Looking back on a shit year. So long, 2025!
In this epsiode, Sandy and Nora look back on the year that was, and argue that we better get our shit together soon if we’re going to resist rising fascism.
In this epsiode, Sandy and Nora look back on the year that was, and argue that we better get our shit together soon if we’re going to resist rising fascism.
Story 1 – Alberta municipality on the hook for $9.8 billion
Story 2 – Quebec Liberal party is leaderless
Story 3 – Federal government eyes hiring 50 corporate leadership to work across the civil service
Story 4 – British junior doctors are on strike
Story 5 – FAA and the Army both to blame in jet crash last year that killed 67
Story 1 – 3 children die as a result of flu;
Story 2 – Soleiman Faqiri’s family demands apology from Ontario govt;
Story 3 – Five incidents of human trafficking reported in PEI;
Story 4 – Trump declares fentanyl ‘weapon of mass destruction’
Story 5 – ICC rejects Israel’s bid to stop Gaza investigation
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about rising social disintegration, and how it triggers a rise in hatred. Plus, should femicide be considered extra illegal?
Story 1 – SIU clears cops in shooting death of Indigenous man
Story 2 – Rents rose faster in Quebec than other provinces last year
Story 3 – Mark Carney even closer to his majority
Story 4 – More than 400 dead in fighting in South Kivu state
Story 5 – 37 are dead after airstrikes in Myanmar hit regional hospital.
Story 1 – Alberta breaks the constitution to attack children
Story 2 – Feds plan to make femicide extra illegal
Story 3 – Four new groups added to Canada’s terrorist list
Story 4 – The US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
Story 5 – Crew dead after military plane goes down due to mechanical issue in Port Sudan.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what has finally pushed the press to call Trump racist (or, xenophobic in the case of the NYT), and what Trump’s latest mask-off moment means for racism within the US, and relations with Canada.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the beginnings of a migrant crisis in the United States, and how Canadian politicians and journalists are seemingly incapable of imagining how Canada would navigate one.
Story 1 – Montreal Cop showed nude image to Grade 10s in a workshop about sexual assault and consent
Story 2 -Four arrested at old growth forest blocked on Vancouver Island
Story 4 – 40 dead in flooding and landslides in Sri Lanka
Story 5 – The death toll for the apartment complex fire in Hong Kong is now 83.
Story 1 – Anti-war activists’ homes targeted by an early morning police raid
Story 2 – Brampton Mayor says that landlord of property that burned killing 4 was absent
Story 3 – Government Committee recommends stripping services of anyone facing deportation
In this live episode, Sandy is joined by Syrus Marcus Ware and Matthew Green to discuss the current state of the left, and all the possibilities that exist to save ourselves.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a hard look at war and remind listeners that it is very, very bad.
Story 1 – GM plant workers say they will take the plant over if GM leaves Canada
Story 2 – More Canadians are dying from chronic kidney disease than 30 years ago
Story 3 – Canada wants to be headquarters for a new international war financing bank
Story 4 – The US has conducted its 20th strike in the Caribbean with a death toll of 80
Story 5 – Portugal’s government offers to meet with unions to stave off national general strike.
Story 1 – PEI Oyster farmers want to replace diseased oysters with US oysters
Story 2 – Mine project in NB slated to be among Carney’s nation building projects
Story 3 – 87 jobs to be eliminated at TVA Groupe
Story 4 – Prison ombudsman decries the lack of access to mental healthcare in Canadian prisons
Story 5 – 37 people are dead after bus plunges into ravine in Peru.
Story 1 – Train company blames derailment and fuel leak on rock slide
Story 2 – Ontario gets extension for childcare program and spaces will remain 19$ per day on average
Story 3 – Pharmaceutical company blocks highrise development over national serucirty concerns
Story 4 – Military helicopter crashes on boarder between Azerbaijan and Georgia
Story 5 – Residents of Bamako in Mali defy jihadist orders and go ahead with annual puppet festival
Zohran Mamdani has inspired progressives across the English-speaking world (and French-speaking, at least in Quebec). But who is Canada’s Mamdani? And what are the conditions necessary for someone like this to emerge?
Story 1 – IDF soldier, cops assault student protesters who crashed pro-Israel event
Story 2 – Cops who spied on firmer Lethrbridge MLA will not be charged
Story 3 – Cops did not heed complaints that an arsonist was setting fires in Conception Bay North
Story 4 – More than $1,.2 million in underground construction costs must be repaid
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the 2025 Liberal budget — Mark Carney’s first — and how he blurs the line between Liberals and Tories like never before.
Story 1 – Man dead in police shooting in BC
Story 2 – Alberta labour groups threaten general strike;
Story 3 – Immigration Canada fast-tracking visas for Sudanese following El-Fasher massacre
Story 4 – Drinking water in Tehran on the brink of running out
Story 5 – Earthquake in Afghanistan two months after another deadly quake
Story 1 – Halifax cop on paid leave for operating a bike theft ring
Story 2 – Quebec cabinet minister quits over conflict between his daughter and his government
Story 4 – Donald Trump to drop the US’ intake of refugees to historic low
Story 5 – Death toll rises to at least 121 from raid on favelas in Rio de Janiero. Xa
In this episiode, Sandy is joined by Travis Laver and Elizabeth Ha to talk about racism, immigration, the trade war and living in a border town when the US is being belligerant.
Story 1 – Job cuts and service fees at North Bay hospital
Story 2 – TC Energy has convinced CSIS to share intelligence with them and other large corporations
Story 3 – Canadian soldiers were scheduled to train in Israel in July 2024
Story 5 – At least 50 boko haram militants killed by Nigeria’s army.
Story 1 – Kitchener man is being held in Ethiopia for bringing banned items to South Sudan
Story 2 – Quebec’s proposed average rent guidelines are going to wallop tenants
Story 3 – IAMGOLD buys two mines in Quebec, consolidating their Canadian operations
Story 4 – Bolivia’s new president is a centrist for the first time in two decades
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take apart the argument that the No Kings protests were useless and explain what the purpose of a protest is, and what a protest cannot do.
Image of the Marche mondiale des femmes in Quebec City, via La CSN.
Transcript available upon request: sandyandnora at protonmail dot com.
Story 1 – City councillor in Sault-Ste-Marie faces conduct investigation over social media posts
Story 2 – Nova Scotia ends public complaints against city councillors
Story 3 – Marc Carney to hire 1000 new cops
Story 4 – CO2 levels in earth’s atmosphere rival that of 800,000 years ago
Story 5 – Possibly hundreds dead from torrential rains in Mexico
In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain why the US administration has decided to go after “Antifa” — what that is and what it isn’t.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Ellison project of money laundering through purchasing a blog for $150M to suck up even closer to the empire as the US collapses. And what does this all mean for Canada?
Story 1 – Someone is firebombing the offices of two Indigenous women MLAs in Winnipeg
Story 2 – New Auditor General report in Ontario strongly suggests corruption in Ford’s government
Story 3 -A new settlement has been found in Saskatchewan — new but also 11,000 old
Story 4 – CRA terrorism audits overwhelmingly targeted Muslim charities new report finds
Story 5 – Devestating wildfires have increased by 4.4 times since the 1980s
Story 2 – Vancouver’s condo kings are mad that people won’t pay 800,000 for 450 square feet.
Story 3 – Danielle Smith wants to build a new pipeline through British Columbia.
Story 4 – Church collapse in Ethiopia kills 36.
Story 5 – At least 69 though likely far more people have died after earthquake in the phillipines.
Story 1 – Hundreds of thousands of charges withdrawn in Ontario due to court system problems
Story 2 – The feds are hoping to use AI for translation in six departments
Story 3 – Imperial oil plans to cut workfice by 20%
Story 4 – Cops tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken detained for months
Story 5 – Car bomb kills 10 in Baluchistan province, pakistan
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the police murder of Nooran Rizayi in Saint-Hubert, and how the police in Canada are totally out of control. Plus, they talk about Canada Post and what we stand to lose if the corporation makes the changes that the federal government is allowing them to make.
