My first article for @breachmedia.ca looks into how C-IRG, the RCMP paramilitary unit responsible for the violent arrests at Wet'suwet'en and Fairy Creek, played a role in shaping the response to Palestine encampments in BC.
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The same police unit that arrested Wet'suwet'en land defenders and surveilled Fairy Creek demonstrators was monitoring the Palestine solidarity movement on BC campuses
A big investigation for @breachmedia.ca
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New piece with Tia Dafnos and Emma Bainbridge in @breachmedia.ca: The paramilitary pipeline police strike again. Now so clearly organized as a permanent counter-insurgency formation, here's what the Critical Response Unit (aka C-IRG) has been up to: breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
Mark Carney is renewing ties with Narendra Modi’s far-right Indian government, and ignoring Modi's alleged violent interference in Canada
I spoke with @desaima.bsky.social about Carney's business-first approach for our latest @breachmedia.ca podcast
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As Mark Carney courts new economic partners, he’s cozying up to Narendra Modi’s far-right Indian government.
@desaima.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss the costs of Canada’s growing alliance with India. breachmedia.ca/in-india-car...
At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.
A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
Join us LIVE on Youtube from Queen's Park tomorrow, March 4 at 12:25 pm ET for speeches and exclusive interviews at the student-organized rally against Doug Ford's latest cuts to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP).
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Pierre Poilievre says refugee claimants are undermining Canada’s health care system—but it couldn’t be further from the truth.
@desmondcole.bsky.social fact checks his misinformation and explains how blaming the most vulnerable distracts us from fighting for good health care for all.
Carl and Olliver Henry nearly got evicted by their corporate landlord for being one penny short on a rent payment.
It’s part of a bigger pattern: Black tenants are being targeted for eviction by Toronto’s corporate landlords, who are intent on raising rents and remaking the city.
After a horrendous civilian massacre in Iran, many in the diaspora have been calling for U.S. intervention and even a return to monarchy
In our latest @breachmedia.ca podcast, Donya Ziaee and @smohyeddin.bsky.social break down the right-wing power play for Iran
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Following deadly crackdowns in Iran, protest organizers in Toronto have called for a US military intervention.
Donya Ziaee and @smohyeddin.bsky.social argue that what Iran needs is international solidarity—not a far-right monarchist revival. breachmedia.ca/whats-going-...
Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.
@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.
A police corruption scandal in Toronto once again raises the concern of cops’ access to our personal information.
From street checks to stalking, @desmondcole.bsky.social Cole looks back on how personal data in police hands is ripe for abuse. youtu.be/gJ2gbh3IUkE
As governments cut public services, assisted death risks becoming a policy substitute for care and dignity.
Megan Linton argues that Canada’s expansion of medically-assisted narrows how we imagine disability, and the possibilities of a more just future. breachmedia.ca/disabled-can...
For my first story in @breachmedia.ca, I wanted to know what Canada was doing about a scathing UN disability report that criticized the disability benefit and the expansion of assisted suicide.
I'll be writing a longer thread soon.
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The UN released a scathing report criticizing Canada’s treatment of disabled people and expansion of assisted suicide.
What did Canada have to say for itself? Not much.
@spichaksimon.bsky.social reports on Canada’s silence in the face of criticism from the UN and disability advocates.
B.C. cancelled its drug decriminalization pilot, saying it hadn’t “delivered the results” they wanted.
Its results: fewer drug users arrested and traumatized by cops.
@desmondcole.bsky.social explains that when governments cave to moral panic, we lose good policies. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...
While Poilievre and his MPs talked up being the “party of Canadian workers,” the Conservative's new top council shows other priorities.
Our analysis shows half the council are recent or active lobbyists for oil & gas, Big Tech, telecoms and pharma giants.
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Refugees fleeing war, persecution, and climate disasters now face new fees for prescriptions and essential therapies in Canada.
As a doctor, writes @yipengge.bsky.social these cuts will harm patients and strain our health-care system. breachmedia.ca/as-a-doctor-...
With ICE agents waging a campaign of terror, @harshawalia.bsky.social puts anti-migrant state violence into a global context.
She lays out what Canadians can do in the short and long term to pressure their government into a more humane immigration policy.
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NEW: In my first piece for @breachmedia.ca, I go through the Carney government’s militarist policies and how legacy media has been faithfully pushing for more recruits every step of the way. Get ready, because if they had their way, you’ll be 1A tomorrow.
Mandatory “national service” isn’t about community support—it’s a backdoor to military recruitment, ballooning army budgets, and closer alignment with U.S. war priorities.
@youcaughtscott.com tracks how Canadian media is cheering it on, instead of questioning it. breachmedia.ca/canadian-med...
Finally, in conjunction with @breachmedia.ca, my article on 'zombie injunctions', the first piece of a broader research project on anti-protest injunctions and the limits of access to justice
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The NDP leadership race is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the party into an unapologetically left-wing force.
Martin Lukacs argues that Avi Lewis’s campaign is the best chance to do that. breachmedia.ca/the-left-cas...
Canadians say our border agents are nothing like ICE
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
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From Palestine protests to Indigenous land defence, police are dusting off old, abandoned court orders—”zombie” injunctions—to threaten or arrest organizers
@irinaceric.bsky.social explains how these legal threats are being used to chill social movements.
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Think that Canada’s border agents, the CBSA, are radically different from ICE?
@desmondcole.bsky.social explains how the Canada Border Security Agency works, often in tandem with ICE, to detain and deport migrants, sometimes with lethal consequences.
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@matthewgreen.bsky.social is no longer an NDP MP, but he hasn’t stopped trying to transform the party.
He talks to @desmondcole.bsky.social about a campaign to renew the NDP—and what it will take to pry control from consultants, and put it in the hands of the grassroots.
ICYMI - My latest for The Breach. When I first started critiquing the framework of economic reconciliation, I spoke with many Indigenous leaders who agreed with me, but were too scared to speak out due to backlash.
Mark Carney and the premiers are offering ownership stakes to Indigenous communities to make mining and oil projects more attractive.
@janellelapointe.bsky.social explains that it’s just modern-day beads and trinkets to buy off resistance to destructive resource projects.
