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Quebec medical experts challenge Premier Charest: Stop supporting asbestos

In the letter below, Quebec medical experts and health advocates challenge Premier Charest to stop betraying independent science on asbestos harm and to stop betraying public health.  “We find it indefensible that, as the result of your government’s policy, those who are being exposed to harm from asbestos-related disease and death are amongst [...]

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Exporting Harm: How Canada Markets Asbestos to the Developing World

Most Canadians are not aware of the global role Canada has played to promote the sale of chrysotile asbestos (the only form of asbestos still sold today) to developing countries. Every independent scientific body in the world, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization and the Canadian Cancer Society, have called for chrysotile [...]

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