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WiFi Walk Hits Oakville

Posted By: Russ Courtney · 10/11/2012 6:02:00 PM

Two weeks after leaving Port Franks on a march to Ottawa, 57 year-old grandmother Brenda Hoy arrived in Oakville on Thursday almost half-way to Parliament Hill, raising awareness about her fight for tougher regulations around radiation emitted from cell towers, cell phones, and WiFi.

She says were are surrounded by the harmful effects of these technologies and often don't even know it.

"There's so many more devices being sold to people and they're carrying them around on them exposing themselves and all the people around them," says Hoy. "I'd like to see that involuntary exposure aspect be limited.

She was joined in Oakvile Thursday morning by Conservative MP Terence Young and former Microsoft Canada president Frank Clegg.

Clegg says Canada's regulations are outdated.

"We're just deploying this technology at an incredibly rapid pace and there's nobody really taking a step to say 'okay are we really studying the impacts of constant exposure to young minds and young bodies' "?

Health Canada says WiFi is fine, while a World Health Organization agency says what's emitted by WiFi devices could possibly cause cancer.

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  1. Janice Ashby posted on 10/11/2012 11:06 PM
    It's nice to get some recognition in the media about this thank you!
    The more the people are informed of their powers over gov't wrongs, the more things can change for our benefit.

    Take Back Your Power, Stopping the Smart Grid Agenda, with Josh Del Sol, producer and director of "Take Back Your Power" from B.C, Canada:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=41ryZgqHX2c
  2. Art Tricque posted on 10/13/2012 11:18 AM
    Disappointed that a former head of of Microsoft Canada — and current board member of Indigo who have had Wifi at all their stores for years — could be supporting such pseudoscientific nonsense. Here's news to most of these uninformed quacks: microwaves have been in our environment since the 1950s, and are used by every urban fire and police department in the land for their wide-area communications systems, the former for decades. Strange that these "sensitives" have only felt the effects since Wifi and smartmeters have been introduced much more recently. I feel for their symptoms; I trust they see a medical doctor for a thorough examination, because electrohypersensitivy is a diagnosis for the non-specific symptoms like headaches and fatigue that is not recognized by any health authority on the planet.
    1. Steven George posted on 10/13/2012 12:46 PM
      @Art Tricque I wonder who you work for? It's common knowledge that the telecom industry has media watchdogs who routinely try to intimidate and ridicule journalists, acitivists and scientists. Which is it "Art Tricque"? Bell, Telus, Rogers, Industry Canada?
    2. CThinker posted on 10/17/2012 12:08 AM
      @Art Tricque Art - when are you going to face the fact that the tide is turning and it is only a matter of time before Health Canada will be forced to yank its head out of the sand and issue some precautionary statements concerning the use of wireless technologies - especially as they pertain to children. And please don't insult EHS sufferers with your feigned sympathies - I have seen your drivel posted all over the web regarding your true beliefs on this issue. Furthermore, your constant repetition of the words 'pseudoscience' and 'quacks' does not make you sound informed. Want to get informed on the issue? Check out the 5000 studies posted on this website that demonstrate biological effects from non-ionizing radiation: http://www.justproveit.net/content/prove-it-initiative-main
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