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‘Economic reconciliation’ is a cover for continued control and extraction on Indigenous lands, writes Janelle Lapointe.
It’s touted by politicians of all stripes and promoted by industry, but comes at a great cost.
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Pierre Poilievre says he's a friend of the working class, but his latest backer is Saskatchewan’s richest family empire.
@chund3r & @martin_lukacs investigate a private fundraiser the notoriously anti-worker family dynasty hosted for Poilievre.
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A sweeping, heavily-resourced Toronto Police operation has been cracking down on pro-Palestinian activists.
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Pride is facing a new backlash, this time over Palestine. Kevin Maimann reports on the LGBTQ+ groups demanding mainstream Pride events divest from corporate sponsors complicit in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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A multinational pharma giant can sell Canadian blood plasma for profit abroad, The Breach has learned. That contradicts what was promised by Canada’s blood authority and the company, and is the first window into the secret deal they signed two years ago.
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Internal emails reveal McGill University encouraged its deans to bar classrooms from discussing a student referendum over Israeli divestment. Xavier Richer Vis reports on how administrators provided a template for instructors to reject any discussion.
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Journalists at CBC say a Breach exposé last week resonated in their newsroom Brishti Basu reports that they say anti-Palestinian bias is rampant, with one calling CBC’s denials “ludicrous.”
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A CBC producer is lifting the veil on how the broadcaster whitewashed Israel’s horrors in Gaza. In a tell-all essay, she describes the inner workings of newsrooms where double standards and biases sidelined the truth—before she resigned in protest.
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Canada's media is full of sob stories about the supposed plight of landlords. It isn’t real journalism—it’s an effort to disguise the exploitation of the housing market. Martin Lukacs explains how the media teaches us to pity the landlord class, rather than be pissed at them.
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Pundits have been bashing a new national pharmacare plan in Canada’s major outlets—but none have disclosed their ties to Big Pharma. Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Donya Ziaee reveal the Big Pharma-funded think tank talking heads distorting the debate about pharmacare.
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For a supposed hotbed of antisemitism, the scene at McGill’s encampment on Sunday was distinctly Jewish: giant bottles of kosher grape juice and matzah bread piled on the ground, the fixings for a Passover dinner. Martin Lukacs writes about the student protests in Canada for Gaza.
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Students who’ve set up camp on McGill’s campus have faced torrential downpour, a court injunction, and threats of police violence. But they’re refusing to move until their demands are met: divestment from companies, weapons makers, and universities implicated in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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Who said it? Pierre Poilievre or Big Pharma? In his attacks on public pharmacare, the Conservative leader is copying verbatim the pharmaceutical industry’s talking points. WATCH:
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Pierre Poilievre: “crooked Big Pharma” are “dirty and disgusting” Also Pierre: literally cut-and-pasting the pharma lobby’s talking points attacking a public pharmacare program.
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From coast to coast, riding-level groups have popped up to organize against Canada’s complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Brishti Basu reports they’ve opened up cracks in the governing Liberals and lent deeper, long term clout to Palestinian solidarity.
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What should the Canadian government do to address the ongoing crisis in Haiti? The answer, says Jemima Pierre, is simple: “Leave Haiti alone.”
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Israel is conducting secret mass surveillance of Palestinians during its assault on Gaza—and ex PM Stephen Harper’s investment fund helped make it happen. Martin Lukacs and Tim Groves report on the Israeli spy tech firm controlled by Harper and partners.
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Hysteria about Chinese meddling in Canadian elections wouldn’t have happened if not for a cascade of so-called scoops by Global News and the Globe and Mail. Bruce Livesey has written the definitive account of how Canada’s media manufactured the crisis.
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Haiti’s government is in a state of collapse—again. Professor Jemima Pierre joins Dru Oja Jay to discuss Canada’s part in the roots of the crisis—two decades of military interventions and subversion of Haiti’s sovereignty.
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In 2021, the Liberal government promised to provide out-of-status migrants with a pathway to immigration. But it deported 14,000 migrants in 2023, new data shows. Noushin Ziafati reports on a policy that advocates describe as ‘incoherent’.
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When he’s Prime Minister, #PierrePoilievre says “his daily obsession” will be fighting for the “working class.”
But it seems he already has an obsession: rubbing shoulders with lobbyists and the corporate elite in Canada’s swankiest clubs and mansions.
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Despite an emergency program to reunite Gazans with families in Canada, not a single person has made it. But instead of just agonizing, Palestinian-Canadians are organizing. Yara El Murr reports on the grassroots fight to fix a program riddled with racism.
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Pierre Poilievre says lobbyists won’t run Ottawa if he’s prime minister. But turns out he’s hosting lobbyists from oil, bank, telecoms, mining & real estate firms at cash-for-access fundraisers. Investigation by Martin Lukacs, Katia Lo Innes, and Xavier Richer Vis.
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Across Africa, social media influencers and immigration consultants are peddling Canada as the world’s best destination—and cashing in. Nyasha Bhobo writes that they're preying on desperation—and hiding the reality of Black African migration to Canada.
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Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa—who worked in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt—was revered for his courage. Ten years after his death, Richie Assaly reports how his peers are honouring his legacy with a $10,000 donation to journalists and children in Gaza.
