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Aug
2023
John Bennett, a Senior Policy Advisor to Friends of the Earth Canada and an ardent anti-nuclear campaigner responded to our letter in the Hill Times. I can reproduce his letter […]
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Aug
2023
Words are very powerful, because they paint pictures in people’s minds that are very hard to move. It is important that we use them correctly. Many will have heard me […]
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Aug
2023
CNS had another letter published in the Hill Times this week in response to another letter that had been published a short while ago. The Hill Times is a subscription […]
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Aug
2023
The Canadian Nuclear Society is a learned society and one part of its mandate is to provide factual information on nuclear issues to the public. We avoid expressing opinions and […]
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Jul
2023
Erika Simpson, a professor of international politics at Western University and frequent author of anti-nuclear articles had an opinion piece published in the Hill Times a few days ago. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/07/06/when-planning-nuclear-waste-sites-in-canada-consider-the-potential-nuclear-crisis-in-ukraine/392019/ It’s […]
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Jul
2023
Canada has always been a leader in the field of medical isotopes. We were the first country to successfully demonstrate the use of large radiotherapy sources to treat cancer. […]
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Jun
2023
“This story is behind a paywall but CNS members may be asked about it today. Their homes sit on radioactive mining waste and no one told them | The Star I […]
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Jun
2023
Ole Hendrickson’s article in Rabble claims that Canada’s new radioactive waste and decommissioning policy is a failure. https://rabble.ca/columnists/canadas-radioactive-waste-and-decommissioning-policy-is-a-failure/?fbclid=IwAR3iLjjTgeOWasA2SE1R-L6YWMHbiGWVZi6-OL5HQM_H6dz9NRM_oS1wBMk But is it? In fact, he raises no issues that suggest the […]
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Apr
2023
Governments have many tools that they can use to support industries with the most conspicuous being direct financial support or indirect support through tax breaks and similar instruments. Over the […]
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Apr
2023
Many of you will have heard me speak about the way that words have two meanings a denotative one i.e. the dictionary definition and a connotative one, which is mental […]
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