| Subject: | Our request for a statement on Wifi safety in our schools |
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| Date: | Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:21:15 -0700 |
| From: | Janis Hoffmann <iknowjanis@shaw.ca> |
| To: | adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca, hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca |
| CC: | bonnie.henry@gov.bc.ca, educ.minister@gov.bc.ca, thancock@uvic.ca, tom.kosatsky@bccdc.ca, premier@gov.bc.ca |
Dear
Adrian Dix,
Unfortunately
our request for a statement about the safety of wireless
technology in our schools from our new Provincial Health
Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry has gone unanswered. The most current letter
on file is dated July 2011, from our School Health Officer,
Dr. Stanwick, who was unable to provide us with any
peer-reviewed studies stating the safety of RF radiation
exposure. Dr. Stanwick instead has shifted “the
responsibility for professional oversight” to the
Provincial Health Officer. Dr. Stanwick, appears to have no
educational background on the biological health effects of
RF radiation exposure, yet has endorsed the installation of
a known 2b carcinogen listed next to lead, DDT, methyl
mercury, chloroform, and car exhaust as an acceptable risk
in our schools.
The
latest findings of the National Toxicology Program and the
supporting Ramazzini Studies stating “Clear Evidence of
Carcinogenic Activity” and the association of cancer in the
heart and brain and cell phone radiation, warrants the
solicitation of a current letter re Wi-Fi safety from Dr.
Bonnie Henry to ensure the most accurate health information
and recommendations for all children were being used as a
basis for sound decision making on such an important topic
as our children’s health and well being.
Given
the start of a new school year, parents, teachers and
students are expecting a timely response to our concerns
about this upcoming health crisis.
Respectfully,
Janis
Hoffmann
Parentsforsafeschools
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| Subject: | Urgent Request for an Appointment |
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| Date: | Sat, 4 Aug 2018 10:29:19 -0700 |
| From: | Janis Hoffmann <iknowjanis@shaw.ca> |
| To: | bonnie.henry@gov.bc.ca |
| CC: | hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca, educ.minister@gov.bc.ca |
Dear Dr. Bonnie Henry,
We are disappointed that you have been unable to find time to respond to our letters asking you to implement the Precautionary Principal to protect our children's health in our schools.
We are now requesting an appointment to come to your office to discuss the simple solutions to reducing RF radiation in our classrooms.
This will be a health crisis and we can't afford to wait another school year.
Respectfully,
Janis Hoffmann
250-478-7976
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| Subject: | Re: Requesting a response to the letter from Parents, Teachers and Students April 20, 2018 |
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| Date: | Thu, 31 May 2018 06:12:16 -0700 |
| From: | Janis Hoffmann <iknowjanis@shaw.ca> |
| To: | bonnie.henry@gov.bc.ca |
| CC: | hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca, mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca, EDUC.Correspondence@gov.bc.ca, educ.minister@gov.bc.ca, info@healthyschoolsbc.ca, tom.kosatsky@bccdc.ca, drtheresa.tam@canada.com, thancock@uvic.ca |
Dear Dr. Bonnie Henry,
We request
that the BC Provincial Health
Officer provide the public with an official response
to the findings of the US National
Toxicology Program Expert Panel who concluded
that there is “Clear Evidence of Carcinogenic
Activity” and the association of cancer in the
heart and brain and cell phone radiation. This is serious health and safety matter
that will cause permanent damage to thousands of
children in all our public schools. Currently it is
mandatory that our children be exposed RF Microwave
Radiation with no way to shield themselves from this
full body radiation, much like the rats used in this
study.
Parents have been robbed of their right
to decide if this chronic exposure, an established 2B
carcinogen listed next to lead, DDT, methyl mercury,
chloroform, and car exhaust is an acceptable risk or
whether precautionary measures should be implemented
given there is alternative simple solution.
More and more schools are applying a 'No
cell phone' policy during school hours due to
distractions that negatively impact learning. This has
made a huge impact
on the reduction of radiation exposure our children
are experiencing in our classrooms. However, the removal of the
industrial strength Wi-Fi routers should implemented
immediately and return to hard-wired Internet, which
is faster, cheaper, more reliable, more secure and
safer than wireless networks.
