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Health & Toxics12 Since Silent Spring
In 1962 Rachel Carson sounded the warning about the impacts of pesticides and other man made chemicals on human and environmental health. Fifty years later, we look at some of the most
recent research on toxic chemicals and health and ask: Are our governments doing enough to protect us? Edited by Miranda Holmes
13 Protecting Children
Dr. Bruce Lamphear on the neglected
legacy of Rachel Carson
16 Persistent Organic Pollutants
Fe de Leon and Olga Speranskaya examine how Canada’s Strategy on POPs has fizzled
19 Asbestos, Still Killing Canadians
Mae Burrows on Canada’s national shame
20 Pesticide Residues in Our Food
22 Bill C-38, The Death of the Environment
by Dr. Darryl Luscombe
24 The Chronic War on Cancer
by Devra Davis
26 I Hate Pink by Judy Brady
6 Oil Spills, Dilbit Spills & Health
Dr. Riki Ott talks about oil spill impacts on all life
8 Red Rose Mine
Dave Stevens takes our Geiger counter on a long hike up to the abandoned Red Rose mine on Rocher de Boule near Hazelton
10 Shuswap Flooding Analysis
Jim Cooperman says it isn’t only rain that provokes the flooding
29 Protect the Watershed of Comox Lake
Strathcona Park boundaries could be expanded to protect the lake
30 Jumbo’s Wild Politics
Sudden provincial approval of the Jumbo Glacier Resort came as a surprise in BC, after two decades of political stalemate, but, even more surprising, the Jumbo deal and the Canada-EU trade deal (CETA) could both expire together, at the ballot box
3, 5 News Briefs
7 Pipelines Update
4, 27 Letters
36 Wild Times
Joe Foy on cutting old growth
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