In light of the NCP’s Final Statement, the Amazon case raises a broader question: are corporate commitments to workers’ rights truly reflected in practice?

When the Canadian government earlier this year shut down its independent watchdog responsible for investigating alleged human rights abuses including environmental pollution by Canada-based companies ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded two new contracts to the American branch of GardaWorld Security in late August.

Les deux nouveaux contrats octroyés à GardaWorld Federal Services par cette agence américaine concernent le transport et la détention de migrants au Texas.

NDP environment critic Leah Gazan says the feds are 'trying to legislate away constitutionally protected rights,' a move she calls 'insulting to the Canadian public' who are facing extreme weather eve...

Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...

The continuing backlash against corporate sustainability today risks becoming something more consequential: a retreat from responsible business itself. This overreaction, driven in part by domestic po...

What Canadian companies do abroad does not stay abroad; it comes home as our reputation.

Nothing illustrates the federal government’s approach to belittling public engagement better than its deliberate failure to meet the constitutional requirement to conduct prior consultation with its I...

One of Australia's biggest tomato brands and two major supermarkets are selling products that exclusive forensic testing shows have misleading labelling.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20 Toronto | Treaty Lands

A corporate watchdog was still accepting complaints right up until the point Prime Minister Mark Carney announced its dissolution — seemingly out of nowhere — despite saying the decision to discontinu...

Canada’s new forced labour bill faces China’s legal trap

It remains to be seen whether Bill C-35 marks a genuine turning point in corporate accountability, or becomes another entry in an already long list of good intentions.

The MSC label has been a pillar of most major retailers’ claims around sustainable seafood procurement policies for nearly thirty years. However, recent evidence linking MSC-certified seafood to force...

Bill C-35 would provide CBSA with a broader and more flexible enforcement mandate. Whether that mandate is actually used remains to be seen. The government’s failure thus far to make any meaningful us...

The PMO displays a stark lack of interest in worker issues, labour sector leaders say

As Ottawa faces pressure from the Trump administration to tighten its scrutiny of imports made with forced labour, Canadian human rights lawyers are pointing the finger at companies south of the borde...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last week that the government eliminated an office created to probe overseas human rights complaints about Canadian corporations, including mining conglom...

Human rights advocates say Ottawa is betraying foreigners alleging involvement by Canadian companies in forced labour and environmental degradation by shutting down an office meant to probe those repo...

Parliamentarians and civil society organizations hold a news conference on Parliament Hill to discuss the government’s announcement that it will be eliminating the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsibl...

Parliamentarians and civil society organizations hold a news conference on Parliament Hill to discuss the government’s announcement that it will be eliminating the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsibl...

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government set up the office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise CORE in 2019.

Bill tabled after U.S. threatened new tariff on goods over alleged failure to stop the practice

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is eliminating a watchdog position responsible for investigating allegations of human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad.

Donald Trump’s proposed forced labour tariffs have reignited a debate Canada has long avoided. While Ottawa focuses on imported goods and foreign supply chains, critics—including labour advocates, res...

The Trump administration is hypocritical when it accuses Canada and many other countries of failing to do enough to end forced and child labour around the world.

Territoires non cédés de la Nation algonquine Anishinaabe , 9 juin 2026 : Manifestant une solidarité nationale et transpartisane aujourd’hui sur la Colline du Parlement, des experts de la société civ...

Unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin Territories , 9 June 2026: In a cross-country and cross-partisan show of solidarity today on Parliament Hill, civil society experts, backed by more than 120 organization...

The Trump administration is imposing new tariffs on more than 60 countries to penalize them for importing products that use forced labour. Andrew Chang explains how these 'stealth tariffs' may be a ne...

Leoncia Ramos has lived her 65 years in the lush Dominican Republic town of La Piñita, but now says she is fearful for her health and wants to leave. She’s among 450 families asking the government and...

Carney’s government is not just tearing up environmental safeguards - it is writing blank cheques that future Canadians will be forced to honour

Les initiatives liées à l’IA et au secteur militaire pourraient prendre le pas sur celui des énergies renouvelables dans la Stratégie sur les minéraux critiques

Lisez notre communiqué concernant la conclusion du Représentant américain au commerce selon laquelle le Canada ne « fait pas respecter efficacement » son interdiction sur les produits fissus du travai...

Read Above Ground's statement on the U.S. Trade Representative's determination that Canada is not adequately enforcing its forced labour import ban and the proposed 10% tariff on Canadian goods.

Les initiatives liées à l’IA et au secteur militaire pourraient prendre le pas sur celui des énergies renouvelables dans la Stratégie sur les minéraux critiques

The federal government defines “critical minerals” so broadly that it could fuel climate chaos rather than curb it  Solar panels. Wind turbines. Heat pumps. These are key technologies in the…

L’absence de dirigeant permanent au Bureau de l’ombudsman canadien de la responsabilité des entreprises sème le doute sur la volonté du gouvernement, estiment les cosignataires.

Ce document est aussi disponible en format PDF, en français et en anglais. Le 21 mai 2026 – Aujourd’hui marque le premier anniversaire de la fin du mandat d’un an […]

This document is available in PDF format in English and French. May 21, 2026 – Today marks one year since the one-year mandate of the interim Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) […...

L’absence de dirigeant permanent au Bureau de l’ombudsman canadien de la responsabilité des entreprises sème le doute sur la volonté du gouvernement, estiment les cosignataires.

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A new CNCA research paper assesses the policy and legal framework in Canada to hold multinational corporations to account for human rights and environmental harms caused overseas. Find the full […]