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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Nov 15
Hi there! We’ve been here for a second, but we figured this is a great time to re-introduce ourselves.

To newbies: we’re The Breach, an award-winning independent media outlet delivering journalism for transformation.

We cover politics, labour, climate, social movements, and more: breachmedia.ca
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Journalism to map a just, viable future. Launched May, 2021.
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Before he was Manitoba Premier, Wab Kinew investigated the school-to-prison pipeline and rapped about police brutality.

So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?

@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
Wab Kinew wants more cops in schools—despite his own work exposing their harm
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.

Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.

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The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach
While billionaires bet against the hyped up multi-trillion-dollar AI market, Canada’s government is doubling down
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Reporting on the fossil fuel lobbyist takeover via @breachmedia.ca.

Who’s more of a threat to have in the Blue Zone? Tourmaline Oil or Indigenous people from the Amazon? #COP30
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Carney’s 2025 budget promises to “right-size” the federal public service, but behind the numbers are real tens of thousands of Canadians facing job loss.

These cuts threaten not just public servants, but everyone who depends on the programs they deliver. breachmedia.ca/canada-publi...
‘Devastating and demoralizing’: public service braces for wave of cuts ⋆ The Breach
Carney’s austerity plan risks hollowing out government and hurting service delivery
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November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.

Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
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November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.

Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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On our latest podcast episode:
-Doug Ford's assault on tenants via changes to the landlord tenant board
-the federal housing plan with big goals and few details

have a listen
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm.

@ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney and Doug Ford keep serving Big Landlords ⋆ The Breach
Economist Ricardo Tranjan joins Desmond Cole to discuss how Ford and Carney’s housing policies heavily favours corporate landlords
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October 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons.

Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Tim Hortons’ migrant workers are being scapegoated to distract from corporate greed
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October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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New from me in @breachmedia.ca: It's easy to see Ford's war on bike lanes as a personal vendetta and an attempt to stir up a culture war. But more than that, it's part of a bigger pattern of Ford serving corporate interests – from real estate firms to Uber.
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Doug Ford’s new omnibus bill hides a major gift to corporate lobbyists: a ban on turning car lanes into bike lanes.

@desaima.bsky.social notes that the move mirrors demands from the Toronto Region Board of Trade. It won’t fix traffic—but it will keep oil companies and Uber happy.
Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach
Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists
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October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Doug Ford’s new omnibus bill hides a major gift to corporate lobbyists: a ban on turning car lanes into bike lanes.

@desaima.bsky.social notes that the move mirrors demands from the Toronto Region Board of Trade. It won’t fix traffic—but it will keep oil companies and Uber happy.
Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach
Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists
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October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A new report obtained exclusively by The Breach shows how Canada’s biggest landlords are profiting from racialized displacement—targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods, evicting tenants, and driving up rents. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach
New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents
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October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics—or cement its decline.

Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social analyze emerging themes of the race from “purity tests" to class war proclamations to candidates flouting race rules. breachmedia.ca/who-can-revi...
Who can revive the NDP and take it leftward? ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss how the NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics—or cement its decline
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October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Breach’s Martin Lukacs is coming to the West Coast!

Join us this week for launches of our books ‘When Genocide Wasn’t News,’ and ‘The Poilievre Project.’

For more information: breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"

An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca

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Why Canada needs public grocery stores
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October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores.

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs.

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Why Canada needs public grocery stores
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October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England

The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent

My latest for @breachmedia.ca

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New hate crime law is a cover for suppressing Palestine protests ⋆ The Breach
The proposed 'Combatting Hate Act' is built on the idea that protests inspire hateful violence, and gives police the tools to crack down on expression
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October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Mark Carney is rolling out legislation to supposedly crack down on hate crimes.

@desmondcole.bsky.social argues it's a bait-and-switch, a cynical attempt to blame public expressions, especially in solidarity with Palestine, for wholly unrelated acts of violence. breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...
New hate crime law is a cover for suppressing Palestine protests ⋆ The Breach
The proposed 'Combatting Hate Act' is built on the idea that protests inspire hateful violence, and gives police the tools to crack down on expression
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October 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Epidemiologist Nima Machouf was among 6 Canadians on a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel, and attacked by helicopter, early this morning.

Last week @kratchanov.bsky.social interviewed Machouf for @pivot.quebec, who called on Canada to take action to reign in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Canadian aboard intercepted Gaza flotilla calls on Ottawa to help stop Israel’s genocide ⋆ The Breach
In an interview conducted before her ship was seized, Quebec epidemiologist Nimâ Machouf explains why civilian activists are risking interception at sea to challenge Israel’s illegal 18-year blockade ...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Mark Carney is out to dismantle Canada Post. Who stands to benefit?

Dru Oja Jay, a long-time collaborator of @cupwsttp.bsky.social discusses how the post office could be a “genuinely positive nation building project."

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Why Mark Carney is putting Canada Post on the chopping block ⋆ The Breach
Dru Oja Jay breaks down how dismantling Canada Post fits into Mark Carney’s austerity agenda
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October 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Special @breachmedia.ca event in Toronto tonight, with 200+ guests to hear @desmondcole.bsky.social invu with @pacinthe.bsky.social and Sonya Fatah about the fab book “When Genocide Wasn’t News.” breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post?

The billionaire class.

If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
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October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Carney’s attack on the public postal service isn’t just brutal austerity—it’s a missed opportunity.

Dru Oja Jay argues the government could harness the unparalleled infrastructure of the postal network to offer public banking, elder check-ins, and more. breachmedia.ca/government-i...
Government is suppressing postal workers. It should be learning from their innovative ideas ⋆ The Breach
If the government listened to postal workers, they could be implementing win-win measures that create secure meaningful jobs as well as address the crises of affordability, isolation, and climate brea...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Federal Liberals are cutting back on temporary foreign workers coming to Canada. But what about those already here, who continue to work in precarious conditions, during an anti-immigrant backlash?

My latest podcast for @breachmedia.ca with Deena Ladd breachmedia.ca/confronting-...
Confronting a new anti-immigrant chapter in Canada ⋆ The Breach
Deena Ladd on how the Liberals’ harsher immigration policies negatively affect all workers
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September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Liberals are passing harsher immigration policies and helping fan the flames of xenophobia, making life harder for migrants who are already here.

Deena Ladd joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how to confront Canada’s new anti-immigrant chapter. breachmedia.ca/confronting-...
Confronting a new anti-immigrant chapter in Canada ⋆ The Breach
Deena Ladd on how the Liberals’ harsher immigration policies negatively affect all workers
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September 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM