A Canadian university has become famous for a world's first in the WiFi field and we are not talking about an amazing technological process or a statistic, but about an extremely strange decision.

The President of the Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, has ruled out wireless connections in the campus because of the potential link between electromagnetic forces and the students' health.

"The jury is still out on the impact that electromagnetic forces have on human physiology. Some studies have indicated that there are links to carcinogenetic occurrences in animals, including humans, that are related to energy fields associated with wireless hotspots, whether those hotspots are transmissions lines, whether they're outlets, plasma screens, or microwave ovens that leak," Reuters quoted Mr Fred Gilbert as saying.

However, the university does have wireless connections, but only where there is no optical fiber.

Ottawa Citizen quotes Lawrence Surtees, director of telecom and Internet research for Toronto-based, technology consultancy firm IDC Canada and a former medical journalist, as saying that no definitive study exists to prove or disprove that a correlation exists between low radiation levels from EMF sources and illness.

"Trying to correlate a link between exposure of something in the real world to increased incidences of cancer is fraught with all sorts of epidemiological perils, which is why it's not so easy,'' Surtees told the Ottawa Citizen.