The Breach (website)

The Breach
Type of site
News website
Available inEnglish
OwnerThe Breach
Editors
  • Martin Lukacs
  • Emma Paling
  • Cara McKenna
URLbreachmedia.ca
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 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, economic inequality, colonialism, and climate change. Its contributors include the Indigenous writer, lawyer, and professor Pamela Palmater, journalists El Jones and Linda McQuaig, legal scholar Azeezah Kanji, and documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis.[1]

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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

The Breach is a successor to The Dominion, an independent, non-profit publication launched in 2003.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Wright Allen, Samantha. The Hill Times, "The Breach, new media outlet to launch this spring." 12 April 2021.
  2. ^ "About The Breach". Breach Media Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Debates of April 15, 2021". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  4. ^ Lukacs, Martin. "Natural Resources sees itself as oil industry's "champion in government," documents reveal". Breach Media Canada. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  5. ^ "The Breach is Canadian Journalism for readers ready to transform the future". Indiegraph Media Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2021.