Sandy and Nora talk politics

St ory 1 - Record deaths from toxic drugs in New Brunswick in 2023.   Story 2 - Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg is planning to pay for AI-power weapons detection.   Story 3 - Edmonton police shot and killed a man, three minutes of video of the confrontation has been deleted.   S tory 4 - New defence pact between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as the three countries quit ECOWAS. &nb...

S tory 1 - ILWU Local 514 set to strike, but the employer is set to lock them out.   Story 2 - New report details horrors of residential school to push back against residential school denialism.   Story 3 - The Lancet estimates that the death toll in Gaza could be higher than 186,000.   Story 4 - Environmental activists jailed in Cambodia.   Story 5 - France's leftwing coalitio...

Story 1 - 150 anomalies have been found at the site of the former residential school at Pimicikmamak. Story 2 - Strike at the LCBO for the first time in the Crown's history.   Story 3 - Pro-Palestinian protesters at Western refuse to leave.   Story 4 - Israel moves to make the biggest land grab in the West Bank since the Oslo Accords.   Story 5 - With a small percentage of the popul...

Story 1 - Brian Nadler's first degree murder charges tossed out on Day 1 of his trial.   Story 2 - The John Howard Society of PEI warns that there are a high number of people being released from jail into homelessness.   Story 3 - Legal Aid Alberta is about to cease operations over fight with the province about funding and control.   Story 4 - 47 people killed in police-involved inc...

Daily news for July 3, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what Canadians can learn about the current political crisis in the United States, and how Canada is hurtling towards the same demise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story 1 - Winnipeggers rally for more international students to be able to stay in Canada.   Story 2 - WestJet mechanics make gains after strike.   Story 3 - Israel tells people to clear out of Khan Younes sparking fears of a new ground invasion there.   Story 4 - Fascists win 33% of the vote in France and Macron's party will make the difference in trying to get the leftwing regroup...

Story 1 - OPP shoot and kill man in part that hosted armed resistance against the Department of Indian Affairs 50 years ago.   Story 2 - Safe injection site in Timmins to close due to a lack of provincial funding. Users warn that this will murder people.   Story 3 - Karima Manji will serve three years in prison over fraudently getting her daughters enrolled as Inuit.   Story 4 - An...

Story 1 - Mountie was promoted and is back on duty even though he is facing charages for shooting someone.   Story 2 - Bus driver at fault in crash that killed 17 people will not face charges.   Story 3 - Frank Stronach is facing more sexual assault charges.   Story 4 - Massive asset dump in global oil and gas industry.   Story 5 - Bolivia's attempted 4-hour coup.   Hosted...

Story 1 - Uday Jaswal, former deputy chief of the Ottawa Police has been charged in the sex assault of a woman.   Story 2 - The University of Waterloo issues a tresspass notice to the pro-Palestinian encampment there, something that the students call "absolutely nonsensical."   Story 3 - The Liberals shit the bead in Toronto-St. Paul's.   Story 4 - Julian Assange is free!   Sto...

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the temporary foreign worker program and how the number of workers who are in Canada through the program has doubled since 2018. Plus: what are the pitfalls to calling a foreign military a terrorist entity? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story 1 - NL bill will bring ankle bracelets to the province to track offenders. Story 2 - MP Ryan Williams uses ChatGPT to be very publicly incorrect over the capital gains exemption.   Story 3 - Two US soldiers consciously object to service over the US' support for Israel's genocide.   Story 4 - Death toll at his year's Hajj tops 1300.   Story 5 - Activists arrested in New Caledon...

Story 1 - Diesel spill in Pond Inlet.   Story 2 - The Rebel News has a racism truck.   Story 3 - Liberals unveil details of their national food program, promise that it will be universal.   Story 4 - Protests in Kenya over austerity measures.   Story 5 - By destroying Hamas, Gaza police and bombing aid convoys, Israel has made humanitarian distribution dangerous and near imposs...

Story 1 - Wildfire evacuation order in place in Churchill Falls.   Story 2 - A construction worker struck by something and died at a downtown Montreal worksite.   Story 3 - Cargill will not pay damages to its employees at their High River factory over COVID-19 outbreak and related deaths.   Story 4 - Canada declares Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror group though the...

Story 1 - The remains of two Cree women, cousins, were identified weeks from one another in Dawson Creek BC.   S tory 2 - Canada has refused to give emergency visas to the family of a man who was killed in a random act of violence for his funeral.   S tory 3 - Liquor store workers in Ontario are ready to strike.   S tory 4 - Same-sex marriage legalized in Thailand.   Story 5 -...

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about foreign influence in Canadian politics and how, once again, Poilievre is eating everyone's lunch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story 1 - Kabyle Canadians accuse Algeria of spying on them.   Story 2 - A young man self-immolated inside a Winnipeg mosque.   Story 3 - The world will spend $100B on nuclear weapons this year.   Story 4 - The Greek Coastguard threw nine migrants into the sea, killing them, new BBC investigation reveals.   Story 5 - At least 6 dead in Ecuador due to landslides.     H...

Story 1 - Family says that father's death at a hospital ER was due to an overloaded system.   Story 2 - Trudeau calls Russia's attack on Ukraine a genocide but cannot bring himself to say the same thing about Israel.   Story 3 - UN warns of escalating violence along the Israel-Lebanon border.   Story 4 - The US undertook a secret antivax campaign to scare Filipinos out of taking Chi...

Story 1 - 90% of teachers in Nunavut report having witnessed some kind of violence in the past year.   Story 2 - Ottawa cop gets to remain a cop after he beat a child in the custody of the mental health act.   Story 3 - Two workers are injured in Calgary while trying to repair the city's catastrophic water main break.   Story 4 - Canada will send 2000 decommissioned rocket motors to...

Story 1 - Two cops involved in the high-speed chase that lead to a family being killed are refusing to cooperate with the SIU.   Story 2 - Some number of jobs are being cut at Global News as Corus tries to save money.   Story 3 - The CWB is being acquired by the National Bank.   Story 4 - Almost 50 people killed in an apartment fire in Kuwait in a district where foreign workers live...

Story 1 - Indigenous students in PA were targeted for bizarre brain waves therapy, funded by a billionaire and that was never approvd by an ethics board.   Story 2 - Christian school director's trial for assault with a weapon is on now and former students have horrifying stories.   Story 3 - Inside St. John's for-profit shelter system, residents are scared for their lives. The mother of...

In this episode, Sandy and Nora try to answer the question: can you detatch national pride from the actions of your state? Canada and Israel both struggle with the realities of genocidal programs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story 1 - CBSA workers push their strike deadline to Friday.   Story 2 - Hamilton holds people in solitary confinement more than anywhere else in Ontario, regularly breaking the limit of time for what the UN considers to be humane.   Story 3 - MLA who was victim of police surveillance resigns, citing the culture of politics.   Story 4 - Unanimous vote at the UN security council (w/R...

Story 1 - Three companies have been charged in the workplace deaths of two men in Alberta.   Story 2 - Community rallies against new proposed graphite project, especially after hearing that defense interests in the US have funded the project.   S tory 3 - Four people arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto; police appears to punch protester.   Story 4 - Nearly 300 people kill...

Story 1 - Strategy document shows how police want to be the centre of drug policy in Alberta.   Story 2 - Opioid deaths are 8x higher among First Nations in Alberta.   Story 3 - Cop who kicked man in the head also kicked another man in the head.   Story 4 - The SIU in Ontario is charging a cop with assault.   Story 5 - A "Framework Agreement" has been reached between the ATU 11...