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Israel targeted two Canary journalists with stun grenades in south Lebanon

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Israel targeted two Canary journalists with stun grenades in south Lebanon

Zahra — a Lebanese citizen from the south of Lebanon — was on her balcony, pouring coffee, telling two journalists — one British, one Lebanese — what it is like to live in a town which has now become inside Israel’s yellow line of occupation, and why she can’t leave. Then BANG!! An Israeli drone had dropped a stun grenade — a flash-bang, the kind police lob to scatter riot crowds — around 30 metres from where they sat. On the recording, you can hear it detonate. You can hear her voice change: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Guy-and-Mohamad-—-stun-grenade.wav The translation of the Arabic from the…

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The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone.

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The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone.

For more than a decade, I have wholeheartedly backed the man who helped build Canary from nothing but a belief that media should serve the many, not the few. I have watched him pour his energy and unshakeable principle into creating an independent voice — one that challenges power, holds elites to account, and amplifies those the mainstream ignores. So when Lloyds Bank suddenly terminated Canary’s business banking facility without a clear explanation, this wasn’t just some sort of bureaucratic inconvenience. It was a direct, calculated assault on press freedom, political dissent, and the very idea of a democratic public sphere.…

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Canary director explains the Lloyds debanking situation to Double Down News

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Canary director explains the Lloyds debanking situation to Double Down News

Appearing on Double Down News, Canary CEO and director Steve Topple has explained the Canary’s debanking situation. "DESTROY Them Before They DESTROY Us": The SECRET Plot to Crush Independent Media @mrtopplehttps://t.co/AOgRijbzy2 — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) July 5, 2026 The Canary debanked If you’re unfamiliar with the debanking, you can catch up here. In short: The Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. Despite banking with them for almost a decade they are currently withholding a substantial amount of our money. We are left with barely any funds. Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank…

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Corbyn joins Ali, Polanski in speaking out against Lloyds’ debanking of Canary

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Corbyn joins Ali, Polanski in speaking out against Lloyds’ debanking of Canary

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined the Green party’s leader and deputy leader in speaking out against the move by Lloyds bank to ‘debank’ the Canary. The bank seized the cash and closed the account without explanation why it has disappeared a significant amount of money. Money that is needed to pay the outlet’s staff, contractors and operating costs. Jeremy Corbyn — Dangerous road Corbyn told the Canary that the anti-democratic attempt to silence an independent news site was “a very dangerous road”: We are going down a very dangerous road in this country. Independent media is essential to a…

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UK regime’s debanking attack on Canary too much even for Trump administration

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UK regime’s debanking attack on Canary too much even for Trump administration

Lloyds bank’s debanking attack on the Canary has reached the US White House and drawn comment from Trump’s senior diplomacy official. Trump’s sanction-attacks on Francesca Albanese and International Criminal Court officials to protect Israel have been widely and rightly condemned. But, surprisingly, Trump’s ‘Under-Secretary for Public Diplomacy’ Sarah B Rogers has condemned the financial attack on free speech and independent journalism. In a post on her official X feed, Rogers said that the attack was clearly political and signalled a world that nobody should want to live in: Any financial institution doing business in the United States should take care to…

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Mothin Ali calls Lloyds debanking the Canary an ‘attack on democracy’

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Mothin Ali calls Lloyds debanking the Canary an ‘attack on democracy’

As we reported on Tuesday 30 June, Lloyds have debanked the Canary. Few politicians have acknowledged the issue, but the Greens’ Mothin Ali has now spoken out: Debanking a news outlet is a direct attack on democracy! https://t.co/OM0rfr65i2 — Mothin Ali (@MothinAli) July 2, 2026 Canary debanked We reported on 30 June that: Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know when our money that Lloyds is holding will be returned. Moreover, we…

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Independent media rallies around the Canary as debanking scandal continues

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Independent media rallies around the Canary as debanking scandal continues

On Tuesday 30 June, we reported that the Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. This has left us with little money and considerable stress. And while we’re still in the thick of it, the dread has been eased by the outpouring of support from our friends and allies in the independent media. Solidarity from the independents with the Canary We reported on 30 June that: Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know…

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Activists come out to bat for the Canary following Lloyds debanking

