Canada abuzz about EHS

> Magda Havas has just written:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I don't know if you are aware of what is happening in Canada about EHS
> but
> let me tell you the country is buzzing.
>
> On Tuesday (March 28) Martin Mittelstaedt wrote a feature article for
> the
> Globe and Mail (a well respected National newspaper) about a man who
> is EHS. This
> story has now gone around the world and I think all of you have seen
> it (Does
> Power Corrupt?). See below.
>
> The very next morning Kevin (the person who is sensitive) and I were
> invited
> to appear on a TV show called Canada AM (CTV) for a short (5 minute)
> segment.
> They have a audience of 2 million people.
>
> You can get info about this at the CTV web site:
>
> http://www.ctv.ca (search at top for "dirty electricity"). Two items
> should
> pop up for the March 29th show.
>
> The Toronto Star (Tyler Hamilton) wrote a similar article about Marika
> in
> November and NOW magazine (Adria Vasil) in Toronto wrote one as well
> about the
> problem of electromagnetic pollution a few weeks ago. All of this is
> timely
> since Toronto is going WiFi by the summer/fall of 2006. Tyler wrote a
> series on
> cell phones for the Star that appeared last summer (June 2005 I think)
> during
> the WHO conference on the Precautionary Principle in Ottawa.
>
> Ever since that show and the newspaper article my phone and email are
> buzzing. Other media are picking it up. Since Wednesday I have given
> an additional 4
> interviews including live phone-in shows. David Fancy has done two
> interviews
> in French. The requests keep coming in (even as I write this email)
> from
> across Canada for more interviews next week.
>
> I am getting email from all across Canada with people who are
> suffering from
> electromagnetic pollution. I hear the saddest stories when I talk to
> people.
> Some tell me about their health effects, how they don't want to share
> how much
> pain they are in with loved ones for fear of being ridiculed (how can
> someone
> be sensitive to "electricity"!!) and how some have considered suicide
> to end
> their pain and suffering because they can't find relief.
>
> I stayed up until after 4 am one morning to respond to all the email
> messages
> since I will be away at a the Total Health Show in Toronto this weekend
> talking about EMF Pollution and I will be absolutely inundated if I
> don't keep up
> with the email.
>
> This is all very positive. The message is getting out and the more
> people we
> can help the better. Eventually our government will have to respond to
> all
> this suffering and make changes in their guidelines. At the moment I
> have little
> immediate hope for Health Canada since they seem entrenched in their
> views but
> I do have hope that Sheela Basrur (Medical Officer of Health for
> Ontario)
> will play a more prominent role in this issue since she was
> instrumental at
> hosting a public meeting in Toronto about cell phone antennas in 2000
> as MOH for
> the City of Toronto.
>
> Please feel free to pass the word about the interest in Canada and
> perhaps
> other countries will follow suit.
>
> -magda
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