Special to Canadian Dimension August 27, 2008

Canadian foreign aid has been widely derided as ineffective. But that’s simply not true. Commentators have just been looking in the wrong places. (Keep reading…)

The Indigenous Municipality of Tilcara, in northern Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuaca district, has ratified legislation that prohibits open-pit metal mining, as well as the storage, use, sale, production, extraction and transportation of dangerous substances used in the mining process. (Keep reading…)

July 11, 2008 TheTyee.ca

Canada is “re-engaging with the Americas.” That’s what Minister of International Trade David Emerson told the Canada Council for the Americas in Vancouver this past February, elaborating that Canada wants to play “a positive role” to “help citizens throughout the region thrive in the world.” (Keep reading…)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 110 …. May 27, 2008 _____________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

The Dominion March 18, 2008

A 2006 landslide ripped through Marmato’s historic centre. The area has since been abandoned. Rather than constructing mitigation projects, the government has been promoting the displacement of the entire town to the neighbouring community of El Llano. (Keep reading…)

Globe & Mail January 12, 2008

Off the map in Africa For Addax Petroleum and founder Jean Claude Gandur, following the ‘road less travelled’ into politically volatile locations in Western Africa and Iraq has paid off handsomely. (Keep reading…)

The Dominion January 17, 2008

A mural in Ixlán, in Oaxaca, Mexico. PHOTO: DAWN PALEY CAPULÁLPAM DE MENDEZ, OAXACA — It is an open secret that throughout the Americas and the world, people are struggling against the intrusion of Canadian mining companies and their short term “get the gold and get out” strategies. The backlash against Canadian mining companies has, in some cases (particularly in Guatemala and Peru), strengthened broader social and political movements re-vindicating local control over land. In Oaxaca, Mexico, the struggle against a Vancouver based mining company is unifying an isolated Zapotec community, and bringing their struggles to state and nation-wide attention. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension December 13, 2007

A somewhat lengthy petition calling for peace in the Republic of Niger http://politicsnpoetry.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/petition_peace_in_nigerengl-1.pdf landed in my inbox the other day and I had neither the time nor the energy to look at it. That changed yesterday, when I learned that a Canadian uranium mining company, NWT Uranium http://www.nwturanium.com/s/Home.asp , has a letter of agreement to join forces http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/TO39113122007-1.htm with a New Mexico uranium mining company, Nu-Mex http://www.nu-mexuranium.com/ . (Keep reading…)

Tuesday’s Globe and Mail November 27, 2007 at 4:44 AM EST

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA — The goal was to leave the image of a benevolent Canada investing in the health of poor Africans, but in the end it was another Canada, that of its globe-hopping mining companies, that stole the day. (Keep reading…)

The Dominion July 15, 2007

The National Coordinating Committee for the Defense of Life and Sovereignty wants Ecuador to declare itself “a country free of large-scale mining.” (Keep reading…)