Month: July 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.
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