Month: September 2024

Daily News – Sept. 30, 2024

September 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario will continue to house migrants in prisons for another year, despite promising to end the practice.

Story 2 – OPP unmarked cruiser strikes and kills a pedestrian early Sunday morning in Bala, Ontario.

Story 3 – Ford government sends directive to school boards that no politics in the classroom will be tolerated on the eve of the Oct. 7 anniversary.

Story 4 – Moodies lowers Israel’s credit rating.

Story 5 – 48 people are missing after boat sinks off the coast of the Canary Islands.

Daily News – Sept. 27, 2024

September 27, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 22 cows die in a semi rollover in southern SK.

Story 2 – Longshoremen at the Port of Montreal set to strike.

Story 3 – Coalition forms to challenge track-2 MAID under the Charter.

Story 4 – New report shows the rate that rents are outpacing salaries.

Story 5 – Presidential candidate in Tunisia is sentenced to prison.

Story 6 – Twitter reportedly ready to comply with Brazil’s demands.

Daily News – Sept. 26, 2024

September 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Veteren Montreal cop condemns cancerous systemic racism within the Montreal police force in resignation letter.

Story 2 – Canadians have stopped having babies and Global News neglects to seriously report on why.

Story 3 – A Canadian couple is among the dead in Lebanon and Canada still cannot bring itself to condemn Israel.

Story 4 – Longshoremen who work at Eastern and Gulf ports are set to strike and the employer group companies are mad.

Story 5 – Israel sent a container with 88 unidenfied, decaying bodies to Gaza. Officials there have refused to accept the container until Israel explains who they were, how they died and why they were in Israel at the moment of death.

Daily News – Sept. 25, 2024

September 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Radio station in Kamloops is being downsized, format is moving from news to entertainment.

Story 2: University of Windsor President is being pushed to retire early after pressure over deal reached between the university and students protesting Israel.

Story 3: Innocent man Marcellus Williams slated for execution in Missouri.

Story 4: Evo Morales makes ultimatum to demand changes to the cabinet of Luis Arce in Bolivia.

Daily News – Sept. 24, 2024

September 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Grain terminal strike in Vancouver. The bosses want the feds to step in to thwart.

Story 2 – The Alberta Medical Association warns that the medical syastem is on the brink of collapse.

Story 3 – The NDP calls on the Liberals to declare Palestinian statehood.

Story 4 – Israel bombs Lebanon, killing some 500 people.

Story 5 – Oil prices going up in the wake of war in the Middle East.

Daily News – Sept. 23, 2024

September 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dofasco worker killed on the job.

Story 2 – Truckers in Brampton are fighting against wage theft, a common practice within the trucking industry.

Story 3 – McGill’s administration extorts the students’ union to remove club designation for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.

Story 4– A probe into a group chat between several RCMP officers reveals racist, homophobic and misogynistic messages.

Story 5 – The IDF raids the West Bank offices of Al Jazeera and forces it to shut down.

Daily News – Sept. 20, 2024

September 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Worker struck on picket line by a Ford F-150 at Western University.

Story 2 – Judge orders the website IndigoKillsKids.ca be taken offline, argues that it is not an attack on net neutrality.

Story 3 – Singh tries out new personna in House of Commons

Story 4 – The RCMP lost 205 guns since 2020. What happened to them? We don’t know!

Story 5 – After 7 months of the program being operational, Canada has accepted zero Sudanese. And their families are wondering why they’re treated differently than Ukrainians.

Story 6 – ELN attacks a military base killing Petro’s dream of a lasting peace in Colombia.

Daily News – Sept. 19, 2024

September 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Eighth First Nations person killed by police in Canada in just three weeks.

Story 2 – Man has heart attack in hospital parking lot, but the hospital is closed so workers call 9-1-1 for him instead.

Story 3 – Big three newspapers overwhelmingly rely on military-funded thinktank analysts to react to military decisions.

Story 4 – Elephant cull to feed people who are starving due to draught seems like best of terrible options, given the circumstances in Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Story 5 – Germany will stop approving war exports to Israel. While the Chancellary insists that this isn’t a boycott, Green ministers in the economy and foreign affairs departments fear increasing legal action for aiding war crimes.

