Year: 2025
Episode 343 – The cops are out of control
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.
Daily News – Sept. 26, 2025
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.
Daily News – Sept. 25, 2025
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
Episode 342 – Everywhere, everyone is feeling the same thing
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.
Daily News – Sept. 23, 2025
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
Daily News – Sept. 18, 2025
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.
Daily News – Sept. 17, 2025
Episode 341 – Charlie Kirk in Canada
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.
Daily News – Sept. 10, 2025
Episode 340 – Resisting the Culture Wars
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
Daily News – Sept. 9 2025
Daily News – Sept. 5, 2025
Episode 339 – The news? What news?
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.
Episode 338 – Should we save the NDP y or n?
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.
Episode 337 – How to convince someone of anything
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
Daily News – August 15, 2025
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.
Daily News – August 14, 2025
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
Daily News – August 13, 2025
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
Episode 336 – Dismantling extreme income inequality
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/
Daily News – August 8, 2025
Daily News – Aug. 6, 2025
Episode 335 – How do we convince people on the other side?
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.
Saturday special – Doug Ford vs. Wasaga Beach
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/
Daily News – July 31, 2025
Daily News – July 30, 2025
Story 1 – 19 people have died on Quebec roads in one week
Story 2 – Police shootings in Nunavik far outpace police shootings in the rest of Quebec
Story 3 – Canada has greenlit arms exports to Israel as recently as lat week
Story 5 – 50 soldiers dead in Burkina Faso after clashes with an al quad affiliate
Episode 334 – Only social movements can save us
How can Canadians resist the rightwing politics of the Liberal-Conservative convergance? Sandy and Nora talk about this and more in front of a live audience. Originally recorded on April 29, 2025 but never released.
Weekend Morning – UCP donors get “non partisan” appointments from UCP government
Jeremy Appel writes for The Orchard on Substack. Jeremy finds that the Alberta Next panel is full of UCP donors. Read more here: https://www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_next_appointees_have_donated_more_than_40k_to_the_ucp
Weekend Morning – BC Energy Regulator investigation by the IJF-Narwhal
Zak Vescera with the Investigative Journalism Foundation shares his investigation into the BC Energy Regulator. Original reporting here: https://theijf.org/cnrl-broke-deal-bcer
Episode 333 – Palestine activism, campuses and a decades-long attack on free speech
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the connection between the attacks on campus organizing in solidarity with Palestine over the past two decades, and how these campaigns faced backlash that sought to silence Canadians who speak out about Israeli apartheid.
Daily News – July 17, 2025
Story 1 – Northwood long term care loses its appeal to stop a class action against it
Story 2 – Non binary American’s deportation order halted by a federal judge
Story 3 – The gap between the rich and poor in canada grows to a new record high
Story 4 – Mark Carney wants your favourite federal institutions to cut millions out of their budgets
Episode 332 – Taking Canada apart piece by piece
In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about the abrupt Liberal decision to defund the Canadian state while pouring money into the military.
Daily News – July 10, 2025
Story 1 – Toromont workers strike for first collective agreement
Story 2 – Spike in fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in Toronto
Story 3 – Ontario colleges laying off 17% of their staff
Story 4 – El Salvador recalls their ambassador from Mexico
Story 5 – Houthis re-start their Red Sea attacks in solidarity with Gaza.
Episode 331 – They are watching you
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about increasing state surveillance. Plus, understanding the attacks on Mamdani.
Daily News – July 4, 2025
Story 1 – Lake in northern Quebec disappears
Story 2 – Apparent hate crime as youth swarm a Muslim woman worker at a Pizza Pizza
Story 3 – Lytton fire started when an RCMP trailer lost its wheel
Story 4 – Wildfires are devestating Greek island
Story 5 – 5 dead in helicopter crash at the Mogadishu airport in Somalia
Daily News – July 3, 2025
Story 1 – Halifax blew its budget on the wrong kind of firefighting coveralls for wildfire
Story 2 – Nova Scotia RCMP under investigation for sexual assault is charged again
Story 3 – UFCW certifies Uber drivers in Victoria
Story 4 – Did Sheila Copps secure the biggest pandemic contract illegally?
Story 5 – And US contractors say they’ve been using live ammo on Gazans who seek food aid.
