Month: April 2023

Daily News – April 28

April 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/homeless-homicide-quebec-city-1.6824099

Story 2 – https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1974806/nunavik-kuujjuaq-meteo-temperature-printemps-fonte

Story 3 – https://globalnews.ca/news/9654900/james-smith-cree-nation-murder-timeline/

Story 4 – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/27/rohingya-yemeni-and-syrian-refugees-plead-for-help-in-sudan

Daily News – April 27

April 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario government asks people to narc on their neighbours, family members who receive social assistance.

Story 2 – A review into the operations of the PA police is not being released … yet. PAPS has been responsible for three deaths, including that of an infant when they charged his mother with being intoxicated (she wasn’t) during a domestic abuse call.

Story 3 – The Alberta Energy Regulator is afraid that the movie How To Blow Up A Pipeline will inspire people to go out and blow up pipelines.

Story 4 – Fascinating investigation from ProPublica about trains that are left sitting on tracks for hours, even days, preventing kids from getting to school or ambulances and fire from getting to emergencies.

Story 5 – 57 bodies off the coast of Libya and 70 bodies of the coast of Tunisia have been found due to boats that had migrants aboard sinking in the Mediterranean.

Daily News – April 26

April 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Flight Attendants rally at four airports to demand that they’re paid when they show up to work.

Story 2 – Mikisew Cree First Nation declares a state of emergency, requests emergency health services from Indigenous Services Canada and the Alberta Health Service.

Story 3 – CBC’s workforce has too many temporary and contract workers and that creates situations that are rife for abuse. A quarter of the workforce are temps.

Story 4 – Improperly stored ammunition and an electrical fire is being blamed for two explosions that killed 17 people in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

Episode 237 – Are we too critical? (Not us, everyone)

April 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora ask — are we too critical? How can we avoid falling into nihilism? Plus: what about the Canadians in Sudan?

Daily News – April 25

April 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Emissions from the tar sands are likely 65% higher than what industry is reporting, according to new scientific study.

Story 2 – Group of citizens, active with Climate Justice Saskatoon, are taking the Saskatchewan government to court over climate change denial and their to slow net-zero plans.

Story 3 – Omar Alghabra finds himself in TERF ire for posting a video of male parliamentarians walking around in high heel shoes to raise money for the Halton Women’s Place.

Story 4 – Former longtime Liberal MP and former Industry Minister Navdeep Bains lands gig at Rogers closing the MP-to-Rogers loop.

Story 5 – Hassan Diab maintains his innocence as he is sentenced to life in prison by a French court, hopes he will not be extradited a second time by Canada.

Daily News – April 24

April 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Layer over layer of systems failures lead to the overdoes death of Thre Windego in a seedy Fort Frances motel. The boy was just 16.

Story 2 – Workers employed by Civeo at a camp that houses mostly Imperial Oil workers have voted against the company’s offer to cut their wages. Civeo made a profit in 2022.

Story 3 – The RCMP brutally arrested an Inuk-Dene teen in Whitehorse leaving her needing surgery. In the end, she wasn’t actually charged with anything.

Story 4 – Update on the story of Boden Umpherville, the man who was tasered and pepper sprayed by PA police. His family has announced that he is brain dead.

Story 5 – The University of Waterloo reminds its researchers of their rights if CSIS comes knocking and the Globe pumps out another nice piece of propaganda.

Story 6 – 47 people’s bodies have been exhumed from a mass grave that was related to a religious cult, say Kenyan authorities.

Daily News – April 21

April 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto cop ODs on drugs that he stole from an investigation, two people have charges dropped as a result.

Story 2 – Forty unmarked graves detected at the site of the former St. Augustine Residential School. The TRC had found that five children had died at that location.

Story 3 – Discord leaks show that Trudeau said Canada would never meet it’s NATO obligation for military spending, something that his government has been saying for years.

Story 4 – Foodbank usage in southern ontario is at an all-time high.

Story 5 – Trudeau commits $13 billion annually to Volkeswagon to get them to build EV batteries in Canada.

Daily News – April 20

April 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Investigation from CBC Nova Scotia shows how few complaints against police are actually investigated — just 6%

Story 2 – 6 million litres of water is dumped illegally by Suncor, NWT government is frustrated that they were not notified.

