Remote land defence aims to stop North America’s largest graphite mine

News by Christopher Curtis

MATAWINI RIVER, QC — They made their stand on an unpaved road in the heart of logging country.

It isn’t an ideal place to protest. Quebec’s cellular network doesn’t reach this far into the foothills of the Haute-Mauricie, and the road leading here is treacherous.

A sudden turn or a stiff pump of the brakes and you’re liable to drift into a ravine.

Stefan Christoff interviews Jamie Kneen for Free City Radio's second interview series in collaboration with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. Free City Radio explores ideas at the intersection of social activism and the arts.

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(Ottawa) Today, the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala.

MiningWatch Canada is joining Indigenous and environmental groups in calling for a moratorium on mining development in Ontario's "Ring of Fire" until protection plans for the region’s sensitive wetlands and watersheds are in place and access to clean water, housing, and health services have been secured for all upstream and downstream communities.

By Mila Astorga-Garcia
The Philippine Reporter

(Ottawa) A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial killings of civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines will be tabled by the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, Heather McPherson, in the House of Commons on February 25, 2021, at 10:00 A.M. EST.

Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court.

Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca

Speaking out against the Escobal mine has always been dangerous, but we are in the midst of a spike in violence. Six members of the peaceful resistance movement recently suffered attacks and death threats.