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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

THE NEWSPAPERS VIEW

Public inquiry
Bike lane
bends to
needed now
accommodate
gala guests
into fiasco at Cellphone
Health Ministry radiation

E
JEFF LEE

raises
VANCOUVER SUN

When socialite Jacqui Cohen nough of the obfuscating,

hosted the Face The World
fundraising gala this week at her
Point Grey waterfront home, she
and her well-heeled guests first
had to face the cyclists.
Limousine, Ferrari and Rolls-
Royce drivers negotiated the
citys new bike lane in front of
her home at 2815 Point Grey Rd.
on a summer night when cyclists
were out in droves.
Normally, a driver using a
bike lane would engender ver-
bal abuse, and folks in fancy cars
might be especially targeted. But
in this case, Cohens organizers
applied to the citys film and spe-
cial events office in February for
a special permit to use the bike
lane for valet parking, and the
city gave permission.
Vancouver police put in place
a traffic management plan and
assigned veteran auxiliary offi-
cer Christopher Richardson, the
former school board chairman,
to direct traffic.
We didnt want any cyclists to
be doored, and we didnt want
any gowned or tuxedoed guests
to be taken out by bikes, said
Richardson, who has been rep-
resenting the city as an auxiliary
for 43 years.
It was probably the only place
where a cyclist might get doored
by a Ferrari, a Bentley and a
Rolls-Royce all at once.
The city left the eastbound bike
lane open, but asked cyclists to
share the westbound lane with
the limos, taxis and luxury cars.
Richardson said there were no
interactions and cyclists were as
gracious as the guests.
jeee@vancouversun.com
alarm
weaseling, dissimulation,
doubletalk, verbal sub- But report from Ottawa
terfuge, stonewalling and fails to worry experts
other distasteful conduct that hangs SHARON KIRKEY
like a miasma over the shameful
POSTMEDIA NEWS
AND GILLIAN SHAW
VANCOUVER SUN
events surrounding the precipitous A parliamentary committee
has waded into the scientific
firing of eight Ministry of Health debate over cellphones, warn-
ing that the ubiquitous devices
researchers in 2012. may cause cancer, infertility, or
learning disabilities and urging
parents to shield their children
The B.C. government, only after being driven to from unnecessary exposure.
But several leading Canadian
it by the tireless demands of the family of Rod- health experts say that cell-
phones and Wi-Fi devices pose
erick MacIsaac, a graduate student who took his less risk to humans than run-of-
the-mill fevers.
life after being sacked days before his co-op term The House of Commons stand-
concluded, grudgingly issued an apology, which ing committee on health, in a
report released this week, urges
some regarded as expedient political damage con- the federal government to launch
a public awareness campaign
trol, but which the family accepted with grace. about the possible hazards and
safe use of wireless technologies.
Yet, except for government insiders, we all remain baffled. The 10-member panel also wants
We dont know the reasoning that led to people being unjustly the government to consider
funding research into potential
fired. We dont know who made the decision to fire them. We links between exposure to radio
dont know what evidence the government thought justified frequency electromagnetic radi-
the firings. We dont know who is accountable. We dont know ation and cancer, genetic dam-
age, infertility, development and
much about any of this and neither does the lawyer commis- behaviour problems, and pos-
sioned by the ministry to review the firings. sible harmful effects to the eyes
and brain.
EDITORIAL CONTINUES A16
FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER CALLS FOR INQUIRY, A16 CONTINUED ON A14

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