Dr. Kathleen Healey
A resin called Styrene-acrylonitrile being used in LRT construction is causing a foul smell along Eglinton Ave. west of Bayview Ave. Jen Murray of the Insight Naturopathic Clinic said it smells like a “giant permanent marker had exploded.” The resin is used to strengthen sewer pipes as tunneling work proceeds underground. In everyday life, it is used to protect things like food containers, kitchenware, computer products, packaging material, battery cases and plastic optical fibers. It is said to make many things resistant even to boiling water Dr. Kathleen Healey at 543 Eglinton said she and her assistant have been “sickened” by the smell. But Dr. Healy seemed most annoyed that Metrolinx, the Ontario agency in charge of construction, could not tell her and her associates what it was.
