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Activists file securities complaints against Vancouver miners

Activists are calling on Canadian and U.S. securities commissions to investigate two Vancouver-registered mining companies for what they say is a failure to properly inform shareholders of conflicts concerning Guatemala?s…

Hollow Core

In 2018, Ottawa announced a new watchdog to probe alleged abuses by multinationals. It has yet to complete a single investigation. The Globe went to Peruvian oil country to see…

Clashes as Guatemalan communities fight mine

On the outskirts of San Rafael las Flores, the Escobal silver mine is an imposing complex of smoking chimneys, processing plants, huge heaps of earth and dozens of trucks, bustling…

Will Canadian companies be held responsible for their actions abroad?

Last week the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a path-breaking decision, Choc v. Hudbay Minerals, that might, for the first time, require a Canadian mining company to take legal…

Courts likely to be next battleground for Canadian companies with foreign ops

Its not news that Canadian miner Nevsun Resources Ltd. may or may not have engaged in using forced labor - or, in less politically correct terms, slaves - in the…

Digging in Foreign Lands

Canada's mining industry accounts for nearly half of the world's mining and mineral-exploration activity. But who holds Canadian operations abroad accountable when workplace-safety violations occur, and what standards are they…

How The World Bank Is Financing Environmental Destruction

LA PAJUELA, Peru - It started as just another farm chore for Elvira Flores, a teenage shepherd in the northern Andean highlands. On Sept. 8, 2013, Flores drove her flock…

Speakers Corner: Mining company lawsuit shows need for international law reform

In a case that once again demonstrates the lack of international legal protections, a civil suit filed against Tahoe Resources Inc. alleges the Vancouver-headquartered mining company is liable for injuries…

Not-so-innocent abroad

Like it or not, Canadian mining companies have a growing reputation in the developing world as bad actors who commit and condone environmental and human rights abuse. Would the appointment…