After a historic loss in this year’s federal election, the NDP faces a pivotal leadership race—and a crossroads in its identity.Historian Ian McKay joins Martin Lukacs to discuss the party’s challenge in confronting Canadian liberalism and its own centrist slide, and what it could do to seize its transformative potential.
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Carney’s military spending spree
Mark Carney is embarking on the largest military spending hike in Canada since World War 2. Policy analyst and peace activist Steve Staples joins Desmond Cole to explain why the biggest winner is the weapons lobby—at the expense of Canadians‘ social programs and standard of life.
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Canada's new rhetoric, same complicity on Gaza
As it becomes harder to ignore Israel’s genocide, the political and media class is changing their tune. But El Jones and Desmond Cole discuss how Mark Carney and the establishment media’s complicity continues unabated.
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The fight to get cops out of schools
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has introduced legislation that would let police run programs in public schools—even over the objections of local school boards.On this week’s Breach Show, we’re airing a conversation hosted by Desmond Cole with organizers in Ontario and across Canada about their fights to get cops out of schools—and the alternatives to policing they’re working to put in place.
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The Canadian media cover-up of the Gaza genocide
Canada’s establishment media hasn’t covered the genocide in Gaza—they’ve covered it up.A new book published by The Breach, When Genocide Wasn’t News, lays bare the media’s complicity.At the Toronto launch, Desmond Cole spoke to two of the book’s editors, lawyer Dania Majid and Breach managing editor Martin Lukacs. Buy the book: https://breachmedia.ca/when-genocide-wasnt-news/
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