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align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>March 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:teal;font-weight:normal'>☢</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0788bfbae3&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal;font-weight:normal'>End of an Era</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#505050'>The two tall stacks at the gigantic Nanticoke coal fired power station came tumbling down yesterday. Ontario, thanks to the vision of the <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9cfcd2874b&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Ontario Clean Air Alliance</span></a> and allies like you, was the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2550df370b&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>first jurisdiction in the world</span></a> to move away from using dirty coal to generate electricity to help our climate and our health. Today is a day to celebrate this huge accomplishment and also to look to the future – a </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8983f00cfe&e=45743fde61"><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:teal'>100% renewable future</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;color:teal'>.<br><br><img border=0 width=266 height=189 id="_x0000_i1033" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2/images/e00bcef3-0610-4fee-8c32-a72f318ac466.png"></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>The World</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d761b5136b&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Japan wants Fukushima evacuees to go home. They're not so sure</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>About 160,000 people left their homes in 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Today, the government says it's safe for many to return. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approaching, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to deliver on his promise that the Fukushima cleanup effort is “under control.”<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d63f0c316d&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Abita</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>4 min. animated film about Fukushima children who can't play outside because of the radioactivity.<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a4b5b8dbc0&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>America’s Secret Nuclear Ice Base Is Melting</span></a> Global warming is turning Camp Century into a toxic, radioactive hazard. <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1260514652&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Here’s more</span></a>.<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0ec1bcb6ae&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Nuclear waste mountains just go on growing</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Some politicians still claim atomic energy is the answer to climate change while leaving the problem of nuclear waste to our descendants.<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ca71bf43d2&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Juan Petro Unger speaks out against SNC Lavalin being contracted to build Chalk River’s gigantic radioactive dump</span></a> 13 min. video<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ca99dbfde1&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>The Age of Nuclear Waste is Just Beginning</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Dr. Gordon Edwards calls for a national debate on the pros and cons of nuclear power in this 32 minute video interview.<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8b61218799&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Uranium industry slumps, nuclear power dead in the water</span></a> Nuclear power has been <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=aaf75e3cca&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>stagnant</span></a> for the past 20 years, but uranium mining has continued, driving down prices.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=94f31be0f5&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Canada Is Replacing Coal With Natural Gas — And That’s A Huge Problem</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>New natural gas plants can “lock in” high emissions for decades. Luckily, there are lots of other options. Modelling shows wind power can make up 35% of Canada’s power supply. And “Because we have so much hydro in Canada, if you can connect hydro jurisdictions and non-hydro jurisdictions and start to use the hydro to balance the wind. If you can start to link across jurisdictions, a lot more becomes possible.” Here's to increasing ties between QC and ON.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Ontario</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fe157efefe&e=45743fde61">Powerful Neighbours</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Hydro Quebec is offering Massachusetts power at a cost that is roughly one-third of what Ontario Power Generation wants for power from rebuilt reactors. We don't need to build a new transmission corridor through a mountain landscape to get this power – we simply need to use our existing connections. It is a no-brainer for both provinces to make a deal. - Jack Gibbons, letter to the editor, Globe and Mail<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9cc7f19cb2&e=45743fde61">Risking a nuclear catastrophe at Pickering</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Why would we risk a nuclear catastrophe in the middle of the GTA when we have lower-cost, safer and renewable alternatives, most notably water power from Quebec? – Angela Bischoff, letter to the editor, NOW Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>Renewables and Conservation</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=478a7ffaa9&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:green'>QC can triple sales to ON</span></a> “We can be a solution for Ontario,” Hydro QC CEO Martel said. “Thankfully, the interconnections already exist. There’s nothing to build.”<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c6676ca0f3&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Alberta’s Leading the Pack With Cheap Wind Power and There’s Way More to Come</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>At 3.7 cents/kWh — that’s the lowest (non-water) price for electricity anywhere in Canada. The projects will be a boon to local communities because they will pay municipal taxes, fees to landowners, as well as provide jobs particularly during the construction phase. Alberta’s power generation and transmission is not owned and managed by a Crown corporation. Instead, mostly private, for-profit companies provide electricity to Albertans, allowing more room for new entrants to the market. Government-appointed agencies oversee their operations and ensure generating plants and transmission lines keep up with demand for electricity. Ontario listen up!