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MEXICO CITY — Canada has become a major force in Latin America. It’s spent the last 30 years beefing up its portfolio with investments in mining, oil and natural gas. It’s established free trade agreements and foreign investment protections with dozens of countries, and is in the process of negotiating more. As a result, the […]

Indigenous defenders opposing the Marlin mine were criminalised by a corporation and its state allies

Mining companies have a unique opportunity to solve their hiring challenges by becoming climate action leaders.

Radiation levels in and around homes in Elliot Lake, Ont., are due to “naturally occurring nuclear substances,” says safety commission.

Family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company's mining project are taking their case to an international human rights body.

‘You should go back to Balochistan,’ the chief executive of Canada’s largest mining company told the young activist

'Governor Padilla’s testimony...was crucial in the final push leading to the historic March 2017 vote that made El Salvador the first nation on earth to ban metals mining to save its waterways'

Bad news mounts for the floundering would-be miner The Metals Company (TMC) with The Wall Street Journal reporting the divestment of Danish shipping company Maersk. This follows the divestment last December by Norway’s largest private asset manager, ...

The ice cream giant has signed onto an open letter detailing allegations against the Community-Industry Response Group — also known as the "pipeline police" — and urging Canada, British Columbia and the RCMP to suspend all of its activities.

Ontario Nature says that mining development in Ontario must proceed only with comprehensive plans for closure and rehabilitation in place.