Substance Exposure

• Quebec sisters’ deaths likely caused by pesticide intoxication: coroner

  A Quebec coroner has released her report into the deaths of two Quebec sisters who died under mysterious circumstances in Thailand in 2012.

  Canada

  Mar 2, 2015
  
• Official says insecticide pellets in Alberta apartment became deadly when vacuumed

  An investigator says insecticide pellets placed throughout a northern Alberta apartment to kill bed bugs became deadly when a tenant took out her vacuum.

  Feb 24, 2015
  
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• One child dead, four others hospitalized; phosphine detected in Fort McMurray apartment

  Emergency officials say a poisonous substance usually used as an insecticide was detected in the Fort McMurray apartment, where five children were possible poisoned by accident.

  Feb 23, 2015