CTV News – Wildfires have taken over from industry as a major source of a group of cancer-causing chemical toxins in the air, Environment Canada says. The first national assessment of polycyclic aromatic compounds in more than 25 years has found that air has improved around aluminum and steel plants. But wildfires and vehicles have stepped in to keep average concentrations at about the same level that they were in the 1990s, says federal researcher Elisabeth Galarneau.

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Preventive Medicine – The relationship between racial disparities in occupational risk and lung cancer diagnosis is not well defined. This study examined occupational exposure to asbestos, silica, and other workplace chemicals, fumes, or dusts as reported in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). The NLST data showed racial disparities of lung cancer development. 

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The Georgia Straight – Just over half or 54 percent of Canadian households reported that they had heard of radon. This was revealed in a households and environment survey from 2019 by Statistics Canada. The poll results indicated that awareness about radon is rising from the 49 percent level in 2017.

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Occupational Cancer Research Centre – The Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) has partnered with the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) to develop an interactive website to communicate results from the Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS) and other data sources on occupational disease in Ontario. Results are currently available for the construction, healthcare, metal manufacturing, mining, and transportation sectors.

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Financial Post – Evict Radon, a Canadian non-profit organization and team of university scholars dedicated to solving Canada’s large and worsening radon-gas exposure problem, has launched a new survey to understand the global pandemic’s impact on residential radon exposure. The study was developed by Evict Radon researchers Drs. Cheryl Peters and Aaron Goodarzi, and is Canada’s largest COVID-related analyses of shifting radon exposure.

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