Month: January 2024

Daily news – Jan. 31, 2024

January 31, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sudbury police’s “systemic issues” has put 13 cases related to child pornography cases into jeopardy.

Story 2 – A stunning 82% of people who are jailed in Ontario jails right now are legally innocent.

Story 3 – Manulife and Loblaws collude to force Canadians to shop only at Loblaws’ owned pharmacies.

Story 4 – The IMF has released new economic forecasts and Russia’s forecast is higher than any other economy on the list, begging the question about what sanctions were intended to do.

Episode 266 – Canada picks the geno-side

January 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canada’s reaction to the ICJ decision and how we’ve decided to keep backing Israel. Plus Canada is the world’s most popular MAID destination.

Photo taken from The Canadian Press’ Justin Tang

Daily News – Jan. 30, 2024

January 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – BC is the latest province to have law prohibiting the non-consentual distribution of intimate imaes

Story 2 – DNA profile has cracked a 17-year-old cold case of death of Indigenous woman in St. Ambroise, MB.

Story 3 – The feds pause MAID expansion for a second time, says the health care system isn’t ready to deal with MAID for mental illness alone.

Story 4 – NCCM cancels its meeting with Justin Trudeau saying that the organization has lost confidence in him based on the government’s inaction over Gaza.

Story 5 – Israeli ministers attend far-right conference that calls for Israel to create illegal settlements in Gaza.

Daily News – Jan. 29, 2024

January 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Elderly man living in a Walmart parkinglot in East Vancouver shows the gravity of the poverty crisis facing seniors.

Story 2 – Tar sands emissions up to 6300% higher than reported, according to new study.

Story 3 – Canadian-Palestinian journalist has not been heard from since Jan. 21, witnesses say he was taken by the IDF.

Story 4 – UNRWA appeals to countries who believe everything that Israel says to maintain funding to the Palestinian relief agency.

Story 5 – Three US servicement dead in Jordan from drone attack, the first Americans to die on duty since Oct. 7.

Daily News – Jan. 26, 2024

January 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – First devestates the John C. Yesno Educational Centre in Eabemetoong First Nation.

Story 2 – Brand new, state-of-the-art sawmill burns to the ground in Waswanipi.

Story 3 – Canada will send 1000 troops to participate in NATO’s biggest war games in 36 years; will simulate a NATO response to a member being attacked.

Story 4 – Analysis shows that 90% of opinions publised from Dec. 15 to Jan. 15 in major newspapers defend or support Israel’s genocide.

Story 5 – Alabama murders a man by asphyxiation to replace lethal injection on death row.

Daily News – Jan. 25, 2024

January 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – President of Sutton Quebec is charged with arson related to burning two rival real estate offices.

Story 2 – A woman gave birth in a homeless encampment in Hamilton and we only know because the councilor who saw it saved this anecdote for a debate in favour of boosting the police budget.

Story 3 – Edmonton police tase and shoot teenager who was fighting with her pre-teen sister.

Story 4 – Five members of the 2018 World Juniors hockey team are arrested in pre-dawn raids over sexual assault charges. No, sorry, that isn’t right. They are kindly asked to come to the police dept. during scheduled hours to be charged.

Story 5 – $80 billion warship program is shrouded in secrecy.

Story 6 – Kim Bolan heads to Fiji to see how BC-made methamphetemine is causing havoc to the nation of hundreds of islands.

Story 7 – At least 70 dead in unregulated gold mine collapse in Mali.

Daily News – Jan. 24, 2024

January 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Royal Jubilee Hospital apparently leaves patients in distress at a nearby bus stop.

Story 2 – Plane crash on way to Diavik mine had Rio Tinto staff on board. Earlier reports of 10 casualties have been updated to just say there were casualties.

Story 3 – Class action is greenlighted in Quebec against the province’s 118 CHSLDs for negligence related to COVID-19 deaths.

Story 4 – Using the Emergencies Act to clear the trucker convoy was unconstitutional.

