I fought the parts of this agreement that go against the interests, the human rights and the clear will of the Ecuadorean people, bringing it to the International Trade Committee for study, meeting with the Ecuadorean ambassador and with Ecuadorean indigenous reps. Canada should be ashamed.

MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago

⚠️ Canadian Organizations Condemn Signing of High-Risk Ecuador Free Trade Agreement" 🔊 | Press release: tinyurl.com/2kha5m58 The #EcuadorCanada Free Trade Agreement, signed today, grants sweeping and undemocratic protections to Canadian investors while deepening Ecuador’s human rights crisis.

⚠️ Canadian Organizations Condemn Signing of High-Risk Ecuador Free Trade Agreement" 🔊 | Press release: tinyurl.com/2kha5m58 The #EcuadorCanada Free Trade Agreement, signed today, grants sweeping and undemocratic protections to Canadian investors while deepening Ecuador’s human rights crisis.

We need a different kind of trade. Trade that puts people before profits. That upholds Indigenous rights, protects human rights and the environment, and supports a just energy transition that benefits workers and communities—not corporations. That's the trade we're fighting for. 🧵

Compte-rendu retour sur notre présence à Matimekush-Lac John et Kawawachikamach à l'invitation du Kamamuit Papakassikᵘ, pour fournir de l'information indépendante au sujet du projet minier Strange Lake de la compagnie Métaux Torngat @eausecours.bsky.social @fonddavidsuzuki.bsky.social bit.ly/4vKXUGi

Hunter and trapper organizations in Inuit communities have raised concerns about a proposed expansion of the Baffinland mine, which will increase shipping traffic along narwhal migration routes, Meral Jamal reports: thenarwhal.ca/baffinland-n...

Baffinland expansion in Arctic challenged by Nunavut hunters | The Narwhal

Mary River expansion could increase mine’s production five-fold. Inuit communities are concerned about wildlife, food system impacts

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Canada is trying to speed up mining project approvals and we've got big concerns. See why this is a terrible idea in our response to the federal govt's "Getting Major Projects Built in Canada - Discussion Paper on Proposed Legislative, Regulatory, & Policy Reforms". miningwatch.ca/2026/7/15/co...

After public hearings, Quebec’s Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement concluded that Horne 5 is unacceptable 💥 @miningwatch.bsky.social 🤝 @coalitionqmm.bsky.social

What if a massive mine was proposed beneath your city? ☣️ 📣✊️ That is what communities in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, are facing with Horne 5: a proposed underground mining project in the Notre-Dame neighbourhood, beneath an urban area already marked by nearly a century of industrial pollution. 🧵👇

The #EnergyTransition cannot be built on injustice. Today, at the UN High-Level Meeting, we join 130+ organizations calling on Member States to build mineral supply chains rooted in justice, equity, rights and accountability. miningwatch.ca/blog/2026/7/...

Want a good primer on how the fossil fuel and mining industries use international arbitration #ISDS to block climate policy? Check out this webinar tomorrow! ↘️

Climate Action Network Canada@canrac.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Reminder: Join us tomorrow for Part 1 of our Trade & Climate Webinar Series, now with French interpretation! 📅 Wednesday, July 15th 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT 📍 Register: shorturl.at/md2Zc

With the signing of the Ecuador-Canada free trade deal expected imminently, Ecuadorian #HumanRights organizations react to the decision to shut the office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise. Canada's priorities are clear. English translation ➡️ miningwatch.ca/news/2026/7/...

The #RekoDiq gold and copper mine in #Balochistan #Pakistan is a recipe for disaster. Yet, public development banks like IFC @ifccenter.bsky.social & ADB @adb.org are pouring billions of dollars into this project. 📢Join our campaign & call on the banks to #RethinkRekoDiq: bit.ly/RekoDiq

We've set-up a petition. If you agree Alberta needs an anti-SLAPP law, please add your name and help spread the word:

PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism

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🔊 MiningWatch joins 100+ others in calling for Anti-SLAPP legislation in #Alberta, calling attention to the growing number of legal threats and lawsuits targeting journalists and free expression on issues of public interest. Read more ➡️ antislappalberta.ca

Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ)@cajournalists.bsky.social · 3w ago

📰 Journalists, academics and civil society groups endorse call for Anti-SLAPP legislation to protect free and democratic speech in Alberta Read statement on our website: https://loom.ly/n_ttIHw

Really excited for this new podcast! Episode 1 just dropped featuring @quinnslobodian.com and @isabelestevez.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/0Xk1...

CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 1: Free Market Fictions and Trade Frictions

The BREAK—DOWN · Episode

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The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 4w ago

The next global power struggle is for critical minerals. Resources like cobalt, copper, and lithium are reshaping geopolitics and the struggle to dominate critical minerals is a defining challenge of this political moment.

Powerful words from the Cabildo Popular por el Agua de Cuenca in #Ecuador, marking the 1-year anniversary since the Citizens Assembly for Water and the Páramos of Azuay. #HandsOffKimsakocha #KimsakochaNoSeToca | English translation of the statement here: bit.ly/4h7xjPL

As the US prepares to auction off federal seabed plots, experts warn existing regulations are outdated and unfit. Revisions intended to streamline leasing may actually weaken environmental reviews and restrict public input for the deep-sea mining sector. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports.

Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry

This is part 2 of a two-part series examining the U.S.’s efforts to begin deep-sea mining in federal waters. Part 2 examines the regulations that would govern the industry. Part 1 explored the…

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Speculative investment vehicles gonna speculative investment vehicle. The real question is why we don’t just allow but subsidize it. See “Bad Prospects” eia.org/report/bad-p... for a great investigation.

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A speculative gold rush is putting communities in the Alaska-British Columbia transboundary region at financial and environmental risk, while a network of 450 Canadian companies reap the rewards thank...

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MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · last mo.

Why is a Canadian junior mining company hiring a MAGA extremist? MiningWatch's Jamie Kneen gives his take on the appointment of former US Secretary of Homeland Security #KristiNoem to the #NovaRed board. ➡️ bit.ly/4v9D0QA

Why is a Canadian junior mining company hiring a MAGA extremist? MiningWatch's Jamie Kneen gives his take on the appointment of former US Secretary of Homeland Security #KristiNoem to the #NovaRed board. ➡️ bit.ly/4v9D0QA

Canada's The Metals Company is trying to fast-track deep sea mining through a U.S. permit, circumventing international law & putting one of 🌏's most fragile ecosystems at risk. Tell 🇨🇦 to prevent unilateral deep sea mining and fight for a global moratorium! 🌊✊ www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Is this deep-sea mining corporation violating international law? And can Canada — one of 43 countries calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining — prevent it from mining in international waters? thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

🔊NEW REPORT by @dsmcampaign.bsky.social outlines how #DeepSeaMining won't just destroy ecosystems, it will release #radioactive materials. #DefendTheDeep ! bit.ly/4vamjor

"All too often, we only find out after the fact that the rights have been granted — granted without our knowledge and without us even having a say," said Lucien Wabanonik, chief of the Lac-Simon Anishinaabe Nation, located in Quebec's Abitibi-Temiscamingue region. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

First Nations leaders call for more say in allocation of mining claims in Quebec | CBC News

A coalition of Indigenous leaders, led by the Anishinaabe First Nation, is calling on the Quebec government to modernize the process surrounding the granting of mining claims.

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Not all old mine sites get to sashay into a new life. Nestled into coastal mountains just north of Vancouver, the former Britannia Mine is now a museum, a clean-up site — and a stage for Pride. 🌈 thenarwhal.ca/britannia-mi...

A Pride drag show gives new life to an old B.C. mine | The Narwhal

North of Vancouver, the former Britannia Mine is now a museum, a clean-up site — and a Pride stage

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“If there’s going to be an increase in operations, then there’s an increase in the possibility [of] potentially serious violations. And we still have nothing in place to address that,” @miningwatch.bsky.social national program co-lead @jkneen.bsky.social said. www.hilltimes.com/2026/06/24/l...

Loss of human rights watchdog shines spotlight on Canada’s trade deal with Ecuador  - The Hill Times

The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise had a mandate to look into human rights abuses in the mining sector, which advocates worry will increase if a Canada-Ecuador trade pact is ratified...

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Mining companies are greenwashing the industry’s biggest environmental problem. It’s time to work together to pursue real solutions. Read more in our new report: earthworks.org/zero-tailings

La Première Nation Anishnabe de Lac Simon annonce aujourd'hui la mobilisation d’un front commun de Chefs Anishnabe visant à réclamer une participation accrue des Premières Nations au processus d’attribution des claims miniers sur leurs territoires ancestraux. miningwatch.ca/fr/news/2026...

La Cour nous autorise à intervenir dans la contestation du CQDE de la Loi C-5 sur les projets « d’intérêt national ». C’est une reconnaissance claire de la gravité des questions soulevées par la Loi C-5 et de la nécessité d’en examiner pleinement la légalité. miningwatch.ca/fr/news/2026...

"The Carney government’s reasons for disbanding the ombudsman are at best misinformed but much more likely a deliberate favor to Canadian multinationals to protect them from human rights claims against them." - Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch via @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/acco...

Accountability advocates ‘shocked’ as Canadian government eliminates watchdog agency

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last week that the government eliminated an office created to probe overseas human rights complaints about Canadian corporations, including mining conglom...

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Detailed analysis on how the US is expediting the process to start deep-sea mining by removing social and environmental regulatory safeguards. From @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/expe...

Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry

This is part 2 of a two-part series examining the U.S.’s efforts to begin deep-sea mining in federal waters. Part 2 examines the regulations that would govern the industry. Part 1 explored the process...

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"It appears this office was set up to fail. But the solution is to reinforce the office. It is not to eliminate it." - Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada 'turning its back' on holding companies accountable for rights violations, advocates say | CBC News

Human rights advocates say Ottawa is betraying foreigners alleging involvement by Canadian companies in forced labour and environmental degradation by shutting down an office meant to probe those repo...

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