The Canadian Parliament Buildings were completed in 1927, after one of the original 19 th-century structures was destroyed by fire. According to a Government of Canada website, they offer “a ...

For more than a decade, Julian Branch has worried about the asbestos coming out of his tap, and with good reason: where he ...

TORONTO – Canada has set a 2018 target to ban asbestos and products containing the fire-resistant material, which is linked to cancer and other illnesses, the government said on Thursday in a move ...

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TORONTO (Reuters) - A group of medical associations on Wednesday called for a ban on asbestos mining in Canada, which tightly restricts the use of the material but allows it to be exported despite its ...

LONDON – A medical journal is criticizing Canada for exporting asbestos to poor countries, joining others who have condemned the practice as hypocritical. A report in the journal Lancet on Thursday ...

The federal government is proposing new asbestos rules with the goal of eliminating the market for the toxic material but those new rules may not go far enough, according to one person. There are two ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (Jan. 23, 2017) — The Canadian government will ban the "manufacture, use, import and export" of asbestos-containing products — including brake pads — by 2018. That makes Rick Jamieson, ...

LONDON - A medical journal is criticizing Canada for exporting asbestos to poor countries, joining others that have condemned the practice as hypocritical. A report in the journal Lancet on Thursday ...

For a town once named after a notoriously lethal mineral, the debate over how to rebrand the Quebec city of Asbestos was a toxic one. Established more than 120 years ago, following the discovery of a ...