The first comprehensive report on the cumulative impacts of Canadian extractive industries in Africa, published by the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP). There are profiles of 23 Canadian companies, operating in 17 African countries, over a period of 30 years. The report contrasts company actions against international standards for corporate accountability in eight areas:

Thank you for inviting me to say a few words to celebrate The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP)’s latest ground breaking report: The ‘Canada Brand’ in Africa – Human Rights and Environmental Conflict in Extractive Industries. 

This submission was sent to the House of Commons Legislative Committee on Bill C-39 and the Special Senate Committee on the Building Canada Strong Act. 

As part of the #StopISDS Global Days of Action, Common Frontiers launches A Call to Action Against Canadian Corporate Bullying: In Defense of Peoples’ Self-Determination and Our Collective Future.

This submission was prepared by MiningWatch Canada for the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, for a consultation to inform an upcoming thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council on Environmental Human Rights Defenders.

MiningWatch Canada advocates for policies and legislation in Canada to ensure that mining companies carry out due diligence to prevent harm that may be caused or contributed to by their operations and we seek effective access to remedy in Canada through both non-judicial mechanisms and judicial means. Given our organizational mandate, the ongoing use of forced labour in the operations of Canadian mining companies, their subsidiaries or contractors, is of serious concern for MiningWatch Canada.

At the invitation of Kamamuit Papakassikᵘ (“the Assembly” of Papakassik, the Master of the Caribou), a delegation visited the Innu community of Matimekush–Lac John and the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach to provide independent information about the Strange Lake mining project being developed by Torngat Metals. The delegation was made up of hunters and custodians of Nitassinan – the territory of the Innu Nation – as well as representatives from MiningWatch Canada, Eau Secours, and the David Suzuki Foundation.

MiningWatch Canada provides comments on the Government of Canada’s “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” discussion paper.

Deep seabed mining’s unprecedented ecosystem risks are exacerbated by environmental and governance practices imported from terrestrial mining

Report published by the Deep Sea Mining Campaign. 

Deep sea mining (DSM) risks releasing unregulated radioactivity directly into global ocean commons and marine food chains. There are at least 10 critical knowledge gaps that must be answered before DSM is permitted. We call on the science community and regulatory authorities to undertake a focused investigative effort.

This year has been a year of contradictions. In the midst of US tariffs and tension with Canada’s largest trading partner, the federal government and the governments of B.C., Ontario, Québec, and Nova Scotia all passed or tabled legislation aiming to deregulate the mining sector and incentivize more mining projects. Both in Canada and globally, we saw a worrying trend of dismantling environmental protections, limiting democratic participation, and trampling on Indigenous rights to consent in order to fast-track mining projects in the name of national security and economic growth.

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.

The provisions of the Projet de Règlement modifiant le Règlement sur les mines (Draft Regulation amending the Mining Regulation, hereinafter "draft regulation") follow the adoption in November 2024 of the Act to amend the Mining Act and other provisions.

At the invitation of the House of Commons National Defence Standing Committee, MiningWatch Canada submitted a brief to contribute to the Committee’s Study on the Nexus Between National Defence, National Security, and the Critical Minerals Sector in Canada. 

This report back includes: 

Template letter refusing mining operations on ancestral family territory.

The Metals Company (TMC), a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ, has released a Pre-Feasibility Study prepared by AMC Consultants Pty Ltd (2025) for the mining of deep-sea nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the northeast Pacific Ocean. TMC is seeking an exploitation permit from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), rather than from the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which has not yet developed the regulatory framework for issuing exploitation permits.

This report is based on fieldwork carried out by Catherine Coumans, Asia Pacific Program Coordinator at MiningWatch Canada, on Sangihe Island in November 2025. It details the issues related to mining on small islands in Asia Pacific and the ongoing struggle by the grassroots Save Sangihe Island (SSI) coalition to protect Sangihe Island from gold mining by Canadian company Baru Gold Corp. The report discusses: