MiningWatch Canada

A Swiss-based mining company with a sketchy foreign business record that won approval to take over Teck Resources’ B.C. coal mines has MPs from multiple parties and environmental groups up in arms.

As the world’s largest mining conference unfolds in Toronto, a Canadian company is facing a complaint about a proposed copper mine in Ecuador. 

A Canadian mining company is the chief motive for the most important political and social crisis to rock Panama in over a generation.

Mining companies with projects in the North say more federal support is needed following the release of Canada's new critical minerals strategy, while some environmental advocates are wary of the potential impacts. 

Indigenous rights and environmental advocates are targeting the company's shareholders to stop it, saying Toronto-headquartered Belo Sun has made “misleading” claims to investors about its Volta Grande project. 

In the North, some mines risk leaking acid if the permafrost melts, while across Canada heavier rainfall will add strain to tailings dams and a lack of it could throw operations.

The world is changing and all governments must fight the climate crisis and ensure economic development benefits everyone, including Indigenous Peoples, Canada's prime minister said on Monday, June 6, 2022, as Chile pushes ahead with reforms to its mining sector.

At least 227 land and environment defenders were killed in 2020, making it the deadliest year on record, and international NGO Global Witness says that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Canadian embassy staff in Africa and officials in Ottawa paid little attention to allegations of human rights abuses at a mine in Tanzania as they sought to aid Barrick Gold Corp in a tussle with the east African country’s government, internal emails show.

Canada's new human rights watchdog is charged with investigating allegations of abuse tied to Canadian corporate activities abroad, says International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday.

For human rights defenders putting their lives on the line in Guatemala, justice could hinge on an unfulfilled election promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Canadian activist Jen Moore and American journalist John Dougherty were illegally detained by Peruvian police in April, the Ottawa-based advocacy group is arguing.

The total price tag was estimated at under $25 million when the federal government agreed to pay for half the cleanup of a radioactive Cold-War-era uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan.

When more than a dozen police officers showed up after a film screening in Peru, Canadian activist Jen Moore knew the issue was about more than her 'tourist visa.'