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War won’t free Iran
Jasmine Ramze Rezaee
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Modi and Netanyahu’s ‘bromance’ is more than optics — it’s a strategic axis in the making
Shenaz Kermalli
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Tar sands oil through DAPL: Oil giants trying to tie Canada’s future to Trump’s fossil empire
Nicholas Gottlieb
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Ending Amira Elghawaby’s role sends a chilling message to Muslim Canadians
Sakina Ghayyur
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ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit
Mark Kersten
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You can’t beat Canada’s far-right with a broken electoral system
Christo Aivalis
Indigenous
Ontario Ombudsman’s final act: A new Indigenous plan to confront systemic failures
A new plan aims to overhaul how the province responds to complaints from First Nations, giving communities a stronger voice, as crises persist from long-term boil-water advisories to overcrowded jails
Jon Thompson March 24 2026
Indigenous
Ontario Ombudsman’s final act: A new Indigenous plan to confront systemic failures
A new plan aims to overhaul how the province responds to complaints from First Nations, giving communities a stronger voice, as crises persist from long-term boil-water advisories to overcrowded jails
Jon Thompson March 24 2026

The RCMP vs. the media: Bracken trial approaches its endgame

Justin Brake March 11 2026

Is Doug Ford planning to axe elected public school boards in Ontario?

Jon Thompson March 10 2026

‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis

Brandi Morin March 5 2026

‘Militantly illegal police conduct’: Conviction shatters years of protection for Thunder Bay police sergeant

Jon Thompson February 23 2026
The RCMP vs. the media: Bracken trial approaches its endgame
Justin Brake
March 11 2026
Is Doug Ford planning to axe elected public school boards in Ontario?
Jon Thompson
March 10 2026
‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis
Brandi Morin
March 5 2026

On the latest episode of our podcast In Bed with the Elephant, host Adrian Harewood sits down with acclaimed Canadian writer and essayist Jeet Heer to discuss Donald Trump’s impact on Canada and the rest of the world.

Heer is a national affairs correspondent for the U.S.–based The Nation Magazine and host of the weekly podcast, The Time of Monsters.

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.

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‘Militantly illegal police conduct’: Conviction shatters years of protection for Thunder Bay police sergeant
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Tamara Lorincz
February 20 2026
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Surveillance spores: How Doug Ford is spreading surveillance technology throughout the province
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Surveillance spores: How Doug Ford is spreading surveillance technology throughout the province
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February 19 2026
Elizabeth May: ‘Speechless’ at Carney’s climate betrayal
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Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development
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Jon Thompson
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Canadian Mining in Ecuador

Throughout 2025, 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.

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

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 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 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 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: 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: 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

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

Investigating Canadian mining

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In the home of the caribou, the looming shadow of an open-pit mine threatens the Kaska way of life

Sidney Coles 26 November 2025
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
Ottawa won’t back down on Ring of Fire environmental assessment
Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire?
‘History repeating itself’: Ontario First Nations vow resistance as Doug Ford accelerates Ring of Fire mining
More Canadian mining
In the home of the caribou, the looming shadow of an open-pit mine threatens the Kaska way of life
Sidney Coles
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
Jon Thompson
Ottawa won’t back down on Ring of Fire environmental assessment
Jon Thompson
Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire?
Jon Thompson
‘History repeating itself’: Ontario First Nations vow resistance as Doug Ford accelerates Ring of Fire mining
Jon Thompson
‘We’re losing control of our communities’: First Nations in states of emergency as Doug Ford pushes to mine the north
Jon Thompson
Northern Ontario First Nations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire
Jon Thompson
Empty chairs at the table: Carney and G7 leaders ignore rising Indigenous resistance, as premiers fast track energy projects
Brandi Morin
‘Watershed moment’: Provincial unions are coming together to support northern First Nations protesting Bill 5
Jon Thompson
Idle No More 2.0 will be ‘fierce’ if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5
Jon Thompson
Canada is not for sale — And neither is Neskantaga First Nation, says chief
Jon Thompson
Standing between humanity and catastrophe: Indigenous people meet at the UN to demand the right to refuse resource extraction
Brandi Morin
In the rush for Canada’s critical minerals, Indigenous rights and sovereignty are being ignored
Jon Thompson
Canadian mining companies guilty of violating rights of nature
Brandi Morin
Doug Ford wants to ‘protect Ontario’ by digging up the Ring of Fire
Jon Thompson
‘These divide-and-conquer tactics are destroying us’: Matawa First Nations reflect on Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire legacy
Jon Thompson
‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire mining development
Jon Thompson
Tallying up the cost of mining on Indigenous land
Jon Thompson
From Ontario to Panama, Indigenous communities are rising up to resist Canada’s mining industry
Owen Schalk
VIDEO: Marching to prevent ‘another tar sands’
Zachary Ruiter
Brandi Morin: In Nevada, Indigenous land protectors face off with a Canadian mining company
Brandi Morin
Canadian mining companies still global leaders in environmental devastation and Indigenous land theft
Shaurya Kshatri
Montreal bans Airbnb — partially
Ethan Cox
Airbnbs in Quebec: Loopholes, lack of enforcement make a mockery of new laws
Zachary Kamel
Old Montreal fire: Victim quoted in media reports is ex-employee of building owner
Ethan Cox
Toronto’s short-term-rental rules are supposed to keep basement apartments off Airbnb. Some homeowners appear to be listing them anyway
Stephen Spencer Davis
Despite the city’s regulation, Toronto tenants continue to be pushed out for Airbnb
Stephen Spencer Davis
In Victoria, former Airbnbs are flooding the market — but no one is buying
Jimmy Thomson
British Columbia cages Airbnb, as speculators cry foul
Ryan Hook
As the housing crisis reaches a breaking point, Halifax finally focuses on Airbnb
Anna Aglietta
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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.