Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm. @ricardotranjan.bsky.social joins @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords. breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...

On our latest podcast episode: -Doug Ford's assault on tenants via changes to the landlord tenant board -the federal housing plan with big goals and few details have a listen

Toronto Life did a feature on my hat collection. Look who’s a super meowdel!!! torontolife.com/style/inside...

A few more tickets have become available for sold out Book Relaunch of Policing Black Lives with brilliant co-thinkers David Chariandy, @dreanyc123.bsky.social , and @desmondcole.bsky.social . Come join us at the fab Black-run spot It's OK* Studios this evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-relau...

The NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics—or cement its decline. Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social analyze emerging themes of the race from “purity tests" to class war proclamations to candidates flouting race rules. breachmedia.ca/who-can-revi...

In our latest episode of The Breach Show, Martin Lukacs and I discuss the ongoing federal NDP leadership race, the candidates, and Yves Engler breachmedia.ca/who-can-revi...

E-scooters are here to stay. The city should stop the futile banning & find a way to make this "problem" part of Toronto's transportation solution. Use bike share's roaring success as inspiration. City Hall CAN think big, bold & long term when it wants to. My Toronto Star column this weekend.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away this week at the age of 78. We honour her legacy, and lessons, in her own words

An hour and 11-minute long mix of nothing but D'Angelo live tracks from various shows during the Brown Sugar and Voodoo eras. It's so well done. Also downloadable.

"Hamas has insisted it will only release the hostages in return for a full Israeli withdrawal and final end of the conflict. Israel has said it will only stop fighting when all hostages are returned and Hamas is destroyed. Neither has totally got its way." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

this is just a pilot project, but it's also an acknowledgement from Toronto city council that we need alternatives to policing bsky.app/profile/grap...

Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent My latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

A group calling itself "New Toronto Initiative" is suing a local councillor and the city over plans to build a shelter in the neighbourhood - a classic Toronto move

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

It’s also dishonest to present these two issues, in the same breath, as some kind of zero sum prioritization. The beauty of the speed cameras is, once installed, the job is done! If anything, they free up police resources so more focus can be paid to violent crime. It’s foolish, bad logic.

Violent crime is more rare, shocking, headline-grabbing. We treat it as an intolerable aberration from the norm. And we should! But that suggests that road deaths and injuries are the norm and are therefore tolerable. No politician will say that out loud, but watch what they prioritize.

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

Federal Liberals are cutting back on temporary foreign workers coming to Canada. But what about those already here, who continue to work in precarious conditions, during an anti-immigrant backlash? My latest podcast for @breachmedia.ca with Deena Ladd breachmedia.ca/confronting-...

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A police officer in Longueil, Quebec shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi on Sunday The govt office investigating the shooting has neither released the officer's name nor indicated why Rezayi was shot. Police took over 5 hours to notify his family www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

Here's how the Longueuil police analyzes police stops. I don't want to nitpick, but "biological affinity" is not a thing. We stopped talking about biological races after WWII because they don't exist. Also, "Oriental" is a surprising term to hear for someone under 90 years old.

On Friday at @torontomet.bsky.social, students interrupted a talk by Liberal MP @evansolomon.bsky.social to call for an arms embargo on Israel Although Solomon called the disruptions "part of our democracy", TMU security assaulted and detained a demonstrator ontherecordnews.ca/witnesses-sa...

Mark Carney has moved Canadian politics to the right. In response, Pierre Poilievre is moving even further right on immigration to distinguish himself from Carney My latest, with Martin Lukacs for @breachmedia.ca, tracks this latest wave of immigrant scapegoating breachmedia.ca/poilievre-an...

"Major Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has reportedly shut down a U.K. facility after it was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action activists, in a major victory for the group that was recently banned by the U.K. government." #England #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Timeline cleanse. Marine blue butterfly - wings open & closed. 🌿 #invertebrates

Trump just now during an Oval Office announcement mentions his Golden Dome missile defence system: "Canada called, they wanna be a part of it...Canada wants very much to be included in that, and we're going to work something out with them I hope."

PM Mark Carney is planning the biggest military spending hike since WWII. What federal programs will be cut to pay for this increase? I spoke with policy analyst and peace activist Steve Staples about missile defence, NATO, and the peace movement breachmedia.ca/more-weapons...

📍NEW: My interview with the president of the Palestine Journalists Syndicate, Nasser Abu Bakr. He was in Canada last week to receive Unifor’s Nelson Mandela Award. youtu.be/lKuZrUrWDoI?...

This may seem an extraordinary move but Canada and the U.S. regularly deny or delay visas, barring foreign dignitaries or researchers from summits or events. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

back in my day corporations exploited young WHITE people what happened to our country www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Canada continues to arm Israel—and the Liberal government can’t stop lying about it. We break down their 4-step playbook for deceiving the public: youtu.be/V-p7hYmKRqI

As it becomes harder to ignore Israel’s genocide, Canada's political and media class is changing their tune—if only rhetorically. @desmondcole.bsky.social and El Jones discuss how Mark Carney and the establishment media’s complicity continues unabated. breachmedia.ca/canada-shift...

NEWS: Constable Andrew Davis, the Toronto Police officer who shot Devon Fowlin in 2023, has pleaded guilty to gun and assault charges A warning that the descriptions and video footage contained here are very upsetting globalnews.ca/news/1135213...

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects. @shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

On this week's @TheBreachMedia podcast, I spoke with people in Ontario and across Canada organizing against police in public schools breachmedia.ca/the-fight-to...

police in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, have been involved in the deaths of 17 people since 2017 it's a region of fewer than 15,000 people www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On a new episode of 🌊 The @breachmedia.ca Show🌊 @desmondcole.bsky.social sits down with Dania Majid and Martin Lukacs to discuss 'When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian Media Covered Up the Destruction of Gaza', a new release from Breach Books. breachmedia.ca/why-we-publi... 🔶

Liberals have been very concerned about mis- and disinformation in recent years, so when Mark Carney says carbon capture will allow for “decarbonized” oil, we should be clear that he’s engaging in active disinformation about climate change to please Danielle Smith and the Alberta oil industry.

Mark Carney is slashing public service, supercharging military spending, and ramming through a right-wing agenda—while Liberal voters stay stuck in denial. Martin Lukacs says it’s time to clue in to what’s happening, follow the money—and put up a fight. breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

I just thought he was showing off that incredible jawline but this also makes sense

Calling artists and craftspeople who are interested in donating something to this fundraiser. Donations are being accepted now, email [email protected] for details on how to submit. My original painting "Let There Be Peace" (72" x 48") will be up for auction with proceeds being donated.

It was a pleasure to speak with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about her latest book "Theory of Water," which explores how we can better weave ourselves into the natural world breachmedia.ca/leanne-betas...

it's called journalism people

"One day our children are going to ask us why no one did anything to stop this from happening." and we'll reply "what do you mean no one did anything, were you there? they don't teach you anything at school??"

Ontario environment minister Todd McCarthy asked the federal government not to reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights for First Nations communities Now several dozen First Nations in Ontario are calling for McCarthy to resign globalnews.ca/news/1128210...

Doug Ford is paving the way to put cops back in our schools I don't know how many times we have to say this: No. my latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/doug-fords-p...

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...