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Canadian companies operating overseas face being cut off from financial support from the country’s official export credit agency if they do not co-operate with a new human rights watchdog, but campaigners are sceptical the body can hold errant firms to account. The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) started accepting complaints from the public about companies’ conduct in late March this year, more than two years after its launch was first announced by the Canadian gover...

By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News Published May 5, 2021 2:51pm The August 2020 killing of Sara Alvarez is among the cases cited during the meeting of the Canadian parliaments Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Wednesday morning (Manila time). FILE PHOTO Human rights advocates have formally called on the Canadian government to cease giving anti-terrorism aid to the Philippines amid the alleged use of anti-ter...

“We implore the Canadian government to take action on these concerns with urgency, as our country further descends into an authoritarian state."

Article content Mining executives often talk about the importance of having a ‘social licence’ to operate, yet it’s rare to hear them acknowledge when they don’t have one. Barrick Gold Corp.’s chief executive Mark Bristow says it happened to his company in Papua New Guinea, where its Porgera mine had been pumping out gold for nearly three decades, even as a spate of accusations about human rights and environmental abuses in the surrounding communities have festered. We apologize, but ...

Search Groups ask for pause to Ring of Fire work until plans in place for clean water, peatlands Noront Resources announced in 2019 that it planned on locating a ferrochrome processing plant in Sault Ste. Marie that would be fed by chromite from the Ring of Fire. Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines Photo / Facebook A coalition of Indigenous and environmental organizations is calling on the Canadian and Ontario governments to impose an “immediate moratorium” on all mineral ex...

Environmental opposition to the Ring of Fire is growing Toronto environmental law group joins voices calling for protection of Far North wetlands Feb 25, 2021 2:30 PM By: Northern Ontario Business Staff (Canadian Environmental Law Association photo) A Toronto-based legal group is throwing its support behind the opposition to development in the Ring of Fire mineral belt.  The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), whose clients are the Friends of the Attaw...

Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court. Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. SHARES Jason Kenney’s government argues in the Alberta Court of Appeal that the federal Impact Assessment Act shouldn’t apply to coal mining in the province. Former Green leader Elizabeth May assails the act for differ...

The watchdog office formed to review claims of alleged human rights abuses by Canadian companies operating abroad in the mining, oil and gas, and garment sectors will launch its complaints mechanism in “early 2021.” Photo by Tom Fisk / Pexels The office announced by the federal government in 2018 to handle complaints of human rights abuses perpetrated by Canadian companies operating overseas still doesn’t have a complaints mechanism in place. The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enter...

Chiles Pascua-Lama Mine Legally Shut Down, but Mining Exploration Continues Straddling the border of northern Chile and Argentina, with operations in both countries,  the Pascua-Lama copper and gold mine project sits in a rust-colored area of the Huasco Valley in the Andes. The extraction of gold and copper on the amphitheater-like tiers of this open-pit mine has the potential to damage glaciers and pollute and over-extract waterways that have been used by local populations for millennia. Afte...

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda by Vincent Ricci on 9 November 2020 A court ruling in Ecuador allowing a community referendum on proposed mining projects could embolden communities across the country mounting similar opposition to mines. The ruling in favor of Cuenca, the capital of Azuay province and the third-largest city in Ecuador, was prompted by concerns over two gold mines, although those operations will not be affected by the outcome of the referendum. Ci...