Story 1 – Ontario ombudsman slams conditions in remote first nation.
Story 2 – Canada post workers are on strike.
Story 3 – Criminal network is funnelling stolen cars to Western Africa.
Stories 4 and 5 – Protests in Madagascar and in Ladakh region in the Himalayas are confronted by police brutality and state violence.
Story 1 – Students vote to postpone decision to fold up the University of Regina Students Union
Story 2 – Horrific conditions condemned by embeds office at mental health hospital in New Brunswick
Story 3 – Ontario ombudsman decries atHome Health program’s supply shortages
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how similar Canadians’ reactions have been to the state of the world, based on the past 6 months of touring.
Story 1 – Quebec police shoot and kill a young man – watchdog investigating
Story 2– Ontario MPP charged with assault and assault with a weapon charges
Story 3 – Thunder Bay police search landfill as part of homicide case
Story 4 – Italian workers strike in solidarity with Gaza
Story 5 – British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison
Story 1 – Former youth jail worker charged with 66 counts of sexual assault.
Story 2 – The lockout at Dalhousie is over.
St0ry 3 – Lawyer decries how difficult it’s been for Gazans to get visas to come to Canada
Story 4 – Jerry from ben and jerry’s fame has quit over a lack of free speech.
Story 5 – At least 11 men deported from the US are still being held in Ghana.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain how Canadians should (and should not) understand Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and how resisting the attack on Free Speech will be fundamental to our future work.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how culture wars are fed off of virtual connection and fake community, and that we need to inject real community in the debates to take away some of the power that a culture war can have.
*Image is the painting Waterloo Gordons and Greys to the Front
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the genocide in Gaza, what Air Canada flight attendants’ actions have meant for labour, and burning books in Alberta.
This Question and Answer period is from the live show in St. John’s on June 6, 2025. The questions discuss the future of the NDP, Alberta Wexit, fighting fascists and much more.
Q&A from the Mayworks Halifax live show on May 1, 2025. In this episode, Sandy and Nora take audience questions and explain that we can stand to lose a few billionaires, it’s important to practice the art of debate and don’t worry too much if cops show up to your meetings — just isolate them and don’t give them any tasks.
Photo from Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax on Bluesky
Story 1 – So-called victims of communism monument to cost 4x more in maintenance
Story 2 – Two cops get suspensions massively reduced due to technicality
Story 3 – Albertans to be cut off from US road that they’ve been using freely forever
Story 4 – Israel steps up its obliteration of Gaza City
Story 5 – Mercenary group Blackwater will provide services to Haiti’s government.
Story 1 – OPP shot and kill a man whose crime was driving really fast on a jetski
Story 2 – Ontario misses its target to give long term care residents 4 hours of daily direct care
Story 4 – Pro and anti government protesters clash in Serbia
Story 5 – Exxon Mobile secures deep sea mining plot off the coast of trinidad
Story 1 – A Hamilton cop suspended with pay for sharing far right information on social media
Story 3 – Canada wants to frack harder than we have ever fracked before
Story 4 – China says it will put a duty on Canadian canola
Story 5 – Mexico extradites alleged cartel leaders to try and please Donald trump
In this conversation, Sandy and Nora talk about the need to tackle extreme wealth inequality and to not allow the right to control the message that greed and wealth are good.
Photo from Bus Stop Theater: https://busstoptheatre.coop/
From Pierre Poilievre trying to woo the working class to building movements on campus, here’s the Q&A period from Sandy and Nora Live in Charlottetown on April 29, 2025.
Eric Wickham from Press Progress talks about his work examining how Doug Ford plans to sell off parts of the world’s longest fresh water sandy beach, Wasaga. Story here: https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-plans-to-dismantle-wasaga-beach-provincial-park/
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