Month: May 2023

Daily news – May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Priest arrested in Little Grand Rapids, MB for sexual assault on child

Story 2 – Hero tenant refuses to give up her $400 appartment in Montreal so that condos can be built, is holding out for enough money to ensure she doesn’t find herself homeless.

Story 3 – Criminal lawyers warn that Canada’s new bail laws will be unconstitutional.

Story 4 – Fighting continues in Khartoom, Khartoom North and Omdurman despite ceasefire.

Daily News – May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unmarked police car collides with school bus, both drivers die and the SIU is investigating.

Story 2 – After a “slow moving chase” police open fire on three occupants of a cube van for being “suspicious” or maybe “impaired” murdering two of the occupants.

Story 3 – Forest fires force massive evacuations in Halifax

Story 4 – Privileged members of Canada’s Special Forces evade accountability when accused of harassment, including sexual harassment

Story 5 – In Northern Kosovo, NATO has been protecting municipal buildings from Serbs after three Albanian mayors are elected, one with just 3.5% because Serbs boycotted elections.

Daily News – May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police murder man who murdered his two tenants. Reporting made it sound as if the tenants had allowed their unit to fall into disrepair.

Story 2 – Members of CUPE Local 5047 in Halifax enter week three of their strike. The province has started using scabs.

Story 3 – Public housing workers in Iqaluit pass 70 days of strike, rejecting a very low pay increase offer from the employer.

Story 4 – RCMP apologizes for “misscommunication” about Indigenous girl’s death being deemed not suspicious.

Story 5 – Turkey’s Erdogan wins another 5-year mandate.

Daily News – May 26

May 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto Police tries to charge Pride Toronto 150% more than they charged last year for the honour of their presence.

Story 2 – The University of Waterloo will give tuition waivers to members of the Six Nations of the Grand and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in what they call an act of reconciliation

Story 3 – Canada’s big banks miss analysts’ predictions, only making like $5 billion in three months rather than like $8 billion

Story 4 – Brazil’s Lula faces challenge as a congressional committee strips the power out of his newly reformed environmental ministry and newly created Indigenous people ministry

Daily News – May 25

May 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – People evicted from a publicly-funded temporary shelter in Summerside were given no notice and two hours to move their lives. About 10 people were evicted.

Story 2– Girl who was found dying under pallets and garbage behind a motel in Cowichan’s death consdiered “non-criminal” by Cowichan police.

Story 3 – Eight charges laid against employer after three men die in an explosion. Steelworkers’ rep praises prosecutors for referencing the Westray law.

Story 4 – 190 ER physicians in Calgary write open letter warning that they cannot deliver the care that people need; system is on brink of collapse

Story 5 – Boat carrying 500 people has issued a distress call but Maltese and Italian officials do nothing, say activists who help rescue people at sea.

Daily News – May 24

May 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Canadian government has been declaring people who are not dead, dead.

Story 2 – Calls for sodium nitrate to be restricted grow as more suicides emerge caused by purchasing sodium nitrate online.

Story 3 – Canada promies “an end to airport chaos” by relaxing security measures. But only for soldiers and cops.

Story 4 – Canada’s household debt surpases Canada’s total GDP.

Story 5 – Dormitory that mostly housed Indigenous girls was set fire by a student who was in an exploitative relationship.

Daily News – May 23, 2023

May 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Teens give money to coworker who can’t afford maternity leave; journalist forgets to actually interview anyone with the power to give worker the maternity leave.

Story 2: Bonaparte First Nation is challenging the expansion of a rail terminal after construction disturbed ancestors, encroached on traditional lands.

Story 3: Nearly half of all nurses registered in Ontario were trained outside of Canada

Story 4: Ceasefire collapses with the EMC-Farc in Colombia after they murder four Indigenous teenagers.

Daily News – May 22

May 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Some Canadians are having their tax returns withheld because of CERB overpayments. Except they’ve already repaid.

Story 2 – Wildfires continue to burn across Alberta and BC, more than 11,000 people are waiting for the green light to return home and rain is in the forcast for both provinces’ fire regions.

Story 3 – The Globe uncovers proof of clerical errors leading to hundreds of people being incarcerated longer than they should be in Quebec.

Story 4 – Greece’s conservative New Democracy Party wins just over 40% of the vote; they now decide if they can govern in a coalition or try to win an outright victory in a new election.

Daily News – May 19

May 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hamilton Police cannot say what their armoured vehicle is being used for, unless CBC coughs up $5000

Story 2 – Commission report finds that Baby Tanner Brass died as a result of police negligence of duty, PA police chief resigns.

Story 3 – Coronor’s report makes 21 recommendations into death of Skyler Sappier after he acquired COVID-19 in a Saint John prison. Neqotkuk chief calls for an Indigenous-led inquiry into systemic racism in prisons.

Story 4 – Second child in two weeks dies while in border patrol custody in the US

Daily News – May 18

May 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Very low number of people who have been hired through a new pilot program to fill healthcare jobs with refugees have actually been able to come to Canada.

Story 2 – State of Emergency declared in Kinngait, Nunavut, due to electrical problem at pump house.

Story 3 – Two Vancouver-based brothers and their two asbestos abatement companies have wracked up nearly 70 heath and safety violations.

Story 4 – Westjet pilots are set to strike.

Story 5 – Workers at North Hollywood’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar are finally having their votes counted by the NLRB, on the cusp of forming the US’ only stripper union in the US.

Daily News – May 17

May 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dead birds found near tar sands tailings ponds. If it isn’t the wildfire, it’ll be the toxic sludge that gets ya, birds.

Story 2 – Third Nunavut community is dealing with a TB outbreak, three years after the Liberals’ program funding to eradicate TB from Nunavut dried up.

Story 3 – A southwestern Ontario judge slams the conduct of several officers with the Norfolk OPP, Richard Fody in particular, for racist violence in the frivolous arrest of young Black man.

Story 4 – At least 200,000 people have fled Sudan amid fighting, putting pressure on cities like Port Sudan to deal with an influx of people amid an extreme heat wave.

Story 5 – At least 22 people have died amid massive flooding in Somalia. More than 400,000 people have been impacted by the floods, just after the same region was dealing with extreme dought.

Story 6 – The death toll of the Shakahola Massacre has reached 201 — that’s how many bodies have been exhumed at the site of an extreme Christian death cult in the Kenyan coastal region.

Daily News – May 16

May 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family of man murdered by police wants @TorontoPolice to stop shooting to kill when intervening with people in crisis.

Story 2 – Documents obtained by the Globe and Mail show that Montreal’s fire department had formally STOPPED doing fire code enforcement back in 2018. They quietly ended the moratorium after 7 people were killed in an appartment fire.

Story 3 – First Nations women are 11x more likely to die from toxic drugs than all other women in British Columbia.

Story 4 – Potato, Potato? What the Globe calls a ‘standoff’ and a ‘bind’ is actually just Stellantis and LG doing extortion. But the narrative tells us that governments just won’t have any other choice than to pay the ransom.

Daily News – May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfires burn across Canada, Indigenous communities bear the brunt of the disasters.

Story 2 – nearly 1,000,000 birds have been killed in Quebec, and 7.6M birds in Canada, due to Avian Flu.

Story 3 – Documents from a Canadian Forces propaganda training program have gone missing.

Story 4 – Thai voters reject military rule

Story 5 – Is Turkey headed to a run-off ballot?

Episode 239 – Canada’s royal problem

May 9, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take stock of a difficult week in American news and pose the question: what would it take for Canada to actually ditch the monarchy?

Daily News – May 3

May 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two Toronto cops, including one who makes $213,000 are suspended with pay after being charged with stealing bottles of booze from someone they had arrested.

Story 2 – How much more are Ontario for-profit clinics charging for surgeries than public hospitals? City News says we don’t know, though we do know a little.

Story 3 – Important investigation into how many MPs own stock in oil and gas companies. Bad news: a third of members of the natural resource committee do.

Story 4 – Round three of talks between Colombia and the ELN bring the two sides closer to a cease fire.

Story 5 – Content moderators who work for the world’s largest media platforms form the African Content Moderators Union.

Episode 238 – Whose safety trumps whose safety?

May 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what happens when there are competing safeties and one side has structural power over another side.

Daily News – May 2

May 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfire smoke causes heart illness with rates rising just hours with contact with smokey air, says new study.

Story 2 – The jury at the Coroner’s Inquiry into the police murder of Myles Gray has determined that he died by homicide.

Story 3 – Inquiry starts into how the RCMP handled complaints of abuse at Indigenous Day Schools in Burns Lake and Prince George. The high profile accused won his right to be anonymous, despite there being lots of reporting out there on him already.

Story 4 – Israel has bombed the Aleppo airport for the third time in about six weeks. They also conducted an air raid over Homs.

Daily News – May 1

May 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – No charges recommended by ASIRT for cop who kicked Indigenous teen in the head.

Story 2 – Fire breaks out underground at the Donkin mine.

Story 3 – Surrey’s mayor wants the city to stop its transition away from the RCMP, the province is strongly urging that they stick to the plan and have their own municipal force take over from the RCMP.

Story 4 – Santiago Pena wins election in Paraguay continuing the seven-decade streak of rule of the Colorado Party.