By Yves Engler - February 18, 2010

The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela...But it's not because Harper is of the "ultra right" as suggested. In fact, both Liberal and Conservative governments have tacitly supported the U.S. campaign to replace the government of Venezuela.

By Cyril Mychalejko - January 26, 2010

Rape. Murder. Corruption. Environmental contamination. Impunity. These are just some of the charges and incidents that have plagued Canadian mining operations abroad for years..."One is left to wonder how many more deaths it will take to convince the Canadian Parliament - and people - that something needs to be urgently done to reign in their corporations and prevent all these tragedies."

After this year's performance, highlighted by an irresponsible nuclear trade pact with India, efforts to not hold companies like Blackfire accountable for their crimes, a truly bed-wetting performance at the Copenhagen Climate summit, and a refusal to be accountable on Afghan torture allegations, the Prince of Prorogue Steve Harper will have a lot to answer for in the new year.

On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, age 32, was assassinated, the second anti-mining activist killed this week in the small community of Nueva Trinidad in the department of Cabañas. Recinos Sorto was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child when she was shot on her way back from doing laundry at a nearby river.

By Moira Peters - December 21, 2009

Another citizen opponent to mining in Latin America has been assassinated. Another Canadian miner is implicated in the murder...Yesterday at 4 pm, Ramiro Rivera Gomez, Vice President of the Environmental Committee of Cabanas (ACC), was gunned down and killed...Rivera was a leader in the resistance to Canadian mining company Pacific Rim Mining Corporation, which has been trying to secure permits for its El Dorado gold mine...

View a Canadian TV report on Costa Rica and reactions in the Costa Rican press.

By Marc Bonhomme - November 12, 2009

The strike at Vale Inco began in mid-July at Sudbury, a city of 150,000 inhabitants, one third of them Francophone. In early August the strike was joined by workers at the Vale Inco refinery in Port Colborne, on Lake Erie, and the mine at Voisey's Bay in Labrador.

By Moushami Basu - October 13, 2009

Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers. A 2008 health survey by the Indian chapter of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), found that "primary sterility was found to be more common in the people residing near uranium mining operations area."

By Harsha Walia - 08-25-2009

In March 2008, six band council members – including one woman - of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation in Northern Ontario were arrested and sentenced to jail on contempt of court charges...One and a half years later, it appears that this vicious cycle of criminalizing Native land defenders may repeat itself as tensions rise and the Ontario Provincial Police arrive at KI.