Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Wade Davis answers Mark’s questions. Wade Davis is an ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. He travels the globe to live alongside indigenous peoples and document their cultural practices in books, photographs, and film. Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society,…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Denise Donlon answers Mark’s questions. Denise Donlon has helped raise $1-million for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. She is an author, an activist, and has been a leader in the Canadian cultural landscape for over 30 years as GM of CBC English Radio, President of Sony Music Canada, and various executive and on-air positions at ChumTelevision, The NewMusic, and MuchMusic.Denise Donlon…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Dave Bidini answers Mark’s questions. Dave Bidini is one of the founding members of rock group the Rheostatics. He is the only Canadian to have been nominated for a Genie, Gemini, JUNO, and CBC’s ‘Canada Reads’. He has published eleven books including Tropic of Hockey, On a Cold Road, and Writing Gordon Lightfoot. Dave Bidini is Editor in Chief, President,…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Joseph Boyden answers Mark’s questions. Joseph Boyden is a Canadian writer, teacher, and public speaker. A member of the Order of Canada, his novels are published in 25 languages around the world and have won numerous national and international awards. For the past 25 years, Joseph has been part of Camp Onakawana in different capacities. He’s recently taken the role…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Jennifer Baichwal answers Mark’s questions. Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for 25 years, and her works have been played around the globe and won multiple awards. Her films include Anthropocene, Watermark, Let it Come Down, The True Meaning of Pictures, Act of God, Payback, and Manufactured Landscapes. She is a long time supporter and friend of Swim…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink FIsh Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Tanis Rideout answers Mark’s questions. Tanis Rideout’s first novel, Above All Things, was a critically acclaimed best-seller, a Globe and Mail Best Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Her award winning poetry collection, Arguments with the Lake, grew out of her relationship with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, which named her the Poet Laureate of Lake Ontario in 2006. Tanis…

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Why guess where the coronavirus is and how many people might be infected if we can use our wastewater systems to give us the facts? Right now our communities, public policy experts, emergency services and planners want to know where and how far the coronavirus is spreading. Could we be sampling wastewater in our sewage systems to get that information?My experience as a water samplerThe first field sample of water I ever collected was on Dec…

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Hamilton Harbour and Region Remedial Action Plan (HHRAP) team has released a report entitled Status Report on the Degradation of Aesthetics Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) XI in the Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan (“Hamilton RAP Report” or 1 the “Report”). The Report presents findings from aesthetic observations and makes the case that the status of this BUI be re-designated from “Impaired” to “Not Impaired.” The Hamilton RAP Report suggests that Hamilton Harbour’s waters are…

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With the release of the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations reported data, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has taken a tremendous step towards public transparency concerning sewage pollution in Canada. The information-packed wastewater datasets allow communities to better understand when and where sewage pollution might impact local waters. This information is key to inspiring change like the restoration of waters impacted by sewage pollution, and infrastructure upgrades in cities with combined sewer systems and in…

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BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada (BWXT) operates two nuclear processing facilities that supply fuel pellets for the Pickering and Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. One facility is located in Toronto (1025 Lansdowne Avenue) and fabricates the uranium fuel pellets. The other facility is in Peterborough (1160 Monahan Road) and assembles the pellets into fuel metal bundles to power the Stations’ reactors. As BWXT’s current licence is set to expire later in 2020, the company applied for a…

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