27.04.2026 News Release The Opposition is Growing: Eleven Organizations Seek to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Bill C-5 (Gatineau) Eleven environmental, scientific, medical, and human rights organizations from across Canada are seeking leave to intervene in the legal action brought by the Quebec Environmental Law Centre (CQDE) against the federal Building Canada Act (C-5). In its lawsuit against this law — passed under closure in June 2025 despite strong opposition from environmental groups, Indigenous communities, and civil society...

24.04.2026 MiningWatch in the News Canada offers mines and more in $730b investment bid slammed as unsustainable David Brown Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has touted his country’s natural resources as the main attraction for securing more than $700 billion in new investments over the next five years — a plan that a mining watchdog has blasted as “robber baron capitalism.” Carney announced in a press release a summit scheduled for Sept. 14-15 in Toronto that will...

23.04.2026 News Release MiningWatch Joins Global Call for Governments to ‘Free Themselves’ from International System of Secretive Tribunals MiningWatch Canada has signed onto an open statement alongside over 340+ civil society organisations calling on governments around the world to build a coalition to “free themselves” from a little-known international system of secretive tribunals. Published ahead of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels , taking place in Colombia at the end of April, the statement says...

21.04.2026 Don’t Neglect Your CORE: Canada’s Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise On Wednesday, April 15, Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada's Research Coordinator, presented on behalf of the Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability to the All Party Parliamentary group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. In her presentation, Catherine raised serious concerns regarding the status of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) which has been without an ombudsperson since May 2025, leaving...

23.04.2026 Brief Joint Brief by MiningWatch Canada and the Coalition Québec meilleure mine: Draft Regulation amending the Mining Regulations The provisions of the Projet de Règlement modifiant le Règlement sur les mines (Draft Regulation amending the Mining Regulation, hereinafter "draft regulation" ) follow the adoption in November 2024 of the Act to amend the Mining Act and other provisions. At the time, the former Minister of Natural Resources and Forests, Ms Maïté Blanchette Vézina, who has since left the... Read more

15.04.2026 Friends of MiningWatch Businesses, Conservation Groups Urge Independent Oversight of Massive Coal Mine Expansion in Polluted Kootenai Watershed Groups say expansion could damage a waterway already impacted by decades of coal mining MONTANA AND IDAHO – Today, a coalition of businesses and conservation organizations formally requested that the Canadian government require a more rigorous review of a proposed coal mine expansion in British Columbia that threatens downstream waters in Montana and Idaho. In a letter to Canadian Minister...

10.04.2026 Blog Entry BC's Revised EA Process - When is an expedited process not an expedited process? When the BC government introduced Bill 15, the Infrastructure Projects Act last May, Premier David Eby said it was needed in order to speed up the construction of dams and major highways in response to economic pressure from US tariffs. When it passed into law less than a month later, Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma assured the public that it would...

07.04.2026 News Release Ontario Court of Appeal rules on human rights case of Tanzanian plaintiffs against Barrick Mining Today three justices of the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of 29 Indigenous Tanzanian plaintiffs who sought permission to have their case against Barrick Mining heard in Canada. The plaintiffs allege killings, maimings, and torture that occurred between 2021 and 2023 at the hands of Tanzanian police contracted to provide security at Barrick’s North Mara Gold Mine. 1...

07.04.2026 Friends of MiningWatch Plaintiffs react to Ontario Court of Appeal Ruling that Lawsuit Against Barrick Mining Corporation for Human Rights Abuse in Tanzania Cannot Be Heard in Canada (Toronto, ON) Today, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Matiko John v Barrick Gold Corporation. The decision prevents the plaintiffs from bringing a lawsuit in Ontario against the Toronto-based Barrick Mining Corporation for human rights abuses allegedly committed on its behalf by security forces at the company’s mine in Tanzania. The lawsuit against Barrick sets out allegations...

