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Rachel Small
| We must hold the government accountable to ensure the new ombudsperson is effective. |
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Rachel Small
| “In my community we are fighting for our lands and we will protect them until we die.” Margarita Caal Caal explained to the 150+ people who had packed into the Toronto Friends’ House on November 23rd. |
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Yves Engler
| Across the planet, Canadian mining companies are in conflict with local communities and usually have the Trudeau government’s support. |
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Vlad Bunea
| The actions of mining company Gabriel Resources in Romania is a case study of how global capitalism extracts wealth from poor countries. |
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Yves Engler
| A big beneficiary of internationally sponsored neoliberal reforms, First Quantum Minerals is the largest foreign investor in the copper-rich southern African nation. |
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Yves Engler
| Banro operates in a region that's seen incredible violence over the past two decades and the secretive company has been accused of fuelling the conflict. |
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News
various
| "We, the undersigned professors, call on the Canadian government to enact legislation to establish a credible and effective independent ombudsperson to investigate and hear complaints..." |
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Alyse Kotyk
| Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society and Ancestral Pride officially launched the Imperial No More Campaign against Imperial Metals, the mining company responsible for the 2014 Mount Polley disaster. |
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A. Splawinski
| Activists and allies gathered in Toronto on March 11 to to voice their solidarity with Indigenous activists and environmentalists and condemn the assassination of Berta Cáceres. |
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Brent Patterson
| Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold has suspended work on its controversial Skouries mine after a year of confrontations with the Greek government that included permits being revoked and delayed. |
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Rachel Warden
| Today women in Canada and the Global South are calling for an end to the daily violence against women everywhere, in all its forms. |
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Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| The kidnapping of two Canadians in the Philippines brings attention to a series of little-reported human rights abuses carried out in the name of "national security" over the past 15 years. |
