The Carney government has doubled down on its extractivist agenda with the announcement of a second round of designated “projects of national importance.” The list includes several mining projects: the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, the Nouveau Monde graphite project in Québec, and the Crawford nickel project in Ontario.
(Vancouver) Today, a group of concerned citizens in Vancouver delivered a petition with over 6,000 signatures to the headquarters of mining company Pan American Silver calling for CEO Michael Steinmann to respect the Xinka Indigenous people’s clear
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by Henry Lazenby, The Northern Miner.
A Vancouver group on Thursday delivered a petition with more than 6,000 signatures urging Pan American Silver (NYSE, TSX: PAAS) to respect the Xinka Indigenous people’s decision against restarting the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala.
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Ottawa - The new Liberal Government’s first budget makes no mention of funding for the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) – an office that has been without an Ombudsperson since May, when it also stopped processing a backlog of human rights cases.
Carrizalillo, Municipality of Eduardo Neri, State of Guerrero, November 3, 2025
by Kathy Price and Vivian Idrovo, The Hill Times
The Canadian government must not remain indifferent to the bloodshed and the incontrovertible reality of a grave human rights crisis in Ecuador.