Great Lakes are rapidly warming, likely to trigger more flooding and extreme weather | CBC News
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/great-lakes-climate-warming-1.5065922
The Great Lakes region is warming faster than the rest of the U.S., a trend that is likely to bring more extreme storms while also degrading water quality, worsening #erosion and posing tougher challenges for farming, scientists report.
#grands_lacs #Canada #Etats-Unis #climat #eau #inondations #agriculture
Harassment, sexual assault among alleged misconduct by border agents investigated by CBSA
Diana Swain, Andreas Wesley, Stephen Davis, CBC News, le 4 février 2019
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbsa-files-abuse-atip-1.4999473
Documents obtained by CBC News through an access to information request describe a wide range of alleged offences among agency staff, including criminal association, excessive force and using “inappropriate sexual language.”
#Canada registers sixfold increase in US citizens seeking asylum in 2017
Americans were the third largest group seeking asylum, spurred by fears they would be deported by the Trump administration
Tiroude and Gislyne are Haitians by birth and migrants by necessity.
The couple’s 18-month-old daughter, however, was born in Fort Lauderdale, and – as an American by birth – she is part of a growing number of US citizens seeking refuge in Canada.
In 2017, some 2,550 US citizens applied for asylum in Canada – an increase of more than sixfold from 2016 and the largest such number since at least 1994, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Americans were the third largest contingent of asylum seekers in 2017, after Haitians and Nigerians. The vast majority are children born to Haitian parents, according to experts.
Daughter of Haitians, 10, urges Trump to extend families’ protected status
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“Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents,” says Stéphane Handfield, a Montreal-based immigration lawyer. “They are US citizens because they were born there, but they come across the border with their parents because they don’t want to be separated.”
Trump has repeatedly said he wants to find a way to end birthright citizenship, although legal scholars say this is impossible.
Tiroude and Gislyne fled Haiti for Brazil in 2014, in search of work and safety after Gislyne was targeted for her advocacy.
Two and a half years later, they headed north after Tiroude lost his job, entering the United States in November 2017 – just as the Trump government announced that it wanted 59,000 Haitians living legally in the US to leave the country.
In May, the couple moved again – this time with a newborn baby – becoming some of the roughly 6,000 Haitian asylum seekers who fled the US for Canada last year.
“We left because President Trump said he wanted to deport people,” said Tiroude, who, like his wife, didn’t want his last name used.
The family flew from Florida to Plattsburgh, New York, and crossed into Canada by way of Roxham Road in Quebec, a remote section of the border which has become a well-trodden path for asylum seekers.
Because they crossed the border “irregularly” they were quickly arrested. They claimed asylum and were eventually released to await their hearing in front of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.
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They chose their destination largely because of a tweet by Justin Trudeau welcoming to Canada “those fleeing persecution, terror and war” – which came just as Trump made his first attempt to bar refugees from majority Muslim countries.
Is this a Muslim ban? Trump’s executive order explained
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Tiroude and Gislyne originally fled Haiti because Gislyne had been targeted by political rivals for her advocacy work. “If I go back to Haiti, I die. It’s that simple,” she said.
But their odds aren’t good; last year, only about one in four Haitian asylum applicants were successful.
They would be compelled to return to an unstable country still reeling from the 2010 earthquake and near-chronic political unrest. For their two children – their son was born in October – Haiti is a foreign country.
“Going to Haiti as a parent is dangerous. For my kids it’s worse because they don’t know it. They won’t know how to speak Creole,” Tiroude said. “We’re very pessimistic, because they’re starting to deport people.”
Since Trudeau’s tweet, his government’s welcome for asylum seekers has cooled notably, with Ralph Goodale, the country’s public safety minister, saying that there was no “free ticket” into Canada.
Canada’s border agency hopes to increase deportations of failed refugee claimants by up to 35%, according to a recent investigation by the CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster.
Meanwhile, Trudeau’s Liberal government – under increasing political pressure over immigration – has dispatched officials to Haiti and Nigeria in an attempt to convince would-be asylum seekers to stay put.
Tiroude said he was aware of the backlash against migrants, though he is facing bigger issues. His immigration hearing was recently postponed for a second time, leaving him and his family in limbo once again. “We are pessimists. We don’t know when our turn will be. We are waiting. We hope it works,” he said.
