Donya Ziaee is the host of the Breach Show, and a research and communications officer at the Council of Canadians. She’s a former producer at CBC Radio and a proud PhD dropout.

Martin Lukacs is an investigative journalist and the managing editor of The Breach. He’s a former environmental writer for The Guardian, and has written for The New York Review of Books, Toronto Star, Walrus, CBC, and other Canadian publications. He’s the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.

Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, writer, and a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation. She is the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University, a regular media commentator, and the author of several books, including Indigenous Nationhood and Warrior Life.

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and community activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax.