journalist, managing editor @thebreachmedia, former enviro writer for the Guardian. em dash addict.
Jan 4 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
As Canada’s political, corporate, and media elite have unanimously mobilized support for Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza, we at @thebreachmedia have tried to expose their efforts as best we can.
Here’s 10 of our pieces from the last three months. 🧵
We did a historical overview of the Canadian government’s longstanding support for Israel.
Far from being an even-handed honest broker in the Middle East, it has been a one-sided backer of Israeli aggression as a junior partner to the United States.
Apr 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Pierre Poilievre’s claim that the CBC is "Liberal propaganda" may seem unhinged, but it’s not.
It’s a longstanding right-wing strategy that’s badgered CBC into becoming *even more favourable* to Conservative perspectives.
Here’s some actual evidence…🧵
breachmedia.ca/pierre-poiliev…
Back in 2010, when the Conservatives were in government and the Liberal Party in opposition, an independent research firm conducted a major study of CBC’s content—the only empirical survey done in recent decades.
A year ago, an offer was made to top party brass that one of AOC’s advisors give NDP MPs a briefing on the Green New Deal.
It’s the heart of her agenda, weaving together working class interests, climate action & racial justice. It's what makes her her.
What was their response?
Sep 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I’ve noticed a genre in media coverage of Justin Trudeau's environmental politics, basically fan fiction shrewdly nurtured by Liberals, that disguises his steadfast support for oil barons and excuses woefully inadequate measures.
It’s The Story of the Thwarted Hero.
A thread..
The story: Trudeau is a climate warrior whose ambitions always founder on hard, unavoidable realities.
Its aim: lower expectations, marginalize visions like Green New Deal, and manufacture consent for a corporate environmental agenda, which is what Liberals are actually about.
Sep 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
U.N. ambassador Bob Rae was on CBC radio just now responding to the U.N. report that names Canadian government for fuelling the Saudi war on Yemen. His apologetics were something to behold.
He trotted out an old Liberal line that I thought had gone into disuse - that the weaponized military vehicles Canadian is selling to the Saudis are just “jeeps.” “It’s not what you'd call a weapon,” he said.
That’s some kind of jeep...
Apr 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s good to dunk on Ivison but what's being missed is he’s merely a goofy right-wing exponent of the Canadian establishment's outlook: anxious to crush our rising expectations for governments post-pandemic to actually do more for our well-being..[THREAD]
Here’s the Liberal gov's budget officer spelling out the elite fear that post-pandemic, it may be politically hard to rollback new economic assistance – what he calls “entitlements," an old establishment codeword for “the rabble expecting and getting more than they deserve.”
Apr 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Boyce Richardson, one of Canada’s greatest anti-establishment journalists, passed away in March. He despised inequality, sided with workers against newspaper barons, ghostwrote for the ANC, and amplified Indigenous struggles for decades. I wrote about him: findingthecracks.substack.com/p/the-socialis…
Police ransacked his home and looted his footage of the Cree fight vs the James Bay mega-dam in 1970s. Pierre Trudeau tried to shut down another documentary of his. It was only when he was no longer active that it became safe for the government to award him the Order of Canada.
Feb 28, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
A THREAD: In past days, Canadian politicians and media have invoked the spectre of “outside agitators” to infantilize and dismiss Indigenous peoples’ protests, and undermine the vital work of solidarity. It’s a racist myth deployed frequently in Canada's history. Some examples...
In the 1870s to 1890s, the Canadian government pushed Indigenous peoples to take up farming on the prairies, but denied them technology and market access, and gave good land to white farmers. When Indigenous peoples petitioned for changes, guess who government officials blamed?
Nov 22, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Review finds no ‘credible link’ between assembly of Death Star and obliteration of planet
Canada's right-wing swore it would unleash economic armageddon.
Sask.'s Premier: it was an "existential threat." BC's Premier: it would "wipe hundreds of towns off the map. Former PM Brian Mulroney: a "new philosophy of economic nihilism” that “must be resisted and defeated."
Nov 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
With the Trudeau government's approval, Canadian companies have extensively armed and supported the Saudi war on Yemen. My investigation: nationalobserver.com/2018/11/30/new…
Canadian contributions to the Saudi war include: prestige sniper rifles, weaponized combat vehicles that have been specifically marked for Yemeni operations, counter-insurgency aircraft, spy tech, and training for the pilots that have refuelled Saudi fighter-jets.