Story 5 – Largest day of casualties for the IDF yesterday when the building they were rigging up with explosives collapsed on them. A Hamas rocket caused a chain reaction, triggering the collapse.

Episode 265 – Reproductive health? What’s that?

January 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy goes on a rant about what is popularly called “women’s health” — and all the gaps and missing pieces that come with it. Plus, more than 25,000 Gazans have been killed by Israel’s military.

Daily News – Jan. 23, 2024

January 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Day two of a 48-hour bus strike in Metro Vancouver as the union vows to increase pressure tactics.

Story 2 – A stunning number of senior’s residences in Montreal don’t have evacuation plans that are up to code in case of fire, and very few owners are facing judicial consequences.

Story 3 – Population has increased but the number of doctors has not. CBC tells us what’s going on but fails to mention why.

Story 4 – New round of airstrikes conducted against Yemen by the US and UK.

Story 5 – Officials in Donetsk say Ukrainian fire has killed 27 and injured 25. Ukraine hasn’t commented.

Daily News – Jan. 22, 2024

January 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – After being forced out of the factor due to a fire alarm, Amazon workers in London stayed outside for some 20 minutes in -17 C windchill. An hour later, a worker collapsed and died.

Story 2 – Black and Middle Eastern Ottawans were over-represented in Ottawa Police use-of-force statistics.

Story 3 – CSIS is allegedly sniffing around the Conservative candidate riding nomination of a former Kenney staffer and co-chair of Poilievre’s leadership team.

Story 4 – Death toll in Gaza surpases 25,000.

Story 5 – At least 47 people were buried by a landslide in southwest China on Mnday morning.

Daily News – Jan. 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hamilton is first city in Ontario to pass a bylaw to try and stop renovictions.

Story 2 – More than 936K visas have been given to Ukrainians to come to Canada and more than 200,000 of them have actually come. Officials expect a rush of people before March 31.

Story 3 – Agreement to devolve responsibility from the federal government to Nunavut is finally signed.

Story 4 – Largest NATO war games are set to start next week.

Story 5 – Jordan seems to be boming Syria over drug smuggling.

Daily News – Jan. 18, 2024

January 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Spike in infections and deaths related to invasive Strep A. CBC News has what you need to know.

Story 2 – Former Grand Chief of the Council of the Crees spent 4 days in the ER without being given a room in Montreal.

Story 3 – Ontario family kidnapped and extorted $10,000 in Eswatini while visiting with missionary family.

Story 4 – Protests in Tunisia call for more action to search for a missing boat of 37 people on the Mediterranean.

Story 5 – Public prosecutor who was working on the live TV hostage charges in Ecuador has been shot and killed.

Daily News – Jan. 17, 2024

January 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man obsessed with the conspiracy theory that the government was starting forets fires, pleads guilty to setting 14 forest fires.

Story 2 – SK teachers go on one day strike, government claims that they aren’t responsible to negotiate things like class sizes or class composition (they are).

Story 3 – Strike at military bases across Ontario and Quebec over wages that are far lower than people doing similar work employed by National Defense.

Story 4 – Iranian airstrike kills two children and injures three in Pakistan as they aim for armed group bases that have attacked Iranian border guards.

Episode 264 – Q&A with OPSEU young workers

January 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, hear Sandy and Nora take questions about not getting fired, not getting arrested and the power of podcasting to reach people.

Daily News – Jan. 16, 2024

January 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cops threaten people with arrest if they dare to call in fake missing kangaroo tips.

Story 2 – Just 7.9% of cyclists who are injured in Toronto are reported by Toronto Police, finds a new study from researchers at York University.

Story 3 – Police in BC held a massive DNA sweep at a Kurdish New Year party where they pretended to be tea salesmen, to try and solve the murder of a child.

Story 4 – Some 180,000 people live in Alberta who don’t have permenant status in Canada.

Story 5 – Nauru severs diplomatic ties with Taiwan, moves towards China.

