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. Read the full press release here: miningwatch.ca/news/2026/4/...

📢 Call to Action: Tell the Government of Canada to respect the Xinka people's right to self-determination! A House of Commons e-petition in support of the Xinka people's demands for the closure of the Canadian-owned Escobal mine is now live! Sign the petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

In case you missed it before the long weekend, on Thursday we published this piece by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social delving into the Ford government's plans to speed up mining development, and how different groups affected by that plan are feeling about it. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

Join Grassy Narrows on March 30 for a rally in downtown Toronto demanding justice from Premier Ford. Will Premier Ford continue to remain silent? 📅 March 30 ⏰ 8:30 AM 📍 Fairmont Royal York Hotel — 100 Front St. W RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/doug-... #FreeGrassy #OnPolii

Come for an afternoon of play, conversation, and a catered lunch with activists and researchers to collectively imagine how we can make extractive politics visible and facilitate resistance through the power of board games. REGISTER here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mine-o-pol... 3/3

🎲 We're excited to announce an upcoming #workshop to introduce our latest project: MINE-O-POLIS, an alternative #boardgame that invites players to explore #Toronto as a global capital of mining power. www.beyondextraction.ca/mine-o-polis 1/3

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us yesterday to disrupt PDAC and imagine a future beyond mining! It felt powerful to join together in solidarity with communities across Turtle Island and around the world who are rejecting the violence of mining. Photo cred: Jay Geerts @torontodocumentarist

Sunny day to protest #PDAC with @mininginjustice.bsky.social outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre #NoToMining #MiningIsNotTheFuture

We have confirmed ASL interpreters for this event!

Getting #PDAC ready with @mininginjustice.bsky.social (MISN) at their teach-in and art build. Join MISN's #MiningIsNotTheFuture rally next Sunday, March 1 at 1pm at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre!

MISN is organizing a rally on March 1st outside of this year’s PDAC mining convention, and we need some help to make it happen! We are looking for donations to help cover rally costs. Please donate by sending an etransfer to [email protected]

River Run Rally 2026 🌊🌊🌊 Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 12pm | Toronto RSVP: freegrassy.net/river-run-20... Join Grassy Narrows youth and community members as they travel 1,700km to demand mercury justice #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

The world’s largest mining convention - PDAC- is coming to Toronto again this year, to sell a future of war, environmental destruction and greed. Join us to imagine a different future! 📅 Sunday March 1st ⏰ 1 pm 📍 Simcoe Park (across from 255 Front St W, Toronto) More info: linktr.ee/mininginjustice

This is so shocking - years after the EU put together conflict minerals legislation precisely because of the abuses and conflict associated with coltan mining in the DRC so little has changed www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Concerned citizens asked Premier Ford - “Grassy Narrows is still being poisoned. Will you compensate #GrassyNarrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?” www.mississauga.com/news/mississ... #FreeGrassy #Onpoli

The PDAC 2026 mining conference is looming, and we would like to invite you to a teach-in & art build in preparation for our upcoming action on March 1st! We'll discuss links btwn mining and militarism, and Canada’s role in the global mining industry. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1gf0...

Canadian-built Roshel armored vehicles are being used by ICE right now in Minneapolis, including in today's operation where ICE murdered someone else. I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...

Join us for the next webinar in our series with @abovegroundngo.bsky.social on critical minerals, and hear from MiningWatch's Outreach Coordinator and National Program Co-Lead Jamie Kneen! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Great article about how Canada's approach to trade and investment treaties prioritizes protecting corporate profits for mining companies - using controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms. insideclimatenews.org/news/2201202...

🚨We are deeply alarmed to learn that a second Guatemalan land defender involved in resistance to Montreal-based mining company Central America Nickel has been assassinated in less than a year. Victor Colindrez, nicknamed Owl, was shot and killed at a highwayside shop on December 14th.

In other words, they will not even be recording water withdrawals. The Ontario government is proposing changes that would allow hundreds of mineral exploration companies to take water for early-stage work without a permit. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...

On #HumanRightsDefendersDay, Colombian environmental defenders & inter allies are questioning Canadian authorities’ ongoing silence as #Santurbán Committee faces threats related to their activism against Aris Mining's Soto Norte project $ARIS.TO Blog 👉 shorturl.at/O9Jyt 🧵

Been curious about MISN? Fired up about mining injustice, Land Back, and global solidarity organizing? Join our New Member Orientation to learn what we do, how our collective works, and ways you can plug in! 📅 Tues Dec 16 🕡 6:30pm EST 💻 Zoom - email info@ mininginjustice .org for the link

"Northcliff itself had announced that it had been awarded US $15 million from the United States Department of Defense (rebranded as the Department of War in September 2025) to develop the mine."

