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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 government.   The role, currently held by governance consultant and former oil and gas lawyer Sherri Me...

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 parliament's 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-terrorism policies to crack down on dissent and purge human rights workers. Cristina Palabay, secreta...

“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 this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Barrick Gold lost its 'social licenc...

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 exploration or impact assessment work related to the Ring of Fire region. A dozen organizations, inclu...