Canadian health group demands disclosure on asbestos

By Jim Morris

For the past year, the Canadian Public Health Association has sought details on the financial relationship between Canada’s Ministry of Natu

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… n Canada’s Ministry of Natural Resources and the Chrysotile Institute, a Montreal-based asbestos lobby group that figures prominently in the just-released I …"

"… a C$58 million loan guarantee to the struggling Jeffrey Mine, northeast of Montreal. The mine’s owner told the Canadian media he will have trouble staying i …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… stry campaign is coordinated, in part, by a government-backed institute in Montreal and reaches from New Delhi to Mexico City to the aptly named city of Asbes …"

"… tt McDonald, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal who began studying chrysotile-exposed workers in the mid-1960s with the su …"

"… together have given C$35 million over the past quarter-century to the Montreal-based Chrysotile Institute, a nonprofit group that promotes the “co …"

Romanian weapons modified in the U.S. become scourge of Mexican drug war

By Rick Schmitt and Rick Young

Center story focused on Romanian weapon now targeted by Feinstein legislation

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… r a photo of a rebel with his foot on an empty case of ammo marked “CIA, Montreal, Canada,” turned up in Soldier of Fortune magazine.Business boomed in th …"

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Bush climate change experts still pushing policy

By Te-Ping Chen

The Bush administration may have packed its boxes, but members of its climate change policy team have unloaded theirs at addresses all aroun

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… administration’s line as the nation’s lead negotiator during the 2005 Montreal climate talks. (He was recommended to that post in part by ExxonMobil.) Th …"

A growing death toll in Mexico

By Ana Avila

Asbestos casualties mount amid weak enforcement and a powerful lobby

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… d to some plant closures. Cejudo travels frequently, his bills paid by the Montreal-based Chrysotile Institute (named after chryostile, or white asbestos, the …"

Canada's boom in smuggled cigarettes

By William Marsden

Gary Godelie has been a tobacco farmer most of his life, struggling to keep alive a family farm that produces what most everyone agrees is a

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… along Highway 401 in Ontario, which has become a smugglers’ pipeline to Montreal and Toronto.In March 2008, federal, provincial, and Mohawk police in three …"

"… n the British American Tobacco subsidiary sold off surplus machines at its Montreal plant in 2003 and moved its operations to Mexico. “They not only supplie …"

"… nawake, which has a population of about 8,000 and is located just south of Montreal, Chief Rhonda Kirby, who is responsible for the Mohawk reserve’s tobacco …"

"… as well as the Mercier Bridge, one of the main links between the island of Montreal and the mainland. Police generally won’t enter the Mohawk reserves witho …"

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Canadian Hells Angels and contraband tobacco

By William Marsden

The Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has taken heat lately for exposing the large-scale tobacco smuggling out

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… tobacco and drug trafficking ring inside the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve near Montreal. About 60 police officers raided the bunker-like compound of Rice Mohawk I …"

"… ncis Rice. Also arrested was Salvatore Cazzetta, the reputed leader of the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels.Police say the Hells Angels used the Rice comp …"

"… td., which manufactures an energy drink called Cintron. Cintron shares its Montreal offices with a company that produces a glossy teen magazine called Naked E …"

"… nesday they had opened three and found large cash amounts in each of them. Montreal police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mohawk police as well as th …"

Ahmed Ressam, mastermind of foiled LAX plot, gave up valuable details about al-Qaida without harsh interrogation

By David Heath

Fresh debate about interrogation tactics after bin Laden’s killing raises profile of foiled LAX bomber

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… b. There he encountered hostility for being an Arab. By the time he got to Montreal, Canada, Ressam was surviving by stealing suitcases and wallets from touri …"

"… ouf  Hannachi, had been to the al-Qaida camps and was on the prowl in Montreal for new recruits. Ressam was vulnerable to Hannachi’s appeal. Ressam tol …"

Canada resists adding deadly asbestos to toxics blacklist

By Jim Morris

Major producer resists adding substance to toxics blacklist

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… h Broadcasting Corp. found. The effort has been largely coordinated by the Montreal-based Chrysotile Institute, a lobbying and research group that contends Ch …"

Canada's about-face on climate

By William Marsden

Tar sands and a tough business lobby pull Ottawa far from Copenhagen

Excerpts from this story referencing "Montreal":

"… story was performed by M.B. Pell, with the assistance of Aaron Mehta.  …"

"… 0 Canadian government bureaucrats organized the successful negotiations in Montreal in 2005 that opened the road to Copenhagen, where delegates from around th …"

"… ize future climate change negotiations to maintain the momentum created by Montreal and leading up to Copenhagen. “The idea was to keep this marvelous team …"

"… William Marsden is an investigative reporter with The Gazette in Montreal, Quebec. Data analysis on this story was performed by M.B. Pell, with the …"

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