Daily News – July 2, 2025
Story 2 – Lytton receives emergency alert warning about nearby wildfire
Story 3 – Mother into week three of protest demanding a landfill search for her daughter in Regina
Story 4 – 80 fighters dead in Mali, announces the Malian army
Story 5 – The US to hold back weapons that had been promised to Ukraine
Episode 330 – PM for two months, Carney does damage already
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Carney’s decisions — from ramming through legislation that will give extraordinary powers to Ministers in the name of national security and interest, to sky-high deportations and removals, the signs are showing that Canadians were given the opposite of what they said they wanted in the last federal election.
Daily News – June 30, 2025
Daily News – June 25, 2025
Story 1 – Ontario cop cleared in murder of Six Nations man
Story 2 – Alberta on track to have a record breaking oil production year
Story 3 – Zohran Mamdani wins the democratic primary in New York City
Story 4 – Cambodia and Thailand border tensions increase
Story 5 – Colombia’s Petro to put a referendum to the people to improve labour laws.
Daily News – June 25, 2025
Story 1 – Ontario cop cleared in murder of Six Nations man
Story 2 – Alberta on track to have a record breaking oil production year
Story 3 – Zohran Mamdani wins the democratic primary in New York City
Story 4 – Cambodia and Thailand border tensions increase
Story 5 – Colombia’s Petro to put a referendum to the people to improve labour laws.
Daily News – June 24, 2025
Episode 329 – Weapons of Mass Destruction redux?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the parallels between 2003 and 2025, Iraq and Iran, Bush and Trump, and how Toronto has enforced it’s so-called bubble zone bylaw to restrict anti-war protests.
Daily News – June 24, 2025
Story 1 – Search and rescue in northern Quebec after air ambulance crashes into lake
Story 2 – Non status albertan youth are being kept out of public school
Story 3 – 40 years since the air India bombing
Story 4 – What we know about the US’s bombs in Iran
Story 5 – Suicide bomber kills 22 in a greek orthodox church
Daily News – June 19, 2025
Story 1 – RCMP investigated journalist who published the names of Canadians serving in the IDF
Story 2 – Child dies at horse racing event in New Brunswick
Story 3 – Toronto cop who killed someone after a bad Kijiji deal gets suspended sentence
Story 4 – Saskatchewan says that Canada can’t stop them from poisoning Canadian air
Story 5 – Update on the new Russian paramilitary group that’s working in the Sahel region.
Daily News – June 18, 2025
Episode 328 – Heading towards World War Three?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Israel bombing Iran, the world’s leaders meeting in Canada and how Mark Carney is seemingly looking to influence the global poles of power.
Daily News – June 17, 2025
Story 1 – Students protest pause to special needs school enrolment
Story 2 – London cops charge man with assault that was hate-motivated
Story 3 – High school tells valedictorian to stay home after she mentions Gaza
Story 4 – Israel attacks Iran’s state-run broadcaster
Story 5 – Kenya’s deputy police chief resigns following protests
Daily News – June 16, 2025
Story 1 – G7 protests limited to designated zone
Story 2 – Jury makes recommendations in inquest of man’s death in Windsor jail
Story 3 – Alberta to raise prescription costs for seniors
Story 4 – Gunmen kill 100 people in Nigeria
Story 5 – UK sends fighter jets to MidEast amid attacks between Israel and Iran
Daily News – June 12, 2025
Daily News – June 11, 2025
Episode 327 – Sandy and Nora Live in St. John’s
In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss rising fascism and how to fight it.
Episode 326 – Mark Carney lusts for war
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s lust for war.
Daily News – May 31, 2025
Story 1 – Teenager charged with terrorism,
Story 2 – Government of Quebec passes anti union law
Story 3 – BC will not require MMR shots as a condition of entering public school
Story 4 – Israelies storm through Muslim quarter in Jerusalem to intimidate locals
Story 5 – Upwards of 30 people dead from heavy rains in Nigeria.
Daily News – May 28, 2025
Episode 325 – You gotta fight for your right to proooooootest
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the attacks on Canadians’ right to assemble — from Toronto’s so-called bubble law to PEI police telling peace activists to buy a $2 million insurance policy.
Daily News – May 20, 2025
Episode 324 – Save the mail
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about why the mail is so much more important than just a service to send letters through. Plus, they also talk about the Alberta government’s plan to expand involuntary detention for people who struggle with addiction.
Daily News – May 14, 2025
Episode 322 – Policing and Corporate Domination
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about their latest books, and why as corporations continue to chase higher and higher profits, government relies more and more on the security apparatus to keep people in line. Plus — Mark Carney’s cabinet is out!
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