{"id":4212,"date":"2012-10-22T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ingeta.com\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2012-10-22T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:45:36","slug":"conference-in-edmonton-corporate-canadas-effect-on-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/conference-in-edmonton-corporate-canadas-effect-on-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference in Edmonton : Corporate Canada&#8217;s Effect on the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThink Canada always acts as a benevolent force internationally? Think again.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people have died in horrendous circumstances in the<strong> DR Congo<\/strong> as our consumer demand for cell phones fuels it&#8217;s <strong>bloody extractive sector<\/strong> &#8211; a sector in which <strong>Canadian mining corporations<\/strong> are the major players and benefactors. Join independent journalist, <strong>Keith Harmon Snow<\/strong>, who has spent his career filming and investigating western influence in central Africa. In his dynamic, fast-paced presentation, learnwhy and how our corporations are making record profits even as the Congo remains in the middle of the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII.<\/p>\n<div>Afterwards, we will discuss solutions to this crisis and how Canada can reverse the detrimental affect of its mining industry on the DRC.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Date :<\/strong> October 25th<\/div>\n<div><strong>Time :<\/strong> 5:00 to 7:45 pm<\/div>\n<div><strong>Location:<\/strong> GRAND SALON, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta (Edmonton)<\/div>\n<div><strong>Entrance :<\/strong> Free<\/div>\n<div><strong>Contact :<\/strong> Benjamin +1 780 200 2917<\/div>\n<div><strong>Facebook<\/strong> : https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/222892547838962\/<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conference-Edmonton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4214\" title=\"Conference Edmonton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ingeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conference-Edmonton1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Canada always acts as a benevolent force internationally? Think again. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in horrendous circumstances in the DR Congo as our consumer demand for cell phones fuels it&#8217;s bloody extractive sector &#8211; a sector in which Canadian mining corporations are the major players and benefactors. Join independent journalist, Keith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,120,122,127,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-mondialisation","category-news-alertes","category-rencontresdebats","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/congolobilelo.com\/IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}