The Quebec government's decision to protect the famed Mount Royal from mining companies didn't deter a group of activists from staking their own claims to the Montreal landmark yesterday. In an effort to draw attention to the many international communities that are forced to live beside Canadian-operated open-pit gold mines, the activists sealed off a large swath of Mount Royal…Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert…one of the event organizers [noted]…Ontario is the only province so far to look at modernizing its archaic mining laws, he called on Quebec and other provinces to do the same. His group also wants the government to provide legal recourse to international communities that are adversely affected by the mining practices of Canadian companies abroad.