Sandy and Nora talk politics

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine the current, flame some politicians and ask the question: how do we walk the line between COVID-19 pessimism and a little bit of optimism? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nora examines celebrity feminism: its limits, its advantages and why it takes more than just one person to make any change. This will be the last in the holiday season. Listen to the whole series here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/podcast/take-back-the-fight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Sandy and Nora off for a few more weeks, here is Nora's podcast episode on feminism and digital organization: what are the limits of hashtag feminism? And why does it seem like we're trying so hard online but nothing is working? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sandy and Nora are on vacation! Check out Episode 3 - Neoliberalism of Nora's podcast Take Back the Fight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nora is taking over the airwaves! This is episode 2 of her podcast Take Back the Fight. https://harbingermedianetwork.com/show/take-back-the-fight/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Sandy and Nora look back at 2021 and ask: did we learn anything? Also, omicron. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what happens when activism is replaced by critique alone, and urge listeners to not fall into a trap in understanding critique as activism. Plus, they revisit Quebec City's racist police. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about police violence in Quebec City, Hamilton and Wet'suwet'en and ask what it will take for people to demand and end to policing. Plus, they talk COVID variants and a peculiar CBC report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about British Columbia: from fires to floods, from RCMP to a lack of climate action. Plus, they talk about Iqaluit activists fighting for suicide prevention measures and the COVID-19 vaccine for kids. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the limits of vaccine mandates, and ask why politicians have not been forced to explain what happens when every Canadian who is willing to be vaccinated, is vaccinated. Plus -- we remind listeners that Iqaluit still does not have drinking water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how extremes are changing how we politically debate, and how deep political education and organizing are our only hope.Episode transcript. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the way in which social media platforms force us into binaries, which is a disaster for leftwing organizing, which requires us to talk through nuance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the alarming space in Canadian media that TERFascist ideas are receiving, and ask what the end game is in platforming transphobia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about why Canada needs to abolish the military and redirect resources into stronger public services. Plus they also talk about Iqaluit's water crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss how systemic racism operates within democratic structures, and the need for renewal. They talk about the Green Party, the NDP and more broadly within the left. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the latest onslaught of online harassment targeting racialized journalists, and explain why the police will not be able to save anyone from this abuse. Plus, we talk about Trudeau in Tofino, Fairy Creek and Elizasuck May. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how Canada's democracy is in crisis and is it time for a new left political party? Plus we deconstruct the media establishment's obsession with The Two Michaels. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss the winners and losers in #elxn44 -- and what everyone needs to learn about the success of the PP party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the legacy of 9/11 in Canada, and how the English-language debates reveal more about the state of Canada's democracy than pundits and politicians will admit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine why provincial governments have laid so low during the election period, and why that spells disaster for COVID-19 and other crises Canadians currently face. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how the election is going -- and how none of the major parties are acting as if we have just surviving a global pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss Canada's role in Afghanistan, and the responsibility we have for our actions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the important issues that the current federal election should cover, but near certainly will not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the need for left-wingers to identify, engage with and create rhetoric. Plus, Sandy has information about Ontario police destroying documents and we talk about the BCCLA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the federal government's recent decision to vet all scientific research funding as a matter of national intelligence agencies. Plus, they talk about tuition fees in Newfoundland and Labrador and the importance of physical space for activism and organizing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how Canadian media ignore catastrophe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In their annual Canada Day Sucks episode, Sandy and Nora talk colonialism, climate change and how Carolyn Bennett sucks a giant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about crime and punishment, and why society gets nowhere when it throws people into the criminal justice system. Plus, they talk about the Notwithstanding Clause and wtf is up with the Green Party?CW: discussion of child suicide in the second half of the episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explore the connection between colonialism and Islamophobia. Plus, they talk about COVID-19 ravaging Northeastern Ontario. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine how power in Canada can be chipped it, confronted and forced into action. All it takes is creativity and a refusal to accept things the way that they are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine how Residential Schools should be understood as a fundamental part of forming modern Canada, and discuss ways in which settlers can demand justice from their politicians.Residential school survivors who need support can call the National Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explore the myth of objectivity, and how it's used to justify media coverage that erases and marginalizes people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what is happening in Colombia, Tigray and Palestine, and ask why don't Canadians have more information about global affairs? Plus Nora talks about Quebec Solidaire censuring it's anti-racism/decolonial collective and Sandy goes on a bit more about bots. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about COVID-19 -- again -- and how the world that politicians want us to think we're living in is not the world we are living in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain the crisis at Laurentian University, university funding under attack and also mention the CAUT's censure of the University of Toronto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about vaccine inequity, CERB taxation and the bizarre army of trolls who exist to bother Liberal critics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the chaos of the Third Wave, about how police will not fix anything and why these politicians would rather see people in ICU than stop the spread of COVID-19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the bad and the bad from the NDP Convention 2021 and try to find some encouraging words in the face of the rising Third Wave.The post Episode 146 – NDP Convention and the Third Wave appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explore how average people can fore politicians into action, even when it feels impossible and politicians, immovable. Transcript available here.The post Episode 145 – How to confront power appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about femicide in Canada and how political inaction isn't because there is a lack of understanding or of resources, but because politicians literally do not care that women are being killed. Plus, we talk about a boat that is no longer stuck in the Suez.Update to the murder investigation in Hawkesbury: five suspicious deaths in the hospital's COVID unit are now being investigated: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/victim-in-hawkesbury-hospital-homicide-was-89-year-old-man-from-quebecEpisode transcriptThe post Episode 144 – a femicide crisis appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the rise of anti-Asian racism, the connection between the anti-mask movement and how Canada's mainstream media has written about China since the start of the pandemic. We also take a short tour of the latest Liberal scheme: the NDP's student debt promise.Episode transcript.The post Episode 143 – anti-mask fascism appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about medical racism, bill C-7 passed into law and … the Queen.You can see the Disability Filibuster here.Episode transcript available here.The post Episode 142 – How many more will die? appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora look back at the year that was. We take stock of the good news (there was some!) the bad news and the shitty news. We also talk the NDP: not defending Palestine. Read the transcript here.The post Episode 141 – Happy Birthday to COVID-19 appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the NDP private member bill on pharmacare, and what it would take to build a pharmacare system in Canada. They also talk about the revelations in Celina Caesar-Chevannes' new book and the Fifth Estate episode Black on Campus.Episode transcriptThe post Episode 140 – Pharmacare and white supremacy news roundup appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, the Liberals introduced Bill C-22 – the Liberals' long-awaited amendments to Canada's criminal code. Sandy and Nora discuss the changes, how they are a mixed bag of good and bad, and how the Liberals never take seriously the concerns of Black and Indigenous communities.Transcript available here.The post Episode 139 – the Liberals' crime reform legislation appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about ableism in Canada's medical and political establishment — illustrated both through Canada's COVID-19 death toll and through Bill C7, Medical Assistance in Dying legislation. Episode transcript.The post Episode 138 – dignity in life versus dignity in death appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain why many on the left have been critical of the recent decision to place several new groups on Canada's terrorist list, including the Proud Boys. The episode starts with a round-up of news we are watching this week.Episode transcriptThe post Episode 137 – Canada's terrorist list is a mistake appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about COVID news: from new viral strains to new travel restrictions, why does Canada seem to be perpetually aiming to do the absolute least?The post Episode 136 – Even more COVID appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Governor General, COVID naming workplaces with outbreaks. And, Sandy and Nora offer a master class in how to take over your local student union.The post Episode 135 – How to take over your student union appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about CBC Winnipeg, rabble, Black writers being ignored for wanting to write about the far right, Passage's media relations list and how white supremacy is maintained inside Canadian newsrooms.The post Episode 134 – Canadian Media Whites Again appeared first on Sandy & Nora Talk Politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.