Daily News – Sept. 18, 2024

September 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Condo scheme collapses in Iqaluit, leaving 11 households in the lurch.

Story 2 – A man has died at Ontario Place following an industrial accident.

Story 3 – The Globe and Mail scrubbed every reference to Israel in award winner’s article.

Story 4 – MUHC and the federal government are trying to get a lawsuit tossed out seeking compensation for victims of MK-ULTRA

Story 5 – Israel planted explosives in pagers that Hezbollah bought months later.

Episode 291 – A country full of cowards

September 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about one of the barriers to taking action: a lack of courage. They examine how to find and build courage so that people feel supported enough to take on radical acts. Plus, no more cellphones in school: what problem is this trying to fix?

Daily News – Sept. 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto pepper spray, assault and arrest protesters who showed up at a UJA event featuring an active IDF soldier and Bari Weiss.

Story 2 – London Police hired Navigator to help them pass a massive budget increase.

Story 3 – Lori Idlout triggers a national debate after six First Nations people are killed by police in just two weeks.

Story 4 – A Canadian has been sentenced to death in the DRC over the attempted coup from a few months ago.

Story 5 – Israeli army says that they did not authorize leaflets dropped into Lebanon that told residents to evacuate or be considered a terrorist.

Daily News – Sept. 16, 2024

September 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The BC NDP turns its back on progressive drug policy, promises to involuntarily commit more people and hire more cops.

Story 2 – Part 3 nurses in New Brunswick reject tentative agreement.

Story 3 – Canada extends its ban to former senior Iranian officials to 2003, potentially stripping some of their PR or citizenship status.

Story 4 – Storm Boris slams Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

Story 5 – 45 people have died crossing the English Channel this year — a spike since 2021.

Daily News – Sept. 13, 2024

September 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – TIFF stops screening of movie about Russia soldiers due to threats.

Story 2 – Blaine Higgs goes on racist rant on Twitter, lying about asylum seekers arriving in New Brunswick.

Story 3 – Activists given trespass notices at Berczy Park in Barrie.

Story 4 – Rats fleeing the ship as it goes down? Second caquiste leaves the party in a week.

Story 5 – Boeing workers on the US west coast vote overwhelmingly to strike.

Story 6 – Typhoon Yagi slams Vietnam leaving more than 300 people missing or dead.

Daily News – Sept. 12, 2024

September 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sikh Press Association rings the alarm bell on rising violent hate crimes targeting Sikhs in Canada after a Tim Horton’s worker is stabbed by a box cutter in Edmonton and dies.

Story 2 – AHS quietly pushed vulnerable people’s prescriptions from AHS over to Shoppers Drug Marg.

Story 3 – A child connected to child welfare services dies every three days in Ontario.

Story 4 – Chrystia Freeland hasn’t seen the movie but insists that it’s Russian propaganda, condemns public agencies for having funded it.

Story 5 – A Canadian is among the dead in Morocco’s massive floods.

Daily News – Sept. 11, 2024

September 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City workers in Yellowknife win 3% pay raises and new time off benefits.

Story 2 – Mike Bettiol, a developer in the Hamilton area, has license revoked for financial mismanagement and corruption.

Story 3 – Journalist Duncan Kinney is trying to get documents from the Edmonton Police as he defends himself from charges that he vandalized a Nazi memorial.

Story 4 – A Canadian far-right media company has been named in a US court case as a beneficiary of $10M from RT.

Story 5 – At least 26 are dead and dozens more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Senegal.

Episode 290 – The NDP-Liberal coalition is finally over (and so is your right to protest on campus)

September 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the political ramifications of the NDP ending the supply and confidence deal with the Liberals. Plus, increasing attacks on free speech on campus should worry everyone.

Daily News – Sept. 10, 2024

September 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Air Canada workers gear up for a strike, the company starts cancelling flights.

Story 2 – Two Indigenous people were killed in Canada by police this weel. One in Elsipogtog and another in Ahtahkakoop.

Story 3 – A sixth cyclist has been killed by a driver in Toronto in 2024, bringing deaths to a five-year high.

Story 4 – Germany closes its land borders to limit the entry of migrants as the far right is on the rise in parts of the country.

Story 5 – Outspoken critic of the government, Nigeria’s National Labour Congress president has been arrested.

Daily News – Sept. 9, 2024

September 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Protests are back on campus and campus administrators are pulling out ridiculous (and likely anti-constitutional) rules to try and crush dissent.

Story 2 – Ceremony held to remember Hoss Lightning, the Cree teenager who Alberta RCMP shot and killed after he called 911 for help.

Story 3 – Ottawa police have allegedly spied on Somali officers. Five Somali officers are now suing the force.

Story 4 – Are the Liberals on track to lose this Montreal by-election?

Story 5 – Turkish-American peace activist murdered by Israeli forces in the West Bank

Story 6 – UN calls for security force to protect civilians in Sudan as the war between the military and the RSF continues to ravage the civilian population.

Daily News – Sept. 6, 2024

September 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Corporate landlord Dream Unlimited colludes with other corporate landlords through an app to determine the highest possible rents they can charge.

Story 2 – Ontatio Ombudsman to investigate the practice of child welfare agencies housing children in hotels, motels, trailors and office buildings.

Story 3 – Officials are worried that a list of 900 Nazi collaborators created in 1986 will embarass Canada if it’s released.

Story 4 – Abousfian Abdelrazik still waiting for his day in court as the Crown tries to push some of their witnesses to be allowed to tesitfy in camera.

Story 5 – 99,000 Mpox vaccines arrive in the DRC and more are on their way.

Daily News – Sept. 5, 2024

September 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police kill woman in park while driving like “a bat out of hell” in Winnipeg. CBC News gives more airtime to the true victims in this, the driver of the car, than to the family of the victim.

Story 2 – At a rally condeming the recent police murder by car, a protester was struck by a driver who drove through the rally. CTV News asks Winnipeg Police for comment, despite them having just done the same thing the day earlier, but deadlier.

Story 3 – The sucking and blowing deal is off! The NDP experiments with doing politics again.

Story 4 – Negligence, greed and lies at the heart of the preventable Grenfall Tower tragedy, report finds.

Story 5 – At least 21 people, Syrians and Sudanese, have died after their boat capsized off an Italian island.

Story 6 – At least 81 people were killed in an attack in northern Nigeria after Boko Haram targets a village that police say had been working with the Nigerian military to push against the militant group.

Daily News – Sept. 4, 2024

September 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unifor files to represent workers at Walmart warehouse in Mississauga.

Story 2 – 13 people were killed in police interactions in August, a high that only ties Sept. 2022, according to the Media Co-op.

Story 3 – Scotiabank is funding Elbit Systems at a rate that is far greater than any of the other big 6 Canadian banks (though all have some money with the Israeli arms dealer).

Story 4 – Ugandan Olympic marathoner burned and severely injured in a case of apparent intimate partner violence.

Story 5 – Missiles strike military school in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people — seemingly the largest attack by Russia since they invaded 2 1/2 years ago.

Daily News – Sept. 3, 2024

September 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Picket lines are up at Western University as 90% of CUPE Local 2361 members vote 99% in favour of a strike.

Story 2 – Law union wins at labour tribunal as McGill is found to have interfered with their strike.

Story 3 – The UK will stop exporting some arms to Israel but critics say that’s not nearly enough.

Story 4 – Presidential candidate in Tunisian election is arrested just after his name is approved to be one of just three candidates on the ballot.

Daily News – Sept. 2, 2024

September 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP murder First Nations teenager who called them for help.

Story 2 – Opaskwayak Cree Nation reports finding evidence of unmarked graves at site of former Residential School.

Story 3 – General Strike called today in Israel to protest how Benjamin Netenyahu has handled the hostage situation in Gaza.

Story 4 – Ambulances blocked as Israel lays siege to Jenin in the West Bank.

Story 5 – Far right party in Germany poised to make gains in easter part of the country.