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Death of 15-year-old exposes growing use of child labour by Canadian employers
By Ashley Tseng
26 November 2014
The death of a fifteen-year-old boy at an Alberta gravel-crushing site has exposed the lie that child labour is a problem only in the developing world.
Chris Lawrence was working for Arjun Construction, a Calgary-based gravel-crushing and washing company, near Drumheller, Alberta this past July when he became entangled in a conveyor belt and suffered fatal injuries.
Lawrence’s 17-year-old girlfriend Kristina Kinder told CTV that he had taken the job a month-and-a-half before out of desperation. “We had nothing,” she said. “We were living in my car. We didn’t really know what we were going to do. He took (the job) knowing that it was the only thing that would help us at the time.”