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Canadian food industry
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War on Legal Drugs
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Canada unprepared
Canada's mercury-waste facilities are either patchwork or non-existent
as millions of light bulbs containing the highly toxic chemical are set
to flood the marketplace. So-called compact fluorescent lamps, or
CFLs, will also enter
the waste stream as they break or burn out, many destined for landfills
where their harmful mercury can get into the water. (CP)
Flame
retardants
A
probe conducted by
Marketplace tested the
effectiveness of chemical retardants in upholstered furniture and also
examined their potential health risks. Environmental and health
researchers are also concerned that some of the chemicals are linked to
a wide range of health problems. (CBC)
Get your home tested for
radon
TORONTO - Health Canada is urging Canadians to test their homes for
radon, a leading cause
of lung cancer. (CP)
Gene predicts time of death
The
study, led by
University of Toronto professor Dr. Andrew Lim
and published in the November edition of
Annals of Neurology,
emerged from research into seniors’ sleep-wake cycles. (Toronto Star)
Cosmetics contain heavy metals
Many of the makeup products that
Canadian women apply every day contain a number of toxic
heavy metals - and some contain arsenic
and lead levels that exceed Health Canada recommended limits. (CTV)
REPORT:
Lead in lipstick
FDA lipsticks and lead
Dust a cancer risk
The substance is coal tar sealant, a waste product of
steel manufacturing that is used to protect pavement and asphalt against
cracking and water damage, and to impart a nice dark sheen. It is
applied most heavily east of the Rockies but is used in all 50
states. (Investigate
West)
Mining linked to toxins
CALGARY -
High levels of toxic pollutants in Alberta's
Athabasca River
system are linked to oilsands mining, researchers have found. (CBC)
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Teck
liable
Teck Resources
treated the Columbia
River as a free waste disposal system for decades, said a Washington
state judge who has ruled the Canadian company is liable for the cost of
cleaning up the contamination of the river south of the border. (CBC)
PREVIOUS:
Century of slag
Container ordered out
MONTREAL - The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
has sounded the alarm, ordering that a shipping container be removed
from the Port of Montreal after its contents tested positive for
radioactivity. (CBC) MORE: CNSC
issued an order
Hanjin Shipping
Cobalt-60
Tailings in groundwater
OTTAWA - Tailings
ponds from oilsands production are leaking and contaminating AB
groundwater. (PostMedia) PREVIOUS:
Canadian oil sands
Work-related carcinogens
As part of a three-part
series,
Exposed: On the
Job,
CBC News looked at what carcinogens are present in Canadian workplaces
and how Canadian regulations stand up. (CBC) MORE:
North's limits weakest in Canada
Fewer Canadians dying from cancer
Manganese linked to IQ
QUEBEC - The average IQ of children whose
tap water was in the upper 20% of
manganese
concentration was 6 points below children
whose water contained little or no manganese, the researchers found.
(CBC)
Doctors quit
SEPT-ILES
- Twenty doctors have quit their practice in a remote Quebec town
because of plans to build a uranium mine. (CP) PREVIOUS:
Government sitting on report
Thetford Mines
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Residents not told
about bad air
VICTORIA - The BC NDP went on
the attack in Question Period Thursday wanting to know why the Liberal
government has remained silent for 18 months after learning about
dangerously high pollution levels in Prince George. In some areas,
concentrations of formaldehyde were 20 times higher than what is
considered safe in BC. (CTV)
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Get phthalates out
OTTAWA
- Conceding a decade-old voluntary ban on
hormone-disrupting chemicals in children's toys hasn't
worked, Health Canada announced new regulations
requiring toy companies to get
phthalates out of soft
vinyl toys. (CanWest) MORE:
'Rubber ducky'
BPA gets attention
Children win claim
EU's discarded computers are poisoning Africa's kids
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Canada
won't oppose limits
Canada's dying
asbestos industry was dealt another blow with Minister
Christian Paradis announcing that the
federal government will no longer oppose global rules that restrict
use and shipment of the substance. (CBC)
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Asbestos time bomb
Asbestos
BBC
asbestos report slams Canada
Mining Watch: Asbestos
Deadly dust
Inside the asbestos trade |
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Lead poisoning fears
BUCHANS
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Every resident in the small central Newfoundland
community of Buchans has been told they should get a blood test to
find out if they've been
poisoned by lead.
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What they found in Buchans
NL health minister quits
Lead taints city's water
Lead poisoning
Recall
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Air pollution deaths
OTTAWA -
This year, an estimated 20,000 Canadians will die from heart and
lung illnesses brought on by breathing polluted air, the CMA said.
Most of the deaths will be among people over 65, who are most
vulnerable to heart disease. The costs of dirty air, in terms of
treating the illnesses in hospital and visits to doctors, as well as
indirect expenses for time off work, will add up to $10 billion this
year. (CBC)
Price of
smog
National
illness cost of air pollution
Killer smog
Cancer prevalence in the population
Pollution tied to death rate
Coal causing lung cancer
Canadian
Gazette Mar. 7, 2009
Polluting firms can be forced to pay
India's tea bosses on polluted water
Dangerous waste is intercepted
Cooking may cause cancer
Cancer cases 'to hit 300,000 annually |
Alberta embarks on toxin testing
'Horror
stories' at meeting
Study links bad air to early
deaths
Pollution 'kills thousands'
10M people at risk from pollution
The world's most polluted
places
Cancer-causing agents found
11th report on
Carcinogens
Guide to less toxic products
Dirty air in arenas could pose
risk
Tritium on Tap
Cancer hotspots linked to industry
Cancer linked to industrial activity
Chromium in well water
Nuclear plant spills tritium
EPA reins in smog limit
Canadian health measures 2007-09
BPA present in 91% of Canadians
Contaminants found in Canadians
Scientific test skewed
Study
finds pollutants in samples
Chemicals pollute Ontario's
leaders
Feds plan to manage
chemicals
'Contaminated' with
cancer
10 most common environmental toxins
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Company acquitted
SEATTLE - A federal jury cquitted
WR Grace & Co. and
three of its former officials of charges that they
knowingly exposed residents of
Libby, Mont., to
asbestos poisoning associated with a mining operation
and conspired to hide it. In Libby, where an estimated
1,200 residents have died or developed cancer or lung
disease, the judgment dashed hopes that someone would be
held accountable for decades of suffering. (LA Times)
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Just passing through
MONTREAL - About 50 trucks
will be required to move the uranium, thought to be the
last stocks of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, to a
processing facility operated by Cameco Corp. in Blind
River, Ont. The 550
tonnes of concentrated natural uranium, also known as
yellowcake,
was purchased in a US brokered deal reported to be worth
tens of millions of dollars. (Gazette)
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Stockpile arrives in Montreal
2004 report: No WMD
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Radioactivity leaked unchecked
KASHIWAZAKI -
The nuclear power station at
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Nuclear Power Plant
pumped radioactive
particles into the air for nearly 3 days after
Monday’s massive Niigata earthquake.
