
Sandy and Nora talk politics
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DN - Terror charges for dad and son, Canada approved $107M in Israeli weapons exports, Wagner group massacred in Mali
Daily news - Aug. 2, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - PEI journos' union drive stuck, landslide at Chilcotin river and wildfires in Spain
Daily news for Aug. 1, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Cops shut down Halifax encampment, AirBnB is eating up rental stock, 100+ dead in IND and PAK from flooding
Daily news for July 31, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 289Only you can prevent forest fires (through our radical actions)
In this episode, Sandy and Nora think through what the left can learn from the strides made in Olympic-level gymnastics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Ford buys cops helicopters, SK health workers aren't paid and far-right Israelis protest in favour of torture
Daily news for July 30, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Calgarians protest food costs, Postmedia buys Saltwire, Venezuela heads to the polls
Daily news for July 29, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Companies charged for refinery explosion, the Oilers wanted unhoused people out, JNF to lose charitable status
Daily news for July 26, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Murder in Lindsay jail, Cdn company scammed $2B from people and 200,000 victims of abuse in New Zealand institutions
Daily news for July 25, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SN - Jasper evacuates, Canadian charged with terrorism in the UK and France may undo anti-worker pension reforms
Daily news for July 24, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 288Seizing the (tiny) space opened up by Kamala Harris' nomination
In this all-American episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the organizing space that's been created by the Harris-Biden switcheroo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Health emerg at Manitoba Cree Nation, Cdn killed by Israeli forces near Gaza border, 40 Haitians die at sea
Daily news for July 23, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - LCBO strike over! Protests disrupt Halifax Pride, Sudan and Iran re-start diplomatic relations
Daily News for July 21, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Kids on e-scooters are being injured more, VIU sues students over Gaza, 17 dead in Bangladesh protests
Daily news for July 19, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Colt Canada to double in size, 2 dead from Silk/GV outbreak, man killed near RNC, 9 die in mine collapse in Kenya
Daily news for July 18, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Child welfare in BC needs overhaul, TC Energy loses in court, 6 dead in mosque shooting in Oman
Daily news for July 17, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 287There's no place for violence in politics except state violence
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberal talking point that has been the rallying cry after the assassination attempt on trump. Plus, they ask: what is going on in BC? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN- Video released of death of man in RCMP custody, UM encampment taken down, Kagame wins again
Daily news for July 15, 2024. Switch to the feed here: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/668ff1fb7b4fb006ca50a517 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Migrant workers want heatwave protection, crisis in SK women's jail, Israel kills 90 Gazans
Daily news for July 15, 2024. New feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/668ff1fb7b4fb006ca50a517 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Strikes at Fantasia Film Fest and Samsung in Korea, insurance industry is oil and gas
Daily news for July 12, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Encampment update, IRCC to kick 500+ people out of their homes, Canada to buy war subs
Story 1 - MUN students set up new encampment days after being arrested; McGill hires cops and mercenaries to clear its encampment, big win at the University of Windsor over divestment and academic boycott demands. Story 2 - Not enough slack in BC hospital system for nurses to call in sick; emergency wards in the Interior are closed as a result. Story 3 - IRCC not renewing contract with hotel in Cornwall, kicking more than 500 people to the curb by the end of July. Story 4 - Feeling the pinch of the affordability crisis? Don't worry, Canada is going to take your tax money and buy some subs. Story 5 - Sudanese officials receive first visit of a nation's head since the start of the civil war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - $2M cop corruption probe results in nothing, nursing shortage in remote FNs, Orban-Xi summit on Ukraine
Story 1 - After 5 years, a $2m corruption and harassment probe into the Durham Police has turned up ... nothing. Not that there is no problem, it hasn't reported at all. Story 2 - A shortage of nurses and doctors in remote First Nations communities is killing people. Story 3 - Throw out your Silk and Great Value almond, oat, cashew and coconut milk ASAP. Story 4 - Lady accused of producing fraudulent timesheets bilked federal departments and Crown corps some $250,000. But her supervisors didn't notice and it took the RCMP to read them and say, wait, what? Story 5 - Orban, as the new president of the EU, is on a tour to try and stop the war in Ukraine. But Western countries think that he's causing more harm than good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is disenfranchisement fueling the rise of fascism in the West?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora look at the current state of politics, in light of recent elections in the UK and France. Plus, the Lancet warns that deaths in Gaza could be as high as 186,000. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Record toxic drug deaths in NB last year, new West African defence pact, lanslide in illegal Indonesian mine kills 11
Story 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. Story 4 - New defence pact between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as the three countries quit ECOWAS. Story 5 - 11 dead in landslide at illegal gold mine in Indonesia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - looming strike for BC longshoremen, +186K Gazans estimated dead, the left wins in France
Story 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 coalition beats back the fascists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - 150 markers found at fmr residential school, LCBO workers strike and Jeremy Corban wins (ok, labour too)
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 popular vote, Labour careens to victory in the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - PEI jails release men into homelessness, 47 people killed by cops in Canada in 2024, Israel continues its genocide
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 incidents so far this year in Canada. Story 5 - Nearly 20 dead in Khan Younes, Israeli settlers burn fields south of Hebron and attack fire services so they can't put the fires out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - UofT wins injunction, sex assault lawsuit against EMSB, secret trials to deport Iranians from Cda,
Daily news for July 3, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 285Canadian decay
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.

