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Take Action: End Public Funding for the Asbestos Lobby

While cutting funds from women's groups and aboriginal healing programs, Prime Minister Harper wants to give away $250,000.00 of taxpayers' money to fund an asbestos lobby group (the Chrysotile Institute). Write to PM Harper and tell him to stop this callous and immoral misuse of taxpayer funds to export asbestos disease to developing countries.

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Asbestos in India and Canada’s Cancerous Complicity

Photo: coverpage of publication by International Ban Asbestos Secretariat, http://www.ibasecretariat.org

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Canadian Experts Call on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to End Funding for Chrysotile Institute

Canadian experts in epidemiology and occupational medicine call on Prime Minister Harper to stop funding the Chrysotile Institute, an Institute which they say is endangering public health by disseminating misleading and untruthful information about chrysotile asbestos, especially in the world’s emerging economies. Download the letter here: Letter to Prime Minister Harper Télécharger la lettre ici: Lettre au [...]

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Toronto Star: Meet Quebec’s ‘Mr. Asbestos’

Meet Quebec’s ‘Mr. Asbestos’ December 27, 2009 Jennifer Wells     Unaffected by fire, unchanged by weather, untouched by time’s dark captains – rust, rot and decay – asbestos possesses rare qualities for which it stands alone. – JOHNS-MANVILLE PROMOTIONAL FILM   For a freshly graduated mining engineer, circa 1969, the Jeffrey asbestos mine in Asbestos, Que., offered Bernard Coulombe one of those [...]

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Toronto Star: Canada’s booming asbestos market

Canada’s booming asbestos market December 20, 2009 Jennifer Wells   Muthuswami Munion’s breathing suffers after years in the asbestos industry. JENNIFER WELLS/TORONTO STAR   AHMEDABAD, INDIA Perhaps it is the drought that has teased the leaves from the neem trees. They skitter across the roadway, dry and brittle and tossed by the early winter wind. For the women of the Chamanpura slum, lowered on their [...]

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