Asbestos News

If Canadians think that exporting asbestos is a marginal, dying business, they ought to think again.

From a self-hating post in the Tyee , Murray Dobbin laments how we [Canada] have lost our once enviable position in the world to become a mean-spirited, disingenuous, and reactionary force against the rest of the planet.

It was really just a matter of time. The deep well of affection and respect around the world that Canada has drawn on for decades has been slowly poisoned by the Harper government and the world is now taking serious notice.

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George Monbiot is on Canada's case over the tar sands, writing Canada's Image in Tatters.

For eight months, the Quebec government has been holding on to a report that explores the link between asbestos-related cancer and Canada's only community that still mines the substance.

A Sagkeeng First Nation woman has been named as the winner of the second-biggest lottery prize ever awarded in Canada.

Home : Health : Asbestos killing more Canadians than ever; like old 'landmines' Asbestos killing more Canadians than ever; like old 'landmines' Date: Sunday Nov.

Exposure to asbestos is the No. 1 cause of workplace-related deaths for Quebec workers and amounts to about 60 per cent of all such fatalities so far this year, according to statistics gathered by Quebec's workers compensation board.

Nearly five Canadians on average died every single working day last year because of a work-related accident or illness, according to a report today that expresses ''grave concern'' that such deaths are rising - not falling as they are in most other industrial countries.

Quebec is the last place in Canada to mine asbestos, a known carcinogenic substance.

A tractor trailer truck overturned after failing to negotiate a turn in Waterford on Friday, state police said.

Alexandria Bay-based State Police arrested Paul-Andre Boulet, 20, of Asbestos, QC following an inspection at US Customs on Wellesley Island.

Alexandria Bay-based State Police arrested Paul-Andre Boulet, 20, of Asbestos, QC following an inspection at US Customs on Wellesley Island.

A Quebec man was caught with hash, ecstasy and marijuana at U.S. Customs on Wellesley Island, according to State Police.Paul-Andre Boulet of Asbestos, Quebec, was arraigned in Town of Orleans Court.He pleaded guilty and paid a $550 fine.

From the guys who gave us the Accountability Act, heeeeere's the next Canadian ambassador to UNESCO: Andre Bachand was elected mayor of Asbestos in 1986 and reeve of the Or Blanc Regional County Municipality in 1987.

The campaign to ban asbestos world-wide has been growing in intensity over the past year, in large part due to Canadian campaigner Kathleen Ruff.

When Canadians are asked for examples of Canada playing a pivotal role on the world stage, we talk about how our country helped bring about a ban on land mines and create UN peacekeepers.

Federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, who was diagnosed in 2005 with a rare and terminal form of lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure when he once worked in a road construction and logging business, says the federal government continues to "wrestle" with the ethical issues of Canada being one of the world's last asbestos producers and ...

Asbestos wasn't always a dirty word. It was once called the "magic mineral" and was touted as Canadian gold a ' a unique resource that was going to bring our country wealth and prosperity.