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This is a Letter to the Editor, received Oct 19, 2025.
Former MP, Charlie Angus has succeeded in tossing a monkey wrench in the plans of NovaRed Mining in British Columbia. CMJ first wrote of the company’s plans to hire Kirsti Noem in June and later of the hiring of Katie Zacharia to its advisory board. Both of them are fervent supporters of the American president and his corrupt regime.
Charlie has succeeded in telling the American company that it is unwelcome in Canada with such people on board. He summed up the win in his Oct. 19 email, the salient parts of which are reproduced below:
NovaRed had an option on some ground in British Columbia that it was claiming would be the next big copper venture. Although NovaRed was an American scheme, they set up an address in Vancouver to take advantage of the Canadian mining credits.
At this point, NovaRed was just a one-in-a-million penny-stock company pitching the promise of a big payout. They were at the stage where junior mining companies try to create buzz by bringing on experienced board members.
Junior companies tend to look for people with a track record of bringing mines into production, or financial wizards who can attract big investors.
Not NovaRed. They went MAGA. …
Hence the hiring of Noem. But if they thought that tying themselves to one of MAGA’s most notorious faces would attract market excitement, they were wrong.
People across Canada were outraged.
Noem has a horrific human rights record and has shown appalling disregard for the law. Canadians didn’t want her anywhere near a natural resources project in our country.
On June 29th, I held a press conference calling out Noem and NovaRed. What followed was an incredible grassroots campaign where Canadians from coast to coast to coast, flooded the company’s phone and email lines.
The stock, which had recently been near two dollars a share, began to plummet.
This is when they brought on Katie Zacharia.
Given that the stock was in free fall, you would have thought Zacharia’s first job would be damage control. But it quickly became apparent that she was even more damaged goods than Noem. …
Zacharia got the boot, as did Noem.
They brought the same disastrous chemistry to NovaRed mining.
NovaRed stock plunged from a high of $2 to a mere $0.05. That’s a 97.5% loss in just three months.
The CEO was given the boot, the company was forced to change its name, and it gave up its copper option in Canada.
The crushing of NovaRed Mining was a total victory for grassroots activism. …
The White House presents itself as a squalid reality TV franchise which keeps the public occupied while the tech bros, oligarchs and Trump crime family loot the global economy.
At least in Canada, we can say that when it comes to Noem and Zacharia, we took out the trash.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Scales
A retired writer at Canadian Mining Journal
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