For as little as a one time cost of $500
US dollars every classroom would be provided with 40
Ethernet ports plus adapters for their wireless
devices, costing about $20 per child, a small
price to pay compared to brain surgery, chemotherapy,
radiation treatments etc.
As the Provincial Health Office you have
a duty to take reasonable steps to reduce wireless
radiation in our schools given the overwhelming amount
of evidence of harm that concerned parents have
submitted.
Respectfully.
Janis
Hoffmann
Founder of Parentsforsafeschools
Vancouver Island Rep. C4ST.org
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| Subject: | Parents, teachers and students want to know why the BC Provincial Health Officer has not done her due diligence and informed the School Boards about the health risks |
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| Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:57:04 -0700 |
| From: | Janis Hoffmann <iknowjanis@shaw.ca> |
| To: | bonnie.henry@gov.bc.ca |
| CC: | hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca, mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca, EDUC.Correspondence@gov.bc.ca, educ.minister@gov.bc.ca, info@healthyschoolsbc.ca, tom.kosatsky@bccdc.ca, drtheresa.tam@canada.com |
Dear Dr. Bonnie Henry,
Parents, teachers and students want to know why the BC Provincial Health Officer has not done her due diligence and informed the School Boards about the health risks from the prolonged and accumulative exposure to RF radiation emitting from wireless technology in our schools.
On March 26-29, 2018, the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a 10-year study costing the US 25 million dollars, had eleven experts review the reports from the NTP's cell phone radiation studies. They concluded that exposure to cell phone radiation caused a rare cancer, malignant schwannoma in the heart, and incidences of glioma, a rare, aggressive and highly malignant brain cancer.
https://ehtrust.org/cell-phone
Conclusions were based on NTP’s scale of “clear evidence”, “some evidence”, “equivocal evidence”, and “no evidence”. Clear Evidence being conclusive.
"The evidence indicating wireless is carcinogenic has increased and can no longer be ignored,"stated University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health Professor Emeritus Anthony B. Miller MD, Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Canada and the UK, and Senior Medical Advisor to EHT who is also a long-term advisor to the World Health Organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Soon after, the Ramazzini Institute also completed the world's largest animal study on cell tower radiation and confirmed the findings of the National Toxicology Program link to Cancer. This information accompanied with the over 26,000 peer reviewed studies by scientists and medical experts https://www.emf-portal.org/en is more than enough evidence for you to apply the precautionary principal to protect our children.
http://www.sbwire.com/press-re
In January 1998, The Wingspread Conference held a three-day academic conference where the Precautionary Principle was defined. It was agreed the Precautionary Principle would be implemented when an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. The Precautionary Principle shifts the burden of proof, insisting that those responsible for an activity must vouch for its harmlessness and be held responsible if damage occurs.
http://sehn.org/wingspread-con
Parents, teachers and students want to know why the BC Provincial Health Officer has not done her due diligence and informed the School Boards about the health risks from the prolonged and accumulative exposure to RF radiation emitting from wireless technology in our schools.
On March 26-29, 2018, the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a 10-year study costing the US 25 million dollars, had eleven experts review the reports from the NTP's cell phone radiation studies. They concluded that exposure to cell phone radiation caused a rare cancer, malignant schwannoma in the heart, and incidences of glioma, a rare, aggressive and highly malignant brain cancer.
https://ehtrust.org/cell-phone
Conclusions were based on NTP’s scale of “clear evidence”, “some evidence”, “equivocal evidence”, and “no evidence”. Clear Evidence being conclusive.
