Year: 2025
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!
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.
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