Editorial

Editorial: Building glass mines

Canada’s extractive industries got some high-profile international attention in mid-June. Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the lead-up to the G8 summit in London to announce that the federal government intends to establish new mandatory…



Cartoon by JK for The Northern Miner.

Editorial: Fruitless del Norte

Kinross Gold’s abandonment of the Fruta del Norte gold project in the face of an obstinate Ecuadorian government is a sad end to what could have been a wonderful, mutually beneficially relationship between Canadian miners and their…



Cartoon by JK.

Editorial: HD on its feet after a tumble

Another chapter closed in the HD Mining International saga, with HD celebrating a win in the federal courts against two B.C. unions who had tried to thwart the junior developer’s efforts to import Chinese workers to take a bulk…


Editorial: Clash of the Titans

Canadians trying to make sense of what’s going on in the upper echelons of the newly merged Glencore Xstrata are getting a feel of what it must have been like to be an ancient Greek peasant looking up at his distant panoply of…



Cartoon by JK.

Editorial: Be there at 7 and bring a six-pack

Do you have a friend who’s so consistently late that you and your buddies always tell him to show up an hour before the real time he’s supposed to be there? Or a friend at parties who always ends up drinking more than he brings, so…


Editorial: Tweaking the TFWP

Though the abuses started several years ago, the importing of low-wage Chinese miners by HD Mining International to B.C. late last year and the CBC’s recent revelation on Go Public that the Royal Bank has been laying off skilled,…



Editorial: Serving up a little Tax-Mex

International mining companies happy to be invited to their usual seat of honour at the fiesta in Mexico are a little unnerved to find that this time, they’re going to be the piñata, and the Mexican government is winding up for a…


Editorial: Breaking Branco

Luciano Branco’s long and soul-destroying battle with insurance firms AIG and Zurich has finally reached some satisfaction in the courts, with a Saskatoon judge awarding the injured Portuguese-Canadian welder $450,000 in aggravated…


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