Sandra Finley

2022-09-23 The Global Water Crisis Could Crush The Energy Industry, Felicity Bradstock, Oilprice.com

 Water Hydro-electricity  1 Response »
Sep 242022
 

By Felicity Bradstock for Oilprice.com

 

For years, the energy sector, and almost every other sector, has taken water for granted, viewing it as an abundant resource. But as we move into a new era of renewable energy, the vast amounts of water required to power green energy operations may not be so easy to find. And it’s not just renewables that are under threat from water scarcity, as it also hinders fossil fuel production and threatens food security

In recent months, we have seen extreme droughts across Europe and the U.S., which are finally making people realise the significance of water security. Stefano Venier, CEO of the Italian energy infrastructure company Snam, highlights the huge impact recent droughts have had on both food security and energy production. Labelled as ‘Europe’s worst drought in 500 years’, the low water levels have restricted shipping capabilities, as well as drying up soil and reducing summer crop yields.

Venier explains, “For a long time, water was considered [as being] for free, as something that is fully available in any quantity.” He went on to say, “Now, we are discovering that with climate change … water can become scarce.” And so, “we have to regain the perception of importance, and the value [that] … the water has, also, with respect to … energy production… we have discovered that without water, enough water, we cannot produce the energy we need, or we can’t ship the fuels for filling the power plants,” he added.

The drought has already raised concerns for nuclear power plant operators that rely on water from rivers to cool their nuclear reactors. EDF typically uses water from the Rhone and Garonne but rising water temperatures mean that nuclear power output could be reduced during hot periods. The falling water levels have also hindered traditional energy operations such as coal output, according to several European energy firms.

But the issue of water scarcity is perhaps most detrimental to hydropower projects. In the U.S., several hydropower operations are located along rivers with falling water levels, with a higher risk of water scarcity by 2050. Montana, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, California, Arkansas and Oklahoma are the most affected states. A recent study published in the Journal Water found that 61 percent of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme risk for droughts, floods or both. In addition, one in five hydropower dams will be in high flood risk areas, an increase from one in 25 today.

World Wildlife Fund’s Global Freshwater Lead Scientist Jeff Opperman explains, “Hydropower projects must deal with a range of hydrological risks–ranging from too little water to too much–and these risks are projected to increase in many regions due to climate change.” “Already, we’ve seen regions, such as the southwestern US, southern Africa, and Brazil, where hydropower generation has declined due to falling water levels,” he adds.

And it’s not just the U.S. that is facing these challenges. In August, Norway threatened to limit its power exports due to low reservoir levels. The country, which relies on hydropower for around 90 percent of its electricity production, increased regulations on power production to prevent hydroelectric reservoir levels from running out of water. This news came just days after the world’s longest under-sea power cable began transferring hydroelectric energy from Norway to the UK.

Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Aasland explained, “We need a management mechanism or security mechanism that safeguards national security of supply so that we do not run out of water in our reservoirs.” He added, “We are now introducing a system where, when we come to a situation where the magazine capacity is below what is normal for the time of year and down to a critically low level, there will be a restriction on exports.”

These kinds of restrictions could become commonplace if these severe weather events, and related water scarcity, continue to take place. Europe’s recent heatwave far exceeded the expectations of climate experts, with several countries reaching record highs which led to wildfires in areas that had never previously experienced such events, showing the reality of the effects of climate change.

As well as the detrimental effect water scarcity has on energy output, it also has a hugely negative impact on food production. With several areas of the world seeing poorer harvests year on year, as temperatures soar and water scarcity becomes a challenge, many countries are worried about their food production levels. And the water-food-energy nexus is raising concerns over the impact of the two other factors on the energy sector. We’re already seeing this nexus work the other way, with increasing gas prices causing fertiliser shortages, which have exacerbated the impact of water shortages on agricultural yields further.

With rising concerns over water scarcity, mainly due to climate change, there are fears that the big transition to renewable energy will be hindered even further. However, even traditional fossil fuel production cannot escape from the effects of water scarcity, and the water-food-energy nexus may further exacerbate the situation, meaning that plans to mitigate this scarcity must be quickly established to avoid a major energy crisis.

2022-01-22 Dr. Ray Obomsawin. The True History of Vaccination and Infectious Disease

 Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Sep 092022
 

Dr. Obomsawin does an interesting walk that includes some ancient history.

From ‘The Conservative Woman”

Until recently, I remained firm in the belief that despite some failures, vaccines are a wonder of modern medicine. Had they not eliminated smallpox and polio?  The Covid crisis encouraged me to look at data offering a more challenging perspective, such as in this cool and evidence-based video presentation by the late Dr Ray Obomsawin. A champion of indigenous people’s health needs, he published more than 85 research papers until his sudden death this year.

2022-09-09 John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works (Scheerpost)

 Propaganda  No Responses »
Sep 092022
 

Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last world war,

isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda?

The urgency is greater than ever.

By John Pilger / MintPress News

 

In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer.

She told me that the ‘patriotic messages’ of her films were dependent not on ‘orders from above’ but on what she called the ‘submissive void’ of the German public.

Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked.  ‘Yes, especially them,’ she said.

I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies.

Of course, we are very different from Germany in the 1930s. We live in information societies. We are globalists. We have never been more aware, more in touch, better connected.

Are we? Or do we live in a Media Society where brainwashing is insidious and relentless, and perception is filtered according to the needs and lies of state and corporate power?

The United States dominates the Western world’s media. All but one of the top ten media companies are based in North America. The internet and social media – Google, Twitter, Facebook – are mostly American owned and controlled.

In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies. It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries.  It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries.

The extent and scale of this carnage is largely unreported, unrecognized; and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political life.

In the years before he died in 2008, the playwright Harold Pinter made two extraordinary speeches, which broke a silence.

‘US foreign policy,’ he said, is ‘best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. What is interesting about it is that it’s so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do.”

In accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pinter said this:

The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

 

Pinter was a friend of mine and possibly the last great political sage – that is, before dissenting politics were gentrified. I asked him if the ‘hypnosis’ he referred to was the ‘submissive void’ described by Leni Riefenstahl.

‘It’s the same,’ he replied. ‘It means the brainwashing is so thorough we are programmed to swallow a pack of lies. If we don’t recognise propaganda, we may accept it as normal and believe it. That’s the submissive void.’

In our systems of corporate democracy, war is an economic necessity, the perfect marriage of public subsidy and private profit: socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. The day after 9/11 the stock prices of the war industry soared. More bloodshed was coming, which is great for business.

Today, the most profitable wars have their own brand. They are called ‘forever wars’: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and now Ukraine. All are based on a pack of lies.

Iraq is the most infamous, with its weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Nato’s destruction of Libya in 2011 was justified by a massacre in Benghazi that didn’t happen. Afghanistan was a convenient revenge war for 9/11, which had nothing to do with the people of Afghanistan.

Today, the news from Afghanistan is how evil the Taliban are – not that Joe Biden’s theft of $7billion of the country’s bank reserves is causing widespread suffering. Recently, National Public Radio in Washington devoted two hours to Afghanistan – and 30 seconds to its starving people.

At its summit in Madrid in June, Nato, which is controlled by the United States, adopted a strategy document that militarises the European continent, and escalates the prospect of war with Russia and China. It proposes ‘multi domain warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitor. In other words, nuclear war.

It says: ‘Nato’s enlargement has been an historic success’.

I read that in disbelief.

A measure of this ‘historic success’ is the war in Ukraine, news of which is mostly not news, but a one-sided litany of jingoism, distortion, omission.  I have reported a number of wars and have never known such blanket propaganda.

In February, Russia invaded Ukraine as a response to almost eight years of killing and criminal destruction in the Russian-speaking region of Donbass on their border.

In 2014, the United States had sponsored a coup in Kyiv that got rid of Ukraine’s democratically elected, Russian-friendly president and installed a successor whom the Americans made clear was their man.

In recent years, American ‘defender’ missiles have been installed in eastern Europe, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, almost certainly aimed at Russia, accompanied by false assurances all the way back to James Baker’s ‘promise’ to Gorbachev in February 1990 that Nato would never expand beyond Germany.

Ukraine is the frontline. Nato has effectively reached the very borderland through which Hitler’s army stormed in 1941, leaving more than 23 million dead in the Soviet Union.

Last December, Russia proposed a far-reaching security plan for Europe. This was dismissed, derided or suppressed in the Western media. Who read its step-by-step proposals? On 24 February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened to develop nuclear weapons unless America armed and protected Ukraine.  This was the final straw.

On the same day, Russia invaded – according to the Western media, an unprovoked act of congenital infamy. The history, the lies, the peace proposals, the solemn agreements on Donbass at Minsk counted for nothing.

On 25 April, the US Defence Secretary, General Lloyd Austin, flew into Kyiv and confirmed that America’s aim was to destroy the Russian Federation – the word he used was ‘weaken’. America had got the war it wanted, waged by an American bankrolled and armed proxy and expendable pawn.

