OTTAWA-The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company’s mining project.   The applicants had asked the top court to review a federal ombudsman’s decision not to investigate the matter.   The case stretches back to 2007 when Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. opened a barite mine in Chiapas, Mexico, prompting local opposition, demonstrations and a blockade of a route to the project.   After being beaten and threatened with death for leading protests over the mine’s environmental and social effects, activist Mariano Abarca was fatally shot outside his home in November 2009.   Members of Abarca’s family and organizations concerned with mining abuses asked the public sector integrity commissioner in 2018 to probe

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