Politics and its Discontents

Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the...

Yesterday I wrote a brief post about the federal government's decision to stop defending the export of asbestos from Quebec, not on...

The Harper government is throwing in the towel on Quebec’s internationally-maligned asbestos industry now that the Parti Québécois is p...

Ask them for their stand on the indefensible export of asbestos .

While I have written many posts on Canada's indefensible export of asbestos to third-world nations, I am pleased to report that the lat...

I have written many times on one of Canada's biggest shames, the export of asbestos , something of grave concern to all right-thinking C...

The NDP motion read as follows: That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) ban the use and export of asbestos; (b) supp...

Canada's ongoing and unconscionable export of asbestos to developing countries continues to be a source of moral outrage to millions, no...

Think of Stephen Harper and his minions when you watch this video. He and his government are directly responsible for cases of this dread di...

I am a great believer in holding our politicians to account. Even though they may prove to be ultimately meaningless gestures, letters to o...

Although the following video was made to protect B.C. workers, perhaps it could be included as a warning to all the unprotected workers who ...

Obsessed and outraged as I am over the Harper government's ongoing sowing of death and disease through the export of asbestos to countri...

Those with long enough memories will recall a famous confrontation that took place in 1986 between Brian Mulroney, then just nine months int...

Given Canada's unconscionable ongoing export of death (i.e., asbestos) and given that it is back in the media spotlight thanks to the br...

I suspect you have to be of a certain age to appreciate the allusive wit of Graeme McKay's editorial cartoon in today's Spectator . ...