Collaborative on Health and the Environment

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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS

Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
Thur, May 24

Conference: Healthy Environments Across Generations
New York Academy of Medicine
June 7-8, 2012

4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH

4/17/12: MP3 recording available: Nanotechnology: A Science and Policy Update

3/12/12: MP3 recording available: Phthalates and Proposed REACH Regulations

2/14/12: MP3 recording available: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
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CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS

CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012

CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012

Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012

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The Deadly Toll
The Ottawa Citizen, Shelley Page - 13 February 2006

In 1999, three firefighters started to make a list of colleagues with cancer. Today, that list has 600 names on it, and it's growing. The hunt to locate Ontario firefighters who have cancer began with a handwritten list on the back of a cocktail napkin. Back in 1999, in a Holiday Inn lounge in Mississauga, three firefighters were relaxing after a union meeting. One of the group, firefighter Paul Atkinson from Scarborough, mentioned how many of his colleagues were dying of cancer. The other men agreed that they, too, knew many sick or dead firefighters. They began scrawling names on a napkin until there was no room left. More...

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