Month: February 2025
Daily News – Feb. 27, 2025
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
Daily News – Feb. 26, 2025
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
Episode 311 – Fighting violence with more violence? Three years of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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.
Daily News – Feb. 20, 2025
Episode 310 – It’s white nationalism. Call it white nationalism.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how “anti-woke” politicians are just white nationalists, and how Liberals have so effectively coopted DEI.
Daily News – Feb. 19, 2025
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
Daily News – Feb. 18, 2025
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
Daily News – Feb. 17, 2025
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
Daily News – Feb. 13, 2025
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
Daily News – Feb. 12, 2025
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
Episode 309 – Faux Canada
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.
Daily News – Feb. 10, 2025
Story 1 – – Toronto police arrest man part of extremist group
Story 2 – Freeland gave Trans Mountain pipeline a $20 billion loan
Story 3 – Canada braces for steel and aluminum tariffs, maybe
Story 4 – Wildfires in Chile have triggered mass evacuations
Story 5 – Gunmen kill 25 in Mali
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Daily News – Feb. 7, 2025
Story 1 – Man arrested for human smuggling after pregnant woman dies crossing the border
Story 2 – The CAQ muses about using Trump as an excuse to try and bring back the dead LNG pipeline
Story 3 – Former ford staffers accused of corruption in new lawsuit
Story 4 – Greece declares an emercency after hundreds of earthquakes hit Santorini
Daily News – Feb. 6, 2025
Story 1 – Four dead in suspected homicide at Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation,
Story 2 – Layoffs have started in the face of tariff threats, one person dead,
Story 3 – Family of 9 detained after border crossings in Alberta,
Story 4 – North Korean troops reportedly pulled back from Russian/Ukraine front
Story 5 – Vice president of the phillipinnes faces impeachment
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