Month: November 2023

Daily News – Nov. 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hotel in Barrie that has been used as a temporary shelter is evicting people at the end of this week.

Story 2 – There has been a spike in asylum claims among international students, most of who study at an Ontario college.

Story 3 – Abstinence-based, residential treatment for opioid addiction has no, even worse outcomes than people who don’t go for any treatment.

Story 4 – India paid a man to coordinate the murder of a Sikh activist in New York City, around the same time that Hardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered.

Daily News – Nov. 29, 2023

November 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Federal housing watchdog says that the state of housing in Canada’s north is a breach of human rights.

Story 2 – Canada to donate more ammunition, coordinate uranium exports, for a total contribution to Ukraine that costs $8 billion

Story 3 – Life expectancy in Canada is falling, says Statscan.

Story 4 – Australian Christian cult seemingly influenced Kenyan death cult.

Episode 259 – Sandy and Nora Live in Winnipeg

November 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about the increasing repression that left-wing activists are facing, and what will happen when Pierre Poilievre inevitably becomes PM.

Daily News – Nov. 28, 2023

November 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Mass shooting that killed 4 people in Winnipeg killed two sisters.

Story 2 – CST Coal wants to deepen two of its mines despite the fact that its’ currently under investigation by the provincial regulator.

Story 3 – 2100 workers at Air Transat have voted overwhelmingly to go one strike.

Story 4 – 20 people killed in Sierra Leone in attack on a prison that lead to nearly 2000 peple escaping.

Story 5 – Border blockade batween Poland and Ukraine has slowed truck traffic to a trickle.

Daily News – Nov. 27, 2023

November 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cops put out very little information, but enough to cancel the Santa Claus Parade just 30 minutes before it started.

Story 2 – Five people died in a car crash in Hunstville — one car was a Mercedes SUV that had four teens in it, between the ages of just 15 and 17.

Story 3 – Danielle Smith hopes that her cosplaying politics will stop the application of a federal law that insists that provinces will reach net zero emissions by 2035.

Story 4 – 10 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and farmers are scared that their farms will be raided and stolen by armed Israeli settlers.

Daily News – Nov. 24, 2023

November 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Barista fired from Starbucks after leading unionization campaign at Vancouver store.

Story 2 – Despite an overwhelming majority in a record-turnout referendum, B’nai Brith gets successful injunction to stop McGill’s student union from implementing a motion in support of Palestine.

Story 3 – The City of Toronto turned down federal support to expand temporary shelters.

Story 4 – Migrant crisis growing at a northern checkpoint on the Russia-Finnish border, both countries blame each other.

Story 5 – Far-right rioters set fire to Dublin.

Daily News – Nov. 23, 2023

November 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – CN train hits Montreal commuter train on tracks that are owned by CN. Seven are minorly injured.

Story 2 – A lack of information from police and no local news have created a vicious rumour mill in Smiths Falls, Ontario, related to three men who have gone missing or died in the past year.

Story 3 – Danielle Smith’s scheme to purchase children’s medicine from Turkey cost tens of millions of dollars and less than 2% of the medicine was actually delivered to hospitals and pharmacies.

Story 4 – Geert Wilders projected to win most seats in Holland’s election.

Daily News – Nov. 22, 2023

November 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The CAQ is in scolding hot water over it’s plan to pay up to $7 million to bring the LA Kings to Quebec City to play a single game.

Story 2 – Moncton foodbank is processing 200 people per day, struggling to keep up with the demand for food help.

Story 3 – Manitoba RCMP who knelt on a man’s neck has his charges stayed because the victim is not a credible source, says the Crown.

Story 4 – Finally, a story of businesses committing some fraud with the CEWS, but the reporting is infinitely more generous than CERB repayment stories have been.

Story 5 – The UN confirms that at least 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine though the number is probably higher; half of those deaths happened in the past three months alone.

Episode 258 – Palestinian activism is winning

November 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how direct action in all corners of Canada is changing the narrative that surrounds Palestine and is slowly impacting politicians. Plus, is half of the two Michaels actually a spy??

Photo from: https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada-stop-arming-israel-workers-block-entrance-to-toronto-company-arming-israeli-military/

Daily News – Nov. 21, 2023

November 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Video of Soleiman Faqiri’s murder by police guards showed for the first time since he died, to inquest.

Story 2 – Anti-strike bias in a Canadian Press story focuses more on bakers than on sugar refinery strikers who are fighting for their right to a weekend.

Story 3 – Strikes start today and will sweep Quebec for the rest of the week (and possibly beyond!)

Story 4 – Windsor Police announce that Stellantis is planning to hire 1600 temporary foreign workers in Windsor to work at the plant that was given $15 billion from governments to operate:

Daily News – Nov. 20, 2023

November 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Was Saskatchewan MLA seeking sex from someone who was coerced into the sex trade? Or is this just a puritan witch hunt?

Story 2 – The Alberta government’s plan to dismantle the Alberta Health Service has started: six senior executives of the AHS have been fired.

Story 3 – Gatineau man racially profiled by CATSA workers and police at the Edmonton airport.

Story 4 – We finally have our sequel: 2 Michaels 1 Furious.

Story 5 – Javier Millei wins election in Argentina.

Daily News – Nov. 17, 2023

November 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – London doctor has been arrested in connection with a ketchup incident at an MP’s office.

Story 2 – No Frills workers are set to walk off the job on Monday if an agreement cannot be reached.

Story 3 – Canadian troops will be involved in US-lead war excercises in Africa – – the same ones that have trained many soldiers who have overthrown civilian governments.

Story 4 – Measles has jumped by 40% globally in the past year.

Daily News – Nov. 16, 2023

November 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Karl Tremblay from Les Cowboys Fringants has died.

Story 2 – A record number of people sought asylum in September.

Story 3 – Loblaw reports higher Q3 sales than last year thanks to everyone being poor and buying no name brands at no name stores.

Story 4 – Active member of RCAF is arrested over weapons cache he smuggled home from the US.

Story 5 – 40 workers are still trapped in a tunnel in Northern India while rescue efforts continue.

Daily News – Nov. 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Foodbank usage in Toronto has doubled and users have increased by more than 150%.

Story 2 – Hamilton Wentworth District School Board Trustee Sabreina Dahab responds to investigation launched against her pro-Palestinian social media posts.

Story 3 – Ford ministers are barely using their government-issued cell phones saying that they instead talked to people in person or via teams, and not that they’re just using private devices so that journalists can’t scrutinize them.

Story 4 – The rich are becoming more succulent.

Story 5 – M23 re-captures Kichishe in the DRC, the villiage where the UN alleges they committed a massacre last year.

Episode 257 – Trying to talk about Gaza

November 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about a week in propaganda, while Gazans continue to face Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. Plus, Nora talks transit!

Daily News – Nov. 14, 2023.

November 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – CBC News reports an 11-year-old’s targeted murder as if the boy is an adult.

Story 2 – Just how many members of Canada’s 1% were sex traffickers? Well, we know of at least two of them.

Story 3 – About 250 workers who have been on strike for a year and a half are about to go back to work in Quebec’s public pot shops. They won a starting salary of $21, over $17.14 that non-union workers are paid.

Story 4 – A list of Suella Braverman’s worst moments.

Daily News – Nov. 13, 2023

November 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The Alberta Government is lowballing the number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 as CTV News get docs that show that AHS says that there are three times more people hospitalized than the government is reporting.

Story 2 – The Canadian Press turns a single protest in Toronto for Israel into being the counterbalance to tens of thousands of Canadians protesting for a cease fire in nearly 50 cities across Canada.

Story 3 – The Breach finds that there is severe anti-Palestinian bias in CTV News’ national broadcasts.

Story 4 – Canadian company owns copper mine that is at the heart of anti-government protests in Panama.

Story 5 – Israel sells Finland David’s Sling air defense system for some reason.

Daily News – Nov. 10, 2023

November 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Bullet holes found at two Jewish schools in Montreal; politicians insist that country where this is very much who we are, is not who we are.

Story 2 – A bus carrying 11 high school students crashes in to a house in Burnaby.

Story 3 – Founder of Spain’s far right party is shot in the face.

Story 4 – Updates from Israel and Palestine (and Syria and Yemen).

Daily News – Nov. 9, 2023

November 9, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Even Shania Twain’s crew isn’t safe in a tour bus along the transcanada!

Story 2 – Father of man killed by impaired driver has his visa denied for months putting the funeral on hold. IRCC’s fear? He might stay in Canada when he comes.

Story 3 – Investigation into Paper Excellence finds that they are probably far closer to Asia Pulp and Paper than they want peple to know and Greenpeace wants this to threaten their FSC certification.

Story 4 – Canada and other high-emitting nations on track to increase emissions, making the goal for limiting heating increases 1.5C unlikely.

Story 5 – The Rapid Support Forces closes in on Northern Darfur making them on the cusp of controlling all of the 11-million person region.

Daily News – Nov. 8, 2023

November 8, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Federal government reveals a new affordable housing plan and it is … paltry.

Story 2 – The feds paid KPMG money to help them figure out how to save money on paying consultants.

Story 3 – What exactly is Canada’s military doing in Israel?

Story 4 – Transphobia the big loser of last night’s elections in the US.

Story 5 – Prime Minister of Portugal resigns amid corruption probe.

Episode 256 – Cutting through the propaganda on Palestine

November 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the propaganda wars that are trying to convince average people that what is happening in Gaza isn’t happening in Gaza. Plus — what happens if you’re at a pro-Palestine rally and you recognize someone who you had been protesting against just a few weeks ago?

Daily News – Nov. 7, 2023

November 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Some 420,000 workers were on strike across Quebec tomorrow as worker pressure ramps up demanding higher wages for public sector workers.

Story 2 – Avian flu outbreak in the Fraser Valley leaves farmers worried about their bottom lines, but article doens’t mention how many birds have died or any of the significant reforms needed to reduce the spread of the virus.

Story 3 – Explosion kills two, injures two at Canada’s High Commission in Abuja in Nigeria

Story 4 – Sexual assault survivor calls out top military official for calling her sexual assault an “alleged sexual incident”

Story 5 – Top Ukrainian advisor is killed when a birthday gift exploded in his hand. The gift? A box of grenades from a friend.

Daily News – Nov. 6, 2023

November 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – TVO workers end their three-month strike! Accept an offer for 7.7% wage increases over 3 years.

Story 2 – Transit operators in Hamilton are set to walk off the job at the end of the day on Wednesday.

Story 3 – Huge surprise! Companies jacked prices to boost profts under the cover of inflation. Where labour imputs rose by just over 10%, prices rose by 70%.

Story 4 – Community calls for action as two people go missing from tiny community along BC’s Highway of Tears in the past year.

Story 5 – Former military leader of Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara is back in jail after armed commandos break him and two others on trial, out.

Daily News – Nov. 3, 2023

November 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Albertans face existential threat to their identities as rats are found in Calgary:

Story 2 – TVA Groupe slashes nearly one third of its workforce.

Story 3 – Canada’s prisons have an even higher percentage of Indigenous people than a decade ago, now at nearly one-third of all inmates (50% in women’s facilities).

Story 4 – Canada set to spend $73.8 billion on new fighter jets for some reason.

Story 5 – The White House is trying to keep arms deals with Israel a secret.

Daily News – Nov. 2, 2023

November 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – St. John’s man risks looksing his son if he can’t find affordable housing

Story 2 – Vancouver city council drops the requirement of a massive housing project to build subsidized housing units before the market condos come onto the market.

Story 3 – Parkland Corp sees its profits double in Q3 over last year.

Story 4 – Pakistan expells migrants, the majority of which are Afghans.

Daily News – Nov. 1, 2023

November 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Workers at two newspapers on Prince Edward Island are forming a union! Staff at The Guardian and the Journal-Pioneer are creating the Island News Guild [no link].

Story 2 – INKAS, a defense firm that was blocked by 100 protesters on Monday morning, has sold more weapons than previously said pubicly, through their Israeli subsidiary

Story 3 – Immigrants are increasingly leaving Canada, in a story that CTV editorializes in their headline by explaining it’s to move to “greener pastures” and not because Canada is in a generalized state of decline

Story 4 – Northern College exploits the hell out of international students — rescinds January admissions offers from 200 international students and boosts the share of their budget in international fees from $12M in 2021 to $67M in 2023.

Story 5 – Rocket that hit the café in Hroza was launched by Russia, investigation confirms; Biden tries to push through a $106B spending package to stop Russia from winning the war, says his defense secretary.

Story 6 – Israel attacks the Jabalia refugee camp twice killing probably hundreds of people to, they claim, try and kill a single guy.