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.
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.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss rising fascism and how to fight it.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s lust for war.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Story 1 – Cluster of ALS cases in Southern Quebec may be linked to living near open water
Story 2 – Yukon premier abruptly resigns
Story 3 – A Canadian is behind the worlds most significant deepfake porn site
Story 4 – Libya denies rumour that they agreed to accept migrant deportations from the US
Story 5 – Ukraine is considering tying its currency to the euro.
Story 1 – Community rallies to find two missing children from Pictou County
Story 2 – Woman who pretended to be a nurse at Kingston general hospital given house arrest
Story 3 – Canada Post workers may be on strike again soon
Story 4 – Ugandan opposition experiencing increasing violence
Story 5 – Escalating tensions between india and pakistan result in military actions
In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine Mark Carney’s decision to have the King read the Speech from the Throne — is he foring a new Canadian MAGA path? Also, the stunning silence from Canadian politicans about Israel.
Story 1 – BC company proposes new sand mine as province fast-tracks LNG projects
Story 2 – Alberta companies must pay $550K over workers’ deaths
Story 3 – First Nations groups call for repatriation of artifacts from the Hudson’s Bay
Story 4 – Gaza bound aid ship tries to get repairs in Malta
Story 5 – Japanese finance minister says selling US bonds a “card on the table”
Story 2 – Indigenous teen held in detention for terrorism charges
Story 3 – Shareholders at Levi Strauss reject a proposal to kill DEI policies at 99%
Story 4 – 70 dead and more than 1000 injured after massive explosion at Iranian port
Story 5 – More than 70 people killed by US bombing in Yemen, mostly at a migrant detention centre.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberal victory, the Conservative vote gain and the bloodbath of NDP candidates.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how journalists have gone soft on Poilievre and about how no one is talking about the big issue in this election: income inequality.
Story 1 – Man arrested over having an AK47 in downtown Quebec city
Story 2 – Elderly friends are in critical condition after being struck by a car in a parking lot
Story 3 – Spike in complaints to Saskatchewan’s ombudsman related to women’s jail
Story 4 – Russia delists the taliban as a terror entity
Story 5 – Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan testing the limits of livability
Story 1 – Highly concentrated cocaine is killing people in Newfoundland and Labrador
Story 2 – Evacuation orders at two northern Ontario first nations communities due to spring flooding
Story 3 – The UCP kicks Peter Guthrie out of caucus
Story 4 – Russian attack on Kherson kills one and injures 9 civilians
Story 5 – And 50 dead after boat capsizes on the Congo river.
Story 1 – Driver hits four pedestrians on Toronto campus pedestrian pathway
Story 2 – Part-time profs at Ontario colleges finally allowed to unionize
Story 3 – 50-year high in food inflation increase
Story 4 – The divide between the rich and the poor grows even more wide
Story 5 – Bandit leader in Nigeria is killed, along with 100 of his group
In this episode, Sandy and Nora analyse the parties’ platforms related to borders, policing, crime and punishment.
Story 1 – Nurses decry a violent patient’s fast track through the ER
Story 2 – A crash south of Montreal between a minibus and an SUV kills one and sends 10 to hospital
Story 3 – Artist resigns position after PEI college condemns his art for being anti-American
Story 4 – Keystone pipeline is offline due to oil spill
Story 5 – Fishers in India’s Kerala state promise to fight government’s plan for offshore mining
Story 1 – Protests erupt against police brutality in Montreal,
Story 2 – Two progressives, including a socialist win a byelection in a landslide in Vancouver,
Story 4 – Death toll nearly 80 after nightclub roof collapses in dominican republic and the
Story 5 – IMF has provisionally approved a massive bail out package for Argentina
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how the imminent collapse of mainstream media in Canada is on full display in mainstream election coverage.
Story 1 – Family of 18-year-old sues RCMP;
Story 2 – Western University spent $1.6 million on police during encampments;
Story 3 – Man charged after Parliament Hill lockdown;
Story 4 – Women detained by US border patrol dies by suicide;
Story 5 – Meta can be sued over posts related to violence in Ethiopia
Story 1 – Robert Miller appeals a class action launched for his 100 victims
Story 2 – The family of Tanya Nepinak calls for search at brady landfill be expanded
Story 3 – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is suing the Alberta government over mine clean up rules
Story 4 – US greelights the sale of fighter jets for the Philippines
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how little imagination and creativity that the parties have on offer, and all the ways that they’re hiding from Canadians the possibilites that abound in this moment.
Story 2 – Quebec woman found in squalor living sequestered by ex for 27 years
Story 3 – Reservists get days off to work the G7 in July
Story 4 – Canada sold weapons to Israel after Melanie Joly promised we would stop
Story 5 – Israel holds antisemitism conference and a whose who of European fascists attended
Story 1 – Buffalo Woman identified
Story 2 – Spike in toxic drug overdoses in Saskatoon
Story 3 – Senior execs at The Bay to receive payouts while workers wont get severance
Story 4 – International student abducted by US law enforcment at Tufts University
Story 5 – Protesters call for action over mass grave discovered near Guadalajara, Mexico
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about federal election, how tax cuts are dominating discussion and how no one seemed ready despite the fact that we’ve all known for months this was coming. Plus, Israel re-ignites its bombardment of Gaza and so long, Hudson’s Bay Company.
