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Nov 27, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Tannara Yelland |Martin Lukacs
Since early September, Canada’s corporate law enforcement agency has been investigating landlords over high-tech rental price-fixing, The Breach has learned. The investigation by the Competition Bureau was sparked by an article published in The Breach, which exposed how Canadian real estate developer Dream Unlimited and its property managers were using an artificial intelligence software known as YieldStar.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs |Lucy Uprichard |Tannara Yelland |Amanda Siino
Make no mistake, Donald Trump’s election is a gift to every reactionary in Canada. A new Trump administration will directly pressure the federal government on many key policy fronts. It will also set a new, low bar that the corporate elite and right-wing Canadian politicians will try to push the country to meet.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs
When Pankaj Mishra’s article for The Globe and Mail was returned to him with every mention of Israel edited out, he was not surprised.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Tannara Yelland |Martin Lukacs
When legislation was introduced in the House of Commons this summer to ensure that flight attendants are fairly paid, the person standing up for their rights was an unlikely ally: a Conservative parliamentarian with a history of doing anything but supporting workers.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs
In May, Liberal Housing Minister Sean Fraser dined with British Columbia’s “Condo King” and a group of big real estate developers at an intimate private fundraiser in Vancouver. While Canadians are struggling to afford record-high rent and mortgage payments, the Liberal Party is taking donations from real estate CEOs—some of whom run companies that have benefited from the federal government’s financing of housing developments.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Katia Innes |Martin Lukacs
What do you get when a Weston, a Bronfman, and a Stronach walk into a mansion? A fundraiser for Pierre Poilievre, apparently. You might think the Conservative leader’s money-raising efforts would reflect the image he’s cultivated as an anti-establishment champion of working people. But Poilievre isn’t fundraising in local legion and union halls. He’s doing it in homes that boast tennis courts, 10-car garages, and dressing rooms the size of some big city apartments.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs
Loblaw chairman Galen Weston Jr, the creaseless face of inherited Canadian wealth, smiled serenely at parliamentarians as he explained why, when it came to rising food prices, his company was blameless.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs
A secretive committee within the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General has given “politically-motivated” backing to the Toronto police’s targeting of pro-Palestine activism, a Breach investigation can reveal. The committee has attempted to thwart the withdrawal of criminal charges against individuals involved in peaceful protests since Oct. 7, multiple lawyers told The Breach.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Katia Innes |Martin Lukacs
On a crisp evening last November, Regina’s business elite mingled among gleaming Hot Rods in a spacious private hangar on the outskirts of the city. With a view overlooking a giant car collection from a skydeck lounge, they dined on racks of lamb and ribs catered by an upscale steakhouse whose regular menu includes $140 steak. The main attraction of the night, apart from the classic Cadillac sedans and custom Chevrolet convertibles, was Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
breachmedia.ca | Martin Lukacs
A foreign multinational company can export Canadian blood plasma products for profit abroad, The Breach has learned. That flies in the face of what’s been pledged by Canadian Blood Services and Grifols, the Spanish multinational corporation that is trying to open private plasma collection centres across Ontario and already operates in some other provinces.
