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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Environment International – The aim of this study was to address the relationship between long-term low-level air pollution (PM_2.5) exposure and lung cancer incidence. The results show that exposure to PM_2.5 was associated with higher risk of lung cancer. Long-term ambient PM_2.5exposure at the residential address may contribute to lung cancer incidence even at concentrations lower than current EU limit values (25 µg/m³) and possibly WHO Air Quality Guidelines (10 µg/m³).

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TVO – New research suggests that older adults and women are getting mesothelioma in increasing numbers. “The really high asbestos exposures that people got in workplaces are becoming less common,” says Paul Demers, director of the Occupational Cancer Research Centre at Ontario Health. “But lower exposures from asbestos that’s in buildings where people are living in — that’s gradually escaping into the environment — will become more important over time.”

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