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Canada’s Big Six banks have engineered a $2.2 trillion mortgage debt bubble. According to a new report, banks’ lending practices have pushed home prices out of reach and left the public holding the bag. https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-big-banks-are-a-culprit-driving-housing-prices-out-of-control/

While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry. Tech expert Jim Thomas writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians. https://breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-be-about-to-burst/

Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people. Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. https://breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for-tanks-banks-and-oil-barons/

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 emerging themes of the race from “purity tests" to class war proclamations to candidates flouting race rules. https://breachmedia.ca/who-can-revive-the-ndp-and-take-it-leftward/

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens. JaredWalker and Silas Xuereb argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price. https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidden-tax-crisis-is-stripping-15-billion-from-the-economy-every-year/

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:

The Miramachi Reader reviews The Breach’s new book on the Canadian establishment media’s complicity in the horrors of Gaza: “When Genocide Wasn’t News is essential reading for our time, and asks that we demand better from our media.” To read their full review:

The Miramichi Reader

When Genocide Wasn’t News, edited by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid and Jason Toney

In the almost 40 years since Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky published Manufacturing Consent, the media landscape has undergone some severe chang...

The Liberal government wants to push ahead with adopting AI—handing the reins to Big Tech. Paris Marx breaks down the impact on workers, public services, and the most vulnerable. https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-ai-agenda-is-a-gift-to-big-tech/

Governments across Canada are bulldozing Indigenous peoples’ rights as part of a new resource push. Pam Palmater joins Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s legal obligations to Indigenous peoples—and the resistance on the horizon. https://breachmedia.ca/indigenous-rights-energy-superpower-canada-bulldoze/

Exclusive: Pierre Poilievre has bashed asylum seekers for crossing into Canada and pledged to deport many of them. But documents reveal his own relative crossed at Roxham Road—and then was helped by Anaida Poilievre and a MP’s office to stay in Canada. https://breachmedia.ca/hypocritical-pierre-poilievre-slammed-illegal-border-crossers-relative-crossed-conservatives/