail reports that standards for WiFi and other wireless devices are "entirely inadequate." Click report 
                                     Click for statement from Nobel Prize winning Karolinska Institute. February, 2011

Click: CTV News reports on a school where parents voted to turn off WiFi and the school board is refusing.  Parents
                                are taking children out of school.  November, 2010

Click: Barrie Examiner A Pediatrician urges the school board to "Do No Harm" to children and turn off the WIFI
                                          when students are sensitive.  December, 2010

Click: Toronto Star interview with a former British intelligence officer and physicist who says WiFi is not safe for
                                    school children.  August, 2010

Click: CBC Interview with Nobel winning epidemiologist and author Devra Davis about the questionable science
                                        in microwave/cellphone studies.  September, 2010 

Click: CBC TV investigates why Insurance Companies are not insuring wireless companies.  The health risk of cell
                          phones is considered incalculable.  September, 2010

Click: GQ Magazine's brilliant investigation into the decades-long knowledge that pulsed microwave radiation causes
                                        sickness and how this science has been suppressed. The report probes the illness and cancer-
                                        risk caused by cell phones, cell towers, and WiFi.  February, 2010

Click: Microwave News to see why Children Absorb more Radiation than Adults. Microwave News is the leading
                                             investigative newsletter on microwave radiation that was started in 1980 by Louis Slesin,
                                             who holds a doctorate in environmental policy from MIT.  

Click: Former president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) says the society is threatened by its "biased 
                                                                                                           scientific culture" that is often unable to accept positive
                                                                                                           results that show microwave radiation causes harm to
                                                                                                           humans. February, 2011


Click: The New York Times article which shows no improvement in test scores despite huge investments in 
                                                technology in schools. September, 2011

Click: Teacher, Newsmagazine of the B.C. Teachers' Federation argues against wifi in the classroom. September,
                          
2010  Part 2 Should Wi-Fi be used in classrooms?  October, 2010

Click: University News Release from the Netherlands which warns that microwave radiation from city-wide WiFi is
                                                         destroying the health of trees.  Click for Tree Report in Wire Magazine - covering
                                                         Canadian Telecom.  November, 2010
 

Click: The Globe and Mail Scientists at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. discover that microwaves emitted
                                                 by cell phones cause changes in the brain.  These biological changes are well below
                                                 the "thermal level". Click for Editorial February, 2011

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