Company extracting metals from asbestos waste gets $12M from Ottawa

Ottawa is giving $12 million to help a company extract magnesium from the waste of closed asbestos mines despite warnings from Quebec’s public health officers that the province’s workplace protections are still lacking. The federal funding for Alliance Magnesium comes a day after Ottawa unveiled its national ban against the use, import or export of deadly asbestos, which carves out an exemption for […]