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Before he became a globally-acclaimed director, Denis Villeneuve developed his unique style in Quebec’s filmmaking culture—which wouldn't have existed without powerful social movements. Dru Oja Jay looks at the 1990s Montreal scene that made Villeneuve.
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Despite intense lobbying from Big Pharma, we now have a pharmacare bill promising universal public coverage of some drugs. But Nav Persaud says the fight isn’t over—to ensure more comprehensive coverage, we’ll have to beat back the lobbyists.
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Across Canada, doctors are being suspended or removed from tasks they’ve performed for years—all for voicing criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza. In a new investigation, Brishti Basu exposes how med schools and hospitals are silencing Palestinian solidarity.
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Canada is approving more military export permits to Israel than ever before—but politicians have tried to hide the truth. On The Breach Show, Emma Paling sits down with Alex Cosh to talk about what he's uncovered about Canada's weapons exports.
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Since Israel's attack on Gaza began in October, Canadians have been joining the 'Free Palestine' movement by the thousands. From coast to coast, Katia Lo Innes profiles new activists joining groups expressing solidarity for Palestinian liberation.
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As Muhannad Ayyash prepared to speak about Palestinian liberation to about 20 people at York University, police officers entered the room. Their presence proved an important point: in Canada, any honest talk of Palestine is a threat to the status quo.
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A group promoting India’s Hindu far-right lobbied Canadian cities to proclaim “Ayodhya Ram Mandir Day." Kunal Chaudhary reports that the day–little reported in Canadian media–celebrates a watershed moment in Islamophobic violence.
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Alberta's anti-trans bill will have effects across Canada, Celeste Trianon tells Katia Lo Innes on The Breach Show. Trans rights could now be exploited as a wedge issue in elections and trans people may flee Alberta as they have repressive U.S. states.
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In the case of Rohingyas in Myanmar, Canada argued that starvation was genocide. The fact that the Liberals won't apply the same logic to Israel's siege on Gaza exposes Canada's double standard, explains Mark Kersten.
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Two Canadian doctors have returned from a medical mission to Gaza, where they witnessed Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians. "This is not a war on Hamas,” says Anas Al-Kassem. “This is a war on the children of Gaza."
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Canada's major newspapers are failing to present the breadth of public opinion about Gaza.
An analysis by @jeremyappel.bsky.social found the vast majority of recent op-eds cheered on Israel's war, while only a small fraction expressed any opposition.
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Canadian workers are almost universally required to contribute to public pension funds. But as Kunal Chaudhary reports, these funds have invested $1.6 billion in companies and arms manufacturers supporting Israel's apartheid and its assault on Gaza.
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In 2022, Quebec pulled off a stunning climate justice victory: it banned oil and gas drilling.
This was no fluke. A determined social movement made it happen. Dru Oja Jay explains how: youtu.be/48QpstQLv6Q
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Forget the four-day work week: Canada needs part-time work for all.
Tom Malleson writes that universal part-time work would alleviate gender inequality and lead to more compassionate public policy.
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Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General screened job applicants who had signed a pro-Palestine letter. Kunal Chaudhary reports that experts say the hiring policy is racist and a "flagrant disregard" for constitutional rights.
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At #COP28, Canada talked big about financing for nations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis—but delivered only $16M.
And as Eriel Deranger explains, Indigenous peoples in the North aren’t going to see a cent.
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On The Breach Show, Eriel Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action gives a report-back from the lobbyist-dominated COP 28 climate summit in Dubai. If hope is to be found, it won’t be in Dubai but back at home on the land—with Indigenous solutions leading the way.
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CBC's The National featured 42% more Israeli voices than Palestinian, even as 7 times more Palestinians were killed in the first month. Emma Paling and the Review of Journalism report CBC has also barred employees from sharing outside journalism about Gaza.
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Israel's Toronto consulate was secretly behind an opinion poll that experts say inflated support for Israel's attack on Gaza. Emma Paling and Martin Lukacs report that messages show Liberal insiders strategized about using the poll to sway the PMO:
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Almost 15 years ago, Avi Lewis visited Gaza. There, he had a chilling encounter with the Israeli military and its violent colonial outlook—a “logic that leads to genocide.”
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A venture capital fund led by ex-PM Stephen Harper has poured hundreds of millions into Israeli defence and security companies. Tim Groves investigates the dystopian tech these companies are selling to clients that include Israel's Ministry of Defense.
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Israel’s assault on Gaza has become a flashpoint in Canadian media. This week, Martin Lukacs and Emma Paling dive deep into the current state of reporting, from CTV’s anti-Palestinian bias to the arrest of Palestine solidarity activists in Toronto.
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The raids and arrests of Palestine solidarity activists after the postering of Indigo represent an attack on political speech not seen in a generation. Naomi Klein writes that the one person who can put an end to this criminalization is Heather Reisman.
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International students have been the target of recent outrage for using food banks “meant for local residents.” But, as Kunal Chaudhary writes, these students are some of the most exploited workers in the country, and they’re deserving of support.
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Toronto police conducted pre-dawn raids on activists who postered Indigo—a major operation that a policing expert says is usually used for “gun and drug” busts. Martin Lukacs reports the pursuit of hate crime charges is an attack on Palestine solidarity.
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