Magazine

January/February 2011: Canadian mining companies invade the global south

Volume 45, Issue 1

Why are Canadian mining companies shifting their investments to the Global South? The reason is twofold. First, in Canada the easy to find ore has already been found so that new properties being developed are low-grade, high cost marginal projects. Second, besides giving diplomatic support, Canadian governments have introduced tax measures and the Export Development Corporation provides easy credit that together greatly facilitates the global expansion of Canadian mining. In this special issue CD explores Canada’s unsavory conduct as one of the world’s most powerful mining nations.

• Regulars

• Wanted: Bright ideas in Dark Times
  Editorial
• Around the Left in 60 days
  Karen Macintosh
• Exchange
• Québec Communiqué
  Roger Rashi
• RebElle’s
  Julianna Scranstad
• Indian Country
  Lynn Gehl
• Labour Report
  Herman Rosenfeld
• The Emperor’s new clothes
  Judy Deutsch
• Oh Canada:Our home and Wire-tapped land
  Yves Engler

• Bad Neighbours :A Focus on Canadian Mining Abroad

• Canada: A Global Mining Powerhouse
• Bad Neighbours: Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America
  Liisa L. North
• Under Rich Earth
  Henry Heller
• Snake oil and the Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility
  J. P, LaPlante
• Do As You Please” Approach in Africa Comes at High Cost
  Bonnie Campbell
• The Struggle to Recover Indigenous Land in Guatemala
  Simon Granovsky-Larson
• Military Coups, Mining and Canadian Involvement in Honduras
  Karen Spring and Grahame Russell

• All that’s Left

• Media as Insurgent Art
  Chris Webb
• Sports
  Simon Black
• The Trouble with Billionaires
  Peter Prontzos
• “And the Envelope, Please. . .”
  Krishna Lalbiharie
• On the Edge
  Lesley Hughes