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As a Saudi student being forced to leave Canada, I’m going through the 5 stages of grief | CBC News
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/saudi-arabia-student-leave-canada-riyadh-1.4786874
About 8,300 Saudi post-secondary students living in Canada were left shocked and scrambling earlier this month when Saudi Arabia abruptly ordered them to withdraw from their studies and leave the country by Aug. 31. The move was prompted by a foreign policy feud between Riyadh and Ottawa that started when the Saudi government took offence at a Canadian government tweet. Here, one of those students shares his story of how the diplomatic feud is devastating his dreams after years of hard work. CBC News has agreed to keep his identity confidential because he fears repercussions from his home country.
John A. Macdonald statue removed from Victoria City Hall | CBC News
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/john-a-macdonald-statue-victoria-city-hall-lisa-helps-1.4782065
A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was wrapped in foam and strapped to a flat-bed truck on Saturday morning to be placed in storage. Victoria city council voted to remove the statue as a gesture of reconciliation earlier this week. (Megan Thomas/CBC)
A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, has been removed from the front steps of Victoria City Hall.
The monument was taken down, wrapped in foam and strapped to a flat-bed truck on Saturday morning to be placed in storage.
City council voted to remove the statue as a gesture of reconciliation earlier this week.
Victoria councillors pass motion to remove John A. Macdonald statue
More than two dozen people gathered in the drizzling rain to watch as the statue was taken away — some cheering its removal and others lamenting it.
Egypt: A season of morality and police uniforms | MadaMasr
▻https://www.madamasr.com/en/2018/06/24/feature/culture/a-season-of-morality-and-police-uniforms
Days ahead of this year’s Ramadan TV season, fans of Egyptian television sensed an impending crisis, one that played out with the sudden removal of several anticipated series from the 2018 schedule. Some of the issues cited, such as shooting delays, were familiar. What was different, however, was the extent of direct state interference in both the schedule and the content of the shows that were broadcast, contributing to what many have called the weakest Ramadan season in many years.
Though particularly insidious this year, this kind of state control did not emerge out of the blue, there have been indications of it over the past two years. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other state bodies have issued a series of statements expressing their displeasure with the content of Egypt’s artistic works, criticizing TV series in particular. It seems these statements were initial steps toward cementing state control over Egypt’s media and culture industry, followed by the monopoly of state institutions and their business affiliates over the satellite TV channels considered to be the powerhouses of drama production. Most of these channels are now owned by state-acquired or affiliated production companies, namely Falcon, Egyptian Media Group and Eagle Capital, placing the production and broadcasting of TV series largely at their mercy.
The state took one step further with the creation of the Supreme Media Regulatory Council (SMRC) and its associated Drama Committee in 2016. The council swiftly started to exercise its stated mission of practicing post-screening censorship, instructing TV channels to cut certain scenes or lines of dialogue, despite them having already been approved by the Censorship Board, as happened with the popular series Sabea Gar (The Seventh Neighbor), which ran on CBC channel from October 2017 to March 2018.
It is not only through acquisitions and expanding the role of censorship authorities that the state has tried to influence Egypt’s TV landscape, it has also attempted to control the economy of drama production itself. For instance, producer Tamer Morsy of Synergy Productions had a stake in most of this past season’s TV series, while simultaneously holding the position of CEO of Egyptian Media Group, the current owner of ONtv network, and a shareholder of several other channels. In addition, the company entered into an agreement with a number of other channels not to sign any TV series with budgets exceeding LE70 million.
The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ’They strip you of your soul’ | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute
[...] in 1977 it emerged that the #CIA had been funding experiments in mind-control brainwashing at the institute as part of a North America-wide project known as #MK_Ultra.
At the time, the US agency was scrambling to deepen its understanding of brainwashing, after a handful of Americans captured during the Korean war had publicly praised communism and denounced the US.
In 1957, this interest brought the agency north of the border, where a Scottish-born psychiatrist, Ewen Cameron, was trying to discover whether doctors could erase a person’s mind and instill new patterns of behaviour.
Je suis surpris qu’on (y compris moi) n’ait pas déjà ici abondamment parlé du projet #MKUltra et des expériences de #Ewen_Cameron à #Montréal, au #Canada, mais je ne retrouve pas les posts, pourtant je me souviens d’un #documentaire...
Le voilà:
MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990k-5Jm5aA
Et voici le lien!
Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim
Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News, le 26 octobre 2017
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Canada sending home families of diplomats in Cuba after cases of ’new type’ of brain injury | CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cuba-diplomats-embassy-1.4621992
Canada is designating Cuba an “unaccompanied post” — meaning diplomats’ families will not be allowed to live with them in the country during a posting — because of new information about mysterious symptoms suffered by Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families.
Canadian diplomatic staff in Havana were informed of the decision Monday morning. The federal government has made arrangements to bring family members home in the coming weeks.
Ten Canadians in Cuba have experienced symptoms — including headaches, dizziness, nausea and difficulty concentrating — according to government officials who briefed reporters in Ottawa Monday.
As asylum seekers show up on their doorstep, two Quebec women struggle with how to help
Aaron Lakoff et David Zinman, CBC, le 3 avril 2018
▻http://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/as-asylum-seekers-show-up-on-their-doorstep-two-quebec-women-struggle-with-how-t
Jordan Peterson on Political Polarization & Pepe the Frog
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/jordan-peterson-on-political-polarization-and-pepe-the-frog
Jordan Peterson sits down with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley to talk about political polarization, Pepe the Frog and his support from the far right. He has a new book called 12 Rules for Life: an...
Is FM Radio Norway’s Network Neutrality? Majority Still Opposes Shutdown - Radio Survivor
▻http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/12/20/fm-radio-norways-network-neutrality-majority-still-opposes-shutdown
Two years ago the world press reported, often breathlessly, on the Scandinavian country’s plans to end its national radio services on the #FM dial, switching them over to #digital_broadcasting. Lost in most of the reportage was the fact 200 local FM stations would remain on the air, while 65% of Norwegians opposed the shutdown. But, who lets facts get in the way of a sensational triumphalist headline declaring the first nail in radio’s coffin?
Last week more staid articles reported that the national FM shutdown has completed, with the last national FM stations in the northern Arctic reaches going silent. But the public won’t necessarily tolerate the silence.
According to a variety of sources, unlicensed FM broadcasts have popped up in cities around the country, including Bergen, Tønsberg, Ålesund, Fredrikstad and Førde. In Oslo, Norway’s largest city, the CBC’s “As It Happens” talked with one FM broadcaster—the CEO of a radio company and the chairman of the Norwegian Local Radio Federation—who refused to turn off his transmitter. He says that his station enjoys “great support” from listeners and is facing fines of more than $10,000 a day.
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Even with the national FM switch-off complete, the digital transition still remains unpopular with the Norwegian public. A recent Dagbladet newspaper survey found 56% of Norwegians are “dissatisfied” with the conversion to DAB. Another national news survey says 50% of people who don’t have a DAB capable radio in the car have no plans to upgrade, in part because they’re willing to rely on the local broadcasters that remain on FM.
To me, this situation seems a lot like Network Neutrality here in the U.S. In Norway you have millions of people—a true majority—who were perfectly happy with FM radio and had no wish to trade it in for a digital model with difficult-to-perceive benefits, aside from being digital. In America, 52% of registered voters in a Morning Consult/Politico poll said they support #Net_Neutrality, while a record number of people submitted comments to the #FCC in support of the policy.
But like FM supporters in Norway, open internet supporters in the U.S. were screaming at deaf ears in #Washington.
That’s why in Norway unlicensed broadcasters are filling the enormous void left behind by the country’s national broadcast industry and regulator.
Workshops hope to inspire Indigenous youth to get involved in mapping - CBC News | Indigenous
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/workshops-hope-to-inspire-indigenous-youth-to-get-involved-in-mapping-1.4381380
He’s seen cartography evolve from hand-drawn maps to incorporating computer based technologies, and now he has invited Indigenous people interested in mapping to Winnipeg for a week’s worth of workshops.
“The whole goal of the workshops is to provide that opportunity for training, for capacity enhancement, also to provide a space for people to network and talk to each other,” said Steve DeRoy from the Firelight Group.
DeRoy, is Anishinaabe from Ebb and Flow/Lake Manitoba First Nations, and is hoping to get more Indigenous people involved in mapping. His company, the Firelight Group, works on community based research projects with Indigenous communities across the country.
#cartographie #premières_nations #steven_deroy #peuples_autochtones
Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim - Politics - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cia-brainwashing-allanmemorial-mentalhealth-1.4373590
Alison Steel was only 4½ years old when her mother’s life changed forever.
In 1957, Jean Steel was admitted to Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute. The once happy and energetic 33-year-old was diagnosed with manic depression and delusional thinking.
In the months that followed, Steel became the victim of CIA-funded brainwashing experiments conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron. She was kept in a chemically induced sleep for weeks and subjected to rounds of electroshocks, experimental drugs and tape-recorded messages played non-stop.
#MK_Ultra #MKUltra #MK-Ultra
#Ewen_Cameron #Canada #Montréal
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The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ’They strip you of your soul’
Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian, le 3 mai 2018
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Les #réfugiés_érythréens ne sont pas les bienvenus en Suisse, mais l’or d’Erythrée, lui...
