Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Outrage....BC Cancer Clinic & Agency, Vancouver
Outrage..
"re BC
Cancer Agency
By Una St.Clair-Moniz
Executive Director
Citizens for
Citizens for
Safe Technology Society
Empowering the public to protect children
and youth
from unsafe wireless
technologies.
From: Dennis and Sharon Noble
[mailto:dsnoble@shaw.ca]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:15
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:15
PM
To: Honourable Tony Clement; Honourable Leona Aglukkaq; Suzanne
Vinet; Susan Fletcher; Morris Rosenberg; Carolina Giliberti; Beth Pieterson;
AtamaA@parl.gc.ca; Keith Martin-Ottawa; Keith Martin -Riding; G. Kennedy; D.
Coderre; A. Mendes; T. Mulcair; P. Brown; C. Bennett; Luc Malo; C. Carrie; T.
Uppal; N. Dufour; K. Duncan; J. Smith; J. Murray; P. Davidson; C. Hughes; S.
Cardin; Megan Leslie
Cc: Dr. Magda Havas; Dr. Olle Johansson; Dr.
Cc: Dr. Magda Havas; Dr. Olle Johansson; Dr.
Dimitri Panagopoulos; Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy; Dr. Annie Sasco
Subject:
Where is the outrage?
Where is the outrage when a prominent researcher for the BC
and Canadian Cancer Society has admitted to allowing herself to be
misrepresented as having a PhD for more than 14 years? Why aren't people
demanding a review of her work and the decisions to which she has contributed?
If she has been dishonest about her credentials isn't it likely she has been
dishonest in her work?
Mary McBride has participated in many important panels and
studies which affect us all. She was named to the prestigious Royal Society of
Canada and participated in the review of Safety Code 6, for
Health Canada,
approving the extremely high amounts of radiation we can be exposed to by cell
phones, transmitters, etc.
She participated in development of Industry Canada's
Antenna Policy, determining that transmitters could be placed near homes,
schools and hospitals, and that the public need not be informed.
She was a
member of the team working on the Interphone Study which, according to most
scientists, was a poorly done, using faulty assumptions and unrealistic
parameters. I am sure there have been more, through the Cancer Society of which
I am not aware.
This is the same Mary McBride, while working at the BC
Cancer Centre with children, who reassured concerned parents that cell
transmitters on schools were safe. She said this while being fully aware of many
studies done by independent scientists showing radiation from these transmitters
pose serious health threats, especially to children.
Why aren't people demanding that these studies and their
results be reviewed? If one person with questionable integrity participated,
perhaps others did. In fact, many involved in these important decisions have
direct ties to the telecommunication industries -- receiving funding both
directly and indirectly. If due diligence was neglected in selecting
researchers, confirming educational qualifications and ensuring no conflict of
interests, aren't the results highly questionable? Why do these very same
individuals work together on panels and studies relating to wireless devices,
over and over again? Could it be because they keep coming up with the same
results, the same results the corporations want?
Where are the investigative journalists who should be
looking into this, who would have in years gone by? Are corporate interests at
work here as well?
The lack of outcry over this deception seems to be a sad
commentary on our current society. We've grown accustomed to people misleading
us, to products making us sick, to our governments not protecting us. As a
consequence we've stopped being shocked or angry when we learn that our water is
no longer fit to drink, our air is filled with carcinogens, and our homes are
radiated by transmitters.
This apathy is what the corporations depend on -- and we get
what we deserve.
Researchers who lie to us, often in return for research dollars
spent on providing results the corporations want. Being told that we need
devices like WiFi and cellphones even though the corporations know the inherent
dangers, and even though there is safe technology that would do the same job but
it costs the corporations more in infrastructure. And, don't forget, our
governmental agencies which depend on corporate financing, such as licensing
fees from telecommunication companies which amount to billions of dollars a
year.
Health Canada will assure everyone that their guidelines are adequate to
protect us, even though they are among the worst in the world, and despite
thousands of studies showing otherwise rather than risk this
income.
Without outrage what kind of world are we leaving for our
children and our grandchildren?
Outraged!
Sharon Noble
818 Bexhill Place
Victoria, BC V9C 3V5
(250) 478-7892
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
White Rock 'branding' is back on the table again' says Mayor & Council in the local newspaper & its 'electronic peacearchnews.com edition 9th Jun 2010
White Rock on a 'branding spree and attempt...again!
