Manitoba is updating its regulations governing the handling of asbestos to protect workers from dangerous exposure to the ...

Canada's largest union and the third party in the Commons ramped up pressure Wednesday on the government to make good on a promise to ban asbestos. The New Democrats presented a bill in the Commons ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Canada reinforced its reputation as a public health outcast this week by declining to support the inclusion of asbestos on a toxics blacklist. At a United Nations meeting Wednesday in Geneva, the head ...

Canada, once a leading producer of asbestos, announced in December it would join more than 50 other nations in prohibiting the import, export and use of the cancer-causing substance. In announcing the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada's ban on the manufacture, import, export, sale and use of asbestos and asbestos-containing products — including brake pads — will come into force on Dec. 30, the Canadian ...