Month: November 2024

Episode 301 – The racism behind much of the support for Israel

November 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how many supporters of Israel are using their support to express racism. Plus, a GST holiday? Where we going?

Daily News – Nov. 26, 2024

November 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Teenager killed in Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba by RCMP; 11th Indigenous person to be killed since the end of August.

Story 2 – Motion to rip out bikelines, create new unnecessary highway, passes at Queen’s Park.

Story 3 – Possible ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel is in the works, some Israeli leadership says that it will not stop bombing southern Lebanon.

Story 4 – More than 100 people injured in protests supporting Imran Khan in Pakistan.

Daily News – Nov. 25, 2024

November 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ottawa police crack heads at Palestinian protest

Story 2 – Montrealers have an old fashioned riot and politicians condemn it for being antisemitic

Story 3 – The ICC issues arrest warrant for Netenyahu

Story 4 – Israel’s government is to sanction Haaretz, the country’s oldest newspaper

Story 5 – Thousands of Israelis have been given temporary visas where as fewer than 500 Gazans have been given emergency refugee status

Daily News – Nov. 22, 2024

November 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Protesters arrested outside of Pierre Poilievre’s official residence.

Story 2 – Several people are unfindable by police who were involved in the Pearson Airport gold heist

Story 3 – TC Energy welcomes Donald Trump’s presidency

Story 4 – 11 people arrested related to roof collapse in Serbia that killeed 15 people

Story 5 – Northvolt files for bankruptcy

Daily News – Nov. 21, 2024

November 21, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Four people have died in the past 2 weeks in Edmonton bus shelters.

Story 2 – Multi X, a company that fabricates parts for Chrysler, is set to close just after Christmas.

Story 3 – Dozens of layoffs at Rogers media in audio, Rogers Communications made just undr $2B in the last quarter.

Story 4 – 50 people with Boko Haram dead, 7 from Nigeria state forces after attack on security detail at power station.

Story 5 – Israel attacks UNESCO World Heritage Site in Syria, killing dozens.

Daily News – Nov. 20, 2024

November 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – New government in NB promises a brain illness probe.

Story 2 – Sunshine Oilsands shut down by Alberta’s energy regulator over environmental infractions.

Story 3 – Ottawa removed 1100 businesses from the Indigenous procurement list though didn’t say why.

Story 4 – Security forces in Haiti kill 28 people who had raided wealthy neighbourhood.

Story 5 – Ukraine uses long-range missiles as the war hits day 1000.

Episode 300 – Towards Bluer Skies

November 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a break from the stuff that matters to talk about the current migration from Twitter towards Bluesky and what it all means (and doesn’t mean).

Daily News – Nov. 19, 2024

November 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario is the next province to promise to ban safe consumption sites. Activists remind Ontarians that people will die as a result.

Story 2 – 4 people injured and one man is in critical-stable condition in Ottawa, the SIU says, as they investigate the involvement of a police officer.

Story 3 – French farmers angry over new EU-South America free trade deal.

Story 4 – Russia vetoes a motion at the UN Security Council for a ceasefire proposal between the Sudanese military and the RSF.

Daily News – Nov. 18, 2024

November 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 27 people in La Ronge have been diagnosed with scurvy, overwhelmingly the patients are Indigenous.

Story 2 – Armoured vehicles, riot police raid the home of Samidoun founder.

Story 3 – Baby clothes recalled due to flammability.

Story 4 – Activists, trade unionists plead to allow miners trapped in decommissioned mine to come out without arrest.

Story 5 – Four typhoons hit Philippines in November, something that hasn’t happened since recording started in 1951.

Daily News – Nov. 14, 2024

November 14, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Teenager in Richmond, BC is Canada’s first human case of Avian Flu.

Story 2 – Crypto influencer’s body is found in Montreal park, months after he was kidnapped from his Old Montreal condo’s parking garage.

Story 3 – Canada is massively sucking at cutting down on emissions: last year, we surpassed 1B tonnes of emmisisons in oil, gas and coal we shipped for exports.

Story 4 – New journal paper estimates the rate of all-cause mortality in Sudan and it looks like 50% more people died since the war started than before.

Story 5 – A look at Trump’s Clown Car Cabinet.

Daily News – Nov. 13, 2024

November 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Quebec cop suspended after having thrown the piece of the skull of a child who died in an accident into a ravine.

Story 2 – Investigation by Radio-Canada finds that Africans, including asylim seekers, are being hired to clear brush around hydro lines while being forced to walk inhuman distances, share beds, risk their lives for their paycheque.

