Month: April 2024

Episote 278 – Why does the BCNDP even exist?

April 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk abou the BCNDP’s about-face on drug decriminalisation. Plus, campus activism and showing Gaza support from the local campus lawn.

Daily News – April 30, 2024

April 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Gate Gourmet workers’ strike is over.

Story 2 – A judge rejects the call for a publication ban by Peel Police to hide the identity of cops who were present when a cop shot and killed Ejaz Choudry.

Story 3 – TTC workers vote for a strike, the first time since the Liberals made it illegal for TTC workers to go on strike (that law was found to be unconstitutional).

Story 4 – Israeli media reports that the ICC is considering charging top officials for genocide.

Story 5 – At least 120 people dead after dam bursts in Kenya.

Story 6 – the UN warns that another genocide may be brewing in the Darfur, calls on groups to stop arming the RSF and the Sudanese army.

Daily News – April 29, 2024

April 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Alberta cop nailed with child pornography charges

Story 2 – Encampments established in Concordia and McGill

Story 3– The Freedom Flotilla has been denied its passage after Guinea Bisseau called for them to remove their flag

Story 4 – Argentina’s government is setting its sights on education:

Daily News – April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Supervisor criminally charged, owner pleads guilty in death of young worker.

Story 2 – Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 7 to hospital in Calgary. Workers were using a pressure washer inside of a parkade.

Story 3 – Benzene rates are sky-high at Aamjiwnaang First Natåion due to a petrochemical plant’s shutdown. The community has declared a state of emergency,

Story 4 – Transitional council to take over now that Ariel Henry has residen as PM of Haiti.

Story 5– More than 220 people massacred in a single day by the military in Burkina Faso.

Daily News – April 25, 2024

April 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Woman has to clean her dead husband’s body because of staffing shortage in Montreal hospital.

Story 2 – Former VP with SNC-Lavalin (now AtkinsRéalis) sentenced to prison for corruption.

Story 3 – Every SQ shooting range is closed in Quebec due to cops being poisoned by toxic gas that accumulates in the spaces.

Story 4 – Wildfire season off to brutal start in Alberta; officials declare sweeping open fire ban due to tinderbox conditions.

Story 5 – US quietly supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine, they’ve been used twice.

Daily News – April 24, 2024

April 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family of Wet’suwet’en man who was murdered by RCMP vows to keep fighting for justice after BC’s prosecution service drops charges against the cops.

Story 2 – Date has been set for policing in Surrey to be transfered from the RCMP to the Surrey Police.

Story 3 – BC Ombudsman slams the province for having done nothing to stop putting youth into solitary confinement despite damning report 2 years ago.

Story 4 – More than 30 people missing or dead after boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti.

Story 5 – 5 people die trying to cross the English channel just after the UK passes law to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Episode 277 – Sandy and Nora Live in Edmonton

April 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

This episode was recorded live on April 20, 2024 at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.

Daily News – April 23, 2024

April 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The CSN files to represent workers at Amazon in Laval.

Story 2 – Young worker poisoned on the job from carbon monoxide, but his employer, Co-op, isn’t even being sanctioned.

Story 3 – First Nations patients are more like to leave the ER without being seen and the reason? Racism.

Story 4 – No evidence at all that UNRWA staff had any link to terrorism.

Story 5 – Ecuadorians agree to stricter security measures in referendum vote.

Daily News – April 22, 2024

April 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Quebec 13 y/o is banned from social media over harassment and child pornography accusations.

Story 2 – 36 year old man dies at Regina Correctional Centre with no information about cause of death or what happened.

Story 3 – International student will not be deported over his climate justice activism but his future in Canada is still uncertain.

Story 4 – Canadian aid organization’s water truck is bombed in targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Story 5 – Solidarity actions at Columbia university and other universities are met with intense opposition from administrators and police.

Story 6 – Mass grave discovered at the al-Shifa hospital complex.

Daily News – April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Encampments are growing in Halifax and the municipality doesn’t seem to know what to do about it.

Story 2 – Student self-immolates at college in Red Deer but no one is talking about it.