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EXCERPT FROM THE 'COMMENTARY COLUMN OF 'THE PEACH ARCH NEWS'...[ELECTRONIC MEDIA] 9 jUNE 2010
Whiterockreporter 14 hours ago
White Rock Council and lead by the Mayor proudly stating 'branding is back on the table' much reserach by Whisper is still valuable and be of use...friends reading this I saw White Rock 1957 for five hours and returned 1988 from a professional life in the fast lanes of Europe and Scandinavia and the USA and the Middle East..wow guys hearing what I am hearing from reading the Peach Arch New this early morning..wow..
Mayor and Council and all the committee assigned members involved in 'branding escapade' give me the impression of and sounds like a 'lonely hearts club'...
The City is spending money like a drunken sailor who hasn't seen shore for six months. Friends 'Hold on to your purses and check your positions with the CFO...i.e your Director of Finances.
But still good to hear the Mayor at last got one marketing savvy communicator and marketing experienced pro onboard.
That's a step in right direction. Add Director of Tourism and you will have two marketing experienced individuals to listen to..please do and give them resources so they can do 'something' which would fill up our empty parking stalls of tourists and visitors to shop and eat inside White Rock.
Johan Sandstrom, BComm
Whiterockreporter 13 hours ago in reply to Whiterockreporter [-addendum]
I fully agree with the signature SemiahmooWR posted 7 hours ago...she or he got it right.
White Rock council and its Mayor cannot wait for the cement/concrete to set around the traffic lights poles at Vidal and Oxford by Marine Drive West before a new brainchild is reborn and our noble local newspaper artists have something new to be creative about.
There is not a dull moment in White Rock..first someone is spending 70 grands because of someone who sits in the US in Orange County and Newport Beach 'whispering' sweet words and 'hubbabubba' in the ears of some truly naive individuals in the City of White Rock..
...people who should focus on real things and issues instead of listening to bla-bla from La-la-land at the tone of $70.000.00..and I don't care if the money is from tax payers in White Rock or Provincial spending pants easing up on their coffers preparing for the next election..or what.
'The lunatics are running the asylum' was the title of a novel I read as a young boy..what's going on in White Rock reminds me of good portions of the novel's content and message.
Make White Rock an eldorado for kids..sailing school when the tide is in and 'sand engineering and castle building when the tide is out. Explore the fauna...care for drinking water and love thy neighbour..classes in all of it can be run and paid for by most parents..at least by parents spending more than hundred dollars per week on restaurant visits or booze purchases. I recommend the Council to take a greyhound bus tour for two days and overnight in Everett Wa.
or borrow the new bus Rita Clarkson bought last year...it will hold 20 passengers and meal baskets..do an outing and discover what they do in Connors and other resort summer and around the year vistas and locales.
Enjoy your excursion and don't leave beffore you have a huge [large] White Rock signs posted and leading visitors from any side of the border to White Rock...give every 50th out-of-Province tourists/visitor an iPhone as an award for finding our little community by the seaside of the Semiahmoo Peninsula. BUT ONLY IF THEY STAY THREE NIGHTS. Sounds crazy..eh?
Not so crazy really considering traffic lights were recently installed and in place, and this frivilous escapade to the tune of half a million dollars plus.
Respectfully
Johan Sandstrom, BComm.
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SemiahmooWR 21 hours ago
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When I saw this story's headline, I cringed. Someone please answer me, as a longtime resident who pays $3100 a year in property taxes, how does "branding" White Rock help me or improve my life? Branding means we'll have 2 or 3 words to describe White Rock. These couple of words will be put on a few signs and some stationary. So after spending five figures of taxpayers money for this indulgence, how does it help me? How has my life improved?
I don't mean to be bitter but "branding" White Rock is an exercise in which pampered council members indulge themselves. Words like soft leisure class immediately come to mind. Several years ago our city councillors saw fit to spend $2 million dollars to "improve/beautify" Stayte road. It was done to give visitors to the city a better impression of White Rock over Surrey. In the end their indulgence eliminated 80% of Stayte road's parking spaces and created a "creek-like" drainage system for appearances only. Yet a two block stretch of Roper between Kent and Findlay is a busy thoroughfare that doesn't have a proper sidewalk, this on a route that students use to get to school. Where is the council's priorities?
In the end White Rock my hometown of 50 years that I home to quietly live. It's not a corporate product for council to promote for the sake of promotion.
White Rock council, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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