Month: July 2023

Daily News – June 28, 2023

July 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Long-term care facility in Nova Scotia has a Legionnaires outbreak.

Story 2 – TC Energy is splitting itself in two to make one company focus on oil and one company focus on energy transition.

Story 3 – Trudeau has promised to create something called the National Security Council. But why? And what will it be? We don’t yet know.

Story 4 – from grain to university education to news bureaus — what is Russia’s plan on the African continent?

Daily News – July 27, 2023

July 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Winnipeg police bring in forensics investigators to investigate protest graffitti … protesting their harassment of protesters demanding action from the police and government.

Story 2 – A look at how abusers’ relationships can enable abuse during trial against former teacher for sex crimes committed against former students.

Story 3 – The Calgary Stampede takes 100% liability for sexual assaults that happened over decades against youth members of a performance troupe.

Story 4 – Huge settlement win in case against the federal government’s underfunding of child welfare services on reserve.

Story 5 – Stellantis makes record profits, surpassing $12 billion in just 6 months. Just in time for them to also get a $15 billion break from Canada to build an EV plant here.

Story 6 – Coupt d’état in Niger, one of the last countries in the region with positive ties to the West.

Daily News – July 26, 2023

July 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Whistleblower who took down Patrick Brown during the Conservative leadership race had their legal fees paid for by the Pierre Poilievre campaign.

Story 2 – Trudeau shuffles his cabinet as he stares down a 2025 election.

Story 3 – Canada to purchase new planes for VIP transfer and military air-to-air refueling to replace aging fleet.

Story 4 – India bans exports of non-basmati rice due to climate change-related crop damage.

Episode 247 – Oppenheimer too white?

July 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how narrowed online discourse about society and pop culture box us into meaningless conversations intended to stop us from taking action.

Daily News – July 25, 2023

July 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Search to begin by excavating the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows church at Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation.

Story 2 – Antibiotic resistant strain of gonorrhea has spiked in Canada

Story 3 – A group of academics are calling for a public inquiry into what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Story 4 – The US slaps Malian military leadership with sanctions for their reliance on the Wagner group.

Daily News – July 24, 2023

July 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Retired RCMP officer has been charged with spying for China.

Story 2 – 36% of applications made for visas to attend international AIDS conference in Montreal were rejected, finds the Canadian Press.

Story 3 – Spain’s socialist party surprises pollsters, comes in a close second to the right-wing People’s Party but both will struggle to form a coalition government.

Story 4 – Greece’s biggest evacuation effort ever is ongoing as the island of Rhodes is threatened by forest fires.

Daily News – July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An exoneration 50 years in the making, exposing racist failure after failure from the trial through to the parole system.

Story 2 – Link found between mercury poisioning from paper industry and suicide rates at Asubpeeschoseewagong in Northwestern Ontario

Story 3 – Calgary’s public energy utility is paying to defeat a referendum in Maine where voters are being asked to create their own public utility.

Story 4 – 1200 barrels of oil spill on Ecuador’s northwest coast, reason for why not yet known.

Story 5 – Nine dead and 16 others injured after a bomb goes off accidentally in North Kivu province in the DR Congo.

Daily News – July 20, 2023

July 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Extremely tiny fines have been levied for not helping residents wash their hands, inadequate wound care and ensuring that abuse reporting standards are maintained against 3 Ontario LTC facilities.

Story 2 – COVID-19, the Freedom Convoy, the “short lived Russian rebellion” (???) and now the port workers Strike: The feds convoke their incident response group for the fourth time over striking port workers.

Story 3 – Children being held in Louisiana’s Angola prison are being confined to cells for nearly 24 hours per day in sweltering conditions.

Story 4 – Turkey’s tune change on Sweden’s NATO membership has triggered Holland to drop its refusal to supply Turkey, UAE and Yemen with military equipment.