Story 3 – Spike in cost for infant formula leaves parents reeling.

Story 4 – India heads to elections in what is the largest election in the world.

Story 5 – US deports Haitians back to Haiti despite the instability there.

Daily News – April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 14 out of 15 drug poisoning deaths in Windsor-Essex were related to fentenyl.

Story 2 – The Ontario Legislature’s speaker MPP Ted Arnott bans Keffiyehs as being political symbols.

Story 3 – Crisis in Alberta’s NICUs spurns doctors to call for action; minister floats idea of airlifting infants in critical care to other provinces.

Story 4 – Private citizen to be questioned over ArriveCan app by the House of Commons for the first time in 100 years after Kristian Firth was found in contempt.

Story 5 – Pakistan blocked out social media just before and just after the elections, in a move meant to harm Imran Khan’s chances.

Story 6 – 1 in 5 Palestinians living in the occupied territories have been arrested, a rate that is doubled when only men are concerned. Yesterday marked Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

Daily News – April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sexual assault charges laid against three teenagers in a case of apparent hgh school hockey team hazing incident in Manitoba.

Story 2 – Gate Gourmet workers at Toronto’s Pearson Airport have walked off the job.

Story 3 – FOI docs reveal that the UCP had been talking with coal industry execs for months before they announced their intentions to allow open pit mining in the Rockies.

Story 4 – The 2024 Federal Budget: Asset dumping, but call it a housing strategy.

Story 5 – UN Special Envoy to Libya resigns over lack of good faith among Libya’s fueding leaders.

Episode 276 – Sleepwalking towards WW3?

April 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Israel’s promise to wage revenge on Iran and how Canadian politicians are (or are not) trying to de-escalate.

Daily News – April 16, 2024

April 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unifor files with the BC labour board to represent Amazon workers in Delta and New Westminster.

Story 2 – Resignations en masse at the RM Armstrong in Manitoba puts governance of the municipality into question.

Story 3 – More than 1/4 young people are dying from Opioids with Alberta the location with the highest rates of death by far.

Story 4 – Azerbaijan asks the ICJ to through out ethnic cleansing charges brought by Armenia over conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Story 5 – Georgia proposed law to designate NGOs and media orgs that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources as foreign actors is met with protests, especially from pro-EU partisans.

Daily News – April 15, 2024

April 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Third arrest made related to the Thunder Bay police force and this time, it’s the former chief.

Story 2 – Nurses union in Quebec rejects latest government deal.

Story 3 – Ontario has spent more than $134M over 10 years on cops who were paid to stay home while being investigatd for misconduct. One third of the allegations related to sexual violence.

Story 4 – Today is the one year anniverary of the war in Sudan and Canada is offering $132M to provide aid and help people flee to neighbouring countries.

Story 5 – After a weekend where Iran attacked Israel, Israel seemingly still managed to kill more people in Gaza and the West Bank than Iran did in their retaliatory airstrikes.

Story 6 – Cyprus is suspending asylum claims after rush of claimants from Syria.

Daily News – April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Montreal’s STM is increasing security patrols to deal with impact of the affordability and drug crises.

Story 2 – Family of man who died in a Fredericton ER calls for change so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Story 3 – A Canadian woman will be evacuated from Gaza.

Story 4 – New affordability measures for housing introduced will do absolutely nothing to boost affodability (but they will plunge you deeper in debt!)

Story 5 – Political parties and civil society groups decry the military leadership’s decree to ban political activity in Mali.

Daily News – April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Edmonton Police stop man at 2:15 am over bylaw infraction and then chase him into the North Saskatchewan River.

Story 2 – Former lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police is facing criminal charges; the second person charged in criminal probe of that force.

Story 3 – Canadian company sold paternity tests even though they knew that the tests were faulty, causing tremendous trauma to individuals around the world.

Story 4 – Massive flooding in Russia and Kazhakstan has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people.

Story 5 – Lufthansa (the only operator that connects Tehran to the West) has suspended flights to Tehran over fears of military action after Israel bombs Iranian embassy in Syria.

