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Tween defends trees to OMB ( way to go Emily Qureshi)

Sep 1st, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Environment & Health
Strafford Beacon Harold... comments invited below News Posted By DONAL O'CONNOR , STAFF REPORTER Posted 3 days ago     A 12-year-old Listowel resident is appealing to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) in an attempt to save a tree lot on a parcel of land proposed for a housing subdivision. Emily Qureshi and some classmates presented a ... Full Story

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“Our response” to the Northstar application on the EBR Registry ( The Bishop Street Community)

Aug 22nd, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: About Trichloroethylene, better known as TCE., Environment & Health, Posts by M. Boilard
Application Processor, Client Services Section Ministry of the Environment, Operations Division, EAAB, W St. Clair Avenue West, Floor 12, Toronto, ON, M4V 1L5     RE:                             EBR Registry #011-0753                                     MOE Reference # 8243-87QQQF   Instrument Type:         Approval for discharge into the natural environment other than water (i.e. Air) EPA s.9   Location:                     Northstar Aeorspace (Canada) Inc. 695 Bishop Street North Cambridge, ... Full Story

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Banning pesticide caused bed bug boom

Aug 22nd, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Environment & Health
By IAN ROBERTSON, QMI Agency ..........Comments invited below TORONTO - Thank environmentalists for a growing bed bug plague in Toronto and elsewhere, a senior city health official in Toronto told QMI Agency. "We're seeing an increase in bedbugs in the First World," Reg Ayre, the healthy environments manager, said Monday. "It used ... Full Story

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SO LET’S BE PRO-ACTIVE!

Aug 7th, 2010 | By waycat | Category: Community, Environment & Health, Opinion, Posts and Recipes by Waycat
Well, the big bullying giant called Monsanto is at it again...they are now pushing for GMO meat and fish and their partner in the aquaculture industry is lobbying the US FDA for approval. It\'s basically greed fueling this endeavor. They want to speed up production of their product. They want ... Full Story

Posted in Community, Environment & Health, Opinion, Posts and Recipes by Waycat | 7 comments


Hidden in the language of Bill C-36… Over Food & Natural Health

Aug 7th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health, Politics
Over Food & Natural Health by Dee Nicholson Co Executive Director National Health Federation of Canada   Hidden in the language of Bill C-36, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, is a clause which makes Canadians "subject to the dictates of foreign authorities", which are undefined but could mean anything from a foreign ... Full Story

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Shawn Buckley Calls Bill C-36 A “Trojan Horse

Aug 7th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health, Politics
Note:  We at the National Health Federation of Canada applaud the publishing of Mr. Buckley's article in the Calgary Herald explaining that there is much more than meets the eye involved in the disappearance of thousands of nutrients from the Natural Health marketplace: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Natural+health+products+safer+than+pharmaceuticals/3335301/story.html             Full Story

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Chemicals may be causing sex change in fish

Aug 2nd, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health
This ran on Canoe.ca  ............. comments invited below By JENNA MCMURRAY, QMI Agency CALGARY — Something's fishy in Alberta rivers. Calgary researchers believe fish are actually undergoing sex changes due to chemicals in the water. Hamid Habibi, biological sciences professor at the University of Calgary and director of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology, ... Full Story

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Council of Canadians celebrates UN General Assembly recognition of human right to water

Jul 28th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Announcements, Community, Environment & Health
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release July 28, 2010 Council of Canadians celebrates UN General Assembly recognition of human right to water After over a decade of hard work, the global water justice movement achieved a major victory today as the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of recognizing water and sanitation as ... Full Story

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Officials inspect second property

Jul 27th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health
This ran in the Spectator.. comments invited below Wade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator Nicole O'Reilly and Joan Walters (Jul 27, 2010) The Hamilton blogger who sparked an environment ministry investigation and prompted municipal orders to close up one central Hamilton site filled with barrels of worrisome substances has raised a similar alarm about a ... Full Story

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A broken system in need of change, Hands are tied to address what creates and maintains cycle of poverty

Jul 26th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Environment & Health
This ran in the Hamilton Spectator... comments invited below Hands are tied to address what creates and maintains cycle of poverty Sarah Mann As we stood in Gore Park last month at an Ontario Coalition Against Poverty rally against cuts to Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program rates, a friend said to ... Full Story

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