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A bi-weekly podcast from The Breach featuring sharp commentary on politics and movements in Canada.

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00:32:09

The backlash to Indigenous rights in B.C. & beyond

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2026/04/23

B.C. Premier David Eby is trying to roll back legislation enshrining Indigenous rights—and he isn’t the only one. Lawyer Pam Palmater joins Desmond Cole to discuss the corporate resource rush and right wing backlash behind the surging attack on Indigenous peoples.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

00:39:42

What to make of a Lewis-led NDP?

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2026/04/01

Avi Lewis has won the leadership of Canada's NDP.Desmond Cole was live at the party’s convention, talking about what this left turn means for the NDP's future with Naomi Klein, Matthew Green, Leah Gazan, and more. 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

00:33:48

40 years of trying to make the NDP democratic socialist

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2026/03/26

Veteran activist and author Judy Rebick has spent nearly half a century trying to transform the NDP into a left wing party tied to social movements.Rebick sits down with managing editor Martin Lukacs to discuss that history, and why she’s now betting on Avi Lewis’s campaign for NDP leader.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

00:36:57

The NDP MP calling for ‘unapologetic socialism’

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2026/03/19

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

00:55:45

Mark Carney is ‘flooding the zone’

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2026/03/12

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

00:26:14

Canada and India’s toxic middle power alliance

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2026/03/05

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

00:51:39

Why are thousands marching for military intervention...

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2026/02/19

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

00:36:54

Is Canada choosing assisted death over disabled lives?

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2026/02/12

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

00:34:29

ICE terror is a warning for Canada

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2026/01/30

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

00:21:52

Mark Carney’s hollow defiance in Davos

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2026/01/23

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

00:31:33

Who runs the NDP—and who should?

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2026/01/15

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

00:42:42

Elbows…up? A 2025 rewind

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2025/12/19

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,

00:43:00

Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate...

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2025/12/04

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

00:34:10

Sudan suffers, Canada cashes in

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2025/11/27

For two years, a Sudanese paramilitary force has been massacring civilians—with Canadian-made weapons.Professor Nisrin Elamin and activist Ismail Adam join Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s long-term complicity in destabilizing Sudan, and recent efforts to close the loophole that allows for Canadian weapons to be brought into Sudan via the UAE. Read their article co-authored with Robyn Maynard: https://breachmedia.ca/in-the-genocide-in-sudan-canada-has-a-hand-in-the-violence/

00:34:04

A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons

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2025/11/06

Despite promising a “generational” and “transformational” budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on resource extraction, militarism, and corporate handouts—appeasing Donald Trump and Canada’s corporate class, but doing little for working people.Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole break down the Liberal government’s Stephen Harper-esque spending cuts to the public service and their failure to address the crises of affordability and climate breakdown.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring

00:30:04

Mark Carney, Doug Ford keep serving Big Landlords

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2025/10/30

Doug Ford and Mark Carney are making big moves on housing — but tenant groups and housing experts are raising an alarm.Economist Ricardo Tranjan joins Desmond Cole to discuss how the emerging policy heavily favours corporate landlords.The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Google or your favourite service.

00:38:52

Who can take the NDP leftward?

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2025/10/18

The NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics—or cement its decline.Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole analyze the various campaigns and some of the emerging themes, from “purity tests,” proclamations of class war, and candidates who are flouting race rules.

00:25:04

Canada Post on the chopping block?

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2025/10/02

Mark Carney is out to dismantle Canada Post. What interests does that stand to benefit? And what could a revitalized public postal service look like? Dru Oja Jay, a long-time collaborator of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, joins Martin Lukacs to discuss how the post office could be a “genuinely positive nation building project.” Read the article: https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/

00:37:46

Confronting a new anti-immigrant chapter in Canada

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2025/09/25

With the Liberal government passing harsher immigration policies and anti-immigration rhetoric on the rise, what does this mean for migrant workers? Deena Ladd from the Workers’ Action Centre joins Desmond Cole to discuss how to build solid solidarity between all workers, regardless of status.

01:04:44

The NDP’s untapped radical potential

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2025/09/05

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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