Canada’s CBC ran a special entilted “Canada’s Ugly Secret” on June 10 about an industrial area in India known as “The Golden Corridor,” where chrysotile asbestos, exported from Canada’s Black Mine, in Quebec, is being processed in factories.
Studies indicate that chrysotile asbestos poses the most hazard in industrial settings, where large quantities of it can be breathed, and for this reason asbestos products are no longer manufactured in Canada.
According to the CBC story though, Canada is the last country in the developed world to still sell it, and is the second largest exporter in the world. And in the slums around the Golden Corridor, people are dying of asbestosis and other asbestos-related diseases. CBC’s cameras captured workers in the factories handling loose asbestos in dust-filled rooms, with no respirators or other protective equipment.
The asbestos is being sold by a Canadian company named Lab Chrysotile Inc., and, according to the report, the Canadian government has been heavily lobbied by groups such as the Chrysotile Insitute to keep asbestos export legal. –http://www.asbestoswatch.net
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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