Governments must be able to make decisions that protect the environment without fear that they will be sued by Canadian mining companies. Ecuadorians have been loud and clear that they stand by their country's constitutional protection against international arbitration.

The mineral-intensive energy transition in Latin America is advancing in ways that undermine human rights and nature, pushing into fragile ecosystems, overriding community consent, and placing environmental defenders at growing risk. NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:

"A northwestern Ontario First Nation [..] has directed its leaders to blockade the highway if the province grants mineral extraction permits near its water source." "All of the benefits will go to people that won't benefit us." #Ontario #Canada #Mining #Transportation #Water #Protest

For two years, a Sudanese paramilitary force has been massacring civilians—with Canadian-made weapons. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and Ismail Adam join @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling makes Ottawa complicit in the war in Sudan.

A tragedy connected to the transition minerals. Our thoughts go to the affected communities and families 🙏🏽

Today, a group of citizens delivered a petition to mining company Pan American Silver's HQ in Vancouver, demanding the company respect the self-determination of the Xinka Indigenous people and close the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala. Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...

Great blog by Anna Baggio. "While the Premier uses his bully pulpit and taxpayers’ dollars to promote Ring of Fire, there is an alternative. Grassroots leaders are showing us there is another way based on truth, humility and taking care of the Earth." wildlandsleague.org/wildlands-in...

NEW: The Guatemalan Xinka People are defending their territory, water and health by demanding the closure of the toxic Escobal mine — but its Canada-based owner is ignoring them. Show solidarity and send a message to Pan American Silver CEO Michael Steinmann now: act.earthworks.org/page/87881/p...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

Read and share this article by Prof. Stanley highlighting how the government has subsidized mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory that helped Kinross #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

Tell Pan American Silver to respect the Xinka People's rights and permanently close the Escobal mine. Sign the petition here: act.earthworks.org/page/87881/p...

Excellent article, with excellent comments from Nikki Skuce. “Our critical minerals strategy is full of so many holes,” Skuce said. “It’s just being used as a tool to push for more mining, whether it’s for gold to sit in the basement of a bank or a rare earth element to be used in an F-35.”

Xinka leaders are visiting Toronto next week. They have been fighting Canadian mining company Pan American Silver's attack on Indigenous self-determination Don't miss this event at York University on Thurs Sept 18!

Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows. Speak out before Ontario makes its decision. Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

Marten Falls has filed a statement of claim asking for interim and permanent injunctions preventing Ontario and Canada from funding or participating in mining-related activities in the Ring of Fire.

Canadian embassies are failing activists abroad who defend land and resources against exploitation by Canadian corporations. #HumanRights buff.ly/xtxNjB2

Governments across Canada are rewriting the rules to fast-track projects and silence public input. Ecojustice is sounding the alarm on Bills 5, 15, and C-5 — three power grabs that put nature, democracy, and Indigenous rights at risk. #cdnpoli #Ecojustice

"With roughly 60 percent of the world’s mining companies headquartered in Canada, the federal government has long operated as an enabler of corporate power abroad, often at the expense of environmental stewardship and democratic decision-making in the Global South."

I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas. www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...

Help MISN support land defenders! We are looking for donations to our impacted community fund to support mining impacted communities globally.

"The last thing we need is the threat of more poison in our water… How many times can the government put our health and way of life in the hands of a dangerous industry that cares only about profits?” freegrassy.net/news/the-thr...

We stand in solidarity with communities in Las Naves, Ecuador facing violent repression. Since last month, they have been blocking access to the Domo Curipamba project by 🇨🇦Silvercorp Metals Inc and Salazar Resources 📸 Frente Nacional Antiminero

DAY 3🚨 of repression in Las Naves🇪🇨: Rural communities report police violence as they stand up against Canadian copper project, owned by Silvercorp Metals Inc $SVM.TO & Salazar Resources $SRL We demand the Canadian embassy support these environmental defenders #VoicesAtRisk🗣️

"While the bill does acknowledge a duty to consult Indigenous peoples if their rights “may be adversely affected,” it does not define how that consultation must occur. There is no requirement to consult [...] unless impacts on rights are explicitly triggered."

NEW: After a historic Indigenous consultation process, the Xinka people of Guatemala have said NO to Vancouver-based Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine. Canada must respect their decision, not undermine it, writes @ubcic.bsky.social‬ President Grand Chief Stewart Phillip.

"The historical alliance between Canadian mining corporations and the Guatemalan government has allowed for systematic killing with impunity, promoting a culture of silence and community fracturing in El Estor. Mata Asencio is the first to be killed for resisting mining in neighbouring Livingston."