Edgemont locals packed an information meeting hosted by Bell Canada Wednesday to protest plans for a cellphone tower in their area.

A report tabled at Norfolk General Hospitals Board meeting yesterday is calling for the removal of a Paging tower located on top of the facility.

"It is important for citizens to understand that while the complexities of the electromagnetic radiation health-risk issue continue to create fertile ground for mobile phone industry-supported obfuscation, the scientific facts are clear that danger looms for users of wireless devices, those who live in the vicinity of wireless infrastructure and the general public."

Avoiding stress and even cancer, could be as easy as hanging up your cellphone and getting rid of your microwave.

Our natural world is under assault from human activity. The trouble is, to recognise damage to nature reveals also the risk to ourselves. ‘Progress’ is in the hands not of individual people, nor their elected representatives and politicians. It is in the hands of the free market, the large corporates who set the direction of our world through creating profit streams however they can.

A group of Valleyview Drive residents warned city council Monday night about the prospect of cellphone towers sprouting up in residential neighbourhoods across the city.

Canadian Human Rights Commission policy on Environmental Sensitivities

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Toronto's Gardiner Expressway has recently seen a series of looming cell phone towers. These towers have been erected without warning to local downtown workers and nearby residents.

Cell towers and other transmission devices are exempt from environmental assessment by Environment Canada.