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Leak
bigger than thought
Radiation leak at Russian plant
Nuclear waste dumped
Open-air storage
Environmentalists criticize storage
Toxic legacy of the Cold War
Japan disaster poses 'small' risk
Cancer's 'chaos' explained |
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Mercury in fish widespread
WASHINGTON - No
fish can escape mercury pollution. The toxic substance was found in
every fish sampled, a finding that underscores how widespread
mercury pollution has become. (AP)
REPORT:
Mercury in stream ecosystems |
SCC rules on
bankrupt company
OTTAWA - The
SCC says a bankrupt company doesn't have to pay to clean up the
environmental mess it left in Newfoundland and Labrador. (CBC)
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Toxic environment
AbitibiBowater Resolute
Forest Products |
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DND denies blame
for cancer
SHANNON
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Residents of Shannon,
outside Quebec City, are seeking more than $200M in
damages for health problems they say were caused by
water tainted with an industrial solvent used on the
military base in the 1950s. (CBC) |
Turkey euthanization
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
is expected to begin euthanizing as many as 60,000 birds
on a BC turkey farm as early as Monday, over fears of an
H5
avian influenza outbreak. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Avian flu in BC
Farms
quarantined |
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'Genetic
discrimination'
VANCOUVER - With medical advances,
Canadians can now learn whether they carry the genetic risk for
devastating diseases. But that knowledge could come at a price, suggests
a study that looked at the growth of "genetic discrimination." (CTV)
World's first GM babies born |
Cities not getting true air
quality
TORONTO - The federal and provincial
governments are lulling Ontario residents into a false
sense of security about the level of pollution they're
breathing in on city streets.
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Hazardous waste charges
VANCOUVER -
Edward Ilnicki, doing business as Valley Demolition and
Design and Repair, is charged with failing to comply
with handling, storage and management requirements for
hazardous wastes under the Environmental Management Act
and Hazardous Waste Regulations. (Vancouver Sun) |
Port Hope radiation tests
'alarming'
PORT HOPE
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New tests that show radiation contamination in a few
Port Hope residents should compel the federal government
to put the town under a health microscope, local
advocates say. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Self-funded study says
residents contaminated
85,000 radioactive baby teeth |
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Failure to present merchandise
GRAND FORKS - A
former vaccine researcher accused of smuggling biological
substances, including genes from the Ebola virus, into the US was
sentenced Friday in federal court in Grand Forks. Konan Michel Yao,
42, pleaded guilty to failure to present merchandise for inspection.
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Researcher cops a plea
Ebola vials found in car trunk
Ebola
Bio material smuggled out of country
Accused of smuggling Ebola
Researcher smuggling bio material |
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Cat parasite affects
everything
The parasite,
toxoplasma gondii,
has been transmitted indirectly from cats to roughly
half the people on the planet, and it has been shown to
affect human personalities in different ways.
(ABC)
Invasion of the brain snatchers |
Trip to outer space makes nasty bacteria
nastier
Space
flight can increase the virulence of disease-causing
microbes such as Salmonella typhimurium, the main
bacterial culprit in food poisoning, say U.S.
researchers. (CBC) |
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Hundreds exposed to radiation
Almost 900 Canadian military personnel were exposed to
radiation from nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War
as well as two serious reactor accidents in
Chalk River
during the 1950s, according to a report produced for
Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor. (Ottawa Citizen) |
First genome transplant turns one species
into another
ROCKVILLE, Maryland
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Scientists have
converted an organism into an entirely different species
by performing the world's first genome transplant, a
breakthrough that paves the way for the creation of
synthetic forms of life. (Guardian Unlimited)
Craig Venter
Science |
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Effects of nanomaterials unknown
OTTAWA
- Not enough is known about the potential health and
environmental hazards of
nanomaterials
- used in everything from sunscreens and drugs to car
exhaust systems - and the Canadian government should
review existing criteria for assessing and approving new
products that contain them, says a panel of scientific
experts. (CTV) |
Herbicide test pose disease threat
CFB
GAGETOWN - Only individuals who had direct contact with
herbicides at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick are at risk
of contracting a number of diseases associated with
exposure, including various cancers, Parkinson's disease
and Type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
(CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Report on say health risk
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Slacking over sewage oversight
TORONTO -
Billions of litres of untreated sewage are gushing into Ontario's
waterways due to aging infrastructure and poor provincial oversight,
says a report by environmental group Ecojustice. The report, "Flushing
out the truth," compiles the amount
of sewage dumped into lakes and rivers by various Ontario
municipalities in 2006 and 2007. (CP)
New rules for sewage plants
When sludge rules are broken
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Halifax’s raw 'floatables'
'Floatables' flow
Biosolids
'Disaster waiting to happen'
Farmers split over safety
Illness followed sludge on the fields
Family files suit over sewage
lagoon
False Creek sewage spill
Sewage
dumped in ocean
Metro
Vancouver wastewater
More raw
sewage in local water
Vancouver moves to ban
bottled water
Bilfinger Berger files
suit
Is
sewage fertilizer safe?