"The evidence indicating wireless is carcinogenic has increased and can no longer be ignored,"stated University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health Professor Emeritus Anthony B. Miller MD, Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Canada and the UK, and Senior Medical Advisor to EHT who is also a long-term advisor to the World Health Organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Soon after, the Ramazzini Institute also completed the world's largest animal study on cell tower radiation and confirmed the findings of the National Toxicology Program link to Cancer. This information accompanied with the over 26,000 peer reviewed studies by scientists and medical experts https://www.emf-portal.org/en is more than enough evidence for you to apply the precautionary principal to protect our children.
http://www.sbwire.com/press-re
In January 1998, The Wingspread Conference held a three-day academic conference where the Precautionary Principle was defined. It was agreed the Precautionary Principle would be implemented when an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. The Precautionary Principle shifts the burden of proof, insisting that those responsible for an activity must vouch for its harmlessness and be held responsible if damage occurs.
http://sehn.org/wingspread-con
Health is a
Provincial Jurisdiction. Your duty and
obligation as the Provincial Health
Officer and as a Doctor is to implement
the Precautionary Principle by honouring
your Hippocratic Oath, “nil nocere” to do
no harm and protect our children from this
health crisis.
All
schools now employ industrial wireless
networks, exposing students and staff to
ubiquitous microwave radiation without any
way to shield or avoid this mandatory
exposure. Parents
have never been informed of the health
risks or given their written consent to
expose their children to microwave
radiation in our schools. School
Districts have refused to educate
students, parents and staff on how to
avoid excessive RFR exposure when handling
wireless devices during class time as
outlined in user manuals, requirements
mandated by law.
The BC Ministry of Education has stated they set educational standards, allocates funds and monitors student achievement but decisions regarding the planning and delivery of supports and services for all students are the responsibility of local boards of education and school district administrators. This includes decisions around exposure to RF frequencies and the use of WiFi in the classroom setting.
The Health Minister Philpott was also unable to provide parents with peer reviewed studies stating the safety of Wifi safety in our schools and has instead relied on Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 exposure “guidelines.”
But on February 20, 2013, James McNamee, scientist for Health Canada, admitted in the Superior Court of Quebec, that the Safety Code 6 guideline for microwave radiation emitting from wireless technology is based ONLY on thermal effects, heating of the skin. This means Canada does not have any regulations in place to protect the public from long-term exposure to the biological effects of the “non-thermal” levels of microwave radiation. http://www.magdahavas.com/heal
On page 3, inside the Safety Code 6 document it states, “These guidelines apply to all individuals working at, or visiting, federally regulated sites and may also be adopted by the provinces, industry or other interested parties.” Schools are not federally regulated sites and, therefore, SC 6 does not apply to wifi in schools. The fact that the provinces may Adopt SC 6 means that the provinces are free to set their own guidelines.
http://www.radiationsafety.ca/
https://drive.google.com/file/
Tim
Singer from Health Canada responded to a letter concerning the radiation
levels in our schools by stating, Health Canada is
aware of concerns related to Wi-Fi in schools,
such decisions are not within Health Canada’s
mandate. We recommend that you continue to
consult your local school board or provincial
authority to discuss your concerns.
The finger pointing has now gone full circle and it is obvious that Provincial Health Officer will be held accountable for willfully ignoring the overwhelming amount of scientific proof of harm.
Parents want to exercise their right to protect their children from harm and are calling on you to take immediate action to mitigate the risk and inform the School Boards throughout the province of the established health risks associated with long term exposure to microwave radiation by recommending the use of hard wired connections to access the Internet in our schools.
The burden of proof should not be put upon the public to prove that it’s unsafe, but upon the industry to prove it is safe.
Sincerely,
Janis Hoffmann
Founder of Parentsforsafeschools
Vancouver Island Rep. C4ST.org
The finger pointing has now gone full circle and it is obvious that Provincial Health Officer will be held accountable for willfully ignoring the overwhelming amount of scientific proof of harm.
Parents want to exercise their right to protect their children from harm and are calling on you to take immediate action to mitigate the risk and inform the School Boards throughout the province of the established health risks associated with long term exposure to microwave radiation by recommending the use of hard wired connections to access the Internet in our schools.
The burden of proof should not be put upon the public to prove that it’s unsafe, but upon the industry to prove it is safe.
Sincerely,
Janis Hoffmann
Founder of Parentsforsafeschools
Vancouver Island Rep. C4ST.org