DN - WestJet mechanics win, Israel may invade Khan Younes, fascists win round 1 of French election
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 regroupment ahead in next rounds of voting. Story 5 - A UN working group calls for Imran Khan to be released from prison. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - OPP kill man, safe injection site closes in Timmins, deaths at Northvolt in SWE and inside Iran's election
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 inside look into lobbyists for TC Energy and the NDP government of BC. Story 5 - 3 workers die mysteriously at a Sweedish Northvolt plant. Story 6 - a look at the Iranian presidential elections. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Cop facing charges is promoted, Frank Stronach charged again, massive asset dump in oil & gas
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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Ottawa cop charged in sex assault, Libs trounced in Toronto, Kenyan cops arrive in Haiti
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! Story 5 - Kenyan police arrive for their mission in Haiti, just as Kenyan police kill protesters in Nairobi over anti-austerity protests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 285Modern day slavery expands in Canada
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.

DN - Ankle bracelets coming to NL, MP uses ChatGPT gets facts wrong, new uprising in New Caledonia
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 Caledonia brought to France for detention. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Diesel spill in Pond Inlet, details on national kid food program, Kenyans protest austerity
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 impossible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Wildfire evac in Labrador, Canada calls unit in Iranian army terrorists, Houthis sink second ship
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 reasons listed by CTV for why are not terrorism. Story 5 - Death toll rises to four in Houthi campaign to disrupt ships passing through the Red Sea, to pressure Israel to stop its genocide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Cree cousins' bodies found weeks apart, LCBO workers set to strike, ~600 die doing Hajj in extreme heat
Story 1 - The remains of two Cree women, cousins, were identified weeks from one another in Dawson Creek BC. Story 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. Story 3 - Liquor store workers in Ontario are ready to strike. Story 4 - Same-sex marriage legalized in Thailand. Story 5 - Nine people die in fire at hospital in northern Iran. Fire was likely linked to the hospital using emergency power generators due to extreme heat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 284Who are Canada's traitors?
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.

DN - Algeria pressuring Canadians, self-immolation at Wpg mosque, Greek coast guard threw migrants overboard
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Death in Niagara hospital, war warnings in Lebanon and secret US antivax campaign
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 China's Sinovac vaccine, a decision that cost thousands of lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Violence in Nunavut schools, cop assaults teen and stays a cop, more refugees in the world than ever before
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 Ukraine. Story 5 - 120 million displaced people on the planet -- the highest probably in the history of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Cops evade SIU investigation, National Bank absorbs CWB, 80 dead in boat accident in DRC
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 5 - Boat capsizes in Congo killing 80 people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Indig. students subjected to bizarre brain study, SK school leader on trial for abuse, Chiquita Banana pays up
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 a woman murdered in one details how hard she tried to get another place to live. Story 4 - Javier Milei is good for mining and Canadian companies are licking their chops. Story 5 - Chiquita Banana ordered to pay millions to people whose families were slaughtered by paramilitary groups funded by the company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep 283The nationalism to fascism pipeline in settler-colonial states
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.

DN - No strike yet for border agents, Hamilton is solitary confinement capital, Hamas accepts ceasefire deal again
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/Russia abstaining) calling for ceasefire in Gaza. Story 5 - EU parliament elections show that Europe is on a slide to the Right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - 3 AB companies charged in workers' deaths, Israel massacres 200+ and 50 dead in East DRC
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. Story 3 - Four people arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto; police appears to punch protester. Story 4 - Nearly 300 people killed in Israeli attack on refugee camp; Netenyahu faces uncertain political future. Story 5 - Allied Democratic Forces in the DRC have killed at least 50 people in the past week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Cop shenanigans, TTC strike averted, Korean Samsung workers take job action
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 113 and the TTC averting a transit strike at the eleventh hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - No more COVID wastewater testing in Ontario, massacre in Sudan
Story 1 - Ontario to stop wastewater surveillance. Story 2 - York University students set up Palestine solidarity encampment. Story 3 - International campaign targeting Palestinian activists uncovered by Israeli media. Story 4 - RSF massacres 100 people in in Sudan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DN - Stoon library workers strike? Grassy sues gov'ts, Modi wins fewer seats than anticipated
Story 1 - Saskatoon Public library workers might go on strike. Story 2 - Grassy Narrows sues the federal and provincial government over mercury poisoning. Story 3 - Foreign streaming services need to pay to a Canadian content creation fund. Story 4 - UN Human Rights chief slams Israel's attacks on the West Bank. Story 5 - Modi's BJP wins minority, surprising pollsters and analysts. He now must make a coalition to govern. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.