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Podcast
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder
| RadioLabour's Canada Report: Secondary school teachers strike against the Ford government's cuts to education. And more. |
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Podcast
Face2Face
| "Town of Widows" co-director Natasha Luckhardt talks about the fight with General Electric and workers compensation as families seek justice for work-related illness and death of their loved ones. |
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Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| Kathleen Ruff has been pushing for a total ban of the cancer-causing substance for years. Tomorrow the Trudeau government will announce a ban on its use, import and export. |
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Blog
Gerry Caplan
| While the Liberals waffle on an asbestos ban, people in Canada and around the world are dying from exposure to fibres. How does the government rationalize that? |
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Blog
Gerry Caplan
| Asbestos threatens ghastly illness and a painful death to all those who come in contact with it, whether as workers or consumers. The Liberals are stalling on banning it. Why? |
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News
Kathleen Ruff
| The asbestos industry is still thriving, unfortunately due in part to Canada's contributions. Researchers called for an independent inquiry on McGill's asbestos history, but instead got a conference. |
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Podcast
Diana Beaumont, Jiselle Hanna
| Interview with Vilada Phomduangsy, about asbestos and other union issues in Laos. |
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Blog
Theresa Ketterling
| Fees, asbestos, and remembering. And is it actually profitable to cut corporate tax rates? The Progressive Economics Forum explores. |
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Blog
Laura Handal
| Time will tell if the newly elected Parti Québecois government will keep its promise to cancel the $58-million loan to Mine Jeffrey Inc. announced by Quebec's Liberal government last June. |
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Blog
Ramsey Hart
| The outgoing Charest government in Quebec received a lot of flack over the summer for offering a $58-million loan to an industry that was on its last breath -- the mining and export of asbestos. |
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Blog
David Suzuki
| Although Canada doesn't have a domestic market for asbestos, we actively support the industry and promote exports to other countries, especially India. |
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Blog
Gerry Caplan
| I am now proposing The Godfrey Test for asbestos. It will apply to all those Canadians who have promoted the continuing mining and exporting of asbestos from Quebec to poorer countries. |
