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theBreaker.news Podcast: New documentary commemorates the biggest industrial accident in Vancouver history
Except for Stompin’ Tom Connors’ "The Bridge Came Tumblin’ Down," there has been relatively little to commemorate the mass-tragedy of June 17, 1958 in...
theBreaker.news Podcast: Datamining whistleblower shares ideas with Canadian lawmakers on stopping digital deterioration of democracy
For Christopher Wylie, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, it was a sort of homecoming. The data scientist who hails from Victoria made headlines around the...
theBreaker.news Podcast: On the Tiananmen tragedy, 29 years later
The 29th anniversary of a turning point in history is coming June 4. On that day, in 1989, soldiers violently regained Tiananmen Square from...
theBreaker.news Podcast: AggregateIQ co-founder testifies to U.K. MPs on the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Jeff Silvester is the chief operating officer of the Victoria company involved in the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. He appeared on his own May 16...
theBreaker.news Podcast: Splitting on the left, friction on the right in Vancouver politics
A whirlwind week in Vancouver politics, with 22 weeks until the civic election. While lame duck Mayor Gregor Robertson was on yet another junket...
theBreaker.news Podcast: Keeping an eye on city hall with an election on the horizon
With 23 weeks to go before Vancouver chooses a new mayor and council, the guessing game continues. Will anyone be brave enough to run...