Almost none of this was explained to Western audiences.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is wanton and inexcusable. It is a crime to invade a sovereign country. There are no ‘buts’ – except one.

When did the present war in Ukraine begin and who started it? According to the United Nations, between 2014 and this year, some 14,000 people have been killed in the Kyiv regime’s civil war on the Donbass. Many of the attacks were carried out by neo-Nazis.

Watch an ITV news report from May 2014, by the veteran reporter James Mates, who is shelled, along with civilians in the city of Mariupol, by Ukraine’s Azov (neo-Nazi) battalion.

In the same month, dozens of Russian-speaking people were burned alive or suffocated in a trade union building in Odessa besieged by fascist thugs, the followers of the Nazi collaborator and anti-Semitic fanatic Stephen Bandera.  The New York Times called the thugs ‘nationalists’.The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment,’ said Andreiy Biletsky, founder of the Azov Battaltion, ‘is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival, a crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.’

Since February, a campaign of self-appointed ‘news monitors’ (mostly funded by the Americans and British with links to governments) have sought to maintain the absurdity that Ukraine’s neo-Nazis don’t exist.

Airbrushing, a term once associated with Stalin’s purges, has become a tool of mainstream journalism.

In less than a decade, a ‘good’ China has been airbrushed and a ‘bad’ China has replaced it: from the world’s workshop to a budding new Satan.

Much of this propaganda originates in the US, and is transmitted through proxies and ‘think-tanks’, such as the notorious Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the voice of the arms industry, and by zealous journalists such as Peter Hartcher of the Sydney Morning Herald, who labeled those spreading Chinese influence as ‘rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows’ and called for these ‘pests’ to be ‘eradicated’.

News about China in the West is almost entirely about the threat from Beijing. Airbrushed are the 400 American military bases that surround most of China, an armed necklace that reaches from Australia to the Pacific and south east Asia, Japan and Korea. The Japanese island of Okinawa and the Korean island of Jeju are loaded guns aimed point blank at the industrial heart of China. A Pentagon official described this as a ‘noose’.

Palestine has been misreported for as long as I can remember. To the BBC, there is the ‘conflict’ of ‘two narratives’. The longest, most brutal, lawless military occupation in modern times is unmentionable.

The stricken people of Yemen barely exist. They are media unpeople.  While the Saudis rain down their American cluster bombs with British advisors working alongside the Saudi targeting officers, more than half a million children face starvation.

This brainwashing by omission has a long history. The slaughter of the First World War was suppressed by reporters who were knighted for their compliance and confessed in their memoirs.  In 1917, the editor of the Manchester Guardian, C.P. Scott, confided to prime minister Lloyd George: ‘If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow, but they don’t know and can’t know.’

The refusal to see people and events as those in other countries see them is a media virus in the West, as debilitating as Covid.  It is as if we see the world through a one-way mirror, in which ‘we’ are moral and benign and ‘they’ are not. It is a profoundly imperial view.

The history that is a living presence in China and Russia is rarely explained and rarely understood. Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler. Xi Jinping is Fu Man Chu. Epic achievements, such as the eradication of abject poverty in China, are barely known. How perverse and squalid this is.

When will we allow ourselves to understand? Training journalists factory style is not the answer. Neither is the wondrous digital tool, which is a means, not an end, like the one-finger typewriter and the linotype machine.

In recent years, some of the best journalists have been eased out of the mainstream. ‘Defenestrated’ is the word used. The spaces once open to mavericks, to journalists who went against the grain, truth-tellers, have closed.

The case of Julian Assange is the most shocking.  When Julian and WikiLeaks could win readers and prizes for the Guardian, the New York Times and other self-important ‘papers of record’, he was celebrated.

When the dark state objected and demanded the destruction of hard drives and the assassination of Julian’s character, he was made a public enemy. Vice President Biden called him a ‘hi-tech terrorist’. Hillary Clinton asked, ‘Can’t we just drone this guy?’

The ensuing campaign of abuse and vilification against Julian Assange – the UN Rapporteur on Torture called it ‘mobbing’ — brought the liberal press to its lowest ebb. We know who they are. I think of them as collaborators: as Vichy journalists.

When will real journalists stand up? An inspirational samizdat  already exists on the internet: Consortium News, founded by the great reporter Robert Parry, Max Blumenthal’s  Grayzone, MintPress News, Media Lens, Declassified UK, Alborada, Electronic Intifada, WSWS, ZNet, ICH, Counter Punch, Independent Australia, the work of Chris Hedges, Patrick Lawrence, Jonathan Cook, Diana Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone and others who will forgive me for not mentioning them here.

And when will writers stand up, as they did against the rise of fascism in the 1930s? When will film-makers stand up, as they did against the Cold War in the 1940s? When will satirists stand up, as they did a generation ago?

Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last world war, isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda? The urgency is greater than ever.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

John Pilger

John Pilger has twice won Britain’s highest award for journalism and has been International Reporter of the Year, News Reporter of the Year and Descriptive Writer of the Year. He has made 61 documentary films and has won an Emmy, a BAFTA the Royal Television Society prize and the Sydney Peace Prize. His ‘Cambodia Year Zero’ is named as one of the ten most important films of the 20th century. This article is an edited version of an address to the Trondheim World Festival, Norway. He can be contacted at www.johnpilger.com

2022-09-01 Joy! California Legislature says NO to Big Pharma!

 Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Sep 022022
 

I was holding my breath on this one!   A critical vote.  There will be wild partying among the people, the winners!

(Except – – THERE WASN’T  A VOTE!  The legislation was withdrawn to avoid the PUBLICITY of defeat, BEFORE a vote could take place .   All thanks to the mobilizations!)

BACKGROUND     2022-04-04 California Screamin’

. . . And now,  the California Legislature says NO to Big Pharma!

‘We Beat Big Pharma on Its Home Turf’ — California Grassroots Movement Stops Teen Vaccine Consent Bill

from Children’s Health Defence,    By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, who authored Senate Bill 866, announced he will not put his

teen vaccine consent bill up for a vote in the California Assembly

because it does not have enough support to pass.

A bill that would have allowed California children ages 15 and older to be vaccinated without parental consent went “inactive” Wednesday.

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored Senate Bill 866 (SB 866), announced he will not put the measure up for a vote in the California Assembly because it does not have enough support to pass.

Wiener said in a statement the bill, which would have lowered the age of consent for all vaccines — including the COVID-19 vaccine — to 15, was “several votes short of 41” needed to pass, with no “viable path for these final few votes.”

He also tweeted his response regarding the outcome of the bill:   – – –

While Weiner attributed the bill’s failure to a “small” but highly vocal and organized “minority of anti-vaxxers,” many Californians said the bill faced growing bipartisan opposition.

Californians rise up

“The tide has officially turned in California,” Nicole Pearson, attorney and founder of Facts Law Truth Justice, told The Defender in response to Weiner’s announcement.

Pearson continued:

“What happened Wednesday was not the product of a minority, fringe, extremist group. It was the result of thousands of tireless hours of millions of Californians uniting, educating and empowering each other, and rising up together to take our seats at the political table where we belong and have the right to be.

“It was the product of measured, respectful, informed, consistent efforts from Californians from all political, religious, racial and professional backgrounds, meeting with their elected representatives to educate and inform them and ensure that they represent and protect the will of the people.

“While we as lawyers — and doctors, nurses, teachers, parents, concerned citizens and human beings — still have a tremendous amount of work to do to truly turn our state around, today marks a tremendous moment in California history. Today marks the day that we know that we have the power and right to turn our communities into exactly what we want them to be.”

Pearson noted the efforts of Tara Thornton and Denise Aguilar of Freedom Angels “who held the line every single day the last three weeks of the legislative session to ensure we were maintaining and fostering relationships with legislators, and to keep a close track of the temperature and movement at the capitol. Without their relentless, tireless, thankless, and selfless efforts and insights, we would not have achieved the success we did today.”    . . .

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense, also commented on the widespread lack of constituent support for Weiner’s bill.

Kennedy told The Defender:

“It’s long been said that California Democratic state legislators are not for sale;

Pharma owns them all and will not sell.

“Now, years of grassroots activism have finally fortified enough legislatorial spines in Sacramento that assembly members are supporting children’s health rather than Pharma profits.

“We beat Big Pharma on its home turf. If we can win in California, we can protect kids everywhere.”

SB 866 was one of a handful of bills introduced by a group of Democratic lawmakers who called themselves the Vaccine Work Group and sought to “determine the best approaches to promote vaccines” as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic while “battling” misinformation.

However, many Californians felt that SB 866 was more about generating profits for pharmaceutical companies than about stopping disease and disseminating accurate information.

In its original form, SB 866 would have allowed children ages 12 years and older to “consent to vaccination when the vaccine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and meets the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” according to the bill’s official fact sheet.

After the original bill was met with stiff resistance, California lawmakers amended the bill in June by raising the proposed consent age from 12 to 15 years in hopes of garnering more support — but raising the consent age to 15 did little to nullify many individuals’ concerns.

 

2022-08-09 Use of the internet and Justice system for intimidation, harassment and extortion. Amanda Todd and others. Some HOPE (wins). (Free speech, Anti-Slapp, cyber-bullying)

 Anti-SLAPP & SLAPP, Corporate & Individual manipulation of Justice system, X1C Related Cyber-bullying, Anti-SLAPP  No Responses »
Aug 092022
 
A half-dozen related postings.

(Anti-SLAPP laws  are designed to protect ordinary citizens from being silenced.)

1.      2202-08-09  Anti-SLAPP   BIG WIN FOR PEOPLE .   Court dismisses defamation suit against conservationists  . . . a B.C. law designed to protect freedom of speech   (https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27325)

 

2.       2017-07-28 How an Ontario mom fended off a $120K libel lawsuit over her Facebook posts, CBC

Dismissed under Anti-SLAPP laws.

 “I was terrified,” “Where am I going to get this money from? . . .

Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Lederer ruled in Mohammed’s favour, citing the province’s “strategic lawsuits against public participation” rules (“anti-SLAPP” measures).

3.       2016-07-29 ‘What law am I breaking?’ How a Facebook troll came undone (Cyber-Bully)   

(https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=19715)

 

4.       2015-09-30 Cyberbullying, an issue of free speech. Salman Rushdie, a guiding light.

2022-09-28 In support of Salman Rushdie, Freedom of Speech. PEN Canada, John Ralston Saul & Grace Westcott.

(https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27407 )

 

5.       2015-09-24 Urgent action needed to combat online (“cyber”) violence against women and girls, UN report

 

6.       Anchor      (https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=11775)

 

 

2202-08-09 Anti-SLAPP Important win for people. ‘Every citizen won’: court dismisses defamation suit against conservationists The Qualicum Beach case has big ramifications . . . a B.C. law designed to protect freedom of speech

 Freedom of Speech. (Remove some wrong postings from category), X1C Related Cyber-bullying, Anti-SLAPP  No Responses »
Aug 092022
 

RELATED

 

 

With thanks to The Narwhal

By Stephanie Wood

‘Every citizen in British Columbia won’: court dismisses defamation suit against conservationists

The Qualicum Beach case has big ramifications as one of the first tests of a B.C. law designed to protect freedom of speech

A B.C. environmental group that tested a provincial law intended to protect freedom of speech and prevent frivolous lawsuits from bogging down the courts has won.

On Monday, the B.C. Supreme Court dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a developer against the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society and its president Ezra Morse, ruling that the case did not have substantial merit. The case was a test of B.C.’s new Protection of Public Participation Act, intended to prevent strategic lawsuits against public participation (often referred to as SLAPP suits), which can be used by companies to silence and out-resource opponents.

While the law has been tested a handful of times, this may be the first time it was used to defend an environmentalist against defamation claims arising from land-use disputes, according to Morse’s counsel, Chris Tollefson.

“This has shown this legislation works. It can provide protection for people who are engaged in lawful, democratic expression,” Tollefson said in an interview.   . . .   cont below

Get The Narwhal in your inbox!
People always tell us they love our newsletter. Find out yourself with a weekly dose of our ad‑free, independent journalism

In May 2021, Richard Todsen and Linda Todsen, owners of Todsen Design and Construction, filed a claim alleging Morse was misleading in his outspoken advocacy against the project and damaged their company’s reputation. In the court decision, Justice Jan Brongers concluded that statements made by Morse and the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society were and “expression on a matter of public interest” and they had a viable defence to the defamation allegations.

Tollefson, of the Tollefson Law Corporation and founder of the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation, filed a motion to dismiss the claim in July 2021 utilizing the public participation act, colloquially referred to as an anti-SLAPP law.

Under B.C.’s Protection of Public Participation Act, Brongers concluded the Todsens’ claim was “a type of SLAPP proceeding that the Act prohibits.”

“While the Todsens are free to take issue with Mr. Morse’s comments … the [Protection of Public Participation] Act precludes them from doing so through the vehicle of a defamation claim,” Brongers’ decision reads.

“My client is very happy and relieved about this decision,” Tollefson said.

Morse told The Narwhal he hopes the decision encourages others in B.C. to “speak up for their values”

“Every citizen in British Columbia won today,” he said.

Ezra Morse in front of an old growth in Qualicum Beach
Todsen Design and Construction and its owners sued Ezra Morse, president of the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society, for publicly criticizing their development project. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jan Brongers called their claims “a type of SLAPP proceeding.” Photo: Bojan Uzicanin / The Narwhal

The judge found most statements made by Morse could be viably defended as “fair comment,” meaning they were in the public interest, based on fact and recognizable as an opinion that someone may reasonably and honestly have.

Richard Todsen told The Narwhal he would not be providing comment until having further discussions with his counsel, who did not respond in time to comment for this story.

Judge concludes neither side in Qualicum Beach case acted with ‘malice’

The story unfolded in Qualicum Beach, a town on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Like many places, Qualicum Beach is embroiled in debates about the best path forward to address housing, conservation, the climate crisis and the community’s needs — which contributed to the tension around the Todsens’ development proposal.

The Todsens allege Morse and the preservation society made defamatory statements online in opposition to their proposal to build a 16-lot subdivision in the town’s greenbelt.

Using the anti-SLAPP law, which was passed unanimously in 2019, Tollefson applied to have the claim dismissed and also countersue the Todsens for damages. The anti-SLAPP law outlines that a plaintiff may be sued for damages if they acted in bad faith to intimidate or inflict harm on the defendant.

But Brongers concluded the Todsens did not act in bad faith and that Morse was not entitled to damages.

“Just as I did not find that Mr. Morse was actuated by malice when he expressed his opinions, I can see no basis for a finding that the Todsens were actuated by malice when they responded with their claim,” reads Brongers’ decision.

“Rather, the situation here is fundamentally one where two parties have strong opposing views about the merits of a proposed land development and its potential impact on the environment.”

The significant outstanding question remains of whether the Todsens will be required to cover the defendants’ legal costs. Both sides are expected to try to reach an agreement on costs, and if they cannot agree, they are required to provide submissions to the Supreme Court, which will issue a decision.

The anti-SLAPP law outlines that if a case is dismissed under the act, the applicant (in this case, Morse and the preservation society) is “entitled to costs” unless the court decides that is “inappropriate in the circumstances.”

B.C. anti-SLAPP law puts the onus on the plaintiff, not the defendant

The anti-SLAPP law requires that if a lawsuit targets a person who is lawfully expressing themselves on a matter of public interest, the onus is on the plaintiff to show the court their case still has substantial merit and should be allowed to proceed.

Under the public participation act, the plaintiff must pass three steps: 1) prove their case has substantial merit; 2) prove the defendant has no valid defence and 3) demonstrate the harm they suffered outweighs the public interest of protecting the defendant’s expression.

If the plaintiff can’t meet this onus, the courts are “basically bound by the law to dismiss the case,” Tollefson told The Narwhal.

Brongers found in each of the Todsens’ 24 allegations, they failed on one or more of the three steps.

The Protection of Public Participation Act was unanimously passed in 2019 and designed to protect free speech from intimidation lawsuits. Ontario, Quebec and B.C. are the only provinces in Canada with anti-SLAPP laws.

“We want to protect the interest of the journalist who’s breaking that big story, of the community member who’s going out to speak out about a problem that they’re seeing in their community, of the activist who’s saying something about the pollution that’s coming from the factory,” Attorney General David Eby told CBC in 2019 when the law was passed.

“In this rough and tumble public debate on the issues of the day we don’t want people to feel like they have to be too dainty about it, because they’re worried they’re going to get sued.”

A photo of the proposed development site shows the zone’s proximity to key ecological pockets of the Qualicum Beach greenbelt.
A photo of the proposed development site shows the zone’s proximity to key ecological pockets of the Qualicum Beach greenbelt. Photo: Concerned Citizens of Qualicum Beach / Facebook

SLAPP suits can have a chilling effect on activists, Larry Reynolds, lawyer for West Coast Environmental Law’s environmental dispute resolution fund, told The Narwhal last year. The fund provides grants for individuals and communities to hire lawyers at reduced rates, and they are helping Morse.

“Citizens often feel very unempowered when it comes to taking on developers,” he said.

Todsen Design and Construction is still seeking approval to rezone part of the woodlands to accommodate up to 28 units. The development falls outside of the town’s urban containment boundary, which is designed to curtail sprawl and protect conservation areas and rural lands.

Qualicum Beach Town Council will make a final decision about the company’s application on Wednesday.

Updated on Aug. 9, 2022, at 2:37 p.m. PT: This story has been updated to add more recent images of the Qualicum Beach area and Ezra Morse and corrected a photo caption that misidentified the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society as the Qualicum Beach Preservation Society.

