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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 4d

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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Talin Vartanian @citizentalin.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 7d

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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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 11d

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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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 12d

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?

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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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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 12d

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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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 15d

The Canadian government has finally recognized Palestinian statehood. But this symbolic gesture comes far too little and far too late.

As @desmondcole.bsky.social and El Jones discuss, Mark Carney and establishment media remain complicit in Israel’s genocide.
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Canada shifts its tone on Gaza but not its complicity ⋆ The Breach

El Jones and Desmond Cole discuss why Mark Carney’s support for a Palestinian state rings hollow

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 21d

As criticism of Canada’s oligopolies mount, the establishment media is taking another tack—advising elites invest big in them.

Harrison Samphir an @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social analyze how the media is celebrating the benefits of a cost-of-living crisis for everyone else.

Canada’s media is advising elites to invest in oligoplies—and laugh all the way to the bank ⋆ The Breach

The establishment media praises corporate giants as safe bets for investors—while their outsized power helps cause a cost-of-living crisis for Canadians

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 21d

NEW: For @breachmedia.ca, I reported on how new identity verification requirements the B.C. Greens introduced for its leadership race could stymie Emily Lowan's insurgent campaign, which has nearly doubled party membership in less than two months.

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B.C. Green leadership race rocked by verification fight as anti-establishment candidate surges ⋆ The Breach

A flood of new B.C. Green Party members backing 24-year-old activist Emily Lowan has triggered a stricter vetting process—which supporters say risks suppressing her vote

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 21d

24-year-old Emily Lowan signed up 1000s of new members for the B.C. Green leadership race, only to see them stalled by new vetting system—a sign critics say, of the party’s hostility to her insurgent, anti-billionaire campaign.

@readtheorchard.org reports on the controversy now roiling the party.

B.C. Green leadership race rocked by verification fight as anti-establishment candidate surges ⋆ The Breach

A flood of new B.C. Green Party members backing 24-year-old activist Emily Lowan has triggered a stricter vetting process—which supporters say risks suppressing her vote

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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 23d

Mark Carney has moved Canadian politics to the right. In response, Pierre Poilievre is moving even further right on immigration to distinguish himself from Carney

My latest, with Martin Lukacs for @breachmedia.ca, tracks this latest wave of immigrant scapegoating

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Carney stole his policy book. So Pierre Poilievre is going full anti-immigrant ⋆ The Breach

With Mark Carney co-opting many of the Conservative’s marquee policies, Pierre Poilievre is sharpening his pitch by scapegoating immigrants

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 25d

With Mark Carney moving rightward on policy, Pierre Poilievre has found a new way to distinguish himself: escalating his scapegoating of immigrants.

@desmondcole.bsky.social and Martin Lukacs argue that unless an anti-racist movement confronts these threats, Poilievre’s strategy may work.

Carney stole his policy book. So Pierre Poilievre is going full anti-immigrant ⋆ The Breach

With Mark Carney co-opting many of the Conservative’s marquee policies, Pierre Poilievre is sharpening his pitch by scapegoating immigrants

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Saima Desai @desaima.bsky.social · 26d

Over two thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. And when the left neglects organizing in those suburbs, we give up on reversing the right-wing tide across Canada.

Aniket Kali and I talked to the organizers in the GTA who are working to turn the tide:

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 26d

Conservatives have captured working-class, visible-minority voters in suburbs—in the GTA and across the country.

@desaima.bsky.social and Aniket Kali report on the Left organizers developing a playbook to turn the tide and win them back. breachmedia.ca/to-start-win...

To start winning in Canada, here’s how the Left can organize the suburbs ⋆ The Breach

Conservatives are capturing working-class, visible-minority voters outside Toronto’s downtown—and in suburban neighbourhoods across the country. The Left needs a playbook to win them back

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 26d

Conservatives have captured working-class, visible-minority voters in suburbs—in the GTA and across the country.

@desaima.bsky.social and Aniket Kali report on the Left organizers developing a playbook to turn the tide and win them back. breachmedia.ca/to-start-win...

To start winning in Canada, here’s how the Left can organize the suburbs ⋆ The Breach

Conservatives are capturing working-class, visible-minority voters outside Toronto’s downtown—and in suburban neighbourhoods across the country. The Left needs a playbook to win them back

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 28d

Tonight! Join co-editors Dania Majid, Martin Lukacs, and @cjpme.org's Jason Toney for a conversation about ‘When Genocide Wasn’t News,’ an anthology on Canadian media’s cover-up of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Silas Xuereb @silasxuereb.bsky.social · Sep 5

In our latest for The Breach, Jared and I do a deep dive on how continued tax haven abuse is not just despite our government policy - it's because of our government policy.

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Sep 4

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.

Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
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Canada’s hidden tax crisis is stripping $15 billion from the economy every year ⋆ The Breach

For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Sep 5

After a historic election loss, the NDP faces a key leadership race—and a crossroads in its identity.

Historian Ian McKay joins Martin Lukacs to discuss the party’s long, centrist slide, and what it could do to seize its transformative potential. breachmedia.ca/the-ndps-unt...

The NDP’s untapped radical potential ⋆ The Breach

Historian Ian McKay discusses the NDP’s challenge in confronting Canadian liberalism and its own centrist slide, and what it could do to seize its transformative potential

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Sep 4

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.

Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
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Canada’s hidden tax crisis is stripping $15 billion from the economy every year ⋆ The Breach

For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.

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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · Sep 2

PM Mark Carney is planning the biggest military spending hike since WWII. What federal programs will be cut to pay for this increase?

I spoke with policy analyst and peace activist Steve Staples about missile defence, NATO, and the peace movement

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More weapons, fewer public services: Carney’s military spending bonanza ⋆ The Breach

Policy analyst Steve Staples explains why Carney’s historic military spending hike will only benefit weapons lobby

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Sep 2

Mark Carney is embarking on the biggest military spending hike since WW2.

Policy analyst Steve Staples joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to explain who stands to lose and who to win (hint, it’s mostly the weapons lobby). breachmedia.ca/more-weapons...

More weapons, fewer public services: Carney’s military spending bonanza ⋆ The Breach

Policy analyst Steve Staples explains why Carney’s historic military spending hike will only benefit weapons lobby

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 28

Canada continues to arm Israel—and the Liberal government can’t stop lying about it.

We break down their 4-step playbook for deceiving the public:
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The Liberal playbook of deceit about arming Israel

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Aug 21

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 21

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects.

@shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 21

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects.

@shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 19

The Miramachi Reader reviews The Breach’s new book on the Canadian establishment media’s complicity in the horrors of Gaza: “When Genocide Wasn’t News is essential reading for our time, and asks that we demand better from our media.”

To read their full review: miramichireader.ca/2025/08/when...

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 19

Flight attendants at Air Canada have shown workers acting in solidarity can defy a crackdown on their rights—and strike for a better deal, including ending unpaid work.

As Carney prepares major cuts and attacks on public sector workers, it’s a model for bold labour action. youtu.be/f08RS-o5ohk

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