Schweizer Geschäfte mit einem geächteten Regime
Die Schweiz hat von 2011 bis 2013 für rund 400 Millionen Franken Rohgold aus Eritrea importiert. Schweizer Firmen haben es raffiniert und daraus Goldbarren gegossen.
Die #Bisha-Goldmine gehört zu 40 Prozent dem repressiven eritreischen Regime.
Ein ehemaliger Arbeiter der Mine lebt heute als Flüchtling in der Schweiz. Er erzählt von Zwangsarbeit beim Bau der Mine.
Aus keinem anderen Land kommen so viele Asylsuchende in die Schweiz wie aus Eritrea. Die Mine ist eine der wichtigsten Einnahmequellen des Regimes.
Asylpolitiker von links bis rechts kritisieren die Millionengeschäfte scharf.
▻https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/schweizer-geschaefte-mit-einem-geaechteten-regime?ns_source=srf_app?ns_source=sr
#or #matières_premières #Erythrée #Suisse #mines #travail_forcé #film #vidéo #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Lufthansa #Frankfurt #Nevsun
Accusation (provenant de la société civile canadienne selon SFR) de travail forcé dans la mine :
L’exploitant de la mine, Nevsun :
▻http://www.nevsun.com
Ici la description de la mine sur le site de l’entreprise :
Bisha Mine Location
On dit bien que :
The State of Eritrea has a 40% interest in the Bisha Mine through the #Eritrean_National_Mining_Company (#ENAMCO), 30% of which it bought from Nevsun prior to initial construction. As a result, ENAMCO contributed 33% of the initial build capital and, as a partner with Nevsun, has been integral to the success of the Bisha Mine. For more see About Eritrea.
Et toujours sur le site un chapitre consacré à « about Eritrea », où on parle notamment de l’infrastructure (définie comme « excellente ») qui permet de sortir les matières premières des mines :
L’histoire de l’Erythrée, pour Nevsun, s’arrête en 1993 :
Eritrea gained independence in 1993, after fighting for its freedom for over 30 years.
Et bien évidemment, on parle d’économie (un des pays les plus pauvres du monde), mais pas de politique...
Eritrea is largely an agriculture based economy and one of the poorest nations in the world. The country’s economy predominantly consists of:
cc @reka
Mining Company on Trial for Human Rights Abuses Appears to Lobby at the Human Rights Council (HRC)
Nevsun Mining Resources Ltd, based in Canada is cur rently facing a lawsuit initiated by more than 80 Eritrean plaintiffs, who contend they were victims of forced labour, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity at the company’s Bisha Mine in Eritrea. #Bisha Mine is owned 60-per-cent by Nevsun and 40-per-cent by Eritrean government.
Forced Labour and the appalling conditions in Bisha Mine have been documented by Human Rights Watch and the UN Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights in Eritrea. Yet the Todd Romain, the Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility of this company and his PR are at present in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) session where the current special rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea is due to deliver her final report, and a decision will be made regarding the renewal of the mandate.
Nevsun also participated in side events organized by the Eritrean Mission at the HRC on 16 June 2016 (▻http://www.eritrea-chat.com/eritrean-mining-conference-about-human-rights-in-geneva-16-june-2016) and on 8 March 2018 , and visited many Missions in Geneva despite the fact that this court case was already ongoing.
Human Rights Concern-Eritrea (HRCE) believes most strongly that it is inappropriate for a representative of a commercial corporation whose name has been raised in connection with human rights abuses during HRC debates and oral statements on the human rights in Eritrea, and which is currently the accused to court proceedings regarding human rights abuses, should be party to human rights side events, neither should it’s top representative give the appearance of lobbying country delegations about HRC initiatives that are directly concerned with its court case.
Eritrea has not implemented any of the UPR recommendations from the first and second cycles. The recommendations from the Commission of Inquiries and the Special Rapporteur have so far been ignored. No improvements in human rights in Eritrea have been identified in the last decade; 10,000 or more prisoners of conscience are still in detention and the violently enforced lifelong military service which prevails unreformed. Forced/slave labour have been used in all the government owned businesses including mining projects.
HRCE feels it important that country delegations and media are made fully aware of this issue, and advises that no further hearing should be given to any of Nevsun’s representatives pending a final court ruling on the human rights case.
▻http://hrc-eritrea.org/mining-company-on-trial-for-human-rights-abuses-appears-to-lobby-at-the
Nevsun lawsuit (re Bisha mine, Eritrea)
In November 2014, three Eritreans filed a lawsuit against Nevsun Resources in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They allege the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by Nevsun’s local sub-contractor, Segen Construction (owned by Eritrea’s ruling party), at the Bisha mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, headquartered in Vancouver, has denied the allegations. This lawsuit is the first in Canada where claims are based directly on violations of international law.
