Month: September 2023

Daily News – Sept. 29, 2023

September 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – IED explosion in Barrie neighbourhood puzzles investigators.

Story 2 – Scott Moe to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to enable his legislation that attacks trans children to pass.

Story 3 – 15 potential unmarked graves found at the site of former residential school in Carcross, Yukon. Poor record keeping means that finding names and communities for the school’s students has been difficult.

Story 4 – Nisga’a to celebrate the rematriation of a totem pole that was stolen from them in 1929 and placed in the Museum of Scotland.

Story 5 – Canada, UK, US and Taiwan condemn plans of Myanmar’s militry junta to hold elections.

Daily News – Sept. 28, 2023

September 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Source of the e. coli outbreak in Calgary is mostly likely a meat loaf and a vegan loaf served to toddlers at the end of August. Charges against the owners of Fueling Minds have been laid.

Story 2 – Quebec white nationalist has his invitation to appear before a parliamentary committee hearing on immigration rescinded.

Story 3 – Lobby organizations and bureaucrats with CFIA and Health Canada co-developed a new policy on GMO plants.

Story 4 – Tens of thousands of Indigenous people rally in Bogota calling for an end to the violence that Indigenous people face, especially land defenders.

Daily News – Sept. 27, 2023

September 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man’s arm is severely injured after Saskatoon police sic their dogs on him.

Story 2 – Two conservative party activists have been charged with defrauding the Royal Canadian Legion in Vaughan.

Story 3 – A blast at a fuel station in the Nagorno-Karabakh region kills 20 and injures 300 as ethnic Armenians flee from Azerbaijan’s attacks.

Story 4 – 100 people have died in a fire that broke out at a wedding reception in Iraq’s north.

Story 5 – 453 people, mostly children aged 5-14 have died in massive diptheria outbreak in Nigeria. The outbreak is being fuled by a historical gap in vaccination.

Episode 250 – Canada’SS Nazi problem

September 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the depths of ignorance that plague our halls of power.

Daily News – Sept. 26, 2023

September 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Crown decides there was no reasonable prospect for conviction of Con Drain Group in death of six people — a company owned by the politically-connected and super wealthy Degasperis family.

Story 2 – Children are waiting longer and longer for surgeries, with a massive gap in wait times emerging from province to province.

Story 3 – Quebec government promises to extend COVID premiums to public sector workers and says that if the Common Front is good, they might even get these premiums forever. Things are heating up in public sector bargaining.

Story 4 – A Malian airplane has crashed in the city of Gao, killing some number of Wagner group soldiers.

Story 5 – At least 29 people have died in this year’s rainy season from mudslides in Guatemala.

Daily News – Sept. 25, 2023

September 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – With insurance companies refusing to insure certain kinds of water damage, the federal government looks to underwrite water damage.

Story 2 – Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park might have all of its fish culled to get a handle on a parasite that caues something called whirling disease in trout and salman.

Story 3 – Canadian parliamentarians perform their tenuous grasp of history by applauding a veteran of the SS.

Story 4 – Have talks between Kosovo and Serbia gone as far as they can go? Kosovoan president is saying they need to be scrapped entirely and started from scratch.

Daily News – Sept. 22, 2023

September 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Three women who fraudently claimed Inuit status to get scolarships, awards and other benefits have been charged with fraud over $5000.

Story 2 – Woman is defrauded hundreds of thousands of dollars after she responded to an online job ad for a job that would pay up to $400 per day.

Story 3 – Symposium on Long COVID hears from researchers about how prevalent Long COVID is among healthcare workers (it’s 10%, according to one study).

Story 4 – The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has said that he will ask the UN to withdraw peacekeeping troops by next year.

Daily News – Sept. 21, 2023

September 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Bigots vandalize three CUPE educational worker offices in London, Ontario just before the national day of protest against gender being taught in schools.

Story 2 – Another Ontario cabinet minister resigns, this one because he had a massage, in Vegas, with a developer who had land removed from the Greenbelt, in 2020 that he forgot to mention.

Story 3 – Poland announces that it will cease sending arms to Ukraine over grain export tensions

Story 4 – Six Palestinians have been killed by Israel, most during Israel’s night raids into refugee camps.

Daily News – Sept. 20, 2023

September 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Durham police tased a girl in her school.

Story 2 – A worker died in Calgary in an incident inovolving a marble slab.

Story 3 – Artur Pawlowski gets 60 days in jail for his involvement at the Coutts border blockade. The judge gave him credit for time already served.

Story 4 – Waitlist for CSHLDs in Quebec is the largest its been since Oct. 2018.

Story 5 – Azerbaijan launches military attack against ethnic Armenians in the Nargorno-Karabakh region.

Episode 249 – The politics of doing nothing feat. Canada

September 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about federal politics, who is in bigger trouble and why is the only thing that the Liberals to do to help housing affordability to eliminate GST on building new rental units.

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Daily News – Sept. 19, 2023

September 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Strike deadline passes by, Unifor members are in legal strike position with Ford Motor Company.

Story 2 – Sex workers’ rights organizations decry Superior Cour decision to not strike down sex work laws as unconstitutional

Story 3 – The e. coli outbreak in Calgary linked to a common daycare kitchen continues to grow

Story 4 – Canada lays the blame for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar at the feet of the Indian government.

Story 5 – 24 people killed in bus accident in Peru.

Daily News – Sept. 18, 2023

September 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Devestating cuts announced at Metroland Media Group — 605 workers will be laid off, accounting for 60% of the company’s workforce.

Story 2 – Wildfires force evacuations in central BC, parts of the Okanagan region and Sunshine Coast while Hay River residents are finally allowed back home.

Story 3 – Today is the National Day of Action to demand that Manitoba search the Prairie Green landfill in Winnipeg to find the remains of two murdered Indigenous women.

Story 4 – Protesters take to the streets of Quebec demanding that Bill 31 be scrapped, hoping to protect the rights tenants have to pass their lease onto a new tenant.

Story 5 – A new military and economic alliance forms between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Daily News – Sept. 15, 2023

September 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive fire at industrial recyling facility in Saint John forces people to shelter in place because of concerns of air quality.

Story 2 – Man’s 8-year prison sentence overturned because police violated his charter rights and considering of the Good Samaritan Act — his call to 911 saved his friend’s life.

Story 3 – Dozens of people held in a migrant jail in Laval are on hunger strike, demanding an end to arbitrary detentions.

Story 4 – Canada isn’t producing the munitions that we’ve promised to send to Ukraine and the defense industry is frustrated.

Story 5 – Nigeria had catastrophic power failure yesterday — their national grid wasn’t producing a single megawatt of power for some of yesterday morning.

Story 6 – Dominican Republic is closing its border with Haiti over a dispute over canal construction shared by both countries.

Daily News – Sept. 14, 2023

September 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Abortion access in rural Newfoundland difficult, as featured in this Radio-Canada deep dive.

Story 2 – About 100,000 workers were shortchanged what they were owed from Ontario workplace insurance board. Amounts range from $70 to $40,000.

Story 3 – The driver of the truck that crashed into the Humboldt Broncos bus killing 16 fights his deportation.

Story 4 – A British soldier is accused in the murder of a Manitoba man in Downtown Toronto.

Story 5 – 56 people are dead after a fire in an apartment building in Hanoi.

Story 6 – Mexican legislators either hear about aliens or hear about a hoax; who is to say?

Daily News – Sept. 13, 2023

September 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Life expectancy in Saskatchewan has dropped by 2 years since 2019. Data does not tease out First Nations from non-First Nations people.

Story 2 – It will take 20 years for Canada to have its money paid back from Stellantis and Volkeswagen, ot 5, as the Liberals have claimed.

Story 3 – Stop buying decongestants in pill form! New report for the US FDA strongly suggests that they don’t work (something that some people have been saying for a long time)

Story 4 – More money than ever was spent last year policing the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Story 5 – Libya hit by massive storm, causing two dams to give out and unleashing huge amounts of water on towns and cities. 10,000 people at least are feared missing.

Episode 248 – The war in schools

September 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the million different regressive things happening in elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools and remind listeners that this is what happens when autonomous student organizing is weak.

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Daily News – Sept. 12, 2023

September 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wondering where to do your driving test in Ontario? Head to a rural testing centre, where the odds of passing rise to 88%

Story 2 – The Toronto trial of Peter Nygard starts as charges against the fashion mogul drop from 11 to 6.

Story 3 – The e. coli outbreak at a Calgary kitchen that sent food to daycares has risen to 231, including severe illness in 21 children. There are “fewer than 10” children currently on dialysis.

Story 4 – The CBC does propaganda for the Department of Defence with their embedded media crew on board the HMCS Ottawa who is “patrolling” the East China Sea.

Story 5 – the US has had 23 separate billion-dollar storms in 2023, surpassing the record of 2020 when the entire year had 22 billion-dollar storms. And there are still four months left!

Story 6 – Six soccer players abducted in Balochistan province in Pakistan are still missing.

Daily news – Sept. 11, 2023

September 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The town of Conception Harbour cannot afford garbage collection or city lighting as it seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes from … well, they aren’t sure who.

Story 2 – About 50 workers in Mississauga are owed up to $13,000 each after their food processing company goes belly up. The workers are protesting their worksite every day demanding that back wages are paid.

Story 3 – Disturbing video released as part of trial of correctional officer accused in the death of William Ahmo, an Anishanabe man who told officers he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times as they restrained him.

Story 4 – More than 2000 people in Morocco have been killed by the biggest earthquake in more than a century.

Story 5 – Coup leadership in Niger warns that France is amassing troops to try and restore former President Mohamad Bazoum.

Daily News – Sept. 7, 2023

September 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Looking for cheap bread in Nova Scotia? If Dollarama is close to Sobeys, you wont find it there.

Story 2 – Man dies in police custody in Winnipeg, the third to die in police custody in two months

Story 3 – Man who came to Canada when he was 11 is scheduled to be deported

Story 4 – As Antony Blinken visits Ukraine, Russia strikes a busy market, killing at least 17 people.

Story 5 – At least 32 people killed after strike from Sudenese Army in Omdurman.

Daily News – Sept. 6, 2023

September 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Alberta Human Rights tribunal has found that two Black men were discriminated against by Edmonton police but, as the police officers were ignorant to their ignorance, the individual complaints were dismissed.

Story 2 – ER overcrowding is a national crisis and one UK model suggests that between 800 and 15,000 people are dying as a result.

Story 3 – Newly minted minister says that the delay in the delivery of the Canada Disability Benefit is due to her wanting to get it ….. right. Activists call for an interim benefit.

Story 4 – Record flooding in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Spain have killed, at least, nearly 15 people.

Story 5 – At least 21 people killed by cyclone in Brazil as that country sees a rise in extreme weather (and extreme weather-related death).

Daily News – Sept. 5, 2023

September 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Jury selection starts today in the trial of Nathaniel Veltman for the murder of the Afzaal family. It will be the first time terror charges are put to a jury since they were passed after 9/11.

Story 2 – The Toronto Metropolitan University soccer team has been suspended. The university is investigating something but wont say what.

Story 3 – Massive e. coli out break affecting 50 children due to a central kitchen used by 11 daycares and children’s insitutions in Calgary.

Story 4 – Protests erupt in Morocco over the murder of two vacationers on jetskis who accidentally crossed into Algerian waters and were killed by the Algerian coast guard.

Story 5 – Massive walk-out staged by teachers in South Korea who are demanding an end to harassment, particularly from overbearing parents.

Daily News – Sept. 4, 2023

September 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – More evacuations in British Columbia due to wildfires.

Story 2 – Is Robert Miller Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein? Montreal billionaire has been accused of setting up underage sex ring by someone who says she was sold out to older men.

Story 3 – A report from CIBC Capital Markets accuses Statscan of undercounting the number of non-permanent residents in Canada by more than 1 million. Statscan rejects this but will release updated data on Sept. 27.

Story 4 – 18 people have died after a bus rolled over in Iraq, north of Baghdad.

Story 5 – Israeli officials vow to expel African migrants.