Story 6 – From ancient manuscripts stored at the Great Omari Mosque to a recently-discovered Roman necropolis, here is a short list of the cultural landmarks that Israel has destroyed.

Daily News – Jan. 15, 2024

January 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Voting begins for public sector workers who are members of the Front Commun, plus details about the teachers’ settlement are revealed.

Story 2 – Flag flown that netted a hate crimes charge was the flag of a secular, communist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an organization that hasn’t killed nearly as many Israelis as Isreal has killed Palestinians.

Story 3 – CBC News interactive feature on lonliness shows the disintegration of social solidarity and cohesion through the lens of seniors’ lonliness.

Story 4 – Fuel prices surge in Cuba causing economic crisis.

Daily News – Jan. 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cops declare protesting at one specific 401 overpass illegal in Toronto; arrest man for inciting violence for holding a flag of an organization that Canada deems to be terrorist.

Story 2 – New study shows that prescription opioids keep opioid users alive.

Story 3 – Of 21 million hectares of boreal forest in Ontario and Quebec, just 14 million are left thanks to logging and deforestation, devestating caribou herds.

Story 4 – Israel is at the Hague arguing how killing 1% of all children in Gaza is not actually on the track of full-blown genocide.

Story 5 – Canada is part of coalition that started bombing Yemen last night to retaliate for their campaign to support Gaza.

Daily News – Jan. 11, 2024

January 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Journalist Brandi Morin was arrested on a criminal offence while reporting on the Edmonton camp raids.

Story 2 – Two years ago, DFO ordered that all egg-bearing lobsters be slaughtered to prevent invasive species from spreading but lobster industry leaders say that had never heard this and don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

Story 3 – The Globe finds out that Alberta’s turkish Tylenol adventure was even worse — the medicine was too thick, clocked feeding tubes and kids refused to swallow it because of its taste.

Story 4 – Mass grave found behind a Mississippi jail has buzzards and scavengers all around it — many of the people buried there have families who still thought they were alive.

Story 5 – Al-Shabab has captured a UN helicopter and taken at least six of the nine people on board.

Daily News – Jan. 10, 2024

January 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The RCMP misses its own deadline to present a plan to implement recommendations from Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission.

Story 2 – I do a deep dive into the copaganda that CTV is promoting to justify encampment raids.

Story 3 – The equivalent of 1,253 Honda civics in weight of cannabis product has been destroyed in Canada since pot was legalized

Story 4 – FAA grounds 737 Max 9 planes in the US after loose bolts found.

Episode 263 – Sandy and Nora live at OPSEU

January 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Sandy and Nora live in Toronto at the Young Workers’ convention in October, organized by OPSEU’s Young Workers’ Committee

Daily News – Jan. 9, 2024

January 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family of Nigerian international student shot and killed by Winnipeg Police call for justice.

Story 2 – Newfoundlanders are turning to Facebook groups to try and find food to not starve.

Story 3 – Four people charged with painting a Toronto Indigo to protest it’s CEO’s support for the IDF appear in court.

Story 4 – Three senior officials in Maldives are suspended after calling Indian president Modi a clown, a terrorist and a puppet of Israel on Twitter.

Story 5 – Israel kills the highest ranking Hezbollah officer yet.

Daily News – Jan. 8, 2023

January 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The Front Commun wins a 17.4% wage increase over 5 years — far from the government’s initial offer of 9% — and the agreement-in-principle will go to a vote over the next month.

Story 2 – Juries are not paid enough to ensure that people are tried by “a jury of their peers” in Ontario.

Story 3 – A report from Nikkei Asia says that Honda might be considering building an EV plant (battery and vehicle) in Ontario.

Story 4 – Families of victims of the PS752 plane downing call for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be listed as a terror entity. Except Canada’s law prevents groups engaged in active military action from being added.

Story 5 – Two more journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, one is the son of Al Jazeera’s Bureau Chief.