2022-08-04 the REPORTING about blue jays player not vaxxed

 Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Aug 042022
 

From: Sandra Finley
Sent: August 4, 2022 11:18 AM
Subject: the REPORTING about blue jays player not vaxxed,  2202-08-04 AM

 

TO:  CBC Radio Victoria

 

The ASSUMPTIONS behind the reporting on the Blue Jays player who can’t play at the Jays’ home games are a discredit to Canadian media coverage.  The expressed incredulity and laughter, a failure to engage in journalistic scrutiny by the reporters, are further discredit.

Vaccine mandates are about human rights.  What do YOU think they’re about?

I don’t know the Blue Jays’ story, so I put “blue jays player not vaxxed” into an internet search.   You may want to do the same.

A random excerpt from what I found:

(July 2022)  Canadian vaccine mandates have kept 36 players from traveling to Toronto for games against the host Blue Jays, and 34 of them – a whopping 94% – hail from the United States  . . .

So to me, it’s not about the player from the U.S. that the Blue Jays signed up.  36 players have been prevented from playing in Canada, plus this recent one.

What’s it about?

  • how is it that players who freely walk out on baseball diamonds in the US, are barred from Canadian baseball diamonds?
  • But more importantly,  WHY are these players not vaxxed?

There’s plenty of available information.  But for me,

I’m big on human rights (I’m from the 1960-70’s:  Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Canadian Neil Young’s song “Four Dead in Ohio” (Viet Nam War protests, students shot down by the U.S. National Guard, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers, then comes The Iraq War Syndrome – –  accurately the anthrax vaccine forcibly injected into more than a million American military and related forces, with disastrous and heart-breaking results . . .  on and on we go.)

Can you not see a legacy?

  • American sports, lots of “black” heroes
  • Their family backgrounds include civil rights activists who worked in alignment with Martin Luther King Jr (just ONE prominent example).  Fast forward
  • Today, Black lives matter forms bonds of solidarity, and morphs into “All Lives Matter”.

 

  • BUT BEFORE ALL THAT:   my Dad was a young man during World War 2.  He read a lot and I read some of his books.  The NUREMBERG TRIALS.  Human Rights.  International humanitarian law  . . .  “ never again”.

 

Forced medical treatments are a clear and dangerous violation of human rights with a history that precedes World War 2 (in the U.S., experiments on black and poor kids in orphanages.  You don’t want to know about it.  Nazis were good at sadistic behavior;  so were Americans.  We don’t tell stories on ourselves (I’m Canadian).  

It is well-known that Big Pharma is corrupt and corrupting.  So what are we doing in bed with them?  Providing immunity from prosecution and public funding to create billionaires?

As I type, I am offended.  I feel like swearing.  Through failed journalism you are supporting the trampling of Human Rights.  Won through hard and long fights, continuous since before Emancipation in the USA (since before 1863).  . .

The Federal Court of Canada will hear the constitutional challenges to forced injections and other mandates (not supported by sound science) on October 31st.  I wonder if the CBC will cover the case fairly?

Sandra Finley

2022-07-22 Unanimous ruling, Alberta Court of Appeal re Artur Pawlowski. Government actions unconstitutional. (covid-related)

 Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Jul 232022
 

Unanimous ruling by Alberta’s Court of Appeal is a total legal, moral and constitutional victory for Artur Pawlowski and his brother Dawid.

In short, Alberta’s top judges ruled that:

  • the court order that was used to arrest and jail Pawlowski was flawed and therefore illegal;
  • all of the punishments that flowed from that — such as being fined and jailed — were without basis. Pawlowski’s fines will be returned to him;

The additional bizarre, authoritarian penalties — banning him from going on speaking tours; requiring him to read a statement denouncing himself any time he criticized the government — were revoked, and deemed unconstitutional.

= = = =  = = = = =  = = =

IMPORTANT PLAYER,  YOUNG LAWYER SARAH MILLER  

Sarah got her law degree (Calgary) in 2018.

I’ve listened to a couple interviews of her, in relation to her representation of Artur Pawlowski.  I am excited by these young people who are shining warriors.   Sarah is a credit to the legal profession.

A bit about Sarah:   https://jssbarristers.ca/litigators/sarah-miller/#:~:text=Sarah%20is%20a%20fourth%20generation,as%20an%20Associate%20in%202019. 

= = = =  = = = = =  = = =

The Alberta Court of Appeal decision, July 22, 2022, is important for all Canadians.

Sarah Miller (young constitutional lawyer) has represented Pawlowski for a  few years, starting before Covid, and culminating with this July 22nd decision.   (It’s not the end-of-the-line for Pawlowski and his lawyers, but it is a heavy-weight win.)

At the least, expect your eyebrows to rise at the descriptions of events.   Other people, I’m one!  are left speechless.  Cannot believe that a Judge in this country would be so ignorant of the basic tenets of law, that they would envision getting away with such rulings (the rulings that were appealed).

They have come to believe that no one can afford to appeal, maybe?   (Pawloski can afford to appeal because people pitch in to help pay costs.  The cost of getting to the Alberta Appeal Court were about a million dollars.  The Prosecutors play this game where they dump thousands of pages of documents on the other side, on the day before the legal arguments are to be presented in Court.  Pawlowski’s case is not unique.  I watched the Inquiry into the Invocation of the Emergencies Act.  The abuse of “disclosure” is common place.

RECOMMEND:   if you’re short of time,  

  1. Interview of Sarah Miller, July 22.  Following announcement of the win in the Alberta Court of Appeal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7stIf_KnY     43 minutes.

The interview brings out events that I have not seen reported in earlier coverage.

 

  1. The Oct 14, 2021 interview of Sarah Miller.  14 minutes,   Sarah clearly explains what is, and is not “contempt of court”.

The October 14, 2021   interview of Pawlowski’s lawyer, Sarah Miller

2022-07-23 Presentation: Cell Phones & Towers – Radiation Problems, Solutions and Safety

 Health, Technology  No Responses »
Jul 232022
 

Hi Carol,

Many thanks for NOTICE OF MEETING (below).   I will be attending.

Sandra

= = = =

FOR PEOPLE NEW TO THE ISSUE:

2008-10-07 Feedback: Letter from School Superintendent re high voltage transmission line

2008-11-19  EMFs: high-voltage transmission lines, Cancers, Alzheimers. Internationally. Nationally. Locally.      (https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27295)

Regarding bizarre, lethal cancers in children in a small rural community in Saskatchewan,  a friend and I attended a conference in Ottawa (approx. 2008), the newly-formed Prevent Cancer NOW   https://preventcancernow.ca/

Canadians for Safe Technology, who are putting on the presentation (Notice of Meeting below), refer to two of the presenters at the 2008 Ottawa conference – – – Dr Magda Havas and Dr Devra Davies.   (www.C4ST.org  (Canadians for Safe Technology) in  CEO Frank Clegg’s excellent video).

Neither of the doctors will remember me,  but I certainly remember them!   And have drawn on their work many times.  They are exemplary women.

Just now I posted 2 emails of information I circulated in 2008;  others might be interested.  They are an indictment of Health Canada (for whom I have zero respect).

I will bring an EMFields monitor (www.emfields-solutions.com) to the meeting Monday evening, in case others might like to see it.

Best wishes,  Sandra

= = = = = = = = = = = 

NOTICE OF MEETING 

Monday, July 25, 2022 at 7:00pm,

QB Civic Centre, 747 Jones St.,

Invite your families and neighbours for a wonderful learning experience.

We welcome your questions in a conversation setting.

Guest speaker: Shelley Wright,

Retired teacher of 29 years and Director of Canadian Educators for Safe Technology.

Subject: Cell Phones and Towers – Radiation Problems, Solutions and Safety

Marcus Schluschen,

Certified EMF consultant (radiation, mitigation specialist)

He will be demonstrating the constant radiation emitted by cell phones and wireless devices. Have the radiation levels of your phone checked for free.!

Please confirm you will be attending by email:

caroldowe@—

Thank you kindly,

Carol and Fred Dowe,

Canadians for Safe Technology, www.C4ST.org [watch Frank Clegg video]

250-752-2104.

2008-11-19 EMFs: high-voltage transmission lines, Cancers, Alzheimers (items are international, national, and local).

 Health, Technology  No Responses »
Jul 232022
 

” The high voltage transmission line  (HVTL) / cancer connection is solid for childhood leukemia, and very recently, a Swiss study has associated Alzheimer’s disease with residence near HVTs. 

New HVTLs should not be located close to homes or schools.” … Dr. Sam Milham, La Quinta, California  (see #11 below)

———————-

This is a continuation of email sent Oct 07, 2008:

2008-10-07 Feedback: Letter from School Superintendent re high voltage transmission lines,  (sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27293)

“… The Delta School District relies on professional advice from experts in the field.”   … “… with respect to the issue of power lines and health, it is safe for students and staff to attend South Delta Secondary School.”

———————-

CONTENTS  (most of these are short paragraphs)

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. GAUSSMETER FOR MEASURING
  3. EMF “SENSITIVITY”: CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
  4. EMF DISEASE : CHEMICAL DISEASE
  5. EMFs, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES?
  6. B.C. TRANSMISSION CORPORATION’S ROLE
  7. EASY FOR US ALL TO HELP THE MOTHERS IN TSAWWASSEN
  8. VISUALS HELP:  LIST AND MARK THE FURDALE CANCERS ON A MAP
  9. CANCER RESEARCH DAY IN SASKATOON, DEC 5TH
  10. CONTACT GAYLE COHEN, “HIGH FREQUENCY VOLTAGE ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER INCIDENCE IN TEACHERS IN A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL (2008)”
  11. DR. MILHAM DID THE RESEARCH STUDY IN LA QUINTA. HE TELLS US “HOW TO PROCEED” HERE.
  12. AUSTRALIA ADVISES PUBLIC TO REDUCE EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
  13. WEB-SITES WITH INFORMATION ON EMFs
  14. FACEBOOK GROUP
  15. WILL THE PREMIER OF B.C. BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CANCERS THAT DEVELOP IN TSAWWASSEN? … OR IS IT US?
  16. SEND MAP TO PEACE RIVER PEOPLE. HIGH VOLTAGE LINES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY FROM BRUCE POWER REACTORS
  17. LIVING NEAR A POWERLINE CAN DOUBLE YOUR CHANCE OF DYING FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, SWISS STUDY, NOV 2008
  18. THE U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE LISTING OF THE SWISS RESEARCH,  from Power Watch
  19. ANITA COMMUNICATING WITH SENIORS’ GROUPS: THE ALZHEIMERS CONNECTION
  20. COMMUNICATION TO HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
  21. INFORM GOVERNMENT
  22. SAMPLE LETTER
  23. NEW TRANSMISSION LINES: KNOW WHERE THE ELECTRICITY IS GOING.  INDEPENDENT (PRIVATE) POWER PRODUCERS (IPPs) on BC RIVERS.
  24. MOTHERS AGAINST POWER POLES (MAPP), FROM EMAIL SENT SEPT 27
  25. FATE OF THE CANADIAN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMME (CCCSCP);  MORE ON FURDALE

That’s all  ~~~~~ !

==============================

  1. INTRODUCTION

“Talk” says there are too many cancers near some electrical fields.

Don’t know.  And Health Canada cut the funding to the Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Programme, so how will we ever know?

Dr. Magda Havas from Trent University gave a presentation at the Prevent Cancer NOW Conference. …  Ooooh yes – there is a relationship between cancers and EMF’s, as they are called (Electro Magnetic Fields).

============================

  1. GAUSSMETER FOR MEASURING

Anita (Tsawwassen, B.C.) writes:  “You can measure the magnetic field.  The gadget is called a gaussmeter (also known as a magnetometer) and it measures milligauss.  2 – 4 mG is generally considered by world experts to be a safe level.”

Madga had some gaussmeters at the Prevent Cancer NOW organization’s conference.  You can take readings from around a room, for example, at the electrical plug-ins.

A quick google search shows lots of information and suppliers of gaussmeters.

============================

  1. EMF “SENSITIVITY” : CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY

A young woman at the presentation is very sensitive to EMFs.  There is a growing number of people who suffer from health symptoms that are being traced back to EMFs.  EMF sensitivity has parallels with chemical sensitivity.

People with chemical sensitivities are careful in the siting of their homes and what they bring into their homes. They must limit themselves to as little exposure as possible or suffer debilitating health consequences.  The same is true for people with EMF sensitivity.

==============================

  1. EMF DISEASE : CHEMICAL DISEASE

Chemicals are associated with cancers.  EMFs are associated with cancers.

It is now well-established that EMFs are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.  Chemicals are clearly associated with reductions in cognitive functioning in children (interference in cognitive development).

EMFs and chemicals are invisible.  There are other disease or bad health connections for both.

=================================

  1. EMFs, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES?

Thanks to the Mothers in Tsawwassen.  Their battle brings us a fast lesson in EMFs.

I am doubly indebted:  knowledge of the Tsawwassen situation (July email) caused my nephew and his wife with their infant twins to back out of a house deal in Red Deer.  They got a gaussmeter;  the reading caused by a nearby transmission line was above safe levels. What a relief they got the information in time. I hope other people, and especially the Mothers in Tsawwassen,  will benefit in a some way from this assembled information.

The knowledge level and actions in Canada about exposure to EMFs is behind other countries.

–  July 2007  Australian authorities will advise the public on how to reduce their exposure to electromagnetic fields

–  This month a UK government inquiry recommended a moratorium on building new homes and schools within 60 metres of existing high-voltage overhead powerlines.

–  2008  High Frequency Voltage Transients Associated With Increased Cancer Incidence in Teachers in a California School (more detail in #10 below.

–  Nov 2008  Living close to a powerline can double your chance of dying from Alzheimer’s Disease A large new study (4.7 million persons) from Switzerland shows a significant dose-related increase in deaths from Alzheimer’s Disease … more information in #17.

A Google news search on “EMFs” turns up:

–  Cancer fear spurs kindy (kindergarten) to fight ‘killer rays’

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand – 29 Oct 2008 Links with EMF levels and child cancers were what was most alarming, Miss Drinnan said. “There was a big case in Massey a few years ago linking EMF with …

–  Saw Creek is fixing for a fight

Pocono Record, Pennsylvania – 12 Nov 2008 Residents are worried that increased electromagnetic fields, or EMFs, could cause cancer clusters, childhood leukemia and other illnesses. …

–  Greens: No Cell Towers Near Schools/preschools Voxy, New Zealand – 3 Nov 2008 “As more and more evidence emerges about the potential adverse health effects of low level exposure to EMF, the Government must take a precautionary …

 

Anita writes:

“We understand that the World Health Organization (WHO) will be issuing international guidelines on the basis that there is a link between the emissions and infant leukemia.  As you are no doubt well aware, other research has found links between other forms of cancers and proximity of residences to high voltage transmission lines.

======================

  1. B.C. TRANSMISSION CORPORATION’S ROLE

(Anita, continuing):   “BC Transmission Corporation has been publishing

misleading information to all of us by stating that exposure of up to 833 mG is the WHO guideline without noting that WHO has not issued guidelines, and that the 833 is a figure quoted for short term occupational exposure.  This truly verges on psychopathic behavior – lying and doing whatever is necessary to achieve the corporation’s goals.  Incidentally, there was an excellent documentary film released several years ago, entitled “THE CORPORATION”.  In this film, the actions of some huge corporations meet the conditions of the checklist developed for psychopathic behavior by Dr. Robert Hare.”

=====================================

 

  1. EASY FOR US ALL TO HELP THE MOTHERS IN TSAWWASSEN

 

Women in the lower mainland of B.C. are fighting a high-voltage line that runs right through their community.  One of the towers has been erected on the school parking lot.  The wires are not yet hung.  The Mothers’ chance of success will be enhanced if some of us will pitch in.  You know people in B.C.  Send information to them.  Phone, write or email Gordon Campbell, the Premier of B.C. (tel. 250-387-1715;  email premier@gov.bc.ca )

Also,  the School Superintendent identifies other parties we should be talking to:

”  The Delta School District relies on professional advice from experts in the field. Advice on public health matters comes from the World Health Organization, Health Canada, the Fraser Health Authority, and the BC Centre for Disease Control.

In a letter dated July 30, 2008, the Chief Medical Health Officer of the Fraser Health Authority stated that “… with respect to the issue of power lines and health, it is safe for students and staff to attend South Delta Secondary School.”  A copy of the full text of the letter from the Chief Medical Health Officer and other information is available on the District’s web-site at www.deltasd.bc.ca. ”

 

Hopefully some of us will look up contact info and send an email with information on EMFs to:

–  Chief Medical Health Officers (they exist at the regional, provincial and national level.  They meet with each other.

–  Fraser Health Authority

–  BC Centre for Disease Control

–  Health Canada (probably a waste of time.  Any of the thousands of people who have worked on pesticide bylaws know that Health Canada is dedicated to the health of industry profits.  The Canadian public is not its clientele.)

–  World Health Organization (WHO).  As with Health Canada and many of the American regulatory agencies, the pharm-chem=biotech transnationals have gotten their people well placed inside Government.  Or, they have the lobbying dollars to buy favours.  You simply cannot rely on them to look after the public interest in removal of cause of disease.

The woman I talked with in Premier Campbell’s office was sympathetic to the information about Furdale (#8 and #24 below), the teachers in California (#10), etc.  She was also honest: she said that the high power transmission line will go ahead in spite of the information.

The Government doesn’t care how many children and adults will have some form of cancer or other disease from the high voltage line – UNLESS.  The line will go through – UNLESS.  Unless enough people know AND make it known to Government.