Daily News – July 19, 2023

July 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – No charges for police officer who sicced dog on man, ripping off his ear and biting him all over his body

Story 2 – Report into the conduct and operations of the Prince Albert Police will not be released, only the recommendations will be. Plus, PAPS officer just charged with an in-custody death and man died Sunday in custody of RCMP in Pelican Narrows

Story 3 – CCPA report finds that minimum wage would have to surpass $40/h for minimum wage workers to be able to afford rent in Toronto and Vancouver. Cheapest places to live are in Quebec.

Story 4 – The Regina Manifesto turns 90!

Story 5 – Kenya decries Russia’s decision to leave the Black Sea grain export deal.

Episode 246 – Camp Morgan cuts to the core of Canada

July 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the foundations of Canada and how we are seemingly stuck in a loop of talking points that renders colonisation invisible. Plus labour! action! everywhere!

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Daily News – July 18, 2023

July 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive fish die-off in the Cowichan river confounds conservationists

Story 2 – Story 2 – Nine-year-old Carter Vigh dies from asthma attack aggravated by wildfire smoke

Story 3 – 17 members of the Canadian Forces did not have permission to operate Myria Aid, use CF resources, coordinate with defense contractors and meet with US officials for their charity’s work.

Story 4 – MP Niki Action, the Climate Action Network Canada and others call on the TSX to suspend the listing of ReconAfrica, a Vancouver-based oil and gas company.

Story 5 – 11 employees with Twitter Africa have not heard from the company since May when they agreed to a severance package for having been laid off just 4 days after Twitter Africa started operating in Accra.

Daily News – July 17, 2023

July 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 300 tenants in northwest Toronto are now on rent strike to protest landlord Dream Unlimited’s request for an above rental guideline rent increase.

Story 2 – Death toll related to bus accident in Carberry Manitoba rises to 17.

Story 3 – Spike in accidents and deaths on Ontario roads includes highest number of truck-involved collisions in 10 years

Story 4 – Largest forest fire ever to rage north of the 49th parallal is raging east of James Bay. It’s 1 million hectares large.

Story 5 – Quebecers stolen from birth in Guatemala search for their biologicial families

Story 6 – At least 40 people have died in flooding caused by heavy rains in central South Korea.

Daily News – July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City of Edmonton closes water fountains used by unhoused individuals for “safety concerns” just ahead of extreme heat.

Story 2 – Danielle Smith and David Eby are in talks about expanding LNG — Smith wants Canada to be able to get credit for selling LNG to countries as a transitionary energy source

Story 3 – 87 bodies have been found in a mass grave in West Darfur

Story 4 – Explosion at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico kills at least 2 workers; mismanagement blamed on increasing accident rate.

Story 5 – Guatemala’s fragile democracy under threat as the leftwing Seed Movement is suspended in advance of a run-off ballot for president.

Daily News – July 13, 2023

July 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – As many as 200 youth were sexually assaulted at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre.

Story 2 – Judge questions why the prosecution is asking for such an easy sentence for neo nazi.

Story 3 – Silvio DeGasparis tries to evade summons by Ontario’s auditor general to explain why his company’s lands were excluded from the Greenbelt.

Story 4 – Rains in Cote D’ivoire have killed at least 30 people

Story 5 – deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29% in 2022, dropped by 34% so far in 2023 in Brazil. Petro and Lula call for international support to help save the Amazon.

Daily News – July 12, 2023

July 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – US longshore workers refuse to offload Canadian cargo in solidarity with Canadians on strike

Story 2 – Scabies at Iqaluit jail stops in-person visits

Story 3 – Laurentian Bank may soon be up for sale

Story 4 – Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise goes ahead with two investigations both looking into forced labour among China’s Uighur population.

Story 5 – Australia’s top soldier loses defamation case; a judge finds that he did murder Afghan civilians.

Episode 245 – Are we allowed to criticize the war?

July 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and ask: are we allowed to be critical of how the West has reacted? Plus, they talk about Pierre Poilievre’s new eyes, Olivia Chow’s new faults and Canada’s new search and rescue bill for the Titan sub.

