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The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) Executive Vice President of Government Affairs continues to target mayors and councillors across our country as this issue continues to build momentum across Canada. They are targeting cities considering anti-idling proposals to ensure drive-thrus continue to be exempt.
The CRFA requests to mayors and councillors that urgent meetings [...]
Posted By Philip McLeod
Posted 9 hours ago
Two months ago a report prepared by a pair of City of London officials made this point: “If you balance both air quality and climate change concerns and give them equal importance, a drive-thru queue of longer than one minute would start to have negative impacts on the environment [...]
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An excerpt from the report:
In 1965, 43 percent of us smoked cigarettes.17
Today only 20.9 percent of us light up.18
In 1982, drunk drivers killed about 22,000 people.
In 2005, the toll had fallen to just over 12,000.19
In 1983, only 24 percent of us used seatbelts.20
Today 82 percent of us buckle up.21
These statistics tell a story of radical [...]
Study Links ‘Smog’ To Arctic Warming
ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2006) — NASA scientists have found that a major form of global air pollution involved in summertime “smog” has also played a significant role in warming the Arctic.
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This is the recommendation to the transportation dept. from Toronto Public Health. The transportation dep’t now take carriage and look at the implications , then report through committee to council.
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SUMMARY
Vehicle idling is a preventable source of air pollution. This report responds to the Board
of Health’s request to report on the availability of anti-idling technologies [...]
By Libby Cluett
lcluett@mineralwellsindex.com
Health care experts warn about serious and lasting health complications for future generations of Americans stemming from increasingly expanding children’s waistlines.
In an article in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Joyce Lee warns that the most damaging [...]
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Toronto’s Board of Health has passed a proposal from the city’s medical officer of health that aims to limit the time vehicles can idle to just 10 seconds.
A feasibility study will be conducted after Dr. David McKeown’s initiative received support by board members on Thursday.
Under Toronto’s current anti-idling bylaw, drivers in vehicles that are running [...]
Sprawl consumes large quantities of land, segregates houses from shops and workplaces, depends on cars, and has little regard for the natural environment. In some parts of
Canada sprawl is the largest driver of greenhouse gas emissions.
Of course, most Canadians do not personally build the houses, streets, schools, parks or water lines that [...]
City of London,
Planning Committee
Dear Controller and Councillors,
June 17 2007
My name is Kevin Lomack and I would like to begin by stating how much
I appreciate this opportunity to address everyone on the Planning
Committee directly with my thoughts and those of the Council of
Canadians – London Chapter – Environment and Climate Change Committee,
on the topic of [...]
Dr. Howard will speak to council of June 15th, 2008 at Centennial Hall.
John Howard, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Room E6220, Westminster Tower
Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario
Paediatric Division of London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada,
N6C 2V5
Phone 519-685-8048 fax 519-685-8156
