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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.
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BREAKING: More than a dozen MPs’ offices have been occupied in cities across Canada, with activists called for a
#CeasefireNOW
— and reading names of more than 8,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
Inside Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s office in Montreal:
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CTV told journalists not to use the word “Palestine” and cultivated a “culture of fear” about reporting critically on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
@emmapaling
obtained internal docs and interviewed Bell Media staff who say their coverage is one-sided.
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A sweeping, heavily-resourced Toronto Police operation has been cracking down on pro-Palestinian activists.
In a new investigation,
@Martin_Lukacs
reports on tactics of night raids, surveillance, intimidation, and trumped-up "hate crime" charges.
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Help us launch a new Canadian media outlet — adversarial, unbeholden to corporate owners, and committed to enlarging the sense of what’s politically possible.
Sustain this journalism by becoming a founding member of The Breach:
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Pierre Poilievre is scapegoating immigrants for the housing crisis, claiming it’s just “simple math.”
But his math doesn’t add up.
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To win power, Pierre Poilievre will rely on an effective, dangerous playbook.
Masquerading as an anti-establishment populist, he aims to ride anger over inequality & cost of living into office—then hand the keys to the 1 percent.
@Martin_lukacs
explains his playbook & agenda:
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Two Canadian doctors have returned from a medical mission to Gaza, where they witnessed Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians.
"This is not a war on Hamas,” says
@aalkassem
. “This is a war on the children of Gaza."
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When Hamas kills, CBC describes them as "vicious" and "brutal.”
When Israel kills, it uses much less charged language.
Based on newly obtained emails,
@emmapaling
reports CBC openly justifies this because it says Israel kills Palestinians "remotely."
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The Canadian government is a world leader in pretending to be a world leader in environmentalism.
Watch this ad from the brightest minds in Ottawa, who have cooked up a new climate solution: flushing a trillion litres of oil sands waste into Alberta’s largest river.
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10 years ago Stephen Harper was one of the world's most extreme defenders of Israeli aggression.
Today he's leading an investment firm pouring hundreds of millions into Israeli surveillance, military & security firms.
Our exposé:
My thanks to the Speaker of Israel’s Knesset
@AmirOhana
for his warm welcome to Jerusalem today. Ten years ago last month I addressed the Knesset as Prime Minister of Canada. Today I am visiting Israel once again to renew friendships and stand in solidarity at this time of
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Toronto police conducted pre-dawn raids on activists who postered Indigo—a major operation that a policing expert says is usually used for “gun and drug” busts.
@Martin_Lukacs
reports the pursuit of hate crime charges is an attack on Palestine solidarity.
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If you read Canada’s major newspapers, Palestinians have never been massacred—only Israelis.
The outlets regularly describe as fact the massacre of Israelis by Hamas, but have never described as fact Israel’s massacres of Palestinians.
Read our analysis:
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A week after Selina Robinson met with UBC's president, the anthropology department was asked to delete a statement about Gaza from its site.
@emmapaling
reports the department had expressed concern with "genocidal violence" against Palestinians.
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While receiving an honorary degree from Acadia University today,
@ElJonesPoet
praised students across the country who are “standing against a genocide” in Gaza.
“Over the past few months, we have been told that it is our words and not bombs that are harmful and violent.”
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For months, Canada's government used misleading statements to hide the fact it was issuing weapons export permits for Israel.
But the truth is out: Canada is permitting more weapons exports for Israel than ever before while the state stands accused of genocide.
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Canadians are filling the streets for a ceasefire in Gaza, but Justin Trudeau won’t budge.
Why?
Canada and Israel share the values of settler colonial states—and Canada’s playing its role within the U.S. empire.
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REVEALED: Canadian pension funds invested nearly $1 billion in a water privatization scheme led by far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
It's being challenged in court in Brazil as "illegal."
Read our investigation:
Our video report:
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Universities and police targeted Pro-Palestine encampments across Canada with a pattern of misinformation, revealed by internal emails, recordings, and interviews.
@brish_ti
,
@savannacraig
& Athina Khalid investigate the lies that justified crackdowns.
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Contrary to what politicians and pundits are claiming,
#FreePalestine
isn’t a radical opinion: it’s shared by a vast majority of Canadians.
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Since its inception, Canada has been stealing Indigenous lands — by the barrel of a gun, by starvation tactics & by tearing children from their families.
In our first video explainer,
@Pam_Palmater
argues symbolic gestures won’t amount to justice.
It’s time for Land Back.
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Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General screened job applicants who had signed a pro-Palestine letter.
@KunalChaudhary_
reports that experts say the hiring policy is racist and a "flagrant disregard" for constitutional rights.
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Pierre Poilievre is betting that enough people will believe his rhetoric that he wants to solve the crises of housing and cost of living, and deliver “freedom.”
The Breach has looked into some of his policies and ideas—and where they came from—in depth. 🧵
#cdnpoli
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The
@globeandmail
was set to publish a lecture by famed author Pankaj Mishra, as he received the Weston Award.
Then they edited out every mention of Israel from his criticisms of the western media’s complicity in U.S. wars and Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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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,
@brish_ti
exposes how med schools and hospitals are silencing Palestinian solidarity.
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With wildfires threatening cities from Yellowknife to Kelowna, Canada's climate crisis has reached a terrifying new pitch.
But
@solmamakwa
and Indigenous leaders insist there's another way: stop building pipelines, invest in alternatives, and respect Indigenous rights.
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Despite Rosemary Barton's best attempts to stop her,
@MonaAbuamara
told the truth about the Hamas attack on Israel live on CBC.
"Everything that we're seeing today...are symptoms of the root of the cause, which is apartheid."
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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
&
@timmgroves
report on the Israeli spy tech firm controlled by Harper & partners.
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Canada's most popular news show, CTV National News, has featured far more Israeli than Palestinian voices—and didn’t identify almost half of the Palestinians.
In a comprehensive survey,
@emmapaling
and
@chund3r
report on CTV’s racist double standard.
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Despite the Canadian media’s relentless anti-Palestian bias, 4 out of 10 Canadians agree that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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Journalists at CBC say a Breach exposé last week resonated in their newsroom
@brish_ti
reports that they say anti-Palestinian bias is rampant, with one calling CBC’s denials “ludicrous.”
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Canada was once on track to be a leader in high-speed rail—and then we chose highways.
But we don't have to stay married to cars. A different future is possible with renewable, accessible public transit.
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CBC's The National featured 42% more Israeli voices than Palestinian, even as 7 times more Palestinians were killed in the first month.
@emmapaling
&
@ReviewofJourn
report CBC has also barred employees from sharing outside journalism about Gaza.
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We’ve obtained a report that accuses Canada of covering for mining companies in Tigray—where the Ethiopian state has been waging a brutal war.
The support for mining has happened under the guise of Liberals' “feminist” aid principles.
by
@fitsumareguy
:
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When Trudeau called Canada an oil **company**, he accidentally spoke a truth.
Canada was an extractive corporation before it was a country—and it has deeply shaped our colonial political elite.
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read the piece:
A recent poll has found an increasing number of Canadians are starting to link immigration to the housing crisis. Experts say large increases in immigration have stressed the country's housing supply, but immigration is also needed to fill gaps in the labour market and build more
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The Canadian government’s anti-Palestinian stance isn’t a new one.
For the past decade, they’ve voted against at least 149 UN resolutions on Palestinian rights.
Only the United States has supported Israel more staunchly.
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Canada's major newspapers are failing to present the breadth of public opinion about Gaza.
An analysis by
@JeremyAppel1025
found the vast majority of recent op-eds cheered on Israel's war, while only a small fraction expressed any opposition.
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An investigation from The Breach shows the Trudeau government commissioned a poll that tried to manufacture low support for “defunding police.”
Media outlets then ran with it.
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Canadian workers are almost universally required to contribute to public pension funds.
But as
@kunalchaudhary_
reports, these funds have invested $1.6 billion in companies and arms manufacturers supporting Israel's apartheid and its assault on Gaza.
