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
By: Zahra Khozema
Canary Mission operates like a digital blacklist. It has more than 5,000 dossiers of pro-Palestine students and activists, complete with photos, workplaces, and social media histories, all meant to hinder their future job prospects.
The site is run anonymously, but tax records from American foundations have linked it to an Israeli non-profit called Megamont Shalom. Until now, only its director, Jonathan Bash, had been publicly identified. Ricochet Media has now uncovered three additional members of Megamont Shalom, offering the clearest picture yet of the people behind the operation.
Most of the people listed on Canary Mission’s Canada section are women and people of colour.
THIS WEEK: There is a List Episode 4 – The Charity Loophole
In Canada, charities are supposed to do good: feed people, educate, heal. But what happens when tax-subsidized dollars help fund groups that silence journalists and defend apartheid?
In this episode, we investigate HonestReporting Canada, a media watchdog with charitable status that’s been accused of doxxing reporters and shaping pro-Israel narratives in Canadian newsrooms. We trace where their millions come from and whose really footing the bill.
With help from journalist Samira Moheyddin and researcher Miles Howe, we uncover how Canada’s charity system has become a backdoor for Zionist philanthropy – one that allows wealthy donors and private foundations to move money through tax breaks and loopholes, sometimes all the way to Israel.
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THIS WEEK: In Bed with the Elephant LIVE IN OTTAWA (feat. Luke Savage)
Living in the Age of Fascism, AI & Genocide: (Re)Considering Ed Broadbent & Social Democracy
What’s the responsibility of living in the Age of AI, Fascism and Genocide?
That was the question on the table at our first live taping of In Bed with the Elephant. Journalists, media experts and members of the public gathered in a beloved downtown Ottawa pub as part of the Press Forward Future of Independent Media Summit in early October 2025. The session featured a conversation with one of the bright lights of his generation, the razor sharp and dynamic Newfoundland-born writer/ journalist and podcaster Luke Savage. The evening was an attempt to come to grips with the challenges of living in a dystopian historical moment, while seizing upon the possibilities in our midst to transform it and create a world anew.
We hope you enjoy listening to it!
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‘We’re losing control of our communities’: First Nations in states of emergency as Doug Ford pushes to mine the north
As Ontario’s government sells to international mining companies, communities in crisis are demanding support instead of extraction
By: Jon Thompson
Ontario Provincial Police arrested two suspects on Thursday following a two-day, shelter-in-place order in Ginoogaming First Nation and the neighbouring town of Longlac. OPP charged them with second degree murder in the shooting death of Ginoogaming man Sebastian Towegishig. Another victim has been transported 300 kilometres west to Thunder Bay to receive intensive care for gunshot wounds.
First Nations across far northern Ontario are now calling on Canada and Ontario’s governments to make a priority of ridding their communities of illicit drugs, some making public safety a prerequisite to conversations about mining.
Ginoogaming has been under a state of emergency since May 2024, when Chief Sheri Taylor and her council called for a full-time police presence to contend with drugs and gangs. She reiterated that state of emergency, claiming Canada and Ontario need to support her beyond “band-aid” solutions.
“We’re not going to sit back and let this underground world of drugs and violence take over our community anymore,” Taylor said, warning the leadership will banish anyone known to be selling drugs. “These are unprecedented times we’re dealing with.”