The Breach Show

Nov 14 2024 34 ep. 41 mins 119
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A bi-weekly podcast from The Breach featuring sharp commentary on politics and movements in Canada.

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UN expert on how Canada helps shield Israel from accountability

Nov 14 2024 19 mins  
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’

Trump vs Harris, the view from Canada

Oct 31 2024 27 mins  
As Americans hit the polls next Tuesday, El Jones and Martin Lukacs hash out the U.S. election campaign, the folly of pandering to the right, neoliberal identity politics, the implications for Palestine, the threat of Trump, and their respective halloween costumes.

How movements can organize to defeat Pierre Poilievre

Oct 24 2024 71 mins  
With a potential Pierre Poilievre Conservative government on the horizon, Martin Lukacs, Anjali Appadurai, Syed Hussan, Judy Rebick, and Laura Walton discuss how to organize in the face of a surging right.

The high price of protesting for Palestine

Oct 12 2024 43 mins  
El Jones and Martin Lukacs discuss the worst and weirdest examples of the crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement in Canada over the past year—and how to understand why it has been so severe and widespread. Plus: why the elite are worried about Canadians identifying as “settlers.”

What “I’m right here, bro” says about Canadian politics

Sep 21 2024 22 mins  
El Jones and Martin Lukacs dissect a viral confrontation NDP leader Jagmeet Singh had with far-right wing protesters on Parliament Hill—and unlike everyone else, they’re not cheering. Plus: the crisis management firm that defends the “rich and guilty.”

Canadian landlords have a new way to hike rents—AI

Sep 06 2024 22 mins  
Tenant rights organizer Chiara Padovani joins The Breach Show to discuss how a Canadian mega landlord is using algorithmic software as it massively hikes rents. The software maker is being sued by the U.S. government for allegedly enabling landlords to collude to artificially inflate rental prices.

The anti-immigrant backlash arrives in Canada

Aug 16 2024 30 mins  
Organizer Syed Hussan of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change joins The Breach Show to talk about the uptick in immigrant bashing, the bipartisan project to exploit migrant labour, a Liberal backtrack on a historic plan to give status to undocumented people—and why anti-racism is the only way to stop all workers from getting divided and ruled.

Meet the Canadian doctors testifying against Israel

May 04 2024 22 mins  
Canadian doctors Yipeng Ge and Ben Thomson join The Breach’s Brishti Basu to discuss what they witnessed during humanitarian trips to Gaza. Soon after returning, they got surprise emails: international lawyers wanted their testimony to build a war crimes case against Israel. Meet the Canadian doctors testifying against Israel

Dismantling the Haitian state (feat. Canada)

Apr 05 2024 27 mins  
Professor Jemima Pierre dissects Canada’s participation in a 20-year debacle of military occupations and failed elections in Haiti.

Pharmacare bill is a rebuke to corporate interests, for now

Mar 02 2024 25 mins  
The pharmacare bill is a breakthrough—and while it doesn’t cover enough medications, it gets the universal public framework right. Dr. Nav Persaud joins Donya Ziaee to discuss how corporate interests fought it bitterly—and will try to derail its expansion.