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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Mar. 26, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We have finally arrived at the watershed moment when the fairy tale of nuclear safety is being seriously challenged. - <i>Pan Han-shen, Taiwan’s Green Party</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For the best updates on the Japan nuclear crisis see <a href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/">http://www.beyondnuclear.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Officials suspect dangerous breach at Fukushima nuclear plant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A suspected breach in the reactor at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/960481--officials-suspect-dangerous-breach-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant?bn=1">http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/960481--officials-suspect-dangerous-breach-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant?bn=1</a>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Japanese nuclear officials fear crack in reactor core<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Possible damage at Fukushima nuclear power plant could cause leak of high levels of radiation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/25/japanese-nuclear-fear-crack-reactor-core">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/25/japanese-nuclear-fear-crack-reactor-core</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#CC0099'>Nuclear in the Spotlight – Wed. Mar. 30, Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Wed. March 30<sup>th</sup>, 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Annex Live, 296 Brunswick (at Bloor)<span style='color:#1F497D'>, Toronto</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>With performers Mike Ford, Meghan Morrison, Richard Underhill, Michael Louis Johnson, the Raging Grannies and more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear will speak to the current situation in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Help OCAA turn Ontario away from nuclear and toward safer options.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192323914141758">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192323914141758</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://nuclearspotlight.eventbrite.com/">http://nuclearspotlight.eventbrite.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#00B0F0'>Nuclear question marks<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Public hearings about nuclear reactors are supposed to answer questions. But the first week of hearings into proposed new reactors at the Darlington nuclear site has left some answers hanging. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/961876--nuclear-question-marks">http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/961876--nuclear-question-marks</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Anti-nuclear campaigner attacks expansion of Darlington<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#152539'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.75pt;line-height:15.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#343434'>Caldicott marveled that Canada is considering new reactors in the face of the Fukushima catastrophe. “We are on the precipice of absolute devastation in Japan,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/960365--anti-nuclear-campaigner-attacks-expansion-of-darlington">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/960365--anti-nuclear-campaigner-attacks-expansion-of-darlington</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Ottawa needs to be weaned from its nuclear obsession<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>New nuclear reactors – around the entire world – are 100 per cent subsidized. – Amory Lovins<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Enough is enough. For environmental reasons, for economic reasons and for political reasons (including nuclear proliferation), the government should end its obsession with nuclear power: Until the industry can buy its own reactors, get rid of its own wastes and pay for its own insurance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/ottawa-needs-to-be-weaned-from-its-nuclear-obsession/article1951790/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/ottawa-needs-to-be-weaned-from-its-nuclear-obsession/article1951790/</a> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span class=sifr-alternate><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#31859C;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#31859C;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Preventing the Next Nuclear Meltdown </span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#31859C;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#31859C;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Lessons of the Fukushima Disaster for U.S. Nuclear Policy </span></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67667/victor-gilinsky/preventing-the-next-nuclear-meltdown">http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67667/victor-gilinsky/preventing-the-next-nuclear-meltdown</a></span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Note:  The author </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>warns against the dangers of refurbishing old reactors whose standards were inadequate to begin with, because they were based on false assumptions and invalid design calculations.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Also, while </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>this article refers to US nuclear policy, Canadians and others should take note. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>We tried the nuclear power experiment -- and it didn't work</span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Nuclear energy is simply not insurable in the free market. Period.</span></span><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Nuclear power is simply not worth risk. We tried the nuclear experiment -- it did not work. It is time we cut our losses and started putting all of our financial resources into a portfolio of renewable energy technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3041655" target="_blank">http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3041655</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Spewing from Meltdowns: Dangerous Plumes of Disinformation<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p>There is no level of radiation exposure, no matter how small, that is harmless. Every federal agency that regulates radioactive pollution agrees.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/23-1">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/23-1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#7030A0'>Anishinabe Women Oppose Nuclear Shipment Through Great Lakes<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>5 minute video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A group of Anishinabe women are determined to stop a proposed shipment of steam generators contaminated with nuclear waste travelling through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/anishinabe-women-oppose-nuclear-shipment-through-great-lakes/">http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/anishinabe-women-oppose-nuclear-shipment-through-great-lakes/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#77933C;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Germany’s solar panels produce more power than Japan’s entire Fukushima complex<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-22-germanys-solar-panels-produce-more-power-than-japans-entire-fuku#comments#comments">http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-22-germanys-solar-panels-produce-more-power-than-japans-entire-fuku#comments#comments</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#E46C0A;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>OPG Failure to comply with Undertaking to the Commissioner of Competition<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Ontario Clean Air Alliance has filed an <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/competition.PDF"><span style='color:windowtext'>official complaint</span></a> with the federal Commissioner of Competition, Melanie Aitken, with respect to Ontario Power Generation’s newspaper advertisements which falsely claimed that it had completed its last three major nuclear projects “on budget”.   We have asked the Commissioner to penalize OPG for false advertising and to require it to print prominent retractions in every daily newspaper in Ontario.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please contact <a href="mailto:melanie.aitken@bc-cb.gc.ca"><span style='color:windowtext'>melanie.aitken@bc-cb.gc.ca</span></a> and ask her to investigate our complaint and issue a decision as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Angela Bischoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Outreach Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ontario Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>625 Church Street, #402<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>www.cleanairalliance.org</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'>Our Facebook Group</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:purple'>No Nukes Ne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