Brief: Bill 11 amending various provisions primarily for the purpose of reducing regulatory and administrative burdens

This brief, prepared jointly by the Coalition Québec meilleure mine, MiningWatch Canada and Eau Secours, provides a critical analysis of Québec's "Bill 11 amending various provisions primarily for the purpose of reducing regulatory and administrative burdens."

Indigenous & Campesino Communities in Cuenca, Ecuador Tell the Canadian Embassy: NO Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ecuador, and NO to Canadian Mining

Submitted by Viviana on
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This week, the Canadian ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, invited the Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA) and other community representatives from the páramo de Kimsakocha for a meeting to gain firsthand knowledge of their local reality, their priorities, and their relationship with Canada.

BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs

The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold.

by Zoë Yunker

B.C. has halted work on a strategy aimed at ensuring taxpayers don’t bear the massive cleanup costs arising from abandoned industrial sites and disasters like the Mount Polley mine breach.

Source
The Tyee

UN Brief: Report on the Violation of the Rights to Indigenous Self-Determination and Democratic Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada Due to “Fast-Tracking” Legislation for Major Projects

This Shadow Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee with Respect to the Seventh Periodic Report of Canada was developed by the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic, a public interest legal clinic and experiential education initiative housed at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and co-submitted with MiningWatch Canada and Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence (LAND).

Law School Clinic Warns UN Human Rights Committee: New Federal and Provincial Laws Violate Indigenous Self-Determination and Democratic Rights.

(Toronto, Ontario) Osgoode Hall Law School’s Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic (EJSC) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC), cautioning that recent federal and Ontario legislation designed to “fast-track” energy and infrastructure development projects violates international human rights law. 

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Osgoode Hall Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic, Legal Advocates for Nature's Defense and MiningWatch Canada

UN Brief: Canada fails to protect human rights abused by Canadian mining companies operating overseas and fails to provide effective remedy in Canada for those whose rights have been violated by Canadian mining companies operating abroad

'We're protectors:' Indigenous groups call for mining safeguards

Lindsay Kelly, Northern Ontario Business

Speakers share global perspectives on Indigenous rights in the mining industry.

Too many of the people in Treaty 9 territory are living without basic necessities like potable water, proper health care, or even a comfortable place to live.

Source
Northern Ontario Business

Interrogating “critical minerals” event series

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Above Ground and MiningWatch Canada co-organized an event series unpacking various issues surrounding so-called “critical minerals”. The growing global focus on prioritizing the exploration and extraction of minerals deemed of critical importance to economic security, defence and an energy transition comes with many questions about human rights – including Indigenous rights and labour rights –, environmental justice, and corporate accountability.

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