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A Canadian company is the only one in the world making a special part for Israeli warplanes bombing Palestinians.
In Europe, the existence of such a sole-source supplier of F-35 parts has become “vital” to a legal attempt to halt Dutch exports to Israel.
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Despite the media’s fixation on “mom and pop landlords,” the Canadian property owning class in fact looks very different.
They’re made up of corporate, financial and wealthy investors raising rents to record highs and making giant profits.
WATCH:
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Documents obtained by The Breach reveal the Trudeau government commissioned a poll that tried to manufacture low support for “defunding police.”
Then media outlets amplified it.
@TedRutland
reports in a new investigation.
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REVEALED: Natural Resources Minister
@SeamusORegan
chaired secret meetings with CEOs of Petronas, Cenovus, Suncor & Chevron.
Read our exposé of how Justin Trudeau’s government formed a committee with Big Oil to discuss “new opportunities” for industry.
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As
@AyyashMohannad
prepared to speak about Palestinian liberation to about 20 people at York University, police officers entered the room.
Their presence proved an important point: in Canada, any honest talk of Palestine is a threat to the status quo.
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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.
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The testimony of Canadian doctors who went to Gaza may help indict Israel.
@brish_ti
reports on what
@yipengGe
and
@BenNephrology
shared to international lawyers building a war crimes case against the Israeli state.
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The Breach analyzed 7 weeks of newspaper coverage of the war on Gaza—and found more attention, humanization, and outrage for the deaths of Israelis.
The study of the Globe, Toronto Star, and National Post shows a pattern of deep anti-Palestinian bias.
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NEW: Residential schools took away children, so Canada could take away the land.
They weren’t schools of instruction but destruction, sinister machines of dispossession of Indigenous life and land.
And the dispossession hasn’t stopped.
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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
,
@chund3r
,
@XavierRicherVis
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For
@TheGrindTO
,
@michael_deforge
turned our reporting on anti-Palestinian bias in Canadian media into one stunning graphic.
See a hard copy in the new issue of The Grind and read the full articles here:
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Media stoked a bogus story that activists targeting Indigo’s CEO were “antisemitic”—when they in fact were protesting her support of Israel’s military.
Then police unleashed raids reserved for armed suspects, and are now gunning for “hate crime” charges.
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Canadian companies are supplying key parts for the F-35 fighter jets Israel is using to destroy Gaza.
Liberals are letting it happen, despite claiming they’ve stopped weapons exports to Israel.
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Despite having its charity status revoked, Canada's Jewish National Fund continues to quietly fund Israel’s illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Evading soldiers and settlers,
@anna_lippman
reports from the West Bank.
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CBC has barred its journalists from sharing other outlets' coverage of Gaza on social media, despite not having their own reporter on the ground.
The policy appears to be a Palestine exception, as CBC's general policy allows sharing outside links.
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94% of Nunavut students speak Inuktut, but the education system is dominated by English and French: a result of decades of policy that Inuit leaders call “linguicide.”
Now Inuit are suing to force authorities to provide K-12 learning in Inuktut.
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The Conservative Party has denied The Breach accreditation for its upcoming convention.
Several press freedom organizations are calling for it to reverse its decision.
We've been working with many of Canada's top press freedom groups trying to get more information about why
@thebreachmedia
was denied media accreditation to attend
#CPC23
.
(Insert radio silence)
@CPC_HQ
HT to friends
@CJFE
@PENCanada
@pressforward_ca
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Canada refused to back a UN resolution for a ceasefire—the latest in the country’s complicity in Israeli aggression.
In last decade, Liberal & Conservative governments have voted against *149* UN resolutions on Palestinian rights—making it Israel's 2nd main backer after the US.
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A warning from Noam Chomsky:
🇨🇦 had a decent health care system, but is now moving toward the United States' model of profit gouging, inefficient bureaucracy and double the costs of comparable countries.
“From one of the better health systems in the world, to the worst one.”
