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.
In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about the abrupt Liberal decision to defund the Canadian state while pouring money into the military.
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.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about increasing state surveillance. Plus, understanding the attacks on Mamdani.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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