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Protests Overseas Against Canada’s Deadly Asbestos Trade

PROTESTS OVERSEAS AGAINST CANADA’S DEADLY ASBESTOS TRADE Around the world, health experts, trade unionists and social activists have called on Premier Charest and Prime Minister Harper to stop supporting and funding Canada’s deadly asbestos trade. Demonstrations to stop asbestos export were held on Quebec’s National Day, June 24, in the following cities: Hong Kong, [...]

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Toronto Star: Canada’s lethal export

Canada’s lethal export Toronto, Star, Dec 27 2009 If Canadians think that exporting asbestos is a marginal, dying business, they ought to think again. Canada ships $100 million worth of chrysotile asbestos a year to developing nations such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam, where it is used to make cheap, fire-resistant roofing, cement, water lines and other [...]

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New stats show asbestos epidemic in Canada

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 2, 2009 New stats show asbestos epidemic in Canada Minister is lone defender among Western nations of deadly mineral Toronto – Prominent health experts from eight Canadian universities and leading health organisations, including the Canadian Cancer Society, are asking Health Minister Aglukkaq to deal with Canada’s growing epidemic [...]

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Quebec health experts are “a little gang of Talibans”, accuses Quebec’s asbestos industry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 25, 2009 Medical experts working for the Quebec government’s National Public Health Institute (INSPQ) are “a little gang of Talibans”, charges Bernard Coulombe, president of the Jeffrey asbestos mine. Coulombe is hoping to sign a deal with investors to open up a new underground asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec in 2010. The present [...]

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