In Part 1, I wrote about the lethal consequences for many who have worked at GE Peterborough. A toxic workplace that has resulted in crippling disease or death for many is not the kind of legacy these men and women anticipated. To compound the tragedy of the situation, Ontario’s Workplace
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Politics and its Discontents: Lethal Legacy: A Province’ s Version Of Neoliberalism
The Toronto Star has run a heartbreaking series, very well-worth reading, on the fate of many of the employees of Peterborough’s GE plant, whose lives were either cut short by, or are riddled with, disease thanks to exposure to a toxic brew of chemicals during their working lives. Entitled Lethal
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Globe and Mail: A Study in Vindictiveness
As one well-acquainted with the scourge of depression and the toll it takes on both the sufferer and his/her family, it was with great interest that I recently read Jan Wong’s account of her struggle with the disease in Out of the Blue. In what I view as an act
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