TheBreach

TheBreach, 28 days ago to random

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.
https://breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewashed-israels-crimes-gaza-firsthand/

TheBreach, 28 days ago to random

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.
https://youtu.be/8jgKJtSmCbE

TheBreach, 1 month ago to random

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.

https://breachmedia.ca/pundits-regularly-attacked-pharmacare-without-disclosing-big-pharma-ties/

TheBreach, 1 month ago to random

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.
https://breachmedia.ca/liberal-policy-gaza-organizing/

TheBreach, 2 months ago to random

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. https://breachmedia.ca/stephen-harpers-firm-behind-spy-tech-israel-is-using-to-target-gazans/

TheBreach, 2 months ago to random

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.
https://breachmedia.ca/china-interference-canada/

TheBreach, 2 months ago to random

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.

https://youtu.be/NlmqO2jlyU8

TheBreach, 2 months ago to random

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.

https://breachmedia.ca/poilievre-fundraiser-lobbyist-conservatives/

TheBreach, 3 months ago to random

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.
https://breachmedia.ca/abuse-of-power-hospitals-med-schools-crack-down-on-palestine-advocacy/

TheBreach, 4 months ago to random

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.

https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-pension-funds-invested-israeli-apartheid/

TheBreach, 6 months ago to random

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:

https://breachmedia.ca/israeli-consulate-backed-aurora-strategies-poll-gaza/

TheBreach, 6 months ago to random

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.

https://breachmedia.ca/naomi-klein-calls-on-heather-reisman-drop-charges-indigo-11/

TheBreach, 7 months ago to random

The stats don’t lie.

The Liberal government is aligned with oil and gas companies, with expansion plans that would make it the world’s second highest oil and gas producer.

TheBreach, 8 months ago to random

A rural community in eastern Ontario is fighting a huge gravel mine that it says could poison drinking water and threaten wetlands.

Its proponent? A construction industry giant with execs and lobbyists who've given $60K to Doug Ford's PCs.

https://breachmedia.ca/doug-ford-donor-cavanagh-pushes-highland-line-pit/

TheBreach, 8 months ago to random

Canada’s government has cozied up to the far-right Indian government, strengthening economic ties and sharing intelligence.

All the while, Kunal Chaudhary writes, they've ignored its attacks on Sikh Canadians—which now includes political assassination.

https://breachmedia.ca/sikh-activist-assassination-india-canada-foreign-interference/