Daily News – July 11, 2023

July 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Camp Morgan remains at the Brady Roard landfill in Winnipeg

Story 2 – Family’s deportation stopped thanks to intervention from the United Nations

Story 3 – Wild weather has decimated India’s tomato crops, pushing prices up by 400%

Story 4 – Turkey emerges as key player in the current NATO meeting

Daily News – July 10, 2023

July 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Few details are out about Canadian soldier who has been charged with human trafficking; will be tried in civilian court.

Story 2 – Two Tisdale, SK men have been charged with human trafficking and sexual assault for forcing a woman from Bangladesh to work 7 days a week, for between 10-12 hours per day in three separate restaurants.

Story 3 – Former cop gets an 18 month sentence to be served at home so that he can care for his high blood pressure, his step children and stay safe from prison violence. He sexually abused 11 people while posing as a massage therapist.

Story 4 – Worker dies at Montreal’s Trudeau airport.

Story 5 – Between 22 and 31 people have been killed in Sudanese military airstrike that hit Omdurman and Khartoum.

Daily News – July 7, 2023

July 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Five Canadians who missed their repatriation flights back in April because Kurdish forces brought them to a prison are on their way back to Canada.

Story 2 – Now that RoseAnne Archibald has been ousted, will the AFN executive move forward with a forensic audit she had brought forward?

Story 3 – The RCAF spent nearly $3 milllion for searching for the Titanic sub. The search lasted for three days even though the US Navy picked up evidence that the sub was imploded before Canada’s rescue mission even started.

Story 4 – Top US officials have been quietly doing diplomacy in Russia to try and find a way to stop their invasion of Ukraine.

Story 5 – The UN rings the alarm bell on Haiti as extrajudicial murders are on the rise.

Daily News – July 6

July 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – APTN obtains video of Métis man being punched in the head in a cell; the same officer has been charged with beating two other people months later.

Story 2 – Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, as “neither owner or tenant” of BMO Field refuses to pay property taxes, is in arrears for $1.8 million.

Story 3 – Canada and Ontario agree to give Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions $15 billion to open a plant in southwestern Ontario. That is $6 million per anticipated job.

Story 4 – Ten years after the Lac-Mégantic train disaster, rail safety in Canada has not gotten much better.

Story 5 – The UN’s nuclear watchdog wants more access to the Zaporizhzha nuclear plant to investigate claims of sabotage and counter sabotage.

Daily News – July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A spike in babies born with syphallis in Alberta has lead to 1 in 5 babies born with syphallis born in stillbirth. If treated early, the infection can be stopped.

Story 2 – Life expectancy for First Nations people in Alberta has dropped 7 years for both men and women; the gap is now 19 years between FN men and non FN men and 18 years between FN women and non FN women.

Story 3 – 15 bison carcases have been found between Fort Smith and Fort Resolution and its feared they died from Anthrax.

Story 4 – Ethnic fighting in Manipur state in India has killed 130 people, rased several villages and forced many people into relief camps.

Episode 244 – How do we defeat Transphobic violence?

July 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the forces that create random acts of violence in the name of transmisogyny. Plus, they talk about the US Supreme Court, Google and Facebook threatening Canada with good time and we ask: is it ok to feel good about Olivia Chow?

Daily News – July 4, 2023

July 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Oil contaminants have been found in eggs and arctic char near Postville and Nain in Labrador.

Story 2 – CRA fires 20 employees for improperly accessing CERB but the story leaves the reader with more questions than answers.

Story 3 – Two Canadian warships are dispatched to quell Russian aggression. But do not say that NATO is at war with Russia.

Story 4 – Black childbearers die most often in the year after giving birth, and maternal mortality rates have more than doubled from 1999 to 2019.

Daily News – July 3, 2023

July 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Jerry Martin, the person who opened the first store for clean hard drugs in Canada or the US, his died.

Story 2 – CBC primes its readers to accept paying more than 30% of their incomes on mortgage payments, upending logic that has been in place since 1986.

Story 3 – BC port workers are on strike; the Canadian Press gives more voice to the industry groups who oppose the strike than the workers who are on strike.

Story 4 – Despite their tough talk towards Israel’s far right government, the US will send the country 25 new F35s, paid for through military aid.