Welcome to all those who signed since my last update (literally almost double since the last time I wrote an update), and welcome back to all of you who signed previously. I may not have been all over the news as much in the past week, but work for our cause and initiative has not been idle!

Since my last update we’ve been busily adding more resources to our website airweshare.ca, I’ve contacted Selina Robinson, housing minister, again and this time included 6 pages of confidential excerpts from your comments left on this petition about all the situations people are suffering under. I’ve answered a plethora of emails from people interested in signing the paper-based petition (when it’s ready to go) and offering a wealth of support and information ranging from case law to cite about smoking as a hazard/nuisance, engineering articles on airflow in buildings to contacts/organization connections that are also championing this cause. We’ve also initiated dialogue with other large stakeholders invested in/affected by this issue.

There is obviously much still to do and I realize, now more than ever, that I can’t do it alone. And don’t have to because there are hundreds and hundreds of people individually fighting this issue on a daily basis with plenty of knowledge and vigor, and those are just the ones that I’ve heard from. So what this petition and initiative is about is giving voice to all the silent people who have been suffering with this and their scenarios for too long! We now have a united voice and incentive, and we need to stand and talk and email and share and support each other to get this issue heard and legislation changed for good! 

Please refer back to my previous petition update dated Sept 1 with all the different ways you can help this initiative, but if that’s too much trouble then at least email me at theairweshare@mail.com or airweshare@mail.com (not gmail!) so I have your contact information and am thereby able to be directly in touch with you to spread more ideas about ways you can help make this happen (but don’t worry, it won’t be a full time job and you can always say you’re not interested in a particular way of helping). Even just staying in the loop via our mailing list on airweshare.ca and hopefully sharing updates about what’s going on with people that you know is helping!!).

Please also contact me if you have other ideas/resources/skills that can help this initiative to get legislation changed. And let us know if there are things/links that you would find useful to have on our website (including if you are a person with skills and interest in maintaining our website!).

Thanks again for all of your support including your personalized strategies for helping my current smoke issues in my home. My husband has been busily removing every piece of bathroom hardware as someone pointed out that the wall-openings around the pipes, hidden behind the silver coverings, allow smokey air to come in too! Since filling those we have been able to reduce a bit more of the smoke coming into our suite but as we all know, it’s still not gone....until next time and keep spreading the word and keep those emails coming!! And yes, this means that our time of smoke-free living unfortunately has ended again....the smoker from below was likely just out of town �