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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

It is too often the case that history highlights important developments that current affairs seem to miss. That unfortunately seems to be the case with what will certainly be recorded as one of the ...