<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail]]></title><link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com</link><atom:link href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/author/mtait/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail News Feed]]></description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:57:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-ca</language><copyright>Copyright 2024 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>1</ttl><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><image><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/legacy/static/mobile.flag.rss.png</url><title>The Globe and Mail</title><link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Minnesota’s wilderness, a town divided over the future of mining ]]></title><link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-northeastern-minnesota-boundary-waters-mining-moratorium/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-northeastern-minnesota-boundary-waters-mining-moratorium/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan VanderKlippe, Melissa Tait]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Close to the Canadian border, some Minnesota residents are sounding the environmental alarm over an end to the moratorium ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:48:45 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--Header code for image-layout-component. Updated Apr 21, 2023-->
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</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content url="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/4CQ2AVD6TVB2NA6QPHXRX36M2A.jpg?auth=d44db1f427114a72e902e62c8b24a07b90f3500c71cc884a81c6f8d3737655b0&amp;smart=true&amp;width=4800&amp;height=3202" type="image/jpeg" height="3202" width="4800"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Lisa Pugh, monitoring program manager at conservation group Save the Boundary Waters, collects water samples for lab analysis, using quality-control measures to guard against contamination. The site on the Birch River is a few kilometres downstream from a proposed copper-nickel mine, and about 15 km from an operating taconite mine.Ely, Minnesota is 26 km south of the Canadian border and sits at the centre of a fight over a proposed copper-nickel mine that would be built in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — a million-acre protected area that borders Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. The U.S. Senate could vote before the end of April to rescind a 20-year federal ban on mining in the watershed. The mine is proposed by Twin Metals, a Chilean-owned company, on a site that drains into the Rainy River, which flows into Canada's Lake of the Woods and eventually Hudson Bay.April 9, 2026Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Melissa Tait</media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>