Daily News – April 10, 2024

April 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Oral surgeon who directed a cop in extracting four teeth from a sedated inmate receives absolute discharge.

Story 2 – Syncrude fined $390,000 for worker’s death. The money will go to three group to develop an … app … about excavation safety, even though the trouble was a lack of analysisn of the ground where the worker was working from an engineer.

Story 3 – The AFN says that there is a $350 billion gap between infrastructure within Indigenous communities compared to non-Indigenous communities. When you add in Inuit communities, the number rises to $425 billion.

Story 4 – Very little information about Canada’s Syrian embassy, which was damaged when Israel struck Iran’s embassy which is right beside.

Story 5 – UNRWA says that Israel is lying about how much aid is reaching Gaza via truck.

Story 6 – At least three dead in hydroelectric plant explosion in Italy.

Episode 275 – The Party of Hacks

April 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Why does it seem like the Liberals cannot get it together and govern? Sandy and Nora talk about how the Liberals operate — Remember kids, talk – action = 0.

Daily News – April 9, 2024

April 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cop has assault charges discharged. Just 7 years ago, he also had been charged with manslaughter, charges that were also dropped.

Story 2 – Humboldt Broncos truck driver fighting his deportation.

Story 3 – SFU hired private security firm to spy on striking workers.

Story 4 – Canada promising a ridiculous amount of money to go to war machines in its pre-budget tour.

Story 5 – At least 94 dead in Mozambique after boat capsizes. Most on board were fleeing due to misinformation related to cholera.

Daily News – April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – NFLD Justice Minister John Hogan apologized for not know how cross-examination works when the person on the stand is a survivor of sexual assault.

Story 2 – Airbus workers in Quebec reject the company’s latest offer.

Story 3 – Trudeau to dump $2.4B into a black hole and say that it will help foster AI in Canada.

Story 4 – Israel’s war on Gaza passes the six month mark.

Story 5 – Ecuador stormed Mexico’s embassy, Mexico pulls its diplomatic staff.

Daily News – April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hospital in Halifax had not heat or water after the second water main break in 24h.

Story 2 – Widow of migrant worker injured on the job in Ontario wants to see working conditions improved.

Story 3 – CMHC says hold on to your butts: housing prices will surpass the 2022 peak by 2026.

Story 4 – Myanmar’s junta capital was hit by a drone attack by opposition forces.

Story 5 – Peru’s president Boluarte avoids being impeached over wealth probe.

Daily News – April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A Longueuil cop sexually assaulted someone whose sexual assault case he was working on.

Story 2 – Two Indigenous fishermen taken on a Starlight Tour in Nova Scotia by DFO officers.

Story 3 – Trans-mountain pipeline set to open in time for International Workers Day. Only cost us $34B.

Story 4 – Pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate in Van is re-instated after being DQed. He won with 55% of the vote.

Story 5 – Thailand’s Move Forward Party might be dissolved and its leaders banned from politics after it tried to amend the royal defamation law.

Daily News – April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City of Kingston to enforce park camping ban pushing marginalized Kingstonins out with nowhere else to go.

Story 2 – Emails reveal the extent to which cuts by the Yukon Hospital Corporation would delay care and burn nurses out.

Story 3 – Ghost ship the likely culprit behind the Red Sea Internet cable cuts.

Story 4 – Israel has killed more than 200 aid workers since Oct. 7, including 7 in a targeted strike yesterday.

Story 5 – Opposition leader in India jailed just weeks ahead of the election.

Story 6 – 9 dead, up to 1000 wounded after massive earthquake hits Taiwan.

Daily News – April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Carbon tax protests greet the new tax, Premier of NL is Furey…ous.

Story 2 – Dan Philip, longtime civil rights activist and former president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, dies at 87.

Story 3 – Statscan data shows that armoured vehicles and other weapons have been exported to Israel since Oct. 7, contradicting the official government line.

Story 4 – Israel passes a law to outlaw Al Jazeera.

Story 5 – Unthinkable carnage remains at al-Shifa hospital after Israeli troop withdrawal.

Story 6 – UN warns that the DRC is reaching a humanitarian breaking point due to fighting in the Eastern part of the country.