- The fight to get cops out of schools
Thursday, July 24th 2025
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.
- The Canadian media cover-up of the Gaza genocide
Thursday, July 17th 2025
Desmond Cole sits down in Toronto with Dania Majid and Martin Lukacs to discuss and launch The Breach’s latest book, When Genocide Wasn’t News
Podcast/Video Description (spotify/youtube):
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/
- What our movements can learn from water
Thursday, July 10th 2025
What can water and the natural world teach us about power, resistance, and survival?
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson joins Desmond Cole to discuss her new book “Theory of Water” and explores how Indigenous knowledge can guide us through the political and ecological crises we face today.
- Manufacturing transphobia in Canada
Thursday, July 3rd 2025
As anti-trans laws pass in the U.S. and around the world, Canada is often cast as a safe haven for queer and trans people. But the reality is more complicated, says activist Celeste Trianon, in conversation with Katia Lo Innes on this week’s Breach Show podcast.
Trianon unpacks how well-funded right-wing groups and some Canadian politicians are fueling a creeping backlash, how strict immigration policies under Carney are making it harder for trans refugees to find protection here, and what it will take to protect trans lives.
- How to win like Mamdani (even in Canada)
Friday, June 27th 2025
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo to clinch New York City’s mayoral primary.
Desmond Cole and Martin Lukacs break down why Mamdani’s campaign won, and what Canadian progressives can learn from it.
