Year: 2024

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.