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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quebec health officials are concerned concerned about plans for asbestos residue repurposing efforts, saying it should be banned. But one town meeting on the topic with 150 people shows that not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canada's leaders have ended their country's longstanding resistance to asbestos being called a dangerous material under United Nations guidelines, a decision that reflects a shift in the leadership of ...

Doctors in Canada are accusing their government of hypocrisy over its approach to asbestos. Canada used to be the world's largest exporter of the potentially deadly building material until health ...