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OTTAWA 鈥?Canada new asbestos ban will not prevent companies in Quebec from sifting through the waste left over from decades of mining asbestos to look for magnesium.Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is set to announce the new regulations on Thursday in Ottawa after cabinet gave the nod of approval to them at the end of September.The regulations, which will take effect at the end of the year, bar the import, sale or use of processed asbestos fibres and products containing them, as well as consumer products that have more than trace amounts of asbestos. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW They also forbid the manufacture of products using processed asbestos fibres.The regulatio
stanley thermobecher ns however do not apply to residues left from mining asbestos, which in Canada include about 800 million tonnes of residue near mines in the Quebec towns of Thetford Mines and Asbestos. Asbestos mines were the main economic driver in both regions for decades until concerns about health impacts of asbestos collapsed the market. The last mine in Canada, in Thetford Mines, stopped operating in 2011. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
stanley termosky As much as 40 per cent of the leftover rock still contains asbestos.Earlier this year the Quebec government helped finance Alliance Magnesium with a $17.5-million loan and a $13.4-million equity interest
stanley website . The company has developed a technology to extract magnesium from asbestos tailings and hopes t Blvq Pot workers don t face automatic U.S. border ban
An Afghan family is a step closer to safe passage to Canada, thanks to a local lifeline.With ongoing support from a Georgetown-based volunteer group 鈥?now known as GFORCe3 鈥?two families have been hiding outside
stanley vaso Afghanistan for more than a year.In order to meet the needs of the Afghan refugees, GFORCe3 has been working with both the United Church of Canada and the Presbyterian Church in Canada to accept some of its immigrant application spaces. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW This led to GFORCe3 receiving five of the 27 spots allotted to the United Church of Canada. While we celebrated that we were on our way, we were sad for many other qualified refugees who could not come here, said GFORCe3 member Lois Fraser, whose group raised $85,000 in just a week to pay the application fees. These low numbers felt like a huge bottleneck in our journey to help our Afghan friends. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The group recently received word from Imm
stanley cups uk igration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada 鈥?that its applications to bring a family of four to Canada sometime in 2023, as part of the allocation of th
stanley cup e Presbyterian Church of Canada, had been accepted.This allows GFORCe3 to shift attention to raising funds to support both families during their first year in Canada. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW We are committed to supporting both of these Afghan families when they
