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When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Terra Loire Gillespie
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The Carney-Smith ‘grand bargain’ is a fire sale of our future
Richard Brooks
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The colonial playbook never ended — Canada’s pipeline deal proves it
Brandi Morin
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Canada can’t build pipelines without Indigenous consent
Marcel Desjarlais
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Where are the bodies? Trio take residential school denial on tour
Jerome Turner
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What we’d once consider a scandal is now just another day in Doug Ford’s Ontario
Thorben Wieditz
Reconciliation
How residential school denialism has fuelled Canada’s church-burning panic
Far-right media and Conservative politicians have inflated and distorted incidents of church fires into a national crisis — stoking anti-Indigenous racism, casting unproven acts as “terrorism,” and weaponizing denial of residential school atrocities
Taylor C. Noakes January 13 2026
Reconciliation
How residential school denialism has fuelled Canada’s church-burning panic
Far-right media and Conservative politicians have inflated and distorted incidents of church fires into a national crisis — stoking anti-Indigenous racism, casting unproven acts as “terrorism,” and weaponizing denial of residential school atrocities
Taylor C. Noakes January 13 2026

Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options

Ximena Gonzalez December 18 2025

‘Everything is hanging by a thread’: Holding the line for Vancouver Island’s ancient trees

Brandi Morin December 17 2025

Carney’s finances ignite showdown over conflict-of-interest laws

Xavier Richer Vis December 11 2025

‘Unprecedented’: Canada’s new border bills pave the way for American law enforcement overreach

Ophélie Dénommée-Marchand December 3 2025
Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Ximena Gonzalez
December 18 2025
‘Everything is hanging by a thread’: Holding the line for Vancouver Island’s ancient trees
Brandi Morin
December 17 2025
Carney’s finances ignite showdown over conflict-of-interest laws
Xavier Richer Vis
December 11 2025

In Bed with the Elephant

On the latest episode of In Bed with the Elephant, host Adrian Harewood sits down with lawyer, author, activist and podcast host Sandy Hudson, whose new book is called Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All.

“It’s really quite horrific if you think of the amount of violence that is inherent to policing, its history, and its present. And it makes sense. The tools of policing is violence. They are one of the only ‘legitimate’ uses of violence that our government permits.”

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On the latest episode of In Bed with the Elephant, host Adrian Harewood sits down with lawyer, author, activist and podcast host Sandy Hudson, whose new book is called Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All.

“It’s really quite horrific if you think of the amount of violence that is inherent to policing, its history, and its present. And it makes sense. The tools of policing is violence. They are one of the only ‘legitimate’ uses of violence that our government permits.”

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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.

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Investigating Canadian mining

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‘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
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Jon Thompson
Standing between humanity and catastrophe: Indigenous people meet at the UN to demand the right to refuse resource extraction
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Montreal bans Airbnb — partially
Ethan Cox
Airbnbs in Quebec: Loopholes, lack of enforcement make a mockery of new laws
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Old Montreal fire: Victim quoted in media reports is ex-employee of building owner
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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
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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.