Data Centers, Pipeline Blockades, and Carceral Budgets
June 6, 2026
State capital continues to flow toward opaque corporate subsidies and carceral expansion while externalizing the material costs of AI infrastructure and extractive pipelines onto wetlands, Indigenous territories, and working-class communities. Algorithmic governance and resource monopolies operate in tandem, converting ecological limits into fiscal opacity and replacing democratic accountability with automated enforcement and budgetary rigidity. Material resistance is fragmenting along supply chain fault lines, as local blockades and policy gaps expose the fragility of top-down infrastructure planning.
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In New Brunswick, residents battle the government over a planned AI data centre
The proposed data centre in Lorneville, N.B., would raze wetlands and old-growth forest. Its on-site gas plant and additional demand on the power grid would make it one of the province’s largest emitters
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Why Hasn’t Alberta Been Calculating the Cost of Separation?
Six months before a referendum, the UCP still hasn’t provided an analysis.
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Meet the Chief Standing in the Way of Smith’s Pipeline Dreams
Heiltsuk Marilyn Slett won’t relent on the tanker ban. Which leaves Mark Carney only a problematic southern route.
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Politicians have long misunderstood the ‘working class’. The rise of the far right shows how mistaken they have been
Class has always mattered, and now social democratic parties that sprung from a working class — including the Australian Labor Party – are finding out why. Over many years, and in many countries, a growing view among political actors and within political science was that class was losing its punch.…
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Canada’s police are deadlier and less accountable, but budgets keep growing
Desmond Cole and El Jones discuss the expansion of policing in Canada by governments that refuse to better fund social services The post Canada’s police are deadlier and less accountable, but budgets keep growing appeared first on The Breach.
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How methane policy will make or break the climate crisis
While some countries are introducing abatement policies, key gaps remain in current policies. Quality Stock Arts/Shutterstock There’s no sign that methane emissions are declining globally. That’s according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report on methane, which revealed a worrying imple…
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What Will Canada’s AI Strategy Mean for Jobs and Safety?
MP Taleeb Noormohamed, parliamentary secretary to the AI minister, answers questions about AI safety and data centre pushback. A Tyee Q&A.