(Ottawa/Toronto) Three Canadian organizations, MiningWatch Canada, the Council of Canadians, and Common Frontiers, have written to Canada’s Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, calling on the Canadian government to respond to any forthcoming requests from Costa Rica’s new Attorney General, Emilia Navas, in a complete and timely manner.

This is a statement by REMA, the Mexican Network of those Affected by Mining.

Victor and Marcelino Sahuanitla Peña were assassinated for fighting for the few, tattered labour rights that still exist in Mexico, rights that powerful and corrupt Canadian transnational corporations - among many others - fail to respect or guarantee for workers at their mines. The assassination of the two men joins a long list of women and men who have fallen in connection with Canadian mining companies.

TORONTO – The murders of two strikers at a Canadian-owned mine underscores the widespread repression of basic labour rights in Mexico – even when the employer is Canadian, the United Steelworkers (USW) says.

“On Saturday, November 18 – four days after the Canadian government was warned of the potential for such violence – an armed group murdered two striking workers from the Canadian-owned Media Luna gold mine in the state of Guerrero,” said Ken Neumann, the USW’s National Director for Canada.

(Lima/Ottawa) Tomorrow, November 21, the Superior Court of Lima will hold a hearing concerning the harassment and illegal and arbitrary detention of MiningWatch Canada’s Latin America Program Coordinator Jen Moore and U.S. journalist John Dougherty on April 21 in Cusco, Peru.

(Kitiganik, Algonquin Territory) Last year our Chief and Council adopted a resolution opposing any mining activities (staking, exploration, development) within our ancestral (and current-use) 1991 Trilateral Agreement Territory. Our position towards mining activities has not changed.

New Website Promotes Informed Input into GNWT Mineral Resources Act Consultations

A coalition of NWT and national advocacy groups have created a website to promote informed input into the territorial government consultation on a new Mineral Resources Act.

(London-Washington-Ottawa). An international coalition of non-governmental organizations support the recommendations of a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which urges governments and industry to act to stop deadly and damaging mining spills worldwide. UNEP calls for an urgent UN Environment Stakeholder Forum to strengthen regulations internationally.

(Paris/Ottawa, October 30, 2017) French anti-corruption organisation Sherpa and Canadian mining watchdog MiningWatch Canada today released a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, alerting him to the apparent failure of Canadian authorities to investigate serious bribery allegations against Kinross Gold. The organisations had submitted documentation to the RCMP in December 2015. Similar allegations are currently under investigation by the FBI and the SEC in the United States.

By Judith Lavoie

Over 200 community members, families, and property and business owners are still fighting Agnico Eagle and Yamana Gold over the impacts from the Canadian Malartic gold mine – the biggest open pit mine located on the edge of a community in Canada. The case will be before the Quebec Superior Court today, in Val d’Or.