(Toronto – ON) On the occasion of Barrick Mining Corporation’s (Barrick) 2026 Annual General Meeting, communities affected by the company’s operations across Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific are speaking out about their allegations of human rights violations and environmental harm linked to Barrick’s global mining projects.
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(Ottawa, Ontario) Prominent voices from across Canada—including human rights, Indigenous, labour, and environment leaders—are calling on the federal government to halt a proposed free trade agreement with Ecuador that flies in the face of the Carney government’s stated commitment to international human rights and values-based foreign policy.
Canada and Ecuador have negotiated a free trade agreement that is fiercely opposed by Indigenous Peoples, trade justice advocates, water defenders and human rights and environmental justice organizations in Ecuador. We join them in opposing the deal for the following reasons.
When left unattended, large piles of coal can spontaneously combust, which is what happened on Campbell River’s oceanside loading dock on Sept. 24, 2019.
By Zoë Yunker, the Financial Times
The closure of Rio Tinto’s Diavik mine is the beginning of the end for a lifeline of the remote Northwest Territories.
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(Gatineau) Eleven environmental, scientific, medical, and human rights organizations from across Canada are seeking leave to intervene in the legal action brought by the Quebec Environmental Law Centre (CQDE) against the federal Building Canada Act (C-5).
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has touted his country’s natural resources as the main attraction for securing more than $700 billion in new investments over the next five years — a plan that a mining watchdog has blasted as “robber baron capitalism.”