But a plan to finish construction of an underground mine to replace Jeffrey’s vast open pit didn’t work out, and asbestos mining ended in Canada in 2012. And some highly specialized products containing asbestos, including fittings for nuclear power plants, will remain on the market. Ms. de Leon, along with the Canadian Cancer Society, wants Canada to create a national registry of buildings containing asbestos — and an agency to deal with the deadly legacy. Marijuana in the MainstreamAs readers of this newsletter who live in Canada know well, Wednesday was the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in the country. We put together a special edition of the Canada Letter to gather up our coverage to that point.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2018 01:22 UTC