RAVEN (DE)BRIEFS PODCAST

Welcome to Plunder: True Crimes, Canadian Mines. This is a show that looks beneath the surface of mining in Canada, a country that’s home to 60% of the worlds mining companies. For all the glittering office towers that you might be used to seeing in Toronto and Vancouver, Mining has a dark history, and — you’ll discover —  a controversial future.

We’ll travel from the earliest days of colonisation, fuelled by gold rush-style plunder, to the toxic era of uranium mining that contributed to the Manhattan Projects’ development of the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to today, where hunger for critical minerals continues to drive colonialism deep into the heart  of Indigenous lands: in Canada, and around the world.

After centuries of exploitation, the drive to get rich quick is baked into Canada’s DNA, with extractive industries still given preferential treatment by government. Despite a lot of talk about reconciliation – allocation of resources is still very much done without proper consultation or consent of the Peoples who have stewarded these lands and waters since time immemorial.