6pm Hour – asbestos win

Posted Sep 17, 2012 04:15:35 PM.

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Canada has abandoned it’s fight to have asbestos named to the Rotterdam list of hazardous exports after the newly elected PQ government says it will reject the federal loan for the industry and shut the mine down. Cecil our sometimes rowdy sports fan is by with a check on sports. Peter Twohig checks in on the weird shit he finds in historic newspapers. Mat Stimson from SMU talks about a tiny fossil discovery.

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