The Breach

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2026-02-04 20:19:40 UTC

While Poilievre and his MPs talked up being the “party of Canadian workers,” the Conservative's new top council shows other priorities.
Our analysis shows half the council are recent or active lobbyists for oil & gas, Big Tech, telecoms and pharma giants.
https://breachmedia.ca/pierre-poilievres-new-governing-council-stacked-with-corporate-lobbyists

2025-12-09 21:53:47 UTC

Canada’s Big Six banks have engineered a $2.2 trillion mortgage debt bubble.
According to a new report, banks’ lending practices have pushed home prices out of reach and left the public holding the bag.
https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-big-banks-are-a-culprit-driving-housing-prices-out-of-control/

2025-11-18 19:51:39 UTC

While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.
Tech expert Jim Thomas writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
https://breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-be-about-to-burst/

2025-11-06 21:56:50 UTC

Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. https://breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for-tanks-banks-and-oil-barons/

2025-10-21 16:27:08 UTC

The NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics—or cement its decline.
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole analyze emerging themes of the race from “purity tests" to class war proclamations to candidates flouting race rules. https://breachmedia.ca/who-can-revive-the-ndp-and-take-it-leftward/

2025-09-04 17:49:27 UTC

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.
JaredWalker and Silas Xuereb argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidden-tax-crisis-is-stripping-15-billion-from-the-economy-every-year/

2025-08-28 18:22:51 UTC

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:
https://youtu.be/V-p7hYmKRqI

2025-08-19 18:36:41 UTC

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: https://miramichireader.ca/2025/08/when-genocide-wasnt-news-edited-by-martin-lukacs-dania-majid-and-jason-toney
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2025-07-24 16:42:51 UTC

The Liberal government wants to push ahead with adopting AI—handing the reins to Big Tech.
Paris Marx breaks down the impact on workers, public services, and the most vulnerable.
https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-ai-agenda-is-a-gift-to-big-tech/

2025-06-05 19:31:54 UTC

Governments across Canada are bulldozing Indigenous peoples’ rights as part of a new resource push.
Pam Palmater joins Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s legal obligations to Indigenous peoples—and the resistance on the horizon. https://breachmedia.ca/indigenous-rights-energy-superpower-canada-bulldoze/

2025-03-28 14:58:27 UTC

Exclusive: Pierre Poilievre has bashed asylum seekers for crossing into Canada and pledged to deport many of them.
But documents reveal his own relative crossed at Roxham Road—and then was helped by Anaida Poilievre and a MP’s office to stay in Canada. https://breachmedia.ca/hypocritical-pierre-poilievre-slammed-illegal-border-crossers-relative-crossed-conservatives/

2025-02-25 20:34:38 UTC

Ontario’s housing allowance for the unemployed is just $390 a month—less than a quarter of average rent.
Desmond Cole writes about how this starvation-level rate is part of Ontario’s decades-long war on the poor—and how no party has a plan to fix it. https://breachmedia.ca/ontarios-rent-allowance-isnt-a-safety-net-its-a-poverty-trap/

2024-10-23 16:26:50 UTC

Politicians and the media say immigrants are causing the housing crisis—but they're actually just a scapegoat.
Tannara Yelland writes that the real fault lies with governments and investors—and the profit role that housing plays in our economy.
https://breachmedia.ca/investors-immigrants-fuelling-housing-crisis/

2024-10-18 18:15:36 UTC

In Alberta and Saskatchewan, policy-makers are throwing out the evidence and crafting a frightening new war on drugs.
Euan Thomson reports that if Pierre Poilievre wins the next election, the policy playbook could go national.
https://breachmedia.ca/drug-policy-canada-prairies-dark-future/

2024-10-10 21:12:38 UTC

Chrystia Freeland has long denied the truth about her Nazi-collaborating grandfather.
In an excerpt from his new book, Peter McFarlane offers the most authoritative study yet of his role and why, today, he could be charged with the crime of genocide.
https://breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freelands-denials-grandfather-complicit-nazi-genocide/