The plaintiffs, Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle, claim that they worked at the Bisha mine against their will and were subject to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”. They allege that they were forced to work long hours and lived in constant fear of threats of torture and intimidation. Nevsun has rejected the allegations as “unfounded” and declared that “the Bisha Mine has adhered at all times to international standards of governance, workplace conditions, and health and safety”.
In October 2016, the Supreme Court of British Colombia rejected Nevsun’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and ruled that the case should proceed in British Colombia as there were doubts that the plaintiffs would get a fair trial in Eritrea. Nevsun appealed the decision.
In November 2017, the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected Nevsun’s appeal to dismiss the suit, thereby allowing the case to proceed in Canadian courts. The court also allowed claims of crimes against humanity, slavery, forced labour, and torture to go forward against Nevsun. This decision marked the first time an appellate court in Canada permitted a mass tort claim for modern slavery.
On 19 January 2018, Nevsun filed an application with the Canadian Supreme Court asking for permission to appeal the British Columbia ruling. There is no fixed time for the Supreme Court to decide whether to grant or deny such applications.
– “Nevsun appeals to Canada Supreme Court in Eritreans’ forced labor lawsuit”, Reuters, 26 Jan 2018
– “Court allows Eritrean mine workers to sue Nevsun”, Nelson Bennett, Business in Vancouver, 6 Oct 2016
– [Video] “Nevsun in Eritrea: Dealing With a Dictator”, CBC Radio-Canada, 12 Feb 2016
– [FR] «Une minière canadienne nie des allégations de travail forcé en Érythrée », Radio-Canada, 23 novembre 2014
– “Nevsun Denies Accusations of Human-Rights Abuses at Eritrea Mine”, Michael Gunn & Firat Kayakiran, Bloomberg, 21 Nov 2014
– “Nevsun Resources faces lawsuit over ‘forced labour’ in Eritrea”, Jeff Gray, Globe and Mail (Canada), 20 Nov 2014
Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ):
– “Vancouver court clears way for slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company to go to trial”, 6 Oct 2016
– “Eritreans file lawsuit against Canadian mining company for slave labour and crimes against humanity”, 20 Nov 2014
– [FR] « Des Érythréens intentent un recours contre une compagnie minière canadienne pour l’usage de main d’œuvre servile ainsi que pour des crimes contre l’humanité », 20 novembre 2014
– “Appeal court confirms slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company can go to trial”, 21 Nov 2017
Nevsun:
– “Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit”, 6 Oct 2016
– “Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit”, 21 Nov 2014
Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman [Counsel for the plaintiffs]
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on Forum Non Conveniens”, 17 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on the Representative Proceeding”, 17 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on Customary International Law”, 15 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on the Act of State Doctrine”, 14 Dec 2015
– “Notice of Civil Claim”, 20 Nov 2014
Siskinds [Co-counsel for the plaintiffs]
– “Siskinds co-counsel in lawsuit against Nevsun Resources”, 20 Nov 2014
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP [Counsel for the defendant]
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on Customary International Law”, 1 Dec 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on Forum Non Conveniens”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on the Act of State Doctrine”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on the Representative Proceeding”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Response to Civil Claim”, 13 Feb 2015
– Araya v. Nevsun Resources. Reasons for Judgment, Justice Abrioux, Supreme Court of British Columbia, 6 Oct 2016
– Araya, Gize v. Nevsun Resources Ltd.[payment required], Vancouver law courts, 20 Nov 2014.
– Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle v Nevsun Resources Ltd and Earth Rights International, Court of Appeal for British Columbia, 21 Nov 2017
Quelques liens cités dans cet article :
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/canadian-courts-review-series-of-claims-filed-against-canadian
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-denies-accusations-of-human-rights-abuses-at-eritrea-mi
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/eritrean-refugees-file-claim-in-canada-against-nevsun-over-all
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-lawsuit-re-bisha-mine-eritrea#c168706
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/vancouver-court-clears-way-for-slave-labour-lawsuit-against-ca
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/eritrean-refugees-file-claim-in-canada-against-nevsun-over-all
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/fr/des-erythr%C3%A9ens-intentent-un-proc%C3%A8s-contre-nevsun-au-
Nevsun in Eritrea: Dealing With a Dictator
When a small Vancouver mining company struck gold in a remote corner of Africa, it started with so much promise. In remote Eritrea, Nevsun built a mine that was generating $700 million in profits in its first four years of operation. But it was also generating a lot of controversy – because Nevsun was partnered with a brutal dictatorship that runs the country and controls 40% of the mine. That has led to allegations by the UN and Human Rights Watch that the regime has used conscripted military labour in the mine. The Eritrea government has also been accused of funnelling arms to the terrorist group al-Shabaab. Nevsun denies the allegations of human rights abuses and insists it is a “template for responsible international business.” What is the price of doing business with a dictator? Mark Kelley investigates.
