Short Cuts is off this week, so we are sharing an absolutely shocking story from Commons' current season on mining in Canada. 

For a century, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly.

They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture — to keep the ugly truth from the world.

Today, there's no longer a town called Asbestos, QC. But more people than ever are dying from what was mined out of the ground there. 

Featured in this episode: Heidi von Palleske, Jessica van Horssen, Tavia Grant (The Globe and Mail)


To learn more:

A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community by Jessica van Horssen

“No Safe Use: The Canadian Asbestos Epidemic” by Tavia Grant in The Globe and Mail

“Asbestos: Canada's Dirty Secret” by CBC's Fifth Estate

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Short Cuts is off this week, so we are sharing an absolutely shocking story from Commons' current season on mining in Canada. 

For a century, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly.

They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture — to keep the ugly truth from the world.

Today, there's no longer a town called Asbestos, QC. But more people than ever are dying from what was mined out of the ground there. 

Featured in this episode: Heidi von Palleske, Jessica van Horssen, Tavia Grant (The Globe and Mail)


To learn more:

A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community by Jessica van Horssen

“No Safe Use: The Canadian Asbestos Epidemic” by Tavia Grant in The Globe and Mail

“Asbestos: Canada's Dirty Secret” by CBC's Fifth Estate

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People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. The best, worst, and funniest stories from reporters working Christmas in the newsroom.

This might be an earth-shattering concept... but the CANADALAND team is taking a week off for the holidays. The office is closed. No one is here. However, in newsrooms across the country, that is not the case. For your holidays listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny. 

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People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. The best, worst, and funniest stories from reporters working Christmas in the newsroom.

This might be an earth-shattering concept... but the CANADALAND team is taking a week off for the holidays. The office is closed. No one is here. However, in newsrooms across the country, that is not the case. For your holidays listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny. 

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Justin Trudeau tells-all in his revealing year-end interview, oh wait, he just stuck to the same old talking points. And yes, we're still going on about Omicron. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC Year-End Interview with PM
• CTV Year-End Interview with PM
• City News Year-End Interview with PM
• Globe & Mail piece re: Niagara police constable

Sponsors: Douglas, PolicyMe, Freshbooks, Squarespace

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Justin Trudeau tells-all in his revealing year-end interview, oh wait, he just stuck to the same old talking points. And yes, we're still going on about Omicron. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC Year-End Interview with PM
• CTV Year-End Interview with PM
• City News Year-End Interview with PM
• Globe & Mail piece re: Niagara police constable

Sponsors: Douglas, PolicyMe, Freshbooks, Squarespace

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He's the academic expert people love to hate. But he considers stirring the pot his moral duty. This week, CANADALAND brings you a profile of Amir Attaran.

Amir Attaran might not be a name you know off the top of your head, but if you listen or read Canadian media, you've definitely come across him before.

He is a professor at both the University of Ottawa law school and also its School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He's got a PhD in immunology from Oxford, along with a law degree from UBC.

Attaran has been a real sh*t disturber throughout the pandemic, criticizing all levels of government for their public health responses, but he liked stirring the pot long before COVID-19 reared its head. He makes the case that it is his duty.

The Prime Minister scolded him. Twitter deplatformed him. Journalists have largely stopped calling him… Well, that is, except for us. 

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He's the academic expert people love to hate. But he considers stirring the pot his moral duty. This week, CANADALAND brings you a profile of Amir Attaran.

Amir Attaran might not be a name you know off the top of your head, but if you listen or read Canadian media, you've definitely come across him before.

He is a professor at both the University of Ottawa law school and also its School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He's got a PhD in immunology from Oxford, along with a law degree from UBC.

Attaran has been a real sh*t disturber throughout the pandemic, criticizing all levels of government for their public health responses, but he liked stirring the pot long before COVID-19 reared its head. He makes the case that it is his duty.

The Prime Minister scolded him. Twitter deplatformed him. Journalists have largely stopped calling him… Well, that is, except for us. 

Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/join or gift a subscription to someone else at canadaland.com/gift.

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The media is scaring the bejesus out of us about the Omicron variant, but being on perpetual high alert can backfire. And the case against feeding the hungry. Writer, activist and podcaster Nora Loreto co-hosts. 

Links:

• Toronto Star piece re: Omicron
• Blacklocks Reporter piece re: Minister Anita Anand's husband
• National Post: Capitalist Manifesto
• Toronto Star piece re: Food Banks
• Nora Loreto's book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Sponsors: Kilne, Squarespace, Manscaped, HelloFresh

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The media is scaring the bejesus out of us about the Omicron variant, but being on perpetual high alert can backfire. And the case against feeding the hungry. Writer, activist and podcaster Nora Loreto co-hosts. 

Links:

• Toronto Star piece re: Omicron
• Blacklocks Reporter piece re: Minister Anita Anand's husband
• National Post: Capitalist Manifesto
• Toronto Star piece re: Food Banks
• Nora Loreto's book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Sponsors: Kilne, Squarespace, Manscaped, HelloFresh

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