31.03.2026 Publication Report Back: MiningWatch’s Witness Testimony and Brief on the Nexus between National Defence, National Security and so-called Critical Minerals At the invitation of the House of Commons National Defence Standing Committee, MiningWatch Canada submitted a brief to contribute to the Committee’s Study on the Nexus Between National Defence, National Security, and the Critical Minerals Sector in Canada. This report back includes: A summary of our testimony before the Committee Key takeaways from the brief Our recommendations A roundup of... Read more

27.03.2026 MiningWatch in the News TMC pushes US seafloor mining hub amid widening losses Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.com Deep-sea mining hopeful The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) reported on Friday a wider annual loss for 2025 as it advances plans for a US-based polymetallic nodule processing hub and takes steps to strengthen its regulatory position. TMC ended 2025 with $117.6 million in cash and a fourth-quarter net loss of $40.4 million, or $0.08 per share, compared...

27.03.2026 MiningWatch in the News Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House Trump official disclosed millions of dollars of shares in Canadian mining company. Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175 million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the Carney government’s support for...

26.03.2026 News Release New report finds The Metals Company own analysis shows project “cannot be profitable” A new independent analysis of the pre-feasibility study (PFS) produced by The Metals Company (TMC) has found that on its own numbers, this project makes zero profit then collapses, raising serious questions about the project’s financial and technical credibility. The report released today was authored by an experienced consultant specialising in evaluating the environmental impacts of mining, Dr. Steven H...

25.03.2026 Blog Entry Marinduquenos commemorate mining disasters - celebrate 100 million dollar legal victory over Canadian mining company Yesterday people from the small Philippine Island of Marinduque came together to commemorate the mining disaster of March 24, 1996 that filled their Boac River with mine waste from the mountains, where the Marcopper Mine was located, to the sea. The mine was closed after the disaster and remains so. A year after the Boac spill, the Canadian company associated...

25.03.2026 Blog Entry Take Action: Tell the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people’s right to self-determination Take action and sign the new parliamentary e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people’s right to self-determination in relation to the Canadian-owned Escobal mine in Guatemala.

25.03.2026 MiningWatch in the News Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land Shanna Hanbury, Mongabay A First Nation in Canada’s subarctic Northwest Territories has received C$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in federal funding to explore for elements on its traditional lands. The Tłı̨ chǫ own a 39,000-square-kilometer (15,000-square-mile) stretch of boreal forest and tundra. On March 3, they announced a three-year prospecting project with the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. Exploration will include...

24.03.2026 Editor Message Thirty Years of Struggle for Justice: A Small Philippine Island Marks Anniversary of Mining Disaster Caused by Canadian Company Thirty years ago today, on the Philippine Island of Marinduque, people woke up to the largest mining disaster in Philippine history unfolding outside their homes. A major river on the island was filling up with mine waste from the mountains to the sea after a mine waste containment structure at the Marcopper Mine failed. Five villages and some 4,400 villagers...

18.03.2026 Blog Entry MiningWatch's Rodrigue Turgeon Testifies Before the Standing Committee on National Defence as Part of its Study on the Nexus between National Security, National Defence, and Critical Minerals On Monday, March 13, Rodrigue Turgeon, MiningWatch Canada's National Program Co-Lead, presented a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence as part of its study on the links between national defence, national security, and critical minerals. In his testimony, Rodrigue raised serious concerns regarding foreign powers’ access to Canadian mineral resources, the environmental and security risks...

11.03.2026 MiningWatch in the News Canada’s weakness lies beyond the mine gate, MPs hear Henry Lazenby, the Northern Miner Canada’s critical-minerals fragility lies more with what happens after ore leaves the ground than the ore in the ground, witnesses told a parliamentary panel this week. In the House defence committee on Monday, MPs discussed how mining relates to refining and control of the value chain and how that matters for Canadian sovereignty. ... Read...

11.03.2026 News Release 77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc. Seventy-seven Ecuadorian, Canadian, and international civil society organizations and coalitions have sent a formal letter to the Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, urging the Canadian Embassy to implement Canada’s Voices at Risk: Canada’s Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders in response to the criminalization of Indigenous and environmental defenders from the Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay...