Mark Carney is ‘flooding the zone’

The NDP got gutted last election—but Winnipeg MP Leah Gazan says its crisis could catalyze a resurgence.She joins Desmond Cole to discuss how reclaiming the NDP’s radical roots can revive the party.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall.______________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

In his first year in office, Mark Carney has unleashed a tsunami of pro-corporate policies and legislation justified by Trump’s attacks against Canada. At a panel hosted at the Broadbent Institute’s Progress Summit, Martin Lukacs sat down with organizers Syed Hussan, Atiya Jaffar, Janelle Lapointe, Nathan Prier, and Rachel Small to discuss how movements are reckoning with the Liberal agenda. The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service.______________________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

As Mark Carney courts new economic partners, he’s cozying up to Narendra Modi’s far-right Indian government.Saima Desai joins Desmond Cole to discuss the costs of Canada’s growing alliance with India.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

Following the deadliest crackdown on protestors in Iran's modern history, hundreds of thousands marched in Toronto last weekend, with protest organizers calling for U.S. military intervention—something the Canadian government has refused to rule out supporting. Iranian-Canadians Donya Ziaee and Samira Mohyeddin break down the history of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran and how what Iranians need is international solidarity—not a right-wing monarchist revival on the heels of violent western intervention.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Want more reporting like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

This episode deals with the issue of suicide, and as such it might be triggering or upsetting. If you or someone you know needs support, there are people trained to listen and to offer the support you may need. We’ve included some support links in the notes for this episode.As governments cut public services and offer only meagre support for those living with disabilities, assisted death risks becoming a policy substitute for care and dignity.Scholar Megan Linton argues that Canada’s expansion of medically-assisted dying reflects a deeper neoliberal logic—one that narrows how we imagine disability, chronic illness, and the possibilities of a more just future.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Talk Suicide Canada is a service that’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every single day of the year. You can call 1-833-456-4566. You can also send a text message to 45645 between the hours of 4 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time.If you’re a young person, you can also call the Kids Help Phone 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year, at 1-800-668-6868, or you can send a text to 686868.Other resources:Circle of Care: KUU-US First Nations and Aboriginal Crisis Line Support Available 24 Hrs. Adults 1-800-588-8717, youth 250-723-2040Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention — Support services directory_______________________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

With ICE agents in the U.S. waging a campaign of terror, author and activist Harsha Walia puts the anti-migrant state violence in the context of a global rise in xenophobia.She lays out what Canadians can do in the short and long term to pressure their government into a more humane immigration policy. The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Want to see more podcasts like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

Mark Carney’s speech calling out Trump and the collapse of the so-called “rules-based order” generated a torrent of praise around the world.Martin Lukacs talks with Katia Lo Innes to break down Carney’s seemingly radical rhetoric—and how it hardly matches his conservative pro-corporate policy agenda at home.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service.______________________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall.______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

Matthew Green is no longer an NDP MP, but he hasn’t stopped trying to transform the party. He talks to Desmond Cole 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.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Want more podcasts like this?Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

2025 started with Justin Trudeau in power and ended with a more mask-off variant of Liberalism. In between there were Trump’s tariff wars, genocide, and some small hard-won victories for the left.El Jones joins Desmond Cole and Martin Lukacs to take a look in the rearview mirror and reflect on one year in Canadian politics and social movements. The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._______________________________________________________________Want more podcasts like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._______________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

Mark Carney’s deal with Alberta’s Danielle Smith is the climate sell-out of the century.Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down everything it contains—from pipelines, to AI data centres, to dirty electricity, to a rollback of almost every Trudeau-era climate policy.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service._________________________________________________________________________Want more podcasts like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall._________________________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia