Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
The increasing popularity of on-site power generation is driving the demand for methods to compensate customer-generators that supply electricity to the grid. Although many practices exist for providing such compensation, confusion surrounds the terms often used to describe such practices (notably, net metering and net billing). To help clarify this …
The Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters is administered by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), a trilateral institution established by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States as part of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The CEC received 55 submissions from June 1995 …
The lack of focus on public health is a result of faulty planning in the initial years after independence when the colonial system, weighted heavily in favour of the privileged, was allowed to continue. In time-honoured style, moreover, the government set up a series of committees but the state of …
Global patterns of funding clearly show that medical education remains very much a state-dominated sector. In countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
a gene present in about 20 per cent of Africans can shut down the body's immune system, leaving it vulnerable to lethal infections, claims a study by scientists led by Maya Saleh of Canada's McGill University Health Centre. The study was based on blood samples taken from about 1,000 African …
The World Bank has come up with a Global Strategy and Booster Program for the years 2005-2010 to control malaria. But Amir Attaran of the Institute of Population Health and Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, has argued in The Lancet that the bank does not have the expertise …
A us law to ban waste import from Canada has raised fears of a possible trade war between the countries. A bill to ban Canadian waste imports was approved by Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm last month and now awaits approval from Congress and the president. Toronto has been shipping waste …
The Ontario government recently filed a complaint with the us Environmental Protection Agency. It has criticised proposals it believes will lead to more pollution on the Canadian side of the border from thermal power plants in midwestern us states. The Ontario environment ministry said that the us government intended to …
A confirmatory method using liquid chromatography?electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry for determination of five macrolide antibiotics including spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin in raw milk is presented. Macrolides were extracted from raw milk by acetonitrile, and sample extracts were further cleaned up using solid-phase extraction cartridges. Data acquisition was …
The Canadian indigenous community Xeni Gwet'in British Columbia has taken ancient myths to the courtroom as part of a trial in British Columbia's Supreme Court. Embroiled in a two-decade long battle with the Canadian government over the title to their land, Gwet'in elders testified about the traditional names for mountains …
lawsuit filed: About 100 companies involved in snow-crab fishing in Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada, have filed a us $ 135 million lawsuit against the federal government. Filed in the Court of Queen's Bench in New Brunswick, the lawsuit contests the snow-crab management plan of the department of fisheries …
researchers in Canada have proved that persistent toxic fluorochemicals used in industrialised parts of the world land up in the blood of humans and animals in pristine areas far away, such as the Arctic region. The chance detection of the derivatives of fluorotelomer alcohols, which are carcinogenic, in the cells …
Japan recently lifted its ban on us beef imports, which was imposed due to threats of mad cow disease in the us cattle, in December 2003. Japan said beef from American cattle under 21 months old would be allowed back into the country, provided strict guidelines were adhered to by …
news reports on ozone depletion are frequent. But a study from the department of chemical and physical sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada, discusses the presence of excess ozone around the Tibetan plateau. The research team, led by G W Kent Moore, says that a concentrated ring of ozone …
production stopped: The Canadian gas-exploration company Niko failed to receive government permission for producing gas after a blowout wrecked the Tengratila gas field. It began removing drilling equipment from the site amidst protests from local residents who demanded the company's pullout be stopped till their demands are met and issues …
Canada refuses Sumas:The federal court of Canada ruled out the possibility of establishing a US-based power plant near the Canadian border. The company, Sumas Energy 2, proposed to source natural gas from Canada and build the plant in Sumas. It would cost US $400 million and generate 660 megawatts of …
Pollution has allegedly tipped the gender balance in the Chemical Valley community, living among chemical plants in southwest Ontario, Canada. A review of Aamjiwnaang First Nation birth records, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, says only about one third of the babies born in the area between 1999 and …
a team of biotechnologists in Canada has chanced upon a new use for the skin secretions of a rainforest frog: protecting potatoes against pathogens. Endemic to Brazilian and Peruvian forests, the Giant Waxy Monkey Tree Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolour) secretes chemicals called dermaseptins (most potent being the one called b1) from …
Agent Orange in Canada: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Ottawa, Canada, by people who claim they were exposed to Agent Orange and other chemicals that were tested in the 1960s at a Canadian Forces base in New Brunswick. The petitioners say they suffered serious health problems due …
the media has of late celebrated the news of Indian farmers gearing up for a Canadian citizenship. But it actually is a story of a severe resource-drain that affects agriculture, the Indian economy's backbone. An institution responsible for extending research and development gains to India's own agricultural sector is aiding …