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The Breach was recognized at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards last night with a GOLD for best video content.
The winning video breaks down Pierre Poilievre's fake populist playbook.
Watch it now:
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The raids and arrests of Palestine solidarity activists after the postering of Indigo represent an attack on political speech not seen in a generation.
@NaomiAKlein
writes that the one person who can put an end to this criminalization is Heather Reisman.
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Two years ago, the Palestinian Youth Movement's Montreal chapter had three members.
Now, they have 80 regular members and volunteers, and they've organized marches attended by over 60,000 people.
#FreePalestine
has become a nationwide movement.
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Canada’s media shouldn’t just care about RCMP violence when it's perpetrated against settler journalists.
In their 1st long interview since being arrested in Wet’suwet’en territory, journalists
@photobracken
&
@M_Tol
speak to The Breach's
@berrygrounds
.
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The Alberta oil sands’ waste has to go somewhere—so let's flush it down the Athabasca river.
Because what is the Canadian landscape, if not a public toilet for Big Oil's private waste?
A message from the Government of Canada™:
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Students who’ve set up camp at McGill have faced torrential downpour, a court injunction, and threats of police violence.
But they’re refusing to move until their demands are met: divestment from companies and universities implicated in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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Cops crashed
@AyyashMohannad
's lecture on Palestinian liberation—and ended up proving one of his points.
By repressing honest talk about Palestine, Ayyash writes, Canada and its universities are complicit in Israel's colonialism and genocide.
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The Canadian government is implicated in the Israeli state’s oppression of Palestinians.
Over the last decades, Canada’s military exports to Israel have increased—including explosives, torpedoes and missiles.
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B.C.'s Green leader wants to make sure John Horgan is the last premier who can leave office and immediately go to work for Big Coal.
@SoniaFurstenau
has tabled a bill to strengthen conflict of interest rules—so that moves like Horgan's are made illegal:
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Journalists and politicians are saying Canada's dangerous wildfire season could become our "new normal."
Indigenous activists have a different idea: stop emitting greenhouse gases, invest in climate adaptation and start imagining an economy that isn't based on extraction.
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From the ports of B.C. to the grocery stores of Toronto, workers are saying, "Enough is enough."
Thousands of Canadian workers have walked off the job this summer to fight for higher wages and fair conditions.
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Newspapers across Canada are suddenly linking the housing crisis to immigration.
But their arguments don't add up. And they do nothing to address the real force behind high housing prices: unregulated developers and investors.
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How are you going to pay for it?” is a common question posed when progressive policies are suggested.
The answer is simple: tax the ultra wealthy.
With a progressive wealth tax rate of 1% on people with net wealth above $10 million, 2% above $50 million and 3% above $100
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Self-styled working class hero Pierre Poilievre isn’t fundraising in union halls.
He’s doing it in mansions with 10-car garages and dressing rooms the size of apartments.
@Martin_Lukacs
and Katia Lo Innes tour the Canadian elite hosting Poilievre:
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Pierre Poilievre’s been rolling out ads and speeches touting his party as a defender of working people.
But our investigation shows the lobbyists turning up at lavish fundraisers reflect the party's corporate backers who have long sought to screw workers.
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The U.S. government is suing a high tech real estate company for illegally helping landlords drive up rents across America.
Documents now reveal that the company’s rental-price-setting service is being used in Canada by mega landlord Dream Unlimited.
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On Sunday, a few dozen residents blockaded a convoy headed to Parliament.
By evening, thousands had joined the
#BattleofBillingsBridge
.
@JamesRHutt
, one of its organizers, writes how the action should be a model for how to combat the
#OttawaOccupation
.
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On election night, want more than just horse-race analysis from bland pundits?
Join us for our
#Electionsesh2021
. We’ll go from 8:00 till late on Monday with Naomi Klein, El Jones, Pam Palmater, and lots of other amazing guests.
RSVP:
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Pierre Poilievre is blaming immigrants for the housing crisis, claiming it’s “simple math.”
But his math isn’t mathing.
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Canada has never stopped stealing from First Nations.