Remember:  B.C. was going ahead with an Independent (Private) Power Producer

(IPP) on the Pitt River (#22 below).  A thousand people turned up at a public meeting.  The Premier decided maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all.

When I think of your situation (Tsawwasswen) with the power tower in place I am reminded of the nuclear power plant in Austria.  The whole plant was built.  The citizens forced a referendum and voted against it.  It has never been turned on.  I think it’s a museum now.

High voltage transmission lines are an issue in the Peace River area (nuclear energy for the tar sands).  They are an issue wherever in Canada there is a plan for the export of electricity to the U.S.  The information in this email should be known to the people whose lives will be affected by the lines.

To put children and their families through two years of grueling cancer treatment, and for the child to die in spite of the treatment is a tragedy, especially when the cause is known with a high degree of certainty.

I am thankful to the Mothers from Tsawwassen;  we learn through their work.

====================================

  1. VISUALS HELP: LIST AND MARK THE FURDALE CANCERS ON A MAP

(I deleted the attachment, a map of Furdale with cancers marked.  They make a line parallel to the transmission line.  PLEASE ask me for the map if it would be useful.  It makes too many kilobytes to include in this email.)

Furdale (pop’n approx 200 people) is a compelling example that other communities can use (especially right now – the women in the lower mainland of B.C.).

We went to Furdale on Tuesday.

The attached map shows SOME of the cancers, numbered:

1 Danny survived Hodgkins

2 Tanya deceased rhabdomyosarcoma

3 Amanda survived Hodgkins

4 M.S. deceased stomach cancer

5 M.J. deceased cancer

6 M.L. deceased brain tumour

These 6 cancers are along one street (Strathcona Ave).  Roughly a city block long (not a short block but a longish one).

The first 3 were adolescent children.

The last 3 were adults.

These are SOME of the cancers that ONE PERSON, who left the community more than 7 years ago, knows of.

The “X” on the west side of the South Saskatchewan River is the Queen Elizabeth power-generating station.

6 high-voltage transmission lines run (north-south) parallel to Strathcona Ave.  (See the map)

The north-south voltage alongside Furdale is shown on a SaskPower map as 138 kV.  I presume that is the combined capacity of the 6 transmission lines? I don’t know.

There are 4 high-power transmission lines running along the south side of Furdale (map).  The lines are almost in some people’s backyard.

There is a spur along the north side of the community that takes electricity a short distance into Saskatoon.  I have no idea what voltage it carries.

These 6 cancers may be enough to be helpful.  Without research there is no way of knowing the complete picture on the cancers.  And you know the story on Health Canada’s  Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Programme (CCCSCP) (the funding was cut in the 1990’s). (see #24 below)

Furdale tells me that other reports on the connection between EMFs and cancer (plus other ailments like dementia) are legitimate.  It might help to explain why the funding to the CCCSCP was cut.

(More on the Furdale cancers in #24, FATE OF THE CANADIAN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMME (CCCSCP))

=========================

  1. CANCER RESEARCH DAY IN SASKATOON, DEC 5TH

GOOD NEWS:  there is a Cancer Research Day here (Saskatoon) on Dec 5th.

Some have attended these events in the past.  The research money goes where the funding is.  The funding is “find a cure” (the pharmaceutical companies and their influence).

Please let me know if you will attend.  I’m going.  Will take the information on Furdale and EMFs.  Would be good to have a few “alternative”

voices in the room.

I get nauseous every time I hear “research to find a cure”.  They really need to be pressured to “remove the cause”.  Get out of their ivory towers.

=======================================

  1. CONTACT GAYLE COHEN, “HIGH FREQUENCY VOLTAGE ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER INCIDENCE IN TEACHERS IN A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL (2008)”

Page 8.

“CONCLUSION.  The cancer incidence in the teachers at this school is unusually high and is strongly associated with exposure to high frequency voltage transients.  In the 28 years since electromagnetic fields (EMFs) were first associated with cancer, a number of exposure metrics have been suggested.  If our findings are substantiated, high voltage frequency transients are a new and important exposure metric and a possible universal human carcinogen similar to ionizing radiation.”

(From  http://lqms.net/default.aspx    (La Quinta Middle School’s Cancer

Site! We need to stand together!)

Also available from American Journal of Industrial Medicine” (2008) “A New Electromagnetic Exposure Metric: High Frequency Voltage Transients Associated With Increased Cancer Incidence in Teachers in a California School”.

http://www.emfsolutions.ca/images/Milham%20Morgan%202008.pdf  )

Gayle is a teacher in La Quinta, California near Palm Springs.  She writes:

“Dear Sandy,

Sorry I missed your call.  I contacted Dr. Milham, he had been working with the teachers from the beginning of this issue with La Quinta Middle School.

You can see a history of our problem and lack of support we have received from our district if you go to our website.  http://lqms.net/default.aspx (La Quinta Middle School’s Cancer Site! We need to stand together!)

I contacted Dr. Milham and he said I could give you his phone number.

His knowledge will be more helpful to you then I could ever be.  A copy of his research is on our website also.  I am also including his email address below.  Let me know if I can be of any more assistance.  Good luck.

Gayle Cohen”

=======================================

  1. DR. MILHAM DID THE RESEARCH STUDY IN LA QUINTA. HE TELLS US “HOW TO PROCEED” HERE.

Dear Sandra,

The high voltage transmission line  (HVTL) / cancer connection is solid for childhood leukemia, and very recently, a Swiss study has associated Alzheimer’s disease with residence near HVTs.

Someone should measure the magnetic fields at the residences in question. If they are above 4 mG, then with adequate census data and access to provincial tumor registry data, it should be relatively easy to determine if Furdale has an increased cancer incidence.

New HVTLs should not be located close to home or schools.

Best,  Sam Milham

 

=========================

  1. AUSTRALIA ADVISES PUBLIC TO REDUCE EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1988802.htm

Call to cut magnetic field exposure in home Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Friday, 27 July 2007

Australian authorities will advise the public on how to reduce their exposure to electromagnetic fields from common household appliances like fridges and clock radios, in line with precautionary moves internationally.

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) says this is part of wide-ranging advice designed to limit exposure to extremely low-frequency (ELF) fields.

But some say Australia should go further, pointing to some countries that have set targets to reduce such exposure.

While there is no absolute proof that such fields cause disease, there have been some puzzling links.

Most important is a link between ELF fields from powerlines and childhood leukaemia, which has persisted for some time. But scientists still don’t know how such fields could cause ill health.

This month a UK government inquiry recommended a moratorium on building new homes and schools within 60 metres of existing high-voltage overhead powerlines.

The inquiry also called on the government to consider ELF field exposure when planning new homes and schools.

ARPANSA says it is taking a precautionary approach with its new recommendations.  …”

===================

 

  1. WEB-SITES WITH INFORMATION ON EMFs
  1. Mothers Against Power Poles (Tsawwassen, B.C.) http://www.mothersagainstpowerpoles.com/
  2. La Quinta Middle School’s Cancer Site! We need to stand together!

(California)  http://lqms.net/default.aspx

3.  Powerwatch http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/

“Powerwatch is a non-profit independent organisation with a central role in the UK Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Radiation health debate. We work closely with decision-makers in government and business, and with other like-minded groups, promoting policies for a safer environment.

We have been researching electromagnetic field effects on health for the last 20 years, and provide a range of information to help the general public understand this complex issue.”

4.  Others?

=======================

  1. FACEBOOK GROUP

I can set up a group on facebook – for an information sharing purpose.  The information on EMFs might be helpful to people who are fighting Independent

(Private) Power Producers (IPPs) in B.C., nuclear power reactors (that require transmission lines), etc. There are lots of those groups.  They could add another whole layer of informed and active people to help the Mothers in Tsawwassen.

What would the name of the group be?  Your suggestions are welcome!

(The “EMF” groups on facebook are related to a musical group and to EMF broadcasting.  (I don’t know what that is.))

=======================

  1. WILL THE PREMIER OF B.C. BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CANCERS THAT DEVELOP IN TSAWWASSEN? … OR IS IT US?

I spoke with the Premier’s office, discussed:

– the evidence of Furdale,

– the teachers at La Quinta Middle School (“The cancer incidence in the teachers at this school is unusually high and is strongly associated with exposure to high frequency voltage transients”),

– the withdrawal of funding from the Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Programme (The government didn’t want to know what it was finding)

The Premier’s office was sympathetic but the transmission line is going to proceed anyway.

I said that this is criminal behavior.  The responsibility of the government is to protect the citizens.

I told the Premier’s office that I would send a copy of the information that we will be circulating.

TO:

Honourable Gordon Campbell   (tel. 250-387-1715);  premier@gov.bc.ca

As I understand, the juice is scheduled to start flowing in the new 230 kV line in January.  One tower for the line is in the school parking lot in Tsawwassen.