<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c1d7f8cbcb&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Wind Farms Are Hardly the Bird Slayers They’re Made out to Be</span></a> Wind farms killed approximately seven thousand birds in the US in 2006 but nuclear plants killed about 327,000 and fossil-fuelled power plants 14.5 million.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0f8f37ffec&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>EDF kick-starts ‘unprecedented acceleration’ in renewables as nuclear slides</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>French energy major EDF has pledged to commence an “unprecedented acceleration” in renewable energy deployment having witnessed its UK nuclear revenues collapse in 2017. Similar to the UK, France is at a crucial juncture in its power generation. As many as 17 of its nuclear reactors are could switch off by 2025<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=08c1382721&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Morocco turns the Sahara desert into a solar energy oasis </span></a> Morocco says it wants to be the Saudi Arabia of solar energy. Its flagship project is a first-of-its-kind, $9-billion energy plant called Noor, meaning "light" in Arabic, and the size of the city of Paris.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b9f5736d03&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Cheap Renewables Are Transforming the Global Electricity Business</span></a> Renewables are not yet the least costly option in every market, but the pace of change demonstrates that a tipping point toward a new energy economy is coming, and fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'>Take Action!</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d4dc1da520&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Canada - do not let corporate profits dictate what we do with our nuclear waste</span></a> Please sign the petition.<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></strong><br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c9e3ae6b36&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Protect Kyoto! Prevent another nuclear disaster in Japan. Stop the dangerous Ohi plant.</span></a> Please sign the petition.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=643c66d81b&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Westinghouse - Quit India</span></a> Please sign and circulate this international statement against the Kovvada nuclear plant launched as Westinghouse officials visit India next week.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> Sign our petitions</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'> to <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f93f0e761a&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Close Pickering</span></a> and to <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6b38d2e743&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Buy Quebec Power</span></a><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0eff1c521b&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:#336699'>.</span></a> And share them with your friends. Watch our <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1104c15d53&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>2 min. video</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>here. <br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e5bc881019&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Stop OPG's Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late</span></a> Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e62760d0ac&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!</span></a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9544e59d53&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes?</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span style='color:purple'>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=53773d5b2f&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Order your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond. <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=91460be0bd&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters here</span></a> to post in your office, school, or local cafe.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e93a52d209&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Canada – Sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Last year 122 member states of the United Nations voted to approve the text of a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but the Nuclear Weapons States voted against it as did most NATO countries including Canada. This petition asks Canada to sign the Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'>Events</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=27b59727af&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Has the Trudeau Government delivered on its promise of a reformed Federal assessment and approval process?</span></a> Fri. March 2, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Webinar on Bills C-68 and C-69. This will be the most significant package of environmental legislation introduced in the federal level in many years. In response, we will be convening a panel of expert speakers on the review process via webinar (with live audience at York University).<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a6c04e7005&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Nuclear Waste: EA and Nuclear Projects</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Webinar Wed. March 8, noon EST. Environmental Assessments: How Bill C-69, Canada's new "Impact Assessment Act", deals with nuclear projects.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6318d035fa&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>From Fukushima to Toronto</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Mon. March 12, 7 p.m. Sydney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St, Rm. 2118, U of Toronto. Several speakers address the lessons learned from the Fukushima triple-nuclear meltdown 7 years ago, and dangers of and alternatives to the Pickering Nuclear Station.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Mincho",serif;color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=41245fec74&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>From Fukushima to Pickering</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Thur. March 15, 7 p.m. Pickering Public Library, 1 The Esplanade. 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