Canadian Asbestos: A Global Concern

I have been trying to get back to an account I heard of the community which was almost completely depopulated when its mines closed. I called it Asbestos, Ontario -- I cannot home in on it. I think my memory has blurred places and names. I am pretty certain that the place I heard about was in Ontario. But, Asbestos the town is in Quebec and is definitely NOT the place I was thinking off. Asbestos, Quebec is near the Thetford area. I will churn on that some more.

Meanwhile, I found an interesting conference report on asbsestos at the global scale. Canada and its interests were the target of the discussion. I thought it was a solid example of the way in which globalization produces complex relationships -- we'll come back to this.