Is Wi-Fi a health risk at schools?: MacDonald

Toronto Sun - Moira Macdonald - 19 Aug, 2010
Darn. Just when I figured out how to connect my wireless Internet, all hell breaks loose. Ever since stories emerged last ...

Is Wi-Fi Making You Sick?

FOXNews - Alec Liu - ‎Aug 18, 2010‎
Scientists have told us for years that Wi-Fi is safe. But concerned parents can be tough nuts to crack. Despite years of research and public ...

Does Wi-Fi make you sick?

Toronto Star - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
With parents in Barrie arguing that Wi-Fi in elementary schools is making their children sick, it appears the jury is still out among scientists on whether ...

School board sticks with Wi-Fi amid complaints of illnesses

National Post (registration) (blog) - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
A parents' group attributes various unexplained illnesses to about 30 Ontario students to wireless Internet signals in schools. ...

Ont. school board won't turn off Wi-Fi

CBC.ca - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
Parents in Ontario's Simcoe County are demanding the local school board turn off wireless internet in schools. (Canadian Press) A school board in central ...

Parents fear school Wi-Fi makes kids sick

CTV.ca - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
A group of parents in southern Ontario is blaming school wireless Internet networks for a slew of symptoms reportedly plaguing young children. ...

Wi-Fi: Are you worried about possible health risks?

CBC.ca - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
By POV A group of Barrie, Ont., parents is calling for their children's schools to turn off wireless internet before classes start, out of concern that the ...

Blame Wi-Fi: Canadian Parents Claim Wireless Networks Harm Children

PC Magazine - David Murphy - ‎Aug 15, 2010‎
Is Wi-Fi to blame for a group of Canadian children's ailments? That's what parents in the central Ontario town of Barrie are allegingâ€"that the wireless ...

Canadian Parents Say Wi-Fi in Schools is Making Kids Sick

DailyTech - 19 Aug, 2010
Parents in Simcoe County, Ontario claim in-school Wi-Fi is making their children sick. Some parents are pulling their children from the schools. ...

Ontario Parents Group Charges That School WiFi is Making Children Sick

TMCnet - Tracey E. Schelmetic - 19 Aug, 2010
File this one in the “more things you didn't need to worry about” drawer. A parents' group in Simcoe County, ...

Teachers Vote Down Wi-Fi Ban

E Canada Now - 19 Aug, 2010
The Ontario Elementary Teachers' Federation selected no in a Tuesday vote on a Wi-Fi ban. The Wi-Fi ban attempt is currently being sponsored by a ...

Teachers not joining Wi-Fi fight

The Barrie Advance - 19 Aug, 2010
SIMCOE COUNTY - The Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation will not be adding its voice to a Collingwood group that's lobbying school boards to turn off ...

Wi-Fi Safe: Top Doctor

580 CFRA Radio - Josh Pringle - 19 Aug, 2010
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Arlene King says parents and others need to hear that wireless communications systems “do not pose a public health risk. ...

Ontario says Wi-Fi safety is an Ottawa responsibility

National Union of Public and General Employees - 19 Aug, 2010
Toronto (19 Aug. 2010) - Ontario Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky says the issue of whether wireless Internet technology is safe in Ontario schools is a ...

Wi-Fi Making Students Sick? Parents Demand Ontario School Turn It Off

Care2.com (blog) - Ann Bibby - ‎Aug 18, 2010‎
As the new school year looms, students in Barrie, Ontario, have more to worry about than homework. Many were sickened last school year with an array of ...

Wi-Fi fears swell

The Barrie Examiner - ‎Aug 18, 2010‎
A question by local parents has prompted a provincewide debate over the impact wireless Internet access in schools may have on our children's health. ...

Does Wi-Fi Really Make You Sick?

E Canada Now - ‎Aug 18, 2010‎
Parents in Ontario, Canada are making claims that Wi-Fi is making their children sick. They claim that the children are getting ill while they are at school ...

Ontario parents suspect Wi-Fi making students sick

National Union of Public and General Employees - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
Barrie (18 Aug. 2010) - A group of parents in Barrie is demanding that schools turn off wireless Internet before students head back to school next month, ...

“Microwave Radiation” and Its Effects on Children: The Debate Continues…

KidGlue - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
By AAyles on August 17th, 2010 An Ontario, Canada school board is defending its decision this week to continue the use of wireless Internet access in ...

Parents And Teachers Demanding That Schools Dump WiFi

Treehugger - Lloyd Alter - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
The tinfoil hats are out in Ontario, as teachers, parents and politicians pile on Wi-Fi.. Parents in Simcoe County, ...

Can Wi-Fi Make You Sick?

E Canada Now - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
Wireless Internet has become vastly popular, with networks appearing in restaurants, schools, and shopping malls. But new speculation has risen that says ...

Does Wi-Fi In Schools Make Kids Sick?

E Canada Now - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎
Well, the kids will start feeling warm, then they'll get a fairly broad headache. I don't know about nausea. I have a lot of experience with high doses of ...

Rhonda Callow Should Wi-Fi be outlawed in schools?

Sync (blog) - Rhonda Callow - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
You will receive a daily email from Sync with the latest stories and you can unsubscribe anytime. We don't sell email lists. By Rhonda CallowComments (5) ...

Ontario School District to Keep Wi-Fi, Despite Parental Complaints

Teleclick.ca - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
An Ontario school district says that there is no evidence that Wi-Fi networks cause negative health effects, and is refusing requests to shut such networks ...

School Board Refuses to Rely on Fear-Based Non-Science

Wi-Fi Networking News - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
This site operates as an independent editorial operation. Advertising, sponsorships, and other non-editorial materials represent the opinions and messages ...

Thames Valley to Continue to Use Wi-Fi

CJBK - Sasha Scott - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
The Thames Valley District School board says it will look into any possible side effects of Wi-Fi in the classroom. This after a group of parents in Barrie ...

Barrie parents blaming Wi-Fi for children's behaviour in school are apparently ...

Toronto Life - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
From the grain of salt department: a group of parents in Barrie are complaining that new wireless networks in local elementary schools have led to a number ...

Ontario Parents Say School Wi-Fi Networks Make Kids Sick

Switched (blog) - Caleb Johnson - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
Parents in the town of Barrie, Ontario, Canada, want their school district to disable its Wi-Fi network because, ...

Parents Say that Wi-Fi Networks Causes Headaches and Nausea in their Children

TopNews United States - Amit Pathania - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
According to the parents in the central Ontario town of Barrie, their children are getting sick because of the Wi-Fi systems present in the school. ...

Parents In Ontario Demand Switching Off Wi-Fi In Schools

PSFK - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎
A group of parents in the Barrie region of Ontario are protesting against their children's schools that use wireless internet in their premises. ...

 

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