Year: 2025
Daily News – May 8, 2025
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.
Daily News – May 7, 2025
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
Episode 321 – Carney, King and Country
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.
Daily News – May 5, 2025
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”
Daily News – April 29, 2025
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.
Episode 320 – Liberal Minority Hangover
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberal victory, the Conservative vote gain and the bloodbath of NDP candidates.
Episode 319 – Elxn 25 – The Home Stretch
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.
Daily News – April 18, 2025
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
Daily News – April 17, 2025
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.
Daily News – April 16, 2025
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
Episode 318 – Elxn 25 – Crime and Punishment
In this episode, Sandy and Nora analyse the parties’ platforms related to borders, policing, crime and punishment.
Daily News – April 10, 2025
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
Daily News – April 9, 2025
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
Episode 317 – Elxn 25 – Media’s abject failure
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.
Daily News – April 7, 2025
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
Daily News – April 3, 2025
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
Episode 316 – Elxn 25 – Jockeying to be the most boring
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.
Daily News – March 28, 2025
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
Daily News – March 27, 2025
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
Daily News – March 26, 2025
Episode 315 – Off to the races!
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.
Daily News – March 24, 2025
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
Daily News – March 21, 2025
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
Episode 314 – Fear and loathing in the Great Satan
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?
Daily News – March 19, 2025
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
Daily News – Friday, March 14, 2025
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
Daily News – March 13 2025
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
Episode 313 – PM Mark Carney’s tiny window of opportunity
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.
Daily News – March 6, 2025
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.
Episode 312 – Backlash, decline or both?
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.
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
Daily News – Jan. 31, 2025
Story 1 – Saskatoon uses razor wire to stop encampment.
Story 2 – Montreal to severely restrict Airbnbs
Story 3 – Amnesty calls temporary foreign worker program modern slavery
Story 4 – More details about the plane crash in Washington, DC
Story 5 – Russia resists Ukraine to hold onto strategic cities.
Episode 307 – Anti-intellectualism and our fascist slide
In this episode, Sandy and Nora look at the connection between the anti-intellectualism that has swept Canadian institutions and how this has primed them to accept fascism whether they want to or not.
Daily News – Jan. 27, 2025
Story 1 – CN Rail signal workers, members of IBEW, ser to go on strike.
Story 3 – Electronic Intifada journalist is detained in Switzerland.
Story 4 – Israel refuses to let people return to Northern Gaza.
Story 5 – 70 people killed in hospital attack in El-Fasher.
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Daily News – Jan. 23, 2025
Story 1 – Amazon pulls out of Quebec after successful unionization drive.
Story 2 – Limit on number of international students is triggering colleges to cut courses.
Story 3 – Financialization of veterinary services is squeezing pet owners.
Story 4 – Trump orders troops along the Mexico-US border.
Story 5 – Global markets go bananas over Trump’s inauguration.
Daily News – Jan. 21, 2025
Episode 306 – Day 1 of the fascist republic of the United States
In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about how the tech world has so rapidly mobilized around Trump and how with regime change, they have shed the old vestiges of the former people in power.
Daily News – Jan. 17, 2025
Story 1 – Iconic Quebec City hotel now majority Indigenous owned.
Story 2 – Officers who investigated the death of Chelsea Poorman are now under investigation.
Story 3 – Changes to visa program will make it impossible for many people to bring spouses to Canada.
Story 4 – Holland releases the names of 425,000 people who collaborated with the Nazis.
Daily News – Jan. 16, 2025
Story 1 – Palestinian student was assaulted in hate-motivated attack at Concordia.
Story 2 – Red Deer Safe Injection Site stays open thanks to court injunction.
Story 3 – Home sales in Canada bounded in final quarter of 2024.
Story 4 – Canada and US quietly signed deal to share private data of non-permanent residents.
Story 5 – Arsenic poisoning rampant from toxic waste left behind at Canadian copper mine in Namibia
Daily News – Jan. 15, 2025
Episode 305 – Fires in LA and Ottawa
In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about fires in LA and political turmoil in Ottawa.
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