The Eritrea regime has a 40 per cent stake in the mine and is accused of crimes against humanity by the U.N.
Nevsun Resources Ltd. is facing a lawsuit in B.C.’s Supreme Court
The allegations filed by three former Eritrean conscripts in B.C.’s Supreme Court accuse Nevsun Resources of being “an accomplice to the use of forced labour, crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses at the Bisha mine”
▻http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2014-2015/nevsun-in-eritrea-dealing-with-a-dictator
Appeal court confirms slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company can go to trial
British Columbia’s highest court today rejected an appeal by Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources Limited (TSX: NSU / NYSE MKT: NSU) that sought to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Eritreans who allege they were forced to work at Nevsun’s Bisha Mine.
The ruling by the British Columbia Court of Appeal marks the first time that an appellate court in Canada has permitted a mass tort claim for modern slavery.
The court rejected Nevsun’s position that the case should be dismissed in Canada and instead heard in Eritrea. Madam Justice Mary Newbury described the situation in Eritrea as one with “the prospects of no trial at all, or a trial in an Eritrean court, possibly presided over by a functionary with no real independence from the state … and in a legal system that would appear to be actuated largely by the wishes of the President and his military supporters…”
The court also allowed claims of crimes against humanity, slavery, forced labour, and torture to go forward against Nevsun. It is the first time that a Canadian appellate court has recognized that a corporation can be taken to trial for alleged violations of international law norms related to human rights.
The lawsuit, filed in November 2014, alleges that Nevsun engaged Eritrean state-run contractors and the Eritrean military to build the mine’s facilities and that the companies and military deployed forced labour under abhorrent conditions.
“We are very pleased that the case will move to trial,” said Joe Fiorante, Q.C., of Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP, lead counsel for the plaintiffs. “There will now be a reckoning in a Canadian court of law in which Nevsun will have to answer to the allegations that it was complicit in forced labour and grave human rights abuses at the Bisha mine.”
Since the initial filing by three Eritrean men, which was the matter reviewed by the Court of Appeal, an additional 51 people have come forward to assert claims against Nevsun.
“I am overjoyed that a Canadian court will hear our claims,” said plaintiff Gize Araya. “Since starting the case, we have always hoped Canada would provide justice for what we suffered at the mine.”
The court also rejected Nevsun’s argument that the company should be immune from suit because the case might touch on actions of the Eritrean government, including allegations of severe human rights violations. Justice Newbury, looking to a recent UK case on the issue, wrote that “torture (and I would add, forced labour and slavery) is ‘contrary to both peremptory norms of international law and a fundamental value of domestic law.’”
This latest ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal follows one earlier this year permitting a case to go forward against Tahoe Resources for injuries suffered by protestors in Guatemala who were shot outside the company’s mine.
“The Nevsun and Tahoe cases show that Canadian courts can properly exercise jurisdiction over Canadian companies with overseas operations,” said Amanda Ghahremani, Legal Director of the Canadian Centre for International Justice. “When there is a real risk of injustice for claimants in a foreign legal system, their cases should proceed here.”
The plaintiffs are supported in Canada by a legal team comprised of Vancouver law firm Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP (CFM); Ontario law firm Siskinds LLP [Nick Baker]; Toronto lawyer James Yap; and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ). This victory would not have been possible without the support of Human Rights Concern Eritrea and the tireless efforts of Elsa Chyrum.
Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit
Nevsun Resources Ltd...advises that the British Columbia Supreme Court has refused to permit a claim against Nevsun to proceed as a common law class action. The court did permit the lawsuit by the three named plaintiffs to continue. Today’s court decision addresses only preliminary legal challenges to the action raised by Nevsun. The judgment makes no findings with respect to the plaintiffs’ allegations, including whether any of them were in fact at the Bisha Mine. The judge also emphasized that the case raises novel and complex legal questions, including on international law, which have never before been considered in Canada. Nevsun is studying the court’s decision and considering an appeal of the decision that the action can proceed at all. Nevsun remains confident that its indirect 60%-owned Eritrean subsidiary, Bisha Mining Share Company (“BMSC”) operates the Bisha Mine according to international standards of governance, workplace conditions, health, safety and human rights...BMSC is committed to managing the Bisha Mine in a safe and responsible manner that respects the interests of local communities, workers, stakeholders and the natural environment.
