" Health Canada’s guidelines are not protecting us "

Wi-Fi Concerns Should Lead To Updated Regulations |

Written by Carol Hughes, MP Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing

Saturday, September 4th, 2010 - 05:22:22

Last spring I attended the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health meetings that investigated the health effects of microwaves from wireless devices such as cell phones and Wi-Fi. At that time, I was approached by a group from Collingwood who reported an illness cluster in their school that is consistent with microwave exposure.

The Simcoe County District School Board had installed a blanket microwave Wi-Fi system throughout every school, and the parents at Mountain View Elementary School in Collingwood had begun to report an illness trend involving childhood headaches, nausea, vertigo, insomnia, and even tachycardia (a heart condition requiring medical attention). Some parents had spent the last 18 months in and out of doctor’s offices with a novel collection of symptoms that disappeared only when the children were not in school.

They have documented their concerns and reported them to the Simcoe County School Board, only to be told the Wi-Fi system is perfectly safe according the Health Canada.

While at committee we heard from Health Canada officials who defended the department’s Radiofrequency Exposure Guidelines (Safety Code 6), only to have those same guidelines questioned by international research scientists whose research show that people can experience biological changes in the presence of these low-level microwaves. One scientist also warned about an increased prevalence of cancer if Health Canada’s “safe” limits for microwave exposure are not lowered.

Health Canada officials confidently stated there is “no cause for concern that Wi-Fi is dangerous.”

What they should have said is that Safety Code 6 is sufficient, in their opinion. As we heard in committee, there is no consensus among research scientists that microwave radiation is safe, and Health Canada did know that. In a study by the Royal Society of Canada, commissioned by Health Canada in 1999 and updated in 2001, there is conclusive evidence that potentially dangerous things happen from microwave exposure.

Those things include weakening the blood brain barrier which protects us from disease, increasing certain enzymes known to promote cancer, and changing behaviour. This is hardly promoting a safe learning environment for young children. According to the Royal Society Report, young children are among the most vulnerable when it comes to microwave exposure. The report is clear that these biological changes happen well below the current “safe” limits set by Health Canada.

Health Canada’s guidelines are not protecting us. They are outdated and designed for a grown man at 6 minutes of exposure. They don’t take into account a 4 year old girl getting microwave exposure for 6 hours a day, five days a week, for 14 years of public school. That is the environment right now in Simcoe County schools, and other school Boards across the country about to roll out microwave transmitters for blanket Wi-Fi coverage because Health Canada tells them it’s safe.

Health Canada must tell Canadians the full story when it comes to microwave irradiation of children. What we’re doing by exposing them to all day Wi-Fi in school is really a big experiment, with unknowing volunteers.

Comments (1)

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written by Sarah Grace, September 05, 2010

Thank you, Carol Hughes, for cutting through to the truth of this matter and speaking out publicly. You are truly one in a million, who has the strength and courage to speak out to protect your constituents. Your actions will support parents who are trying to protect their children in schools across Canada. Good to know that we have at least one honest Canadian politician out there......time for more politicians to speak out in support of reduction of risk from all the wireless pollution that is making people sick right across Canada (cell towers, cell phones, wireless internet, cordless phones, and smart meters). Let the truth set us free from this terrible environmental pollution which threatens every living thing and all life on our planet. Thanks again! Keep speaking out!

Our Children Are In Danger; Cancer Kills; Electro-Magnetic Hypersensitivity; a New Epidemic...

Electro-Magnetic Hypersensitivity - Symptoms and Cause of...notes: "Cancer is Big Business, per se"

"Martin,

I'm attaching an article from our local newspaper because it marks
the first time an Irish municipality has challenged county and
national bodies on the issue of EMFs following a visit here by Prof.
Olle Johansson in March. It took them long enough. Unfortunately, they
didn't challenge police authorities over the erection of a Tetra mast
at the local police station within 1,000 metres of 5 schools and 2,000
children.

Our website is
www.eirewaves.com
where you can find Prof. Johansson's presentation.

Kind regards,

John Weigel

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Note: The presentation by Prof. Olle Johansson is excellent and well worth
watching and listening to!
Martin"


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radiation: A silent killer among us Published By Times Herald Posted: 10/11/2009 01:00:30 AM PDT

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_13537635

Notice to all parents:
Since there exists no official agency empowered to regulate, monitor or enforce the public's exposure to dangerous microwave radiation, and our Federal Communications Commission has allowed the telecommunications industry to dictate the laws since 1996 and abdicated its duty to protect the citizens, the wireless industry is saturating our environment with deadly microwaves 24-7.

As new toys are invented, the relay transformers on existing cell phone towers are increasing and thousands more are being built.

Over the past years, many research studies around the world have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that our children, still developing their immune systems and brain cells, are extremely vulnerable to microwave radiation.

This is perhaps the most likely reason our country is suffering from cancer clusters among our children, an epidemic unprecedented in our history.

While the rest of the world, even China and Russia, have established strict guidelines of acceptable radiation exposures, which are hundreds of times lower than the United States' recommended levels, we ignore the issue because we are too busy buying cell phones for our kids (not allowed under 18 years of age in Europe), Blackberry's and other toys, building new cell towers, building more oncology clinics, selling more drugs for our pharmaceutical companies, and planning "walks" for cancer research.

Cancer is big business.

In measuring the microwave radiation levels around the existing cell towers in Vallejo, I am ready to move to the country. The energy from the fake tree on Springs Road and Springstowne Middle School is enormous, extending full strength across the entire playing-field. Our children play in this field every day.

There is also a violation of the "Radiation Hazard" sign required by the FCC, as it is obscured and cannot be read.

There are other areas that can be categorized as extremely intensive: The tower at Jesse Bethel High School, City Hall buzzing from the transformers on top of the senior care facility across the street, the top of the hill at St. Vincent's church,(is the mayor's office on the third floor?), Lemon Street, Valle Vista Street, and the intersection of Sonoma Boulevard and Highway 37.

American Canyon and Highway 29, meanwhile, are off the scale. Why are the cell phone transformers on top of the school gym at Vallejo Jr. High School? Why are they on the roof tops of the Benicia schools?

The worst case scenario is the horrific specter of being in a crossfire, confined in the center of two powerful cell phone microwave towers. Such is the case in Fallon, Nev., where there is a government conspiracy of silence in regards to the children's cancer cluster in this quaint high desert town.

Another area of concern is the Blue Oak School in Napa, three stories high, caught in the middle of the AT&T building and the powerful tower at City Hall. To add a measure of plausibility, review the latest lethal weapon of our military:

The "Microwave Gun" designed for crowd and riot control.Remember the American Embassy in Moscow when it was under continuous microwave radiation? Call the FCC in San Francisco and ask them who is in charge. Ask them why they allowed the law which states that the public "cannot protest the placement of a cell phone tower for health risk hazards, only for aesthetic reasons."

This is absolutely true. Call the California Department of Public Health, or the Solano County Health Department, and you will be talking to Laurel and Hardy. If you are in close proximity to one of these cell phone towers, you should be concerned.

Most countries prohibit these towers from being erected near schools, but we place them on school property. Parents, there are many credible sources for you to research and you will be amazed.

We must get involved because this is a critical health issue we simply cannot ignore.
Source: Lyndon E. Lafferty

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