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More Media Coverage of Protests in India

Media coverage of the protests that have happened in India surrounding Quebec Premier Jean Charest’s visit – click on the title to listen or read. 1. CBC Radio – As It Happens (CBC Radio, Tuesday Feburary 9, 2010) The CBC radio program, As It Happens, interviewed Anup Srivastava of the Building and Woodworkers International, who helped organize the [...]

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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 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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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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