Join us to celebrate and show solidarity with over fifteen years of the Xinka People’s peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine, which they halted in mid-operation in 2017 when they set up a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week resistance camp that is still ongoing today. Their valiant efforts and organization strategies have successfully kept the Escobal Mine closed in their territories, as they exercise their right to self-determination and territorial autonomy.

By Annie Burns-Pieper, Mongabay

Canada’s independent watchdog for overseas human rights complaints against Canadian companies has been leaderless since May 2025, leaving at least 24 active cases effectively stalled.

The following was co-written by Diana Martin (MiningWatch Canada) and Jan Morrill (Earthworks).

Originally posted by OLCA here.

Kylie Brezden, The Energy Mix

In northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest highway, a vast stretch of peatlands and boreal forest is being positioned as central to Canada’s economic future.

May 21, 2026 – Today marks one year since the one-year mandate of the interim Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) ended. Since then, the ombudsperson position has remained vacant, leaving remaining staff unable to move complaints forward. 

Southeastern Manitoba municipalities are calling for more municipal involvement and improved ground water and aquifer protections on mining projects, after the Rural Municipality of Ste Anne passed a resolution to lobby the province on the matters last month.

Ste Anne’s Deputy Mayor Randy Eros moved the April 22 resolution that will go before the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. He said the municipality doesn’t want to “play catch up” if an approved project has impacts on infrastructure or water within the region.

by Tova Gaster, the Energy Mix

Three lithium mines in Nevada, two of them Canadian-owned, violate Indigenous rights and international law, according to Amnesty International research published May 12.

Today MiningWatch Canada attended Barrick Mining’s virtual Annual General Meeting. MiningWatch’s Catherine Coumans attended as a proxy holder. She input the four questions below well before the request for questions was made by CEO Mark Hill. When it came time for someone appointed by Barrick to read out the questions, that person only read out MiningWatch’s questions related to the Veladero Mine in Argentina – leaving out a short contextual preamble.