Story 3 – Grocer Metro sees 10% profit raise in most recent quarter.

Story 4 – In a display of awww precious, ADM for DND asks defense companies if they can stop over promising and under delivering.

Story 5 – Ukraine struggles to export grain as the Euro Commission’s decision to drop tariffs on Ukrainian gran has been brutal for other Eastern European farmers. Now, countries are refusing to purchase Ukrainian grain.

Daily News – April 19

April 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Publication ban lifted, Catherine Fournier’s identity is formally revealed as survivor of high-profile sexual assault.

Story 2 – A couple has set up a camp at Victoria’s legislative building demanding that the state give them back their newborn.

Story 3 – Five people who were supposed to be repatriated to Canada from Syria have gone missing in Syria, and their lawyer is baffled as to why Canada didn’t ensure their safe repatriation.

Story 4 – Heatwave kills 13 at a massive government awards ceremony in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra State.

Story 5 – plus! Find the closest picket line to where you live or work and head out to support the 155,000 workers who have just walked off the job.

Episode 236 – What’s wrong with public broadcasting?

April 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora ask: what is the point of public broadcasting, and how should CBC respond to attacks against it levelled by Pierre Poilievre? Probably not by quoting and featuring him extensively!

Daily News – April 18

April 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Workers with Vancouver Coastal Health and hundreds of academics denounce how the City of Vancouver cleared the encampment on East Hastings St.

Story 2 – Canada needs immigrants to fill the 30,000 farming jobs that will be open by 2033 but don’t give TFWs permanent residency, says the office of the federal immigration minister

Story 3 – Violence erupts in Sudan after a pact between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces falls apart.

Story 4 – the US says that they have killed senior ISIS leadership in northern Syria

Daily News – April 17

April 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: BC Energy Regulator investigating 2 spills under the Morice River in Wet’sewet’en territory.

Story 2 – Just before the Canadian women went onto the gold medal game yesterday, the Canadian government restored funding to Hockey Canada. Amazingly cynical!

Story 3 – Incredible investigation from Tavia Grant about Canada’s corporate responsibilty Ombudsman — the office has yet to complete a single case since it was founded in 2015.

Story 4 – A Canadian Pacific train has derailed in Maine. No spill of the hazardous material it had been carrying — only cars filled with lumber and electrical wiring left the track.

Daily News -April 14

April 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive failures in child services protocol puts girl at risk of human trafficking. She went missing for 47 days while in the custody of a for-profit foster agency.

Story 2 – Woman’s dog bites someone. She is charged with bylaw offenses and she refuses to give her name. RCMP don’t understand what bylaw offenses are means so they detain her for nearly a week, deny her a shower, film her going to the washroom.

Story 3 – Royal Bank of Canada is the largest funder of fossil fuels *in the world*

Story 4 – Single barn fire at a Texas farm kills 18,000 cattle. Back in Feb., 10,000 hogs died in a barn fire in SK — something that happened as well in 2018.

Daily News – April 13

April 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two girls found dead in a hotel in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Story 2 – MLSE, the love child of Rogers and Bell has sweetheart deal to host the World Cup. They get all the revenue and taxpayers will pay all of the costs.

Story 3 – TB rates on the rise across Canada’s North. Inuit have a rate of TB infection that is 135.1 cases per 100K people. Non-Indigenous people born in Canada have a rate of 0.2 cases per 100K.

Story 4 – Successful strike votes put 155,000 PSAC members in legal strike position.

Story 5 – Myanmar’s military government bombed a gathering celebrating the opening of an administrative office organized by the National Unity Government, the group who had been in power until a coup d’etat.

Daily News – April 12

April 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man goes on hunger strike to pressure the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to restore a Black settler cemetary

Story 2 – The community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug signs history agreement giving them power over child and family services; a coalition of three First Nations in Alberta sign similar agreement

Story 3 – In the wake of a meeting between Trudeau and the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Canada brokers private deals with Colt and Cameco to supply 21,000 guns and uranium. Do we at least get a cut of the deals?!

Story 4 – Chile passes law that will very slowly phase in a 40-hour work week, down from 45 hours.

Daily News – April 11

April 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Homicide investigators and cadaver dogs on the site of man arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting sex workers near Calgary.

Story 2 – Another mosque attack this week end, this time in Montreal.

Story 3 – CBC Feature “When Anarchists Attack” has nothing about anarchists actually attacking, does copaganda for the RCMP.

Story 4 – Northern Graphite wants approval and federal funding for new graphite mine in Quebec. CBC uncritically publishes PR for the company; mentions that maybe the US Department of Defense might invest, as if this is no big deal.

Story 5 – Amnesty International condemns the treatment of journalists in Burkina Faso

SN on Vacation — Nora x Pam Palmater

April 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Nora talks with Pam Palmater about writing, activism and life.

Daily News – April 10

April 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Apparent hate crime at a Markham mosque after man walks into mosque, rips up a Qu’ran and then tries to hit people with his vehicule

Story 2 – Journalists try to figure out why cops don’t take good notes and what can be done, don’t consider that taking bad notes has become part of their job and is very much intentional.

Story 3 – Federal minister responsible for families blames provinces on not doing enough to make things affordable.

Story 4 – Oman coordianating talks between Saudi Arabia and Houthis to try and establish a lasting peace in Yemen.

Daily News – April 7

April 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Members of FFAW are furious that the price of snow crab for the upcoming season is set at a rate that wont let them actually make any money.

Story 2 – Details about what David Johnson will be doing as the special rapporteur on election interference has come out. The 81-year-old will receive a per diem between $1400-$1600 per day.

Story 3 — Canada sends military aircraft to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea. Why now, though?

Story 4 – Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in Eibit Systems, Israel’s leading defence contractor. They make, among other munitions, cluster bombs.

Daily News – April 6

April 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – About 10 Ukrainian women in London report being asked to do sex work to make money by the women who they were living with.

Story 2 – Despite not having enough submariners to crew the current fleet of 4 submarines, Canada’s Navy is pushing for 12 subs to be purchased by Canada, for a cost that could rise up to $100B.

Story 3 – Liberal MP calls out her party for being pathetic and cowardly in defense of Palestinian lives (well, she uses different words) as Israeli violence escalates at the al-Asqa mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

Story 4 – After massive fire at the Bongo Bazar in Dhaka, 3000 businesses are gone. Good news: very few injuries. Bad news: many people have lost everything.

Daily News – April 5

April 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Devestating news from Winnipeg as the body of Linda Mary Beardy is found at the Brady Road site landfill.

Story 2 – VANDU warns that the city is planning to clear tents and shelters along East Hastings St., folks brace for confrontations while asking: where are people supposed to go?

Story 3 – Saugeen First Nation wins land claim over 2.5 KM of beach land at Sauble Beach. The beachfront was part of an 1874 Treaty that had been broken.

Story 4 – Canada’s worst person got a $1.5 million raise last year

Story 5 – A new Nature Astronomy paper says that scientists have found a planet that may have a magnetic field (necessary, we think, for fostering life!)

Episode 235 – Whose budget is it anyway?

April 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the federal budget: the winners, the losers, the cringe, the military spending, the laughter. Plus, they talk about CSIS agents sniffing around on campus and Canada’s deadly border policies.

Daily News – April 4

April 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An inquest has decided that Beau Baker, who was killed by Waterloo Police Officer Eric Boynton, officially died by suicide.

Story 2 – Not April Fools? John Horgan becomes member of new coal company board, a spin-off from Teck Resources.

Story 3 – seven of the eight people who died on the St. Lawrence as they tried to cross from Canada into the United States have been identified

Story 4 – At least 27 people and likely dozens more have been killed in a landslide in the south of Equador.

Daily News – April 3

April 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An inquest has decided that Beau Baker, who was killed by Waterloo Police Officer Eric Boynton, officially died by suicide.

Story 2 – Not April Fools? John Horgan becomes member of new coal company board, a spin-off from Teck Resources.

Story 3 – seven of the eight people who died on the St. Lawrence as they tried to cross from Canada into the United States have been identified

Story 4 – At least 27 people and likely dozens more have been killed in a landslide in the south of Equador.