Roberge, 45 ans, a été condamné à huit ans de pénitencier en avril 1998 après avoir été reconnu coupable d’avoir commandé l’incendie d’une piqueriez de la rue du Roi, dans le quartier Saint-Roch en 1995, crime qui, en plus d’avoir coûté la vie à Glen Cormier, avait déclenché les hostilités de la guerre des motards.

• Industry: Dielectric heater sealers, induction and plasma heaters, broadcast and communications transmitters,
• General public: Domestic induction cookers, proximity readers, electronic article surveillance systems and other anti-theft devices, computer monitors and television sets,
• Hospitals: MRI systems, electromagnetic nerve stimulators, electro-surgical units, and other devices for medical treatment,
• Military: Power units, submarine communication transmitters and high frequency (HF) transmitters.

The exact biological mechanism whereby FM broadcast radiation induces CMM is not known. However, we believe that the available evidence points to a perturbation in cellular signaling that results in either a) the degradation/inactivation of the immune defense system; b) a reduction in the “repair capacity” of affected cells; c) an increase in cellular temperature; d) the impact of long-term “vibration” of the cells (melanocytes) involved in the development of CMM; e) suboptimal vitamin D levels; or f) a combination of these factors

Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile telephones and their base stations

Mobile telephones, sometimes called cellular phones
or handies, are now an integral part of modern telecommunications. In
some parts of the world, they are the most reliable or only phones
available. In others, mobile phones are very popular because they allow
people to maintain continuous communication without hampering freedom of
movement.

In

recent years attention has been focussed on the possibility that

long term exposure to low levels of RF radiation may be responsible

for serious health effects, such as cancer. Of the many studies

into possible health effects that have been completed, only a

small number have looked at exposure to low levels of RF radiation

over a long period of time. These studies found no conclusive

evidence of ill-effects, even though the exposed populations were

subjected to higher RF radiation levels than would be received

near a base station.

It may be significant that incidence rates of those cancers on

which attention has been focussed have not changed much in the

last 50 years (some have actually decreased), even though the

use of RF radiation has increased in our society.