Story 3 – Most criminal cases in Ontario now are not tried by a judge, instead being tossed out for court delays and other reasons.

Story 4 – 18 people dead in Pakistan after bus plunges into the Indus river.

Story 5 – Three victims of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison win $42M from military contractor company who provided civilian interrogators.n

Story 6 – Archbishop of Canterbury to step down over church’s role in covering up prolific and horrific abuse of Canadian-born John Smyth.

Episode 299 – Lessons from the Trump Victory

November 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how to understand Trump’s victory without being misanthropic. And critically, what it all means for Canada.

Daily News – Nov. 12, 2024

November 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hamilton police kill community leader and father of three.

Story 2 – A truck slammed into a Boston Pizza in Fort Mac, killing a 24-year-old worker.

Story 3 – Canada to end the automatic issuance of 10-year multiple entry visas.

Story 4 – Saudi Arabia recognizes Israel’s attacks on Gaza as genocide.

Story 5 – US plane hit with gunfire at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti as a new prime minister is sworn in.

Daily News – Nov. 11, 2024

November 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Threat of employer lockout in Montreal port labour dispute could close two of Canada’s biggest ports.

Story 2 – Fascists held up anti-immigration banner outside of Hamilton mall this past weekend, with no information about who the group was.

Story 3 – The NSNDP has booted a candidate who expressed solidarity with Palestine and condemned Israel, demonstrating one again the NDP’s commitment to losing elections.

Story 4 – Qatar suspends negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

Story 5 – Earthquake hits Cuba after weeks of being slammed by hurricanes and storms.

Daily News – Nov. 8, 2024

November 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dawson city councillors refuse to take oath to the King

Story 2 – Three Winnipeg cops charged with breacg of trust

Story 3 – Four soldiers and two children killed in Northwest Pakistan

Story 4 – Israeli knesset passes law to deport relatives of who they determine to be terrorists

Episode 298 – Democracy’s Death

November 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the state of democracy in Canada, especially as we stare down a US election. Plus, police keep killing people.

Daily News – Nov. 7, 2024

November 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario mayors rub hands together imagining more fascist controls over free speech.

Story 2 – Canada Post thinks that a good offence is the best defense, starts the strike scaremongering while negotiations are ongoing.

Story 3 – Pieces of metal traced back to industrial bulk salt quantities have triggered a massive bread recall.

Story 4 – Smuggler allegedly throws 4 migrants overboard of speedboat off Greek island.

Story 5 – Germany’s coalition government is collapsing.

Daily News – Nov. 6, 2024

November 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two women are arrested for drunk driving after each crashing the same car into the same car in a hotel parking lot.

Story 2 – NDP MPs urge Ottawa to stop endangered monkey imports.

Story 3 – BCE to shed shares in MLSE while pick up an American fibreoptic internet company.

Story 4 – Yoav Gallant is out as Minister of Defence, Israel Katz is in.

Story 5 – Mount Fuji’s iconic ice cap is still iceless

Daily News – Nov. 5, 2024

November 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – BC longshoremen locked out

Story 2 – Protests at Hindu temple in Brampton after Indian officials are rumoured to be inside.

Story 3 – “Justice for Joshua” Police in Saluit shoot twins, killing one and leaving the other severely injured.

Story 4 – 25 migrants die after traffickers deliberately capsize a boat off the coast of Comoros

Story 5 – Fears of heightened death toll in Valencia, Spain, after historic floods.

Daily News – Nov. 4, 2024

November 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Charges dropped in case where a Palestinian woman had hijab pulled off her head.

Story 2 – No charges in the violent takedown of the Palestinian solidarity camp in Edmonton

Story 3 – RCMP plans to go undercover to surveil the far right but also the far left.

Story 4 – More than 100 BBC journalists decry the pro-Israeli bias inherant in coverage at the broacaster.

Story 5 – Civil society across Nigeria calls for the release of minors detained in anti-cost of living protests.

Daily News – Nov. 1, 2024

November 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP didn’t release details about a murder in Iqaluit until journalists asked questions.

Story 2 – SIU investigating after York police kill a teenager.

Story 3 – Quebec freezes applications for two major immigration programs.

Story 4 – Ford looks to be out of new electrode plant in Bécancour.

Story 5 – Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Herrods, has been accused of sexual assault by 421 women.

Story 6 – Six people have died after a boat of Rohingya refugee arrives on Sumatra island in Indonesia.