============================

  1. SEND MAP TO PEACE RIVER PEOPLE. HIGH VOLTAGE LINES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY FROM BRUCE POWER REACTORS   (note:  the reactors for the Peacr River were eventually defeated by citizens working together across provincial boundaries)

That does indeed explain the Wesley Creek – Hotchkiss transformer upgrade and why they needed to increase (double the amount of juice!), wattage on the power lines. I had been suspecting that for sometime now. Wanda

—– Original Message —–

From: Brenda

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:56 AM

Subject: Second potential nuclear site announced

Hi All–

Bruce Power announced last night that it is considering a second site for a nuclear facility in the Peace Country.  It is located about 30 km north of Peace River, on the west side of the river but east of Weberville Road (Highway 743).  I think that would put it almost directly east of Chinook Valley.

Duncan Hawthorne stated on the radio this morning that the company has not abandoned the proposed site on Lac Cardinal.  However, he said he has always wanted to look at “other options”.

Drilling for samples at the new site will begin on Monday.

=====================

17.   LIVING NEAR A POWERLINE CAN DOUBLE YOUR CHANCE OF DYING FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, SWISS STUDY, NOV 2008.   FROM POWERWATCH  website:

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20081112_alzheimers_powerlines.asp

Nov 12/2008 – Living close to a powerline can double your chance of dying from Alzheimer’s Disease

A large new study from Switzerland[Huss 2008] shows a significant dose-related increase in deaths from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in people who have lived for a number of years within 50 metres of high-voltage overhead powerlines. The results of this new study considerably raises the stakes in the EMF-health debate by showing up a serious and wide-spread public ill health problem as being closely associated with power-frequency magnetic field exposure. The cost of dementia to the UK economy is estimated to be over £17 billion (GBP) per year.

Researchers at Bern University’s Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine in Switzerland have found that people who have lived for least 5 years within 50 metres had an adjusted hazard ratio for dying of AD of 1.51, increasing to 1.78 after 10 years and to 2.0 (CI 1.21-3.33) after living there for at least 15 years. The pattern was similar for senile dementia.

The relation between where people live in relation to power lines and mortality from neurodegenerative conditions was analyzed within the data for

4.7 million people in the Swiss National (mortality and census) Cohort, covering the period 2000-2005. If anything this will have underestimated the risk as AD is often not entered as the prime or even underlying cause of death – so the actual incidence of the disease will almost certainly be higher.

Team member Professor Matthias Egger also warned that sleeping in power-frequency magnetic fields from any source probably presents a dementia risk. He said: “Anything that is plugged in and that is on all the time and that is near to your body is a source of EMF”.

Magnetic fields from underground electricity cables, especially those that run under the pavements and supply our houses are another most significant source of higher-than-normal magnetic fields in homes, often up to several microtesla. This was highlighted in a report by the NRPB a few years ago [Maslanyj 2005]. Powerwatch has found it to be a common problem, especially in older areas of UK cities. The Department of Health SAGE Process will be investigating this matter during 2009 and hopefully reporting in early 2010.

Previous Research

The findings of this new Swiss study are consistent with the combined analyses of risk of Alzheimer’s with occupational exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields by Ana Garcia[Garcia 2008], published earlier in 2008. Her study combined the results of 14 occupational studies (from 1995 to 2004) of EMF exposure and the later development of Alzheimer’s disease. This resulted in an overall increased odds (risk) ratio of 2.03 (95% CI 1.38–3.00) from the case-control studies and 1.62 (CI 1.16–2.27) rising to 2.05 (95% CI 1.51–2.80) for men. They estimated that the effect occurred when the average magnetic field was over about 0.5 microtesla.

Interestingly, this would agree well with the 50 metres distance from the powerlines in the new Swiss study.

The evidence for risk of Alzheimer’s is now quantitatively comparable with that for childhood leukaemia, which is recognised as an IARC class 2B carcinogen.

For further detailed background information we suggest that you download and read Section 12 of the BioInitiative Report.  …”

———————–

18.  THE U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE LISTING OF THE SWISS RESEARCH,  from Power Watch

PubMed A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Residence Near Power Lines and Mortality From Neurodegenerative Diseases:

Longitudinal Study of the Swiss Population.

Huss A, Spoerri A, Egger M, Röösli M; for the Swiss National Cohort Study.

 

The relation between residential magnetic field exposure from power lines and mortality from neurodegenerative conditions was analyzed among 4.7 million persons of the Swiss National Cohort (linking mortality and census data), covering the period 2000-2005. Cox proportional hazard models were used to analyze the relation of living in the proximity of 220-380 kV power lines and the risk of death from neurodegenerative diseases, with adjustment for a range of potential confounders. Overall, the adjusted hazard ratio for Alzheimer’s disease in persons living within 50 m of a 220-380 kV power line was 1.24 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.80, 1.92) compared with persons who lived at a distance of 600 m or more. There was a dose-response relation with respect to years of residence in the immediate vicinity of power lines and Alzheimer’s disease: Persons living at least 5 years within 50 m had an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.51 (95% CI: 0.91, 2.51), increasing to 1.78 (95%

CI: 1.07, 2.96) with at least 10 years and to 2.00 (95% CI: 1.21, 3.33) with at least 15 years. The pattern was similar for senile dementia. There was little evidence for an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, or multiple sclerosis.

PMID: 18990717 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

(There’s a list of related research)

=====================

19.  ANITA COMMUNICATING WITH SENIORS’ GROUPS: THE ALZHEIMERS CONNECTION

Anita wrote:

“The implications of this Swiss study become scarier and scarier.  We need to get this information out to national and international news media.  4.7 million persons in this study has got to be statistically significant.

I need to share my ever increasing alarm with each of you.”

She is now sending the information to seniors’ groups.  I have no doubt but that some of you will do the same.

====================

20.  COMMUNICATION TO HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

I leave it up to all of us.  Remember the Colleges of Medicine, of Physicians & Surgeons, Health Districts.

====================================

21.   INFORM GOVERNMENT

The people who might help bring pressure on B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell?

How about B.C. Health Services Minister George Abbott?

British Columbia Health Authorities with contact info are listed at

http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/socsec/

 

I don’t have time right now, but maybe between us, we can pump out information to these people.

==================================

22.  SAMPLE LETTER

There is no copyright on this email!  You can block parts out, delete them, and use what’s left.  Whatever you like.

Sometimes the best strategy is KISS!  (Keep It Simple Sweetie)

Something like:

Death by cancer or alzheimer’s disease is worse than death by a bullet.

 

Stop the new high voltage transmission line through Tsawwassen, with a tower right on the school parking lot.

 

The high voltage transmission line  (HVTL) / cancer connection is solid for childhood leukemia, and very recently, a Swiss study has associated Alzheimer’s disease with residence near HVTs.

New HVTLs should not be located close to homes or schools.

Anyone who authorizes a high voltage transmission line that is close to homes and to schools, given the information about EMFs that is known today, should be held accountable and responsible for the disease and deaths that will be associated with these lines.

Sincerely,

=================================

23.  NEW TRANSMISSION LINES: KNOW WHERE THE ELECTRICITY IS GOING.

INDEPENDENT (PRIVATE) POWER PRODUCERS (IPPs) on BC RIVERS.

It’s up to the people in B.C. to answer this.  I only know by rumour which may be false, that the line through Tsawwassen crosses to Vancouver Island; from there a line is to run to Washington state.

The issue of Independent Power Producers (IPPs) is growing rapidly in B.C.

As I understand,

–  the Campbell Govt legislated changes to B.C. Hydro to change its mandate.

It can no longer own the dams for hydro-electric power generation.

–  it has sold and has applications for more licenses which give rights to “Independent (Private) Power Producers” to build dams and generate the electricity.  They have rights to sections of B.C. rivers.

–  “Save Our Rivers” was formed when people learned the implications of the IPPs.  Over a thousand people came to one public meeting to express their outrage.  The Premier backed down on the Pitt River IPP.

 

IN CONTEXT:

–  In our network earlier we circulated the news of the report out of the US southwest:  the two largest man-made water reservoirs in the US, on the Colorado River (Lake Powell and Lake Mead behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams) are drying up.  They have a 50/50 chance of being dry by 2021.

As the water levels go down, they have a 50/50 chance of losing their hydro-electric capability by 2013.  There are millions of people and industries in California, Nevada and Arizona that are dependent upon the water and energy from these reservoirs.  Under NAFTA you can’t have preferential treatment.  So if the IPPs start selling energy to the US (where it will command a high dollar), the people of B.C. will pay the same high dollar.  And once you start shipping south, under the terms negotiated (given away) for Canada by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Company, you have to maintain proportional shipment to the U.S., no matter what the domestic need is.