In our new animated video,
@Pam_Palmater
offers a powerful, inspiring vision of what Canada could look like if we fought for Land Back.
A country that's not only just, but more sustainable for all.
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Unpaid household work in Canada was worth $860.2B in 2019—more than manufacturing, wholesale, and retail industries combined. On Labour Day, it's worth remembering the groundbreaking campaigns for Wages for Housework.
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A new investigation reveals how hospitals and medical schools across Canada are suspending or sanctioning doctors for voicing support for Palestinian liberation.
There are no such repercussions for those voicing support for Israel's assault on Gaza.
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Canadian pundits are falling over themselves to blame immigration for high housing prices.
But as
@hussansk
explains, there are some big problems with their argument. First of all—it's not true.
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A secretive committee within the Ontario Attorney General's Ministry has given backing to the Toronto police’s targeting of pro-Palestine activism.
@Martin_Lukacs
reports on a group of Crown prosecutors whose members are shaped by anti-Palestinian bias.
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Pride is facing a new backlash, this time over Palestine.
@TheMaimann
reports on the LGBTQ+ groups demanding mainstream Pride events divest from corporate sponsors complicit in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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In the case of Rohingyas in Myanmar, Canada argued that starvation was genocide.
The fact that the Liberals won't apply the same logic to Israel's siege on Gaza exposes Canada's double standard, explains
@MarkKersten
.
Read more:
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Six public pension funds in Canada have invested $1.6 billion in companies tied to Israeli apartheid.
This includes CPP, the mandatory fund for almost all Canadian workers, which has invested in weapons dealers like Lockheed Martin.
Read more:
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Rising food prices are a chronic trend in Canada—and the main driver isn't COVID-19, war in Ukraine or farmers charging more.
It's oligopolistic companies taking ever-larger pieces of the pie, as farmers and consumers get screwed,
@emmapaling
reports.
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CBC featured as many as 7X more Israelis than Palestinians on some broadcasts of The National in its first month of Israel/Gaza coverage.
An IDF official was also able to make false claims about the Israeli military's conduct without pushback.
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The wildfire evacuations and smoke hitting Canadian cities this summer have been a reality for Indigenous communities for years.
Those on the front lines say Canada needs to change course fast: renewable energy, firefighting resources for First Nations, and no more pipelines.
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Our media would like us to forget Canada’s legacy in Afghanistan: subservience to the U.S., occupation and murder, torture and resource pillage, leading to the inevitable return of Taliban.
@le_shipster
offers an accounting of the crimes in Afghanistan:
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Pierre Poilievre is blasting “corporate lobbyists in Ottawa who are focussed on getting lunches with ministers at the Rideau Club.”
But our investigation reveals these lobbyists are also getting dinners with him at exclusive clubs across the country.
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Pierre Poilievre’s main solution to the housing crisis is to “increase supply.”
It's in fact a non-solution that will make money for investors but will NOT make housing affordable for working-class people,
@danjdarrah
has reported.
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Messages obtained by The Breach show that an opinion poll that found high support for Israel's attack on Gaza was secretly backed by the Israeli consulate.
The pollster did not disclose the connection. One expert called it "an outrageous covert op."
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When landlords jack up rent, the media treats it like business as usual.
But when renters use their legal rights to ask for compensation to give up tenancy, it’s “extortion?”
@geordiedent
myth busts the CBC's pro-landlord double-standard:
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Workers across Canada are fighting back against unlivable wages—and an economy that lets corporate profits swell while they struggle to get by.
"The economy cannot sustain itself when the people who are earning the paycheques can't afford to live," says
@Lanampayne
.
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A group of B.C. towns are signing up to sue oil and gas companies for billions in damages from climate breakdown.
@isaacnaynay
takes us into a campaign aiming to shift where blame gets put for the climate crisis—squarely onto the shoulders of Big Oil.
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The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences from The Globe and Mail's coverage of pro-Palestine student encampments.
We found Canada's paper of record often negatively characterized student protesters while typically casting police violence as neutral.
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