Story 1 – Election campaign starts
Story 2 – Danielle Smith told the Americans to pause tariffs to help Poilievre
Story 3 – Black and Arab people overrepresented in police stops in Laval
Story 4 – Sudanese army makes gains in Khartoum
Story 5 – West Papuan groups call for boycott of palm oil products
Story 1 – Woman sues federal government for being held in torturous solitary confinement conditions
Story 2 – 80 Teslas damaged at Hamilton dealership
Story 3 – Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois resigns from co-leadership role in Quebec Solidaire
Story 4 – Greenpeace found liable for defamation of pipeline company, forced to pay $660M
Story 5 – Protests erupt in Istanbul over the detention of Erdogan’s primary rival
In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss Trump’s attack on citizenship rights, due process and how its influencing people’s decisions to travel. Plus, what does Mark Carney’s cabinet say about his priorities?
Story 1 – Windsor police chief said racist things to Black colleague
Story 2 – Judge does not certify the Black class action lawsuit for public sector workers
Story 3 – The Conservatives are pushing journalists off their campaign bus
Story 4 – Gaza braces for another round of murderous attacks by Israel
Story 5 – Four countries in NATO to pull out of anti landmine convention
Story 1 – Walmart to stop selling machetes
Story 2 – Pension plan to purchase stake in Highway 407
Story 3 – News about Mark Carney’s new cabinet
Story 4 – Luigi Mangione’s legal defence GoFundMe is receiving some large donations
Story 5 – Russia wins back territory from Ukraine during intelligence blackout
Story 6 – Portugals’ parliament falls for the third time in 3 years
Story 1 – Ottawa cop avoids charges for shooting man 8 times
Story 2 – Quebcer charged with terrorism for acts taken in Haiti
Story 3 – Tesla seems to have pumped sales to benefit from federal rebate
Story 4 – A Canadian has been detained by ICE
Story 5 – Balochistan Liberation Army hijacks train in Pakistan
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney, his rapid ascent to the top of Canada, and what it all means for everyone down below. Plus, the disapperance of Mahmoud Khalil.
Story 1 – Mayor who was censured for being racist wins court case on administrative grounds.
Story 2 – Parkland Corporation is up for sale.
Story 3 – The RCMP has issued more than 100 arrests in massive child exploitation investigation.
Story 4 – More than 80 kenyan avtivists have been abudcted and disappeared since June.
Story 5 – Human Rights Watch slams Zambia for allowing widespread lead poisioning near old mines.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the chaos at the White House and how to buckle up for a world where the United States’ empire is collapsing.
Story 1 – Human remains may have been found at the Prairie Green landfill North of Winnipeg
Story 2 – Quebec government limits procurement in reaction to Amazon leaving the province
Story 3 – The number of people that Canada deported in 2024 rose to a decade high
Story 4 – Romanian far right presidential candidate arrested
Story 5 – BP to end its aggressive renewables investment plan
Story 1 – Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is out
Story 2 – Nova Scotia’s Conservative government stages massive attack on democracy
Story 3 – Alberta infrastructure minister resigns over alleged corruption in contract deals
Story 4 – Five people found hypothermic near the border with the United States
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take stock of where things are on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also talk about defunding higher education and how Canada has chosen atrophy in the face of crumbling US hegemony.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how “anti-woke” politicians are just white nationalists, and how Liberals have so effectively coopted DEI.
Story 1 – Montreal man dies in car covered in snow from carbon monoxide poisoning
Story 2 – Middle managers’ bonuses slashed at Ford Motor Company
Story 3 – Competition bureau investigating AI being used to fix rental rates in Canada
Story 4 – Canada says that it wants to be part of making peace in Ukraine
Story 5 – Bolsonaro faces charges over right-wing coup
Story 6 – Leonard Peltier is out of jail
Story 1 – Feds officially recognize Aboriginal title over the Haida Gwaii archipelago
Story 2 – Google Canada denies anticompetitive behaviour
Story 3 – Germany and Norway try to sell Ottawa submarines
Story 4 – Israel planning expansions in occupied territories
Story 5 – RSF intensifies attack on North Darfur refugee camp
Story 1 – Ontario cop cleared after shooting man five times
Story 2 – Workers protest Amazon’s decision to shut down in Quebec
Story 3 – Canada pulls peacekeepers from Congo
Story 4 – Utah bans collective bargaining for public workers
Story 5 – British PM offers to put ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
Story 2 – Teenager killed by police in Surrey
Story 3 – Brother found out that the state cremated and buried his sister without telling the family
Story 4 – Israel launches offensive to ethnically cleanse the West Bank
Story 5 – Hungary’s Victor Orban meets with Alternative for Germany’s chancellor candidate
Story 1 – New terms of reference may finally clean up air and soil at Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Story 3 – Shopify online gateway used by Kanye West to sell nazi t-shirts
Story 4 – Anticoagulant medicine company to be acquired by Swiss pharmaceutical company
Story 5 – 55 people dead, so far, after bus crash in Guatemala
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about nationalism, how this moment needs to be one where radical politics are put front and centre, and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.
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