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Few answers on TCE

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Bishop Street Health Study/Registry, City Issues, Community
From the Cambridge Times.. comments invited below  Greg MacDonald, Times Staff Residents of a Bishop Street neighbourhood were full of questions Tuesday at a meeting regarding trichloroethylene contamination, but officials had few answers. Region of Waterloo’s public health department  brought in the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion to address residents’ ... Full Story

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Residents seek answers in neighbourhood exposed to cancer-causing chemicals ( TCE)

Jun 2nd, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Bishop Street Health Study/Registry, Community, Environment & Health
This ran in the KW Record... comments invited below June 02, 2010 By Jeff Outhit, Record staff CAMBRIDGE — Frustrated residents continue to demand a study into whether the industrial contamination of their Bishop Street neighbourhood is causing cancers. Experts need to determine “if this stuff is doing something to us, has done ... Full Story

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Reminder…. Health Study Meeting , this afternoon and evening.. Please show your support

Jun 1st, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Bishop Street Health Study/Registry
MEETING LOCATION & TIME Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Afternoon session: 3:30 – 5:30pm Evening session: 6:30 – 8:30pm Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre, Sussex Room 700 Hespeler Road, Cambridge Full Story

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Bishop Street Registry…up and running

May 30th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Bishop Street Health Study/Registry, Community
 A special thank you to Donna Stewart for taking the time to get this registry up and running Great job.. LONG... LONG... LONG... OVERDUE. www.bishopstreetregistry.net In the News Region of Waterloo Public Health is considering whether or not to undertake a health study into the effects of chronic trichloroethylene (TCE) exposure on past and ... Full Story

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Woman starts chemical leak registry Documents people affected by area of Bishop Street

May 27th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Bishop Street Health Study/Registry
Thankfully this ran in the Cambridge Times.......... comments invited below Greg MacDonald, Times Staff May 27, 2010   A Cambridge woman is starting a registry to document people who have been affected by the trichloroethylene leak in the Bishop Street neighbourhood. Donna Fischer Stewart grew up in the area affected by the TCE leak. ... Full Story

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Northstar Aerospace to close Indiana plant, restructure Canadian operations

May 21st, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements
This ran on CB online.......... comments invited below By The Canadian Press CHICAGO - Northstar Aerospace Inc. (TSX:NAS) is closing a plant in Indiana and streamlining its Canadian operations to cut costs as it begins a program to build helicopter parts for the U.S. army. The Chicago-based company, which trades on the Toronto ... Full Story

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Walkerton: Ten Years Later

May 21st, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Cambridge's Dirty Drinking Water
This ran in the KW Record..  this is what happens when you drink dirty water, then try breathing in those same deadly chemicals... Deadly results...... your comments invited below May 15, 2010 By Brent Davis, Record staff WALKERTON — It has been 10 years since death washed into this small town, an invisible ... Full Story

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Experts to probe Bishop Street health concerns

May 18th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Environment & Health
This ran on the KW Record... comments invited below May 17, 2010 By Jeff Outhit, Record staff CAMBRIDGE — Experts want to hear from residents concerned about their health, in a neighbourhood contaminated by industrial vapours. Almost 500 homes near Bishop Street North were affected when an industrial solvent called trichloroethylene seeped into groundwater ... Full Story

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An open request for ” The Ministry of Environment” to do their job

May 15th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Cambridge's Dirty Drinking Water, Community, Politics
It’s time for your organization Ministry of Environment to step up here and do your job.. If you check Al Marshalls post on the advocate.. It would appear that there are now 3 copies of one report dated 1994.. Regarding our Drinking water in Cambridge .. This is unacceptable. Sorry, our lives ... Full Story

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Health Registry ready to go, for the “Bishop Street Community” exposed to TCE

May 14th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Announcements, Environment & Health
By Donna Stewart, this is the lady who spoke in April at the Northstar update meeting. She is starting a Registry for the Bishop Street Community. donna@bishopstreetregistry.net *************** Region and Public Health Officials have said that there will be no health study because the Bishop Street population is too small.   At the April 7th information ... Full Story

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