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Canada denied entry to Indian activist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva, who was on her way to Calgary to receive an award from the University of Calgary’s Consortium for Peace Studies.

Members of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) were escorted off the premises of the annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada mining conference in Toronto. “We are being told to engage in dialogue, yet there is no genuine interest by these mining personnel to listen to the concerns and respond to the wishes of mining-affected community members on the ground,” said Ivan Baeza, an activist with MISN who was removed from the event.