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-comments-on-bc-lawsuit-0
“In November 2014, three Eritreans filed a lawsuit against Nevsun Resources in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They allege the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by Nevsun’s local sub-contractor, Segen Construction (owned by Eritrea’s ruling party)...”
"... at the Bisha mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, headquartered in Vancouver, has denied the allegations. The plaintiffs ... claim that they worked against their will and were subject to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”.
▻https://twitter.com/eduyesolomon/status/1232726864193556480
La #BNS investit dans une firme mêlée à un scandale de travailleurs forcés
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/619926
#banque_nationale_suisse
Kahnawake short fim fest :
"Four Faces of the Moon" - Canada’s dark colonial past
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWe--sysNkk&feature=youtu.be
From CBC Short docs (www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/)
So, no, many Mohawks will not be celebrating 150 or 375 [respectively Canada and Montréal colonist birthday], even if some of our people take back a little bit of money from the celebrations of a country that tried to destroy us. That’s like inviting people into your house to blow out the birthday candles after they’ve kidnapped your child.
Canada’s 150-year celebration doesn’t fly here
Steve Bonspiel, CBC, le 25 février 2017
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/canada-s-150-year-celebration-doesn-t-fly-here-1.3992457
Blotter carfentanil being sold on Winnipeg streets as ’drop dead,’ police say - Manitoba - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carfentanil-blotter-drop-dead-winnipeg-1.4153544
Blotter carfentanil — small pieces of paper infused with a synthetic opioid about 100 times stronger than fentanyl — is being sold on the street as “drop dead,” Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth told the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.
Smyth said Winnipeg appears to be unique among Canadian cities in that there appears to be a market for carfentanil, whose intended use involves the tranquilization of elephants or large ungulates such as moose.
While the opioid has appeared in other cities, sometimes as a replacement for less potent substances, there is a small population of drug users that actively seeks the drug here, the chief said.
#buvards #carfentanil #drop_dead #drogues #mort #canada
The drug crisis is now pushing up death rates for almost all groups of Americans - The Washington Post
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-drug-crisis-is-now-pushing-up-death-rates-for-almost-all-groups-of-americans/2017/06/09/971d8424-4aa1-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html
The opioid epidemic that has ravaged life expectancy among economically stressed white Americans is taking a rising toll among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, driving up the overall rate of premature death among Americans in the prime of their lives.
(à noter dans ce dernier graphique, la solution subtile au problème de la base 0 du graphique)
Officer who overdosed after touching fentanyl felt his body ’shutting down’ | CBC Radio
▻http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4117300/officer-who-overdosed-after-touching-fentanyl-felt-his-body-shutting-down-1.4117
Drug checking reveals high levels of fentanyl contamination in Vancouver street drugs
▻http://www.aidsmap.com/page/3139240
Fentanyl, effets, risques, témoignages — PsychoWiki, le wiki de Psychoactif
▻https://www.psychoactif.org/psychowiki/index.php?title=Fentanyl,_effets,_risques,_témoignages
Le Fentanyl entraine plus de risque d’apnée (et pendant plus longtemps) que la Morphine et les autres opiacés, surtout lorsqu’il est administré en [intra-veineuse]. L’injection IV de plus de 0,5 microgrammes par kilo peut entrainer une apnée, transitoire si elle est palliée par une ventilation artificielle temporaire, mais menant à la mort en l’absence de traitement, après quelques minutes d’arrêt de la respiration. (OD). L’administration #trans-cutanée et trans-muqueuse peut aussi entrainer une dépression respiratoire moins brutale mais pouvant mener à la mort en cas de surdosage.
Le fentanyl et ses dérives sont très délicats à manier (au micro-gramme). Il peuvent facilement provoquer des overdoses et nombre de membre de Psychoactif ont vécu une expérience de surdose ou d’overdose.
Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate escapes from Canada’s terror list - Canada - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terror-list-omission-1.4114621
Le Canada ne fait que suivre les #Etats-Unis,
The reasons for the reluctance to list the new al-Qaeda formation may have to do with one of its new members, the Nour ed-Dine Zenki Brigade, a jihadi group from the Aleppo governorate.
The Zenki Brigade was an early and prominent recipient of U.S. aid, weapons and training.
