Tavia Grant
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Investigative reporter for the @globeandmail, Canada's national newspaper [email protected] @taviagrant.bsky.social
Toronto
Joined February 2009
After journalist Dom Phillips disappeared in the Amazon, his friends worked together to finish his book
theglobeandmail.com
How to Save the Amazon, which explores deforestation and degradation in the world’s largest rain forest, was published in June
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Future of Canadian corporate watchdog uncertain as top position remains vacant
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Watchdog tasked with probing allegations of human-rights abuses and environmental harms has been without a permanent head for more than a year
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After a Toronto woman was found dead in a ravine, police delays prompted her friends to start their own investigation
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A Globe investigation found that, after discovering Jennifer Johnson’s body in the Nordheimer ravine, the police probe took 14 months to do basic things, including looking at her phone
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In Namibia, a Canadian copper company leaves a legacy of toxic waste
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Sickness has been common for years in Tsumeb, where Dundee Precious Metals was the biggest employer for more than a decade. Tests have now found the soil is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy...
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"They used everything but the gun." AFN calls for inquiry into systemic racism in policing after 10 First Nations people dead in four months /via @globeandmail
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The Assembly of First Nations says 25 First Nations people have died in interactions with police across the country between 2017-2020
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A great man has left us. An ogimaa, a warrior for his people and for all of Canada. This is the Murray Sinclair I was privileged to know: https://t.co/Rv06lUScjM
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‘He was the company’: How the culture of Frank Stronach’s businesses left women feeling unable to blow the whistle
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The Globe questions former Magna directors about what, if anything, they knew as another ex-employee comes forward with allegations about the founder
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Canada failing to protect human rights activists from mining companies operating overseas: UN watchdog
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Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human-rights defenders, said failure to protect human-rights advocates from retaliation is tarnishing the country’s global reputation
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We have been calling for the Vatican to return the Indigenous spiritual items they have held in Anima Mundi for years. @TaviaGrant writes an important piece, asking, if Pope Francis supports restitution of our items to Canada, what is the hold up?
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An 1831 wampum belt that was temporarily returned to Canada for a brief appearance at a Montreal museum last year is the only example The Globe and Mail could find of an Indigenous-made item returned...
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Two years ago, Indigenous delegates went to the Vatican, where they were shown a museum display of their cultural belongings. What has happened since then on the repatriation front?
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An 1831 wampum belt that was temporarily returned to Canada for a brief appearance at a Montreal museum last year is the only example The Globe and Mail could find of an Indigenous-made item returned...
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!! ..such an honour to be nominated alongside the amazing @SaraMojtehedz @rachelmendleson @Joe_Castaldo, and a big congrats to all the National Newspaper Awards finalists.
Congratulations @Joe_Castaldo @TaviaGrant @SaraMojtehedz @rachelmendleson @globeandmail @TorontoStar More details at https://t.co/ICLzrC0nWM
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Canada urged to crack down on forced-labour imports after North Korean revelations from the Outlaw Ocean Project
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An investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project found that the Chinese seafood industry is using forced North Korean labour and that these products are entering U.S. and Canadian markets
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Human-rights groups decry rising trend of corporate SLAPP lawsuits Important story, by @TaviaGrant and @geoffreyyork
https://t.co/m8HVV7wu1c
#BizHumanRights
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A study by London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre identified 437 lawsuits between 2015 and last year that have the characteristics of ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’
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African human rights and environmental groups say they are being silenced and intimidated by a rising tide of corporate lawsuits, including by mining companies. At least 437 such lawsuits worldwide in the past eight years. https://t.co/QytDxAUOyj
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A study by London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre identified 437 lawsuits between 2015 and last year that have the characteristics of ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’
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Ottawa promises a review of its overseas corporate watchdog and its effectiveness
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The federal government created the watchdog to police corporate wrongdoing, but is now facing criticism for the office’s lack of completed investigations
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Indigenous leaders and environmental advocates are raising concerns about Canadian companies operating in the Amazon rainforest
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Member Brazil’s Iawá community says Ottawa has not fulfilled its obligations to ensure Indigenous rights are respected and the environment protected with oversight of Canadian mining and extraction...
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Ottawa urged to sanction Chinese seafood companies allegedly using forced Uyghur labour
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In written submission to the government, two human-rights groups say sanctions would send a message to both the Chinese companies and Canadian importers
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For boys who died at North America’s first residential school, reburial offers peace to the living and dead, by @WillowFiddler
https://t.co/MHWKanZCSd via @globeandmail #Indigenous #reconciliation
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For more than 140 years, two children of Sioux leaders lay in a Pennsylvania cemetery far from their Dakota homes. After the Kamloops tragedy, their relations redoubled efforts to bring them back and...
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Canada’s enforcement efforts on anti-bribery are ‘exceedingly low,’ OECD finds
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An OECD working group found that while Canada has done some work to deter corruption, such as increasing sanctions, more steps need to be taken
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