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In the 03/01/2021 edition:

Blog Entry

Indigenous, Environmental Groups Call for Moratorium on Mining Development in Ring of Fire

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. The groups include the Canadian Environmental Law Association,...


MiningWatch in the News

Petition vs human rights abuses in PH tabled in Canadian Parliament

By Mila Astorga-Garcia The Philippine Reporter A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to intensifying extrajudicial killings and red-tagging of environmental and human rights defenders in the Philippines was tabled by the Member of Parliament of Edmonton Strathcona, Heather McPherson in the House of Commons Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. “Canada is implicated in the rights abuses...


News Release

​Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines

(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. Viewers can watch Ms. McPherson Heather table the petition...



 

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