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
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos
July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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