# Desmond Cole

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The right to strike is in Carney’s corporate crosshairs

The labour movement is sounding the alarm on the Liberal government's plans to strip federally-regulated workers of their most important power—the right to strike. Unifor researcher Graham Cox joins Desmond Cole to discuss how the Carney government is using Trump’s attacks on Canada to tilt the pl…

Can a new NDP help make a comeback of the Canadian left?

The Breach just launched a new book, A New Democratic Party: The Comeback of the Left.  At the Toronto launch, Desmond Cole spoke to three contributors, former MP Matthew Green, feminist activist Judy Rebick, and editor Martin Lukacs, who discuss and debate the future of the party. The Breach Show …

Desmond Cole visits The Champagne Room : Journalism Today, Strip Clubs and more!

Desmond Cole is one of Canada's most important - and controversial -- journalistic voices. A former Toronto Star columnist, author, activist, and broadcaster, Desmond has spent years challenging the institutions that shape how Black stories are told and suppressed in Canadian media.In this episode …

Why won’t CBC say ‘fossil fuels’ when reporting on wildfires?

Climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is making extreme wildfire seasons more common in Canada. But if you were to tune into CBC News, you might not even make the connection. Tara Mahoney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. Write…

In Canadian prisons, AI is giving Black inmates harsher conditions

Prisons in Ontario are using an AI program that claims it can "predict" prisoners’ behaviors. But it's sending a disproportionate number of Black inmates to maximum security detention. That’s according to a report by journalist Desmond Cole in The Breach, an independent media outlet. Cole speaks wi…

Is Doug Ford finally sinking?

As right-wing Ontario Premier Doug Ford lurches from one scandal to the next, has his political luck finally run out? Journalist Bruce Livesey joins Desmond Cole to break down his long-form feature on Ford’s rise to power and his potential fall. The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analy…

Carney’s investment summit is putting Canada on the auction block

The world’s wealthiest investors are coming to Canada—and they want a piece of our public infrastructure. Council of Canadians campaigner Nik Barry-Shaw joins Desmond Cole to explain how Mark Carney’s glitzy investment summit could pave the way for a corporate carve-up of Canada. __________________…

How Carney’s summit maple-washed a giant corporate giveaway

Mark Carney’s investment summit advanced a right-wing corporate agenda—from airport privatization to tax breaks to environmental deregulation—while dressing it up as patriotic defiance of Donald Trump. Martin Lukacs joins Desmond Cole to break down what happened at the summit, as well as on the str…

Audiobooks Network Review Podcast Episode 427: Interview with Patrick H. Moore

Sarah speaks with Patrick H. Moore about his noir novel, 27 Days, "a taut and topical political thriller narrated in laconic noir fashion by veteran LA PI Nick Crane. In the spring of 2019, Nick is on the run in the Pacific Northwest, pursued by a cabal of wealthy right-wing power brokers and domes…

They risked jail time to provide safer drugs—and won

In a historic court decision, the BC Supreme Court says Canada needs a legal pathway for “compassion clubs” that aim to reduce overdose deaths by supplying safer drugs. Lawyer DJ Larkin sits down with Desmond Cole to break down the decision and discuss the two harm reduction organizers who risked j…