Monday Apr 30 | Montreal Gazette
Pro-asbestos advocacy group shuts its doors
A decades-old pro-asbestos lobby group, currently funded by the Quebec government, will be shutting its doors after notifying the federal government of its plan to dissolve.
A town called Asbestos ... by name and by nature
But, for a small town, Asbestos has been the subject of a big controversy over the past few years.
Critic fears McGill asbestos review will be 'whitewash'
Critics have assailed retired McGill University professor John Corbett McDonald's role in defending the interests of the asbestos industry.
Why does the town of Asbestos, Quebec want to reopen a mine that's been giving its residents cancer for a hundred years? In 1949, the town of Asbestos, Quebec was rocked by one of the fiercest labour disputes in the province's history.