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    Ed Whittingham & Roger Thompson discuss Upton Sinclair's classic novel - Oil!

    We're sharing another episode of Ed's occasional podcast, Climate Book Reviews, this time discussing the book that was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

    Ed and co-host Dr. Roger Thompson (Associate Dean and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University in New York) chat with Michael Tondry, editor of a critical edition reissue by Penguin Books.

    Michael talks about the history of the book, the events that gave birth to it, and the bookโ€™s depiction of both the hope and horrors of oil exploration and extraction.

    About Your Hosts:

    Roger Thompson is a professor and writer at Stony Brook University. He began his career working with environmental literature and nature writing and established with Ed Whittingham an environmental internship program in Banff, Alberta for students at a VMI, a military college. His most recent environmental book, No Word for Wilderness: Italyโ€™s Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth (Ashland Creek), documents the attempts by grassroots activists and university faculty to preserve the Marsican bears of Abruzzo, and it reveals for the first time the mafiaโ€™s attempts to use National Parks to fleece EU subsidies.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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    Energy expert Amy Myers Jaffe returns to EvC to chat with Ed about Energy and Artificial Intelligence.

    Nearly every aspect of the economy seems to be impacted by the stunningly rapid development of AI. Energy is no exception. Ed and Amy have a wide-ranging discussion that covers a lot of ground and touches on several hot topics, including:

    How AI is transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of energy; The energy needs of data centers; Whether or not AI is an asset or liability for the clean energy economy; The role of tech companies; The geopolitics of AI; Security vulnerabilities created by increasingly AI-dependent energy infrastructure; And Canada-US relations.

    (01:35) Skip Intro

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    About Our Guest:

    Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk. She is widely published on energy, commodity markets and finance and is author of several books, including her most recent book, Energyโ€™s Digital Future and Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold. Jaffe serves as Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York Universityโ€™s School of Professional Studies and is a research professor who teaches graduate-level courses examining clean technology innovation and business and global climate finance. Jaffe is a regular contributor to the popular podcast โ€œThe Energy Gangโ€ and a frequent media commentator in television and print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times of London and CNN International. Jaffe holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organizationโ€™s President in 2020.

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    Thereโ€™s something in Carbon Removal for everyone โ€” are we building enduring relationships to advance the sector?

    A bonus EvC episode - on February 27, 2025, EvC co-host Ed Whittingham hosted a panel discussion at Carbon Removal Canada's Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa. They cover a number of topics including the changing political headwinds in the US, efforts to bolster investment in Canada, and silicon valley's interest in CDR. Plus, they take a few audience questions.

    Detailed show notes on episode page.

    About Our Guests:

    Lucy Hargreaves is the VP of Corporate Affairs & Policy at Patch, a SF-based carbon markets platform thatโ€™s accelerating investment into global climate action at scale. Beyond her work at Patch, Lucy is part of the core team driving Build Canada and Canada Spends, volunteer-led initiatives focused on helping Canadian entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country and making government spending more accessible and transparent.

    Daniel Kelter is Carbon Removal Canadaโ€™s Director of Government Relations, a strategic policy advisor who excels at connecting political insight with industry challenges. With experience working alongside Members of Parliament and navigating the intricacies of hard-to-decarbonize sectors like fertilizer and steel, Daniel has been instrumental in crafting advocacy strategies that forge strong government-industry partnerships."

    Jorden Dye is the director for the Business Renewables Centre-Canada and the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Centre, both initiatives of the Pembina Institute focused on accelerating climate action through corporate procurement. His work includes leading a community of over 60 participating organizations across Canada to spur renewable energy development and developing educational resources to introduce carbon dioxide removal to new audiences.

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    David & Ed chat with Dr. Holly Buck about Conspiratorial-Environmentalismโ€™s connection to climate & geoengineering; the anti-vax movement; and what it tells us about mainstream environmentalism & climate politics.

    (03:08) Skip Intro
    (09:12) David's personal experience with Conspiratorial-Environmentalism
    (27:15) Social Media and monetization
    (38:58) What do we do when environmentalists turn to conspiracies?
    (46:33) Audience Questions

    Detailed show notes available on episode page

    About Our Guest:
    Holly Jean Buck is an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. She is an environmental social scientist and human geographer whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate and energy technologies. She holds a Ph.D in Development Sociology from Cornell University, and is the author of the books Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough and After Geoengineering. Currently, she is a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard University.


    About Your EvC Co-Hosts:
    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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    Host Ed Whittingham closes out Season 1 by examining the case against Direct Air Capture by one its harshest critics, Al Gore, followed by the counterarguments of supporters. Will DAC live up to its hype and potential to help cool a warming planet?

    Guests include:

    Greg Nemet, professor at the University of WisconsinKlaus Lackner, professor at Arizona State UniversityDavid Keith, professor at the University of Chicago and a DAC pioneer who founded the company Carbon EngineeringSara Hastings-Simon, professor at the University of CalgaryChristian Theuer, Policy Communications Lead at HeirloomJim McDermott, co-founder and the managing partner of Rusheen Capital Management, LLCร‰ric St-Pierre, Executive Director of the Trottier Family Foundation

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    Host Ed Whittingham delves into the early days of another pioneering Direct Air Capture (DAC) company, Switzerlandโ€™s Climeworks, and its innovative modular approach to deploying its technology. Ed also looks into the developing synergy between the tech sector and carbon removal.

    Guests include:

    Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder of ClimeworksLucy Hargreaves, Corporate Affairs and Climate Policy at PatchJim McDermott, co-founder and the managing partner of Rusheen Capital Management, LLCDavid Keith, professor at the University of Chicago and a DAC pioneer who founded the company Carbon Engineering

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    Host Ed Whittingham continues the story behind the development of Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology and its potential role in helping to fight climate change. Ed explores the early days of Canadian cleantech company Carbon Engineering, and how it drew the attention of both Bill Gates and Occidental Petroleum.

    Guests include:

    Ken Caldeira, senior scientist at Breakthrough EnergyDavid Keith, professor at the University of Chicago and a DAC pioneer who founded the company Carbon Engineering

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    A special thanks to our friends at the Challenging Climate podcast which is available wherever you find your podcasts.

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    Jesse Jenkins, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham break down the key policy reversals, their impact on U.S. emissions, and the broader geopolitical and economic consequencesโ€”for Canada and beyond. Plus, audience questions!

    Full Show notes with links to references on our website

    About Our Guest:

    Jesse D. Jenkins is an assistant professor and macro-scale energy systems engineer at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment. He leads the Princeton ZERO Lab (Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory), which focuses on improving and applying optimization-based energy systems models to evaluate and optimize low-carbon energy technologies, guide investment and research in innovative energy technologies, and generate insights to improve energy and climate policy and planning decisions.

    About Your Co-Hosts:

    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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    EvC co-host Ed Whittingham's new series on Carbon Dioxide Removal

    Host Ed Whittingham dives into the world of Direct Air Capture (DAC), a technology that extracts carbon dioxide directly from the ambient air. Ed explores the early history of carbon dioxide removal, why it could be useful in fighting climate change, and challenges the technology has faced along the way.

    Guests include:

    Klaus Lackner, professor at Arizona State University and often referred to as the โ€œGrandfather of DACโ€David Keith, professor at the University of Chicago and a DAC pioneer who founded the company Carbon Engineering Paul McKendrick, author of the book that inspired this series

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    The race to remove carbon is on. This is the inside story.

    ๐ŸŒŽ Scrubbing the Sky: Inside the Race to Cool the Planet drops early March ๐ŸŒŽ

    This narrative podcast series takes listeners through one of the most ambitious climate efforts ever attempted: removing carbon from the atmosphere.

    Join EvC's co-host Ed Whittingham as he uncovers the story behind carbon removal โ€”the companies racing to scale it, the challenges they face, and what it means for our future.

    ๐Ÿ“ฒSubscribe on Apple: https://bit.ly/3EH9ihj

    ๐Ÿ“ฒSubscribe on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3EHDVn7

    Learn more at www.scrubbingthesky.com

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    Ed chats with four movers & shakers in Canadian climate philanthropy.

    On Nov. 13, 2024, nine prominent Canadian family foundations, including EvC's David Keithโ€™s, announced a combined pledge of $405 million, all dedicated to accelerating Canadaโ€™s shift to a low-carbon economy. They touch on:

    Why this financial commitment occurred and why now The challenges facing climate advocacy today and in the near futureWhat needs to succeed in the next 3-5 years How philanthropy should respond when governments start to roll back key pieces of climate and environmental legislation - just like what weโ€™re seeing already happening in the US post-inauguration.

    About Our Guests:

    (01:23) Claire Seaborn is an expert advisor to the Clean Economy Fund, former Chief of Staff to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, and now a lawyer practicing at Torys LLP.

    (08:39) Devika Shah is the Executive Director of Environment Funders Canada, an umbrella organization for environmental foundations.

    (15:17) Bruce Lourie is President of the Ivey Foundation, one of the largest climate funders in the country.

    (20:55) Eric St-Pierre is the Executive Director of the Trottier Family Foundation, also one of Canadaโ€™s largest climate funders.

    Detailed show notes on episode page...

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    Join David & Ed for a special end-of-2024 Ask-Us-Anything episode dedicated to your questions.

    Thanks to everyone who sent in your questions - we couldn't do it without you!

    Also, thanks to the Pembina Institute for help with an answer at 22:00 (reference link - Meeting the emissions cap-A feasible pathway for the oil and gas).

    More show notes on our website.

    About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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    ๐˜ฟ๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™™ & ๐™€๐™™ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ-๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™ž๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐˜ฟ๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™™ ๐™’๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™˜๐™š-๐™’๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™จ. It's a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from the potential fallout of the US election, shifting global interests and priorities, climate activism, China's role in climate and green energy technology, and as usual - listener questions for our guest.

    (01:27) US election fallout(09:33) Where do we sit globally on climate?(11:59) State of climate activism?(20:07) Communicating climate risk without alarm(29:09) Air pollution(35:22) Listener questions(46:37) China's green tech dominance(49:34) Who should we be reading?

    Detailed show notes available here

    About Our Guest:
    David Wallace-Wells is currently a columnist and staff writer at The New York Times, where he writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it. He was previously the Deputy Editor at New York Magazine, where he also wrote a column on climate change, including the cover story, โ€œThe Uninhabitable Earth,โ€ which was expanded into a New York Times bestselling book with the same title.

    About Your Hosts:
    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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    Support Energy vs Climate on #GivingTuesday

    Energy vs Climate is a labour of love โ€“ we hosts don't draw a salary from the show because we feel strongly about the public service benefit of the project.

    But, we still have production costs. So, we're asking one last time for you to please consider making a one-time or monthly donation in our only annual donation campaign. Thanks in part to last year's generous supporters, just yesterday we recorded a show with New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells. It was a terrific conversation (thanks to all who sent in questions), and we look forward to dropping it on our feed in the next few days. We're nearly at our goal of $5000 - by helping us to reach this goal, you're helping to keep Energy vs Climate on the air.

    Thanks so much everyone. Now back to EvC's irregularly scheduled programming.

    -Ed, Sara and David

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    Climate Book Reviews is co-hosted by EvC's own Ed Whittingham and his friend Roger Thompson, Associate Dean and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University in New York.

    Each episode highlights some climate related books worth knowing about. This episode is an interview with New Zealand author Kirsten McDougall about her novel, Sheโ€™s a Killer. At times hilarious and at other times troubling, the book is set in the not-too-distant future and features a near genius with sociopathic tendencies facing the realities of her severely climate impacted world. For more info on the CBR podcast, check out climatebookreviews.com

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    David & Ed chat with University of Chicago's Michael Greenstone.

    Show Notes:
    (02:52) Engineering the Planet
    (03:25) The future of the Temperatureโ€“Mortality Relationship
    (04:48) Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change
    (07:36) Climate Damages and Adaptation Potential Across Sectors of the US
    (09:35) Heat Exposure & Poverty
    (11:30) Seasonality of Mortality Under Climate Change
    (13:59) Evaluating the 35ยฐC Wet-Bulb Temperature Adaptability Threshold
    (15:30) Relationship Between Season of Birth, Temperature Exposure, & Wellbeing
    (17:35) Heat & Learning
    (20:14) Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
    (22:06) Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from Chinaโ€™s Huai River Policy
    (25:10) Introducing the Air Quality Life Index
    (26:52) The Clean Air Act of 1970 & Adult Mortality
    (26:58) US: Clean Air Act (1970)
    (28:34) Chinaโ€™s War on Pollution
    (32:45) For Breathable Air
    (34:31) Social Cost of Carbon
    (40:48) The Social Cost of Carbon Is Now US$225 Per Tonne
    (42:07) Rising Temperatures, Melting Incomes
    (42:11) The

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    ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐˜† ๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€: ๐—จ๐—ก๐—œ๐—ง๐—˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต & ๐—˜๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—บ
    David and Ed hit the stage at the Energy Disruptors: UNITE 2024 summit in Calgary to discuss solar geoengineering, a major focus of David's academic research. Together, they unpack the technical and non-technical dimensions of solar geoengineering, including global governance and decision making.

    (00:45) Start of live show and topic introduction
    (04:49) What is Solar Geoengineering?
    (30:45) Audience Q & A

    ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—– ๐—–๐—ผ-๐—›๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€:
    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

    ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ & ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด

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    Rethinking EV Charging
    A commonly held belief by new or prospective EV owners is that purchasing one requires the installation of a โ€œlevel 2โ€, or 240 volt, home charger. Sara and Ed chat about recent University of Calgary research that challenges this assumption. They discuss considerations that might go into choosing which option is best for EV owners and people considering EVs, as well as the practical realities when it comes to charging, range anxiety - and pottery kilns.

    About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

    David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

    Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheโ€™s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

    Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

    Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts

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    We have a special climate politics focused show to open the new season. It's a time of elections here in Canada and the U.S. As multiple campaigns heat up, weโ€™re asking, where does climate fit in as an issue?

    David Keith and Ed Whittingham chat with political strategist and co-host of The Strategists podcast, Stephen Carter, to understand where climate fits as a priority issue for voters. They discussed whether or not climate can still be a winning issue, how proponents of the consumer facing carbon tax failed to make it politically resilient, and why climate remains a left-right oppositional issue in Canada and the U.S.

    About Our Guest:
    Best known as one of Canadaโ€™s leading political strategists, Stephen Carter played a leadership role in the rise of Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Premier Alison Redford, and Mayor Jyoti Gondek. The National Post, CBC and other political commentators have described him as a โ€œpolitical mastermind.โ€ He is a former premier's office and mayor's office chief of staff, and was National Director of Campaign Strategy for Hill+Knowlton Strategies from 2012 - 2015.

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    A personal message from EvC co-host Sara Hastings-Simon.

    You can find more information on cancer screening in Canada at the Canadian Cancer Society website.

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