Tannara Yelland

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.

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.

Oct 23, 2024 | breachmedia.ca | Tannara Yelland

As Canada’s housing woes spiral out of control, corporate media and politicians have landed on a scapegoat: immigrants. “It’s very simple math,” Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said. “If you have more families coming than you have housing for them, it’s going to inflate housing prices.”While this makes for a convenient soundbite, it bypasses the root cause of much of the housing issue in Canada: investors gone wild.

Oct 3, 2024 | breachmedia.ca | Katia Innes |Tannara Yelland

In Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan, public policy appears to be open to the “highest bidder.”Thanks to lax regulations for campaign financing, Premier Moe’s Saskatchewan Party has lined its pockets with donations from corporate landlords, oil and gas companies, financial firms, and the largest landowner in the province. Since Moe became premier in 2018, the Saskatchewan Party has raised over $6.7 million in corporate donations.

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.