Workplace safety sludge disease |
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Lead exposed kids
prone to violence in adult years
Young
children exposed to high levels of lead 25 years ago were more
likely as adults to have smaller- than-normal brain structures that
regulate impulses and to commit violent crimes, studies found.
(Bloomberg)
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Lead poisoning
Association of lead concentrations with criminal arrests
Decreased brain volume in adults with childhood lead exposure
Behavioral consequences of lead exposure
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Court dismisses lawsuits
TORONTO - Nurses, people who contracted SARS and their families
cannot sue the Ontario government over the deadly 2003 outbreak that
claimed 44 lives, Ontario's top court ruled. (CP) |
Guardian
Special Report: SARS
CBC
Indepth: SARS |
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Sample of killer flu virus found
GENEVA
- All samples of the killer influenza virus sent outside
the United States have been destroyed except for one in
Lebanon, the UN health agency said. (AP)
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Labs
told to destroy
flu strain
College
of American Pathologists (CAP)
Dying
fish had twice the sea lice
US labs
mishandling deadly germs |
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China
warns against unsafe, maverick research into bird flu
BEIJING
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China has warned maverick scientists against conducting "unsafe"
research into bird flu, ordering them to seek explicit approval from
the authorities first.
(China News)
The War is approaching us
RAND: Bioterrorism
Avian influenza
WHO reports Tamiflu-resistant flu
Bird flu cull hit by
'corruption'
Bush
unveils $7.1B flu pandemic plan
Birds with H5 flu virus found
Deadly
silence
Second
avian flu discovery
Japan bans Canada poultry
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Pandemic spending
Timeline: Bird flu in the UK
Mystery swirls around bird flu timeline
China
grapples with fresh bird flu
Bird
flu mutated in family cluster
China had bird flu case
years earlier
Bird
flu spreads to far western China
Fox
Series:
Bird
Flu: Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Category: Biological weapons
Q&A:
Avian influenza
China
says it will stop misuse
China
in national bird flu alert
A
nightmare scenario
Bird
Flu drug rendered useless
Supermarkets braced for
turkey recall
Experts puzzled over halt of
bird flu
Vaccine in hands of advocates |
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Cooling
tower source of legionnaires' outbreak
TORONTO
- The source of the legionnaires disease outbreak that
killed 20 residents of a Toronto nursing home has been
traced to a cooling tower that was on the roof of the
home.
(CTV)
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Legionnaires' class action
Expert
warned test flawed
Six
more dead from T.O. outbreak
Memo
on dealing with media Toronto
Public Health
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Barriers considered
HANFORD
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Covering the ground with a durable plastic or asphalt
barrier is one option possible to stop the spread of radioactive waste
leaking from Hanford’s underground tanks, said Jane Hedges, manager of
the Department of Ecology’s nuclear waste program. (Tri-City
Herald)
7 tanks leaking
Underground nuclear tanks leaking
Hanford waste tank is leaking
Hanford
cleanup cost soars
Radiation and heart
disease link |
Hanford site
Downwinders
Columbia Basin
Tourist site
Tank
troubles at Hanford
Study:
No radiation level safe
Downwinders'
court win
Sick
DOE workers' claims languish
Hanford
water cleanup not working
Hanford
site: Past horror, future hope
Hanford watch
Poisoned legacy: Part 1
Poisoned legacy: Part 2 |
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Marburg
virus death toll hits 180 of 205 reported cases
The
World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of Marburg
hemorrhagic fever in
northwestern Angola.
(CNN)
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Congo's
Ebola town is sealed off
Marburg
fever death toll tops 300
WHO to warn on changing avian flu
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