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On criminal justice, Pierre Poilievre offers punishment as safety

3 weeks ago | breachmedia.ca | Desmond Cole

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is determined to put more people behind bars if he becomes prime minister. Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada claim that Canada’s criminal justice system is too weak to deter and punish people who break the law. They want us to believe that more incarceration equals more safety. But the Conservative party rarely talks about the cycles of harm and dysfunction that result from locking people up.
Liberals’ high-speed rail: a fast track to privatization

1 month ago | breachmedia.ca | Taylor C. Noakes

Justin Trudeau’s recent high-speed rail announcement may have been hailed as a positive step towards fulfilling a long-held Liberal promise—but experts warn it’s a privatization scheme in disguise, one that over-promises and under-delivers. On February 19th in Montreal, Trudeau ended months of speculation by announcing that Ottawa was moving forward with plans to build high-speed rail in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor.
Ontario’s rent allowance isn’t a safety net—it’s a poverty trap ⋆ The Breach

1 month ago | breachmedia.ca | Desmond Cole

As homelessness surges across Ontario, the looming election is yet another reminder of the province’s decades-long war on the very poor. Nowhere is this more evident than in the housing allowance provided through Ontario Works, the social assistance program for the unemployed. At just $390 a month for a single person, the so-called housing allowance isn’t a lifeline—it’s a poverty trap.
The Breach Show ⋆ The Breach

2 months ago | breachmedia.ca | Desmond Cole

The Breach ShowThe Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Google or your favourite service.
Mark Carney says he’s a pragmatic outsider—but he’s a banker selling yesterday’s failed ideas ⋆ The Breach

2 months ago | breachmedia.ca | David Moscrop

Mark Carney is probably going to be prime minister. At least for a while. He’s ahead in polling and fundraising for the Liberal leadership race. If he wins it, he gets the big chair. Numbers even suggest he’s tightening the race between his party and the Conservatives, who’ve long been up double digits over the governing side. Carney could win the leadership and hold Pierre Poilievre’s party to a minority government.
The freakout about Canada’s ‘internal trade barriers’ is a corporate scam

2 months ago | breachmedia.ca | Stuart Trew

As Donald Trump threatens Canada with an economic war, a new consensus is quickly emerging among the country’s political, business, and media class: we must tear down so-called barriers to trade across provinces. Interprovincial trade barriers, we’re told, “handcuff” the movement of goods, labour, and investment across Canada—so much so that it is supposedly much easier to do business across international borders than inside our own country.
Amazon is quitting Quebec to ‘shock and awe’ workers worldwide

Jan 23, 2025 | breachmedia.ca | Mostafa Henaway

Amazon has a message for its army of precarious workers worldwide: dare to unionize and you will be punished. After failing to thwart a historic unionization drive in Quebec, Amazon is now shuttering all its operations in the province, laying off nearly 2,000 workers. The move is a brazen attempt to punish workers in the province who achieved what many thought impossible.
Canada’s best response to Donald Trump’s aggression? Socialism

Jan 18, 2025 | breachmedia.ca | Christo Aivalis

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has taken to musing publicly about using “economic force” to annex Canada. The threat is so brazen that many are treating it as a joke, unable to accept that a United States President could hold such an economically existential threat over our heads. But these comments are no joke, and Trump must be treated as a hostile actor to Canadian economic security.
Competition Bureau investigating high tech price-fixing by Canadian landlords

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.
Police spied on Albertan journalist accused of vandalizing Nazi monuments

Nov 24, 2024 | breachmedia.ca | Desmond Cole

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