Zenki was cut off by the State Department only after Amnesty International implicated them in killings of Orthodox Christian priests and members posted a video of themselves beheading a young boy.
For the U.S. to designate HTS now would mean acknowledging that it supplied sophisticated weapons including TOW anti-tank missiles to “terrorists,” and draw attention to the fact that the U.S. continues to arm Islamist militias in Syria.
Canada’s longstanding reliance on U.S. listings exposes it to the increasingly politicized nature of those listings, which are influenced by the U.S. strategy of backing groups fighting the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction - Technology & Science - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-yukon-river-piracy-1.4070153?cmp=rss
Climate change has caused the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in the Yukon to retreat so much that its meltwater abruptly switched direction, in the first documented case of “river piracy” in modern times.
Instead of flowing into the Slims River and then north to the Bering Sea, the water has changed course and now flows south toward the Kaskawulsh River, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean, scientists have found.
Also known as stream capture, river piracy is a term used to describe a geologic phenomenon where a stream or river is diverted toward another body of water. It’s usually caused by a dramatic tectonic event, such as a landslide or glacial dam collapse.
’It’s abominable’: Vancouver mayor reacts to overdose deaths - British Columbia - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-overdose-death-update-1.4048915
“It’s abominable that with 100 overdose deaths already this year in Vancouver — almost half of 2016’s total — we have yet to see effective action from the provincial and federal governments on health care solutions that will stop the death toll in this #fentanyl crisis,” said Robertson [mayor of Vancouver] in a statement. (…) the B.C. government urgently needs to spend the $10 million received from the federal government before yet another hundred families are impacted by tragic preventable deaths," he said.
Robertson is calling on the B.C. Government to put $8 million into injectable therapies, like prescription heroin and hydromorphone, as well as mental health support for patients in Vancouver.
Former ambassador to U.S. warns Trudeau not to ’moralize’ with Trump, CBC, 13 feb.
Franck McKenna: I think the government of Canada has conducted themselves very well so far
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/frank-mckenna-trump-meeting-1.3979818
C’est bien, continue ainsi petit, suis ton grand frère et il ne t’arrivera pas de mal.
She didn’t have a horse, so this New Zealand teen rides her cow instead - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio
▻http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3920983/she-didn-t-have-a-horse-so-this-new-zealand-teen-rides-her-cow-instead-1.3920989
Give peanut-based foods to babies early to prevent allergies, new guidelines say - Health - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/give-peanut-based-foods-to-babies-early-to-prevent-allergies-new-guidelines-say-
Babies at increased risk for peanut allergy should have peanut-containing foods added to their diets as early as 4 months of age, new guidelines suggest.
The recommendation comes from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other expert groups.
And it advocates a tactic that might seem counterintuitive: To drastically cut the chances of peanut allergy in high-risk babies, parents should introduce “age-appropriate” forms of peanut products early in life.
Guidelines for Clinicians and Patients for Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
▻https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/guidelines-clinicians-and-patients-food-allergy
In 2015, findings from a landmark NIAID-funded clinical trial called the Learning Early About Peanut (LEAP) study showed that introducing peanut-containing foods to infants at high risk for developing peanut allergy was safe and led to an 81 percent relative reduction in the subsequent development of peanut allergy. Based on the strength of these results, NIAID established another coordinating committee, which convened an expert panel to update the 2010 Guidelines to specifically address the prevention of peanut allergy. The Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States were published in January 2017.
The fentanyl crisis is so deadly in Canada that even funeral directors need the antidote - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/16/the-fentanyl-crisis-is-so-bad-in-western-canada-that-funeral-homes-a
Many public servants who work at the forefront of the crisis — particularly police officers — have begun issuing naloxone nasal spray to front-line officers and support staff who might come in contact with the drug while responding to overdoses. In Vancouver, clandestine lab teams in hazmat suits that once specialized in dismantling crystal meth labs are now being called in to handle fentanyl seizures, the CBC reported. Several police officers in the region have suffered overdose symptoms when seizing fentanyl powder.
(…) such precautions are also being taken in far less expected realms in British Columbia, including funeral homes. The funeral association is urging funeral homes to obtain naloxone in part to protect the safety of embalmers, who often treat the bodies of drug overdose victims and could encounter a trace of a potentially lethal drug left undiscovered on a corpse or on personal items.
Additionally, Charlotte Poncelet, executive director of the British Columbia Funeral Association, told the Vancouver Sun that by having naloxone kits on hand in funeral homes, staff can be better prepared to assist in case a grieving funeral attendee overdoses during services.
et aussi : ▻https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/06/fentanyl-drug-trafficking-texas