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Radon: Public Health and Cancer Prevention

Topics: Built Environment, Indoor Air, Radiation, Radon

Video TranscriptIn Canada, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer but what is radon and what can public health do about it?Radon is a radioactive gas that occurs naturally when uranium and...

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Finding Safe Drinking Water in an Emergency

Topics: Contaminants and Hazards, Cyanobacteria, Drinking Water, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Water

Video TranscriptDisasters can cause disruption to water supplies affecting homes, businesses and public services. Are you prepared for a water emergency?  This video will teach you how to access...

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Growing Cannabis Safely at Home

Topics: Cannabis, Indoor Air, Pesticides

Video TranscriptAs of 2018, it became legal for Canadians to grow up to 4 cannabis plants per household.Having cannabis plants in a home poses risks but there are ways to grow more safely. Children,...

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Extreme Heat can be a Killer

Topics: Built Environment, Climate Change, Emergency Preparedness, Outdoor Air, Public Facilities

Video TranscriptCanada is experiencing more extremely hot days and longer periods of heat than during the late 20th century and it is going to get worse. Every year, about people die from heat...

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Oil Spills and Health

Topics: Chemical Agents, Contaminants and Hazards, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response

BackgroundOil spills are very complex events that, depending on where they occur, may result in acute exposures to nearby human populations. Regardless of the presence of humans, however, oil spills...

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Indigenous Disaster Response

Topics: Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Indigenous Environmental Health

BackgroundFirst Nations communities may be disproportionately impacted by a variety of emergencies and disasters, including floods, wildfires, and crude oil spills in their traditional territories....

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Psychosocial impacts: resources for mitigation, response and recovery

Topics: Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response

BackgroundAll disasters --natural or technological-- can adversely affect the health and well-being of community members and response workers involved. Because of local and global transformations (...

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Floods: prevention, preparedness, response and recovery

Topics: Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Flooding

A number of extreme flooding events have occurred in Canada over the last few decades, and as a result of climate change, are growing in both frequency and magnitude. Manitoba experienced intense...

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Ethnic foods: Balut, Pork dinakdakan, ceviche and chile relleno

Topics: Food

Canada’s population is highly diverse with variations across regions, bringing with it an ever-growing variety of specialty ethnic foods. With the rising popularity of specialty ethnic foods,...

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Extreme Heat

Topics: Climate Change, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response

According to Environment Canada, a heat wave is a period of more than 3 days when temperatures are more than 32°C (Health Canada, 2012); the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines...

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