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Heed Students and ban Canadian Asbestos

OTTAWA, June 1, 2009 – Twenty of Canada’s foremost health, environment and labour organizations are urging Canadian Parliamentarians to heed the call to ban Canadian asbestos being brought to Ottawa by three Grade 10 students from northern British Columbia. The students – Hayley McDermid, Claire Hinchliffe and Chloe Staiger, have written a bill to end [...]

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Chrysotile Asbestos – Background Notes

* The only form of asbestos still mined and sold in the world today is chrysotile asbestos. Therefore when anyone refers to chrysotile asbestos, they are speaking of the form of asbestos that represents 100% of the asbestos sold in the world today. * 95% of all asbestos that has ever been mined and traded in [...]

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Immoral Exports

By exporting asbestos, a carcinogen, to developing countries despite its well-known health risks, Canada does not only export harm to the environment and health, but is also establishing a dangerous precedent that may cause a major setback to an effective international environmental convention. In the April 21, 2009 edition of the Ottawa Citizen, Kathleen Ruff writes that “Canada’s [...]

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Revealed At Last! Health Canada’s unpublished report on Chrysotile Asbestos obtained through the ATI Act

Health Canada’s controversial report examines the relationship between cancer risks and exposure to chrysotile asbestos exposure in Canada. The expert panel that assessed the exposure-response relationship concluded that there was a “strong relationship” between lung cancer and chrysotile asbestos. The report has come under fire by the panel chairmen who has criticized the lengthy delay of [...]

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