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@breachmedia.caThe BC Supreme Court says Canada needs a legal pathway for “compassion clubs” that aim to reduce overdose deaths by supplying safer drugs.
Lawyer DJ Larkin and @desmondcole.bsky.social discuss the harm reduction organizers who risked jail time to challenge the law.
@breachmedia.caAvi Lewis is a Jewish politician refusing to be silent about Israel’s genocide—and now he’s being threatened with violence.
@judred.bsky.social writes that the lack of uproar reveals just how powerful the pro-Israel consensus remains among Canada’s elite.
@breachmedia.caDanielle Smith is blaming immigrants for Alberta’s overcrowded schools and understaffed hospitals.
Bronwyn Bragg sits down with Saima Desai to bust the immigration myths in the Alberta referendum.
@breachmedia.caAs youth unemployment rises, it is hard to find a decent job—unless you want to enlist.
Gabriela Calugay-Casuga explores how the Carney government is making military jobs more attractive while it cuts the public sector and abandons a pledge to fund youth climate jobs
@breachmedia.caAt Canada’s biggest annual AI summit in Montreal, journalist Marcus Werner went to ask politicians, executives, and protesters alike: is the public demand for AI real, or is it manufactured hype to sell Canadians on immensely profitable tech?
@breachmedia.caCarney’s investment summit advanced a right-wing corporate agenda—from airport privatization to tax breaks to environmental deregulation—while dressing it up as patriotic.
Martin Lukacs joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to break down what happened
@breachmedia.caMark Carney is inviting the world’s billionaires to “peer into Canada’s shop window” during the Canada Investment Summit.
Gulf despots are among his most hotly-courted buyers, explain Anthony Fenton and @desaima.bsky.social—despite their gruesome human-rights abuses.
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@breachmedia.caAs the public backlash to AI and data centres swells, pro-AI politicians are trying to anxiously spin.
Marcus Werner debunks the PR push underway to justify public handouts to tech oligarchs.
@marygillis.bsky.socialReposted by @breachmedia.ca"In sum, Carney seems to be planning to sell off public infrastructure we need to help fund private infrastructure we don’t—with our money covering the risk, while investors make off with the profits."
@breachmedia.caMark Carney says his glitzy investment summit will attract major capital to Canada.
But as Nikolas Barry-Shaw & Martin Lukacs write, what Carney may be putting on the table is Canada itself—and a fire-sale of the country’s essential public infrastructure.
@breachmedia.caNew NDP leader Avi Lewis pledged to take the party leftward, reconnect it to social movements, and democratize its inner workings.
@desmondcole.bsky.social joins Lewis in the Toronto Beaches—East York by-election to take a look at the party’s rebuild. youtu.be/l7wXEkLGHiw
@blivesey.bsky.socialReposted by @breachmedia.caIs Doug Ford finished? Read my 5,000 plus word feature on his corrupt and disastrous reign as Ontario's premier in the Breach: breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and...
@breachmedia.caDoug Ford earned the nickname “Teflon premier,” for the way his many scandals never seem to stick to him.
But his non-stick veneer may be evaporating.
@blivesey.bsky.social examines eight years of Ford in power—and the corruption that might finally take him down. breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and...
@breachmedia.caThe leader of the world’s biggest far-right network has plans to visit Canada this month to shore up support for Hindu nationalism. But hundreds of organizations have joined the call for him to be barred from the country, reports @desaima.bsky.social
@breachmedia.caReporters @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater sit down w/ @desaima.bsky.social to unpack how they uncovered a secret network set up by Canadian universities to crack down on pro-Palestine activism.
They reveal how schools suppressed students & withheld public documents.
@breachmedia.caAs Mark Carney oversees a massive military buildup, Canadians are getting hit with a barrage of propaganda.
Martin Lukacs debunks the myths the country’s elite are peddling to justify this generational theft of public money.
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@desmondcole.bsky.socialReposted by @breachmedia.caA Nova Scotia man spent 18 months in prison over an online username that belonged to someone else
The Crown prosecutor in his case has a history of convictions involving weak evidence and lying witnesses
What are the consequences for prosecutors who pursue these cases? Our latest @breachmedia.ca
@breachmedia.caA Nova Scotia man was wrongfully sent to jail by a prosecutor—and this isn’t the first time it’s happened.
@desmondcole.bsky.social unpacks why we need independent reviews of shady prosecutions in the criminal justice system.
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@breachmedia.caA new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments.
Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
@christoaivalis.bsky.socialReposted by @breachmedia.caThis article from @breachmedia.ca has aged EXTREMELY well
