The Breach is back with another night of live election coverage!
Tired of the usual tepid punditry dominating the airwaves? Tune in for sharp political analysis you won’t hear on the establishment media.
Prefer to anxiously hit refresh and watch the results pour in? We’ve got you covered there too.
Join us on Youtube starting at 8pm ET—till late.
Your hosts for the evening are The Breach’s Desmond Cole and Donya Ziaee, with Martin Lukacs joining as a regular analyst.
And throughout the night, you’ll hear from journalists, organizers, and analysts from around the country: Pam Palmater, El Jones, Syed Hussan, Dania Majid, Ricardo Tranjan, Paris Marx, Emma Jackson, Stuart Trew, Miles Krauter, and Nora Loreto.
Canada’s 2025 election has been grim—torpedoed by Trump’s tariffs, offering bleak choices between a Bay Street banker promising a return to Liberal austerity and a faux populist pushing a rapid-fire corporate makeover of the country. The NDP, meanwhile, is struggling just to hang on to official party status.
We’ll cut through the shallow mainstream discourse to talk about the issues either ignored or underexplored on the campaign trail—tax and trade policies that serve people instead of profits; climate action that takes on big polluters; Canada’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza; housing unaffordability; migrant scapegoating; Indigenous rights and sovereignty; and more.
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Bios:
Desmond Cole is a journalist and a senior writer for The Breach. His numerous works include print media, podcasts, live radio, documentary film, and his bestselling non-fiction book, The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power.
Donya Ziaee is a senior editor at The Breach. She was previously a researcher at the Council of Canadians and a producer at CBC Radio.
Martin Lukacs is a journalist and the managing editor of The Breach. He’s the author of The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule, as well as The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.
Syed Hussan is the executive director of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Canada’s largest migrant workers’ rights network.
Emma Jackson is an activist and organizer living in Edmonton, AB. She’s a campaigner with 350.org.
El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and community activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax.
Miles Krauter is a union activist and community organizer who is currently working on the campaign for Avi Lewis, the federal NDP candidate in Vancouver Centre.
Nora Loreto is a writer, activist, and podcaster. She is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media, and the author of The Social Safety Net (2024), Spin Doctors (2021), and other books.
Dania Majid is a lawyer, the president of Arab-Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA), and the artistic director of the Palestinian Toronto Film Festival. She is also involved with Vote Palestine, a grassroots campaign aimed at putting Palestine on the ballot.
Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of Tech Won’t Save Us. Paris writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere.
Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, writer, and a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation. She is the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University, a regular media commentator, and the author of several books, including Indigenous Nationhood and Warrior Life.
Ricardo Tranjan is a political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives focusing on rental housing and income security. He is the author of The Tenant Class.
Stuart Trew is Director of the Trade and Investment Research Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
