The Jeffrey Mine in Quebec's Eastern Townships has received a $58-million boost from the province to help revive the asbestos industry, a move the Canadian Cancer Society is urging the government to ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

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 ...

The town of Asbestos, Quebec, is moving on from its moniker with the deadly reputation. The community of about 6,800 people in southeastern Quebec is changing its name, dropping the mineral that ...

The owners of Moulin 7, a microbrewery in Asbestos, Que., are not embarrassed by the name of their town. In fact, the pub, run by high-school friends Yan St-Hilaire and Danick Pellerin, is downright ...

In Quebec, 55 per cent of all worker fatalities in 2009 were caused by asbestos, and yet the industry is blindly supported by government and labour. It is a shameful moral failure. It is too often the ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...