RADIOACTIVE
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Helen Caldicott: cancers, campaigns & practicing global medicine
For Dr. Helen Caldicott's website, go here. Specifically, information on the effects of radionuclides can be found here. Watch Dr. Caldicott's Academy Award winning documentaryIf You Love This Planet informing the world on the truth about nuclea
Are kids in danger in Peterborough?
A small group of citizens tries to hold the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to task after it blindly approved BWXT, a US arms producer, into the next decade. This facility creates nuclear fuel, and is located in the heart of a small Canadian city. Lear
Saskatchewan
Northern Saskatchewan is forever polluted by uranium mines old and new. The people of northern Saskatchewan are shackled to the industry causing the pollution. Listen to the details with long time resident Candyce Paul. Get updated on all nucl
Askomiw Sanaqok "forever dangerous to life"
The Point Lepreau nuclear station on New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy borders the Traditional Homeland of Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy. Wolastoqewi Traditional Grand Chief Spasaqsit Possessom, or English name Ron Tremblay, tells us the truth about the "corp
Chalk River
Canada's main site for nuclear innovation...and accidents. Follow the trail of nuclear wastes across our country to ground zero of Canada's nuclear ambitions: Chalk River, Ontario. Ole Hendrickson is president of the Ottawa River Institute, member of Conc
Port Hope
One of Canada's longest-standing radioactive contamination sites, the community of Port Hope on the shores of Lake Ontario, is presently undergoing a $1.2B federal cleanup of historic radioactive wastes. Port Hope also has two nuclear facilities operating
Pinawa, Manitoba
Join long-time activist Anne Lindsey to learn about Pinawa. Carved out of the forest north of Winnipeg, this community was home to Canada's experimental reactor, now a 20-year relic slated for "entombment". A new experimental reactor is coming. Learn more
Nuclear Waste Dump in Southern Ontario
Meet two citizens from Teeswater, a small farming community about to undergo big changes. What is a Deep Geological Repository? Are citizen concerns being recognized by our 'regulators'? Learn from Michelle Stein and Bill Noll, then please vis
Nuclear Waste
Brennain Lloyd has been representing public interest regarding nuclear waste in Ontario since the late 1980's. She tells us about the regulators, their serious shortcomings, their faulty plans for DGR (Deep Geological Repository), the dangers of 'reproce
uranium vs. plutonium
A backgrounder with international expert Dr. Gordon Edwards. Learn the basics on radioactivity, uranium mining and processing in Canada, and the truth about uranium's unnatural offspring, plutonium. Dr. Gordon Edwards is a co-founder and president of the