On the Cover: Asbestos: the hidden killer

“If I had my life to live again and I knew then what I know now, I’d live to be 100.”

Brian Duncan, a 68-year-old Vancouver Island retiree who spent most of his adult life in the manufacturing and construction trades, has a lot of regrets. He has even more resentment — resentment that for more than 50 years he was allowed to work with a supposed miracle material that’s now widely known as “the hidden killer.”