The Breach (website)

The Breach

Type of site	News website
Available in	English
Owner	The Breach
Editors	Martin Lukacs Emma Paling Cara McKenna
URL	breachmedia.ca
Commercial	No
Launched	March 2021

The Breach is a Canadian news website launched on 10 March 2021 to provide reader- and viewer-supported reporting, analysis, and videos on issues such as racism, extremism, economic inequality, colonialism, and climate change.

The Breach is a successor to The Dominion, an independent, non-profit publication launched in 2003. ^[1] Breach Media is a client of Indiegraf, a private media platform who chairs the Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC). ^{[2] [3]}

Content

The Breach promises to provide "adversarial", investigative journalism that exposes injustices more vigorously than corporate newspapers or the CBC, Canada's public broadcaster. "We believe journalism can be credible while still open about its commitments: to inspire action, tell stories about people remaking society, and amplify visions of a new world to win together", The Breach announced on its website. ^{[4] [5]}

In Parliament, Elizabeth May of the Green Party cited reporting from The Breach showing close ties between the federal government and Canada's oil and gas industry, a subject the publication pursued in later stories. ^{[6] [7]} The Breach was credited by CBC for reporting Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was participating in cash-for-access set up by lobbyist fundraisers despite calling them useless. ^{[8] [9]} After it was reported that there was foreign interference from the government of India in 2022 Conservative Party leadership race, The Walrus citied an article from the The Breach pointing to deepening ties between Poilievre's Conservatives and Hindu nationalist groups supportive of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ^{[10] [11]}

Contributors

Its contributors include: ^[4]

• Indigenous writer, lawyer, and professor Pamela Palmater,
• journalist El Jones
• Linda McQuaig,
• legal scholar Azeezah Kanji,
• documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis. ^[4]

References

1. "The Breach is Canadian Journalism for readers ready to transform the future". Indiegraph Media Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
2. "Board director of organization that will help decide how Google's $100M is distributed regrets her anti-Israel retweets". National Post. 5 July 2024.
3. Hanick, Matthew (27 June 2024). "News publishers ask CRTC to ensure 'good faith' in Google funding".
4. Wright Allen, Samantha. The Hill Times, "The Breach, new media outlet to launch this spring." 12 April 2021.
5. "About The Breach". Breach Media Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
6. "Debates of April 15, 2021". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
7. Lukacs, Martin. "Natural Resources sees itself as oil industry's "champion in government," documents reveal". Breach Media Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
8. Burke, Ashley; McKenna, Kate; Ryan, Andrew. "Pierre Poilievre called lobbyists 'utterly useless,' but they're still attending his fundraisers".
9. Lukacs, Martin; Innes, Katia Lo; Vis, Xavier Richer (18 March 2024). "Corporate lobbyists are flocking to Pierre Poilievre's cash-for-access fundraisers". The Breach. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
10. Singh, Sushant (7 April 2025). "India's Meddling in the Poilievre Campaign Reflects a Dangerous New Alliance" . Retrieved 8 April 2025.
11. Kali, Saima Desai, Aniket (17 January 2025). "Inside the Conservative Party's growing alliance with right-wing Hindu groups". The Breach. Retrieved 8 April 2025.