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Activists come out to bat for the Canary following Lloyds debanking

On Tuesday 30 June, we reported that the Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. This has left us with little money and considerable stress. And while we’re still in the thick of it, the dread has been eased by the outpouring of support from our friends and allies in the activist sphere. Solidarity with the Canary We reported on 30 June that: Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know when our money…

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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds

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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds

The Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. Despite banking with them for almost a decade they are currently withholding a substantial amount of our money. We are left with barely any funds. Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know when our money that Lloyds is holding will be returned. Moreover, we do not know how it will affect our ability to get another bank account in the future. Lloyds give no…

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Leaked email reveals Canary knew about Carns leadership desires in February

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Leaked email reveals Canary knew about Carns leadership desires in February

All this talk of Al Carns reminded us of an email leaked to the Canary news desk in February, which is published for the first time today. It’s a copy of an email from a (possibly fictional and satirical, although we can’t be sure) Number 10 staffer to the head of the Metropolitan police. Now that Starmer is gone, the contents are starting to look a bit eerily prophetic… From: tonygordstein@number10.gov.uk                                                                 Wed 25/02/2026 17:01 To: sirmarkrowley@met.police.uk Hey Mark, I don’t have any requests this time. I’m just bored here and thought I’d give you an update on the gossip going round…

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Canary Catch Up: The Take That Circus comes to town

Canary Catch Up: The Take That Circus comes to town

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. It’s officially summer! As someone with multiple health conditions triggered by the weather, the move to summer is another that knackers me out. But it was lovely to get down to my local beach to watch the sun rise on the summer solstice. There’s something glorious about thousands of people gathered together to appreciate how majestic nature is. Take That bring…

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Canary Catch Up: A week of TV announcements – including on the BBC’s Doctor Who

Canary Catch Up: A week of TV announcements – including on the BBC’s Doctor Who

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. Something I was painfully aware of when I started this column was that some weeks there wouldn’t be a lot of TV to talk about. Living with chronic illness means I sometimes can’t look at screens, and some weeks the telly is just crap. Last week, unless you’re interested in football (which I’m not), there wasn’t really a lot to watch.…

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Canary Catch Up: Pride month gets off to a horrifying start with Tip Toe and Rivals

Canary Catch Up: Pride month gets off to a horrifying start with Tip Toe and Rivals

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. Trigger warning: This article contains discussion of homophobic hate crimes and the murder of a gay man. Please take care when reading. Pride 2026 I’ve been thinking a lot about pride and my local community this week. We, like many parts of the country, got a Reform council in May. For anyone who is disabled and isn’t straight, white and…

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Canary Catch Up: Sauciness of Rivals and substanceless The Testaments

Canary Catch Up: Sauciness of Rivals and substanceless The Testaments

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. My God, it’s been hot this week, hasn’t it? I’m not made for this weather, but on one of the rare occasions I left my cool house, I saw the fantastic Mike Garry perform his poetry at King Ink in Sunderland. Garry’s poetry is a sharp look at working-class family life. His poem ‘what me mam taught me’ brought tears to…

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The Canary tracks the Top 7 contenders for the 2026 World Cup title

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The Canary tracks the Top 7 contenders for the 2026 World Cup title

With only a few days to go before the start of the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the features of the main contenders competing for the global title have begun to take a clearer shape. This comes amid an exceptional struggle between two generations: the generation of legends approaching the final curtain of their careers, led by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and the new dominant generation led by Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal, and Vinícius Júnior. The Canary has identified the top 7 teams leading the title expectations, considering the quality of names, stability, and recent…

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Canary to launch a daily newspaper – and they’re going to hate it

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Canary to launch a daily newspaper – and they’re going to hate it

After 10 years of bringing you truth without agenda online, the Canary has now done what no left-wing media outlet has done in decades: launch a daily print newspaper. It is set to challenge every mainstream media outlet. Plus, it will bring the Canary’s no-nonsense news that disrupts power to a wider audience. And, you just know the MSM and establishment are going to hate it, too. But why the hell would we do this at a time when fewer and fewer people are actually buying newspapers? Meet the Canary (again) If you don’t know the Canary, we launched in October…

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