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Inside the network funding Canary Mission, the shadowy website targeting pro-Palestine activists

The latest episode of There is a List traces the funds from North American donors to illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the erasure of Palestinian communities October 15 2025

In Barrie, poverty is the crime and visibility the emergency
Nir Hagigi

How Israel and its ‘digital army’ work to silence the truth about Gaza
Zahra Khozema

The youngest victims of genocide represent the last dying breath of our shared humanity
Jenn Jefferys

That time Canadian MPs gave a standing ovation to an American white nationalist
Christo Aivalis

The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian
Jen Hassum

Investigative podcast

Inside the network funding Canary Mission, the shadowy website targeting pro-Palestine activists

The latest episode of There is a List traces the funds from North American donors to illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the erasure of Palestinian communities October 15 2025

In B.C., progressive movement leaders feel betrayed by David Eby’s NDP

‘We’re losing control of our communities’: First Nations in states of emergency as Doug Ford pushes to mine the north

How is there still no office for Indigenous rights complaints?

Canadian Mining in Ecuador

At the end of 2024, Ricochet senior investigative journalist Brandi Morin, with photojournalists Ian Willms and Julien Defourny, travelled to Ecuador to investigate Canadian mining giants that have been trampling over Indigenous rights and sovereignty.

In a four part feature series, Brandi reports on the brewing conflict between the Indigenous communities and the Canadian companies, as well as the scars, both physical and mental, left as more and more ancestral lands are stolen for development.

Investigating Airbnb

Over the course of 2023, Ricochet dove deep into coverage of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, and their impact on the housing crisis.

The investigation kicked off in March, in the wake of a deadly fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people. Ricochet was the first to identify the man operating an illegal Airbnb network out of the building that burned, tied the building’s owner to the scheme and exposed the nature of this new, and as yet unreported, type of property scam. In the wake of the fire there was a flurry of new legislation, lawsuits and policy changes seeking to crack down on illegal short-term rentals.

We assembled a multi-outlet, multi-lingual team that dug deep into the networks fueling the illegal short-term rental market in Canada, exposed wrongdoing, and drove policy change in multiple jurisdictions.

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In Bed with the Elephant

Doug Ford’s ‘common-sense conservation’ is a fast track to extinction, experts warn

From pop stardom to reconciliation songs: Shy-Anne Hovorka’s second act

Canada’s increasingly militarized border pushes migrants into taking riskier routes to claim asylum

When speaking up for Palestine gets you put on a list

‘Bringing them home in coffins’: Ombudsman finds unsafe conditions in Fly-in First Nation

Canada’s immigration cuts risk stalling economic growth, experts warn

‘Unsafe and unacceptable:’ ombudsman demands ‘immediate action’ for fly-in First Nation

‘It’s time to prepare for war:’ Forest defenders in ancient Walbran valley ready for RCMP raid

Canadian Mining in Ecuador

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon

Brandi Morin in Ecuador Part 2: Indigenous resistance to a made-in-Canada mine

Brandi Morin in Ecuador part 3: Bullets and beatings support Canadian mines

Brandi Morin in Ecuador part 4: ‘Canadian companies destroy in the name of Canada’

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: Indigenous water defenders take on a Canadian mining giant

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A rebel priest, a crusading lawyer, and a Canadian mining company

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: Science and tradition unite to fight a giant copper mine

Investigating Canadian mining

Montreal bans Airbnb — partially

Airbnbs in Quebec: Loopholes, lack of enforcement make a mockery of new laws

Old Montreal fire: Victim quoted in media reports is ex-employee of building owner

Toronto’s short-term-rental rules are supposed to keep basement apartments off Airbnb. Some homeowners appear to be listing them anyway

Despite the city’s regulation, Toronto tenants continue to be pushed out for Airbnb

In Victoria, former Airbnbs are flooding the market — but no one is buying

British Columbia cages Airbnb, as speculators cry foul

As the housing crisis reaches a breaking point, Halifax finally focuses on Airbnb

Investigating Airbnb