CANADAS CORPORATE MINING MONSTERS..(3ARTICLES)
The Montreal Gazette reports on calls from both inside and outside Canada for Ottawa to hold the country’s mining companies to account for their behaviour abroad: “But as mining investment has exploded over the last decade, so too have conflicts involving Canadian mines, from the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic, where 25 people were injured in clashes with police in September, to the Pierina mine in Peru, where one person was killed that same month. (Both are mines owned by Barrick Gold, but protests are not restricted to Barrick mines.)All the while the Canadian government’s role in defending, even promoting, mining companies’ interests has solidified.” 

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Guatemala-Canada: Clashing World Views at a Crossroads
Recently, I had a front row seat to the colliding of world visions and realities in the heart and center of Canada’s financial district in downtown Toronto. From November 23-30, five Mayan Qeqchi [Kek’Chi] people came to Toronto to pursue justice and remedy for violations and harms they suffered due to the nickel mining interests of Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals.

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MiningWatch Canada Visits Demolished Protest Camp near Excellon Resources’ Mine in Durango, Mexico

News release: A MiningWatch representative sees corporate impunity at the root of ongoing abuses by Toronto-based Excellon Resources that workers and communal landowners from the Ejido La Sierrita in Durango, Mexico have been protesting. Recent aggression against their protest camp in Durango coincided with escalating tensions in Oaxaca and the murder of two community activists in Chihuahua, where local groups are also fighting Canadian mining investments.

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