Year: 2025

Daily News – Jan. 29, 2025

January 29, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Woman arrested after calling police for domestic violence is calling for change

Story 2 – Ontario heads to the polls

Story 3 – Ticketmaster class action could result in a payout for you

Story 4 – Workers vote to unionise the first Wholefoods store

Story 5 – Denmark pours billions into arctic defence.

Daily News – Jan. 28, 2025

January 28, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sarah Jama does not get past the ONDP censors, the party rejects her candidacy and will run someone against her.

Story