For more information visit  www.citizensforpublicpower.ca

=======================================

24.  MOTHERS AGAINST POWER POLES (MAPP), FROM EMAIL SENT SEPT 27

Sent:  Sat 27/09/2008

High voltage transmission lines are the death-knell (from cancer) for many children, not to mention adults.  Long-timers in this network know because of the story of Furdale.  Unfortunately, the cause-and-effect relationship is not well known generally.  Deliberately.

That is changing.  Many thanks to Mothers Against Power Poles (MAPP).  These women inspire me.  I’ve sent a note of support to them.

(Aside: The effects of the transmission lines speak in support of small-scale, localized power production.)

From their web-site:  http://www.mothersagainstpowerpoles.com/

” These are the basic facts that brought MAPP together:

– Mothers in Tsawwassen are united to fight the 230 KVOLT (and higher) power lines being erected right through the middle of our small residential community

– There is no established limit on the power line KVOLT for the future

– Radiation leaking from power lines have been known to cause childhood leukemia, lung cancer, skin cancer and increases in suicide and depression

– We are afraid of the “corona ionization effect”,  whereby carcinogenic particulates are attracted to the power lines like magnets, and people breathe in these carcinogens

– With prevailing winds from Delta Port coming off the ocean, Tsawwassen stands in the direct path of this particulate

– Every child in Tsawwassen will be attending the ONE and ONLY high school, which is targeted for a massive power pole in the main parking lot

– The electricity is being sold to California and Washington

– President Bush announced the agreement on national television, much to the astonishment of the residents of Tsawwassen

– Billions of dollars will be earned by private power companies, including BCTC, and they must spend some of the profit to do the right thing and bury and shield the power lines

– The truth was not revealed and the BC Government promised the power lines would not be erected. Now the BC Government must do the right thing

– BC Government is selling out…….hundreds of licenses have been sold to private power companies outside of BC, and Tsawwassen is paying the price

– Premier Gordon Campbell must do the right thing and spend the money to bury the power lines

– Tsawwassen is being squeezed between lucrative private power contracts and North American clients…we are the gateway to the power

– Tsawwassen has been deemed “unstable” in the event of an earthquake, which would make the very real possibility of the power poles collapsing a catastrophe. The entire high school population would be in grave danger, along with all residents in town

This whole UGLY story is revealed at www.saveourrivers.ca

Contact

Anita Den Dicken  adendikken@dccnet.com Linda Mills  lmills@dccnet.com

================================

25.  FATE OF THE CANADIAN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMME (CCCSCP); MORE ON FURDALE

Hi Lynda (Tswwasswn),

I don’t know if this is of any value to you – – it is the documentation of WHY there is a lack of research in this country for you to use in your fight.  It is a damning story, well documented.

The letter from the CCCSCP is at the bottom – scroll down to “LETTER FROM THE GOVERNMENT:”

———————————

There is another story to go with all this (Furdale).  The Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance & Control Programme.

If you look on the Health Canada CCCSCP web-site, it looks as though we have this wonderful programme that is going to lead to answers.  But we have a letter from the people there:  their budgets were slashed back around the year 2000.  All they have is a skeleton staff.  No money for more data collection and none for data analysis.  See appended.

Don’t let those power lines go up.  We’ll do whatever we can to help you.

I’ve had some response from my network of people already.  They’re right behind you.

Sandra

————————

APPENDED:

“In response to the 25% rise in childhood cancers reported by the Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) (the information was shown on the screen in Wendy Mesley’s CBC television documentary), the Federal Department of Health established the Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance & Control Programme in the early nineties to collect data:

–  where are the cancers occurring?

–  what age are the children?

–  what kinds of cancer?

–  etc.

 

As inconceivable as it might be, funding for the programme was DISCONTINUED by the Liberal Govt.  There is enough money to support CCCSCP in name only.”

 

“Health Research Foundations” were established with a stated priority for “funding research that has the potential for commercialization”.  Biotech pharmacy is, through the Health Research Foundations, a recipient of public money but the trail is covered over because the public has no way of knowing, from the name, that “Health Research Foundations” are funded by Government.  Here we have a clear example:  public money is diverted away from the research that would help address the CAUSES of a 25% increase in childhood cancers; then public money is funnelled to biotech pharmacy research with its “potential for commercialization”.  There will be no progress on REMOVAL OF CAUSE.  “Government fronts” are an obstacle that need to be removed / outlawed.”

 

Following is the record of Donna, along with the response from Health Canada, CCCSCP.

 

Don’t be fooled by the web-site for the CCCSCP.  The letter in 2004 from the CCCSCP, written in response to citizen efforts to track down the Report that was supposed to have  been issued, to track down the researchers, to track down the data that HAD been collected, that WAS no longer being collected (documentation below) tells the lie of the spin-doctors.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ccdpc-cpcmc/cancer/publications/cccscp-vol7no1_e.html

==============

November 13, 2004

Visuals make an impact.

Here is the picture I spoke about – Tanya with several of her friends at a school fun night. (INSERT: there are 8 children in the photograph.) Three out of these children were diagnosed with cancer. Two are now deceased. A 4th friend (not in the picture) was diagnosed this summer. I have concealed the faces of all the children with the exception of my daughter to protect their privacy & that of their families.

==================

The Queen Elizabeth Power Generating Station is on the other side of the

River: there are high voltage transmission lines.

=======================

I will use the example of my own experience. My 15 year old daughter was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in 1997. In Aug. of ’98, just after my daughter had completed an extremely gruelling one year treatment protocol for her ‘mystery’ cancer, I received a request asking for my permission to release her medical files for use in a study. I was reluctant to do so without more information. Eventually I received more information from Judy Kosloski (the Provincial Study Co-ordinator located at Epidemiology, Prevention & Screening at 4101 Dewdney Ave in Regina Ph 306-766-2170).

I was told the principle investigator of the study was Marie Desmeules (613-957-0577).

The Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program (CCCSCP) was announced in July 1992 by the Minister of the Federal Health Dept. The program was part of the government’s Brighter Futures initiative aimed at reducing risks to the health and normal development of children. Its goal was to contribute towards reducing the suffering and burden caused by childhood cancer. To accomplish this a nationwide information system on childhood cancer was established. One of the main objectives was to collect information on stage at diagnosis by age of the patient, geographic region & cancer site. Another was to estimate the economic costs.

From time to time I would make general inquiries into how the study was coming and receive vague replies. I have a newsletter that I received from CCCSCP in July of 2000. At this time the newsletter said ‘the overall goal of the etiology component of the CCCSCP was to establish a national, population-based database of childhood cancer cases and matched controls with detailed information on major putative risk factors. This database would be used to identify individuals or groups at high risk for developing cancer.

In Aug of 2000 I made a call to inquire how the study was coming. I spoke to Catherine Makris, a research analyst. The notes I made during our conversation say I was told that the principle investigator of the study, Marie Desmeules, had moved re job instability and was put on assignment somewhere else in women’s health. I was told that there was now zero funding for childhood cancer investigations because of Allan Rock’s budget. Things were no longer up to date but hey, they were doing their best. (As a side note I made a note that a Howard Morrison was involved with a pesticide risk assessment study.)

My still unanswered questions & concerns are :

Did the collection of this data actually cease in the year 2000 despite cancer being the number one disease killer of children in North America?

Where is the raw data that has been collected?

Is this a case of information being collected and nothing being done with it?

Has any further work been done to estimate economic costs?

(and lets not forget the psychological and emotional costs too – At Mcmaster in Hamilton I observed parents going from the ped department where their child was diagnosed, straight to the shrink department where parents were put on antidepressants and antianxiety drugs.) I myself spent a small fortune on ulcer medication and gavison.

LETTER FROM THE GOVERNMENT:

Most recently in writing to CCSCB this is the reply (Oct. 2004) I (Donna) received.

Dear Donna:

Thank you for your inquiry. The Program you refer to, the Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program (CCCSCP), is still in operation.

However, due to decreased funding, the CCCSCP now functions at a level of intensity that is significantly lower than initially planned and implemented. Currently, the Program’s viability is directly at risk as only core salary costs have been secured. The newly formed Public Health Agency of Canada (formerly part of Health Canada) will continue efforts to work with provincial partners to secure long term viability for the Program.

 

Despite this, the Program has established a national network of experts which is responsive to fundamental surveillance needs within childhood cancer control. During this process, the Program has produced a number of information resources for a variety of consumers. I would be happy to send you some of these documents if you like.

Regards,

Les

So as one can see less and less money is going into determining why children in Canada get cancer. My observation is that we, as a society, really don’t want to know why because we will have to change our individual lifestyles.

And we don’t want to interfere with economic profits. So we myopically focus our efforts and our hope on cures that large pharmaceutical companies are happy to offer.

Donna

========================

The CCCSCP is a kind of front.  We have a web-site with names and fine statements.  Without the letter from “Les” and Donna’s background you don’t know that there is little substance behind the web-site.  Only the wind shuffling papers on an empty Ottawa parking lot, small fragments of morality left in the dust and rubble.

===========================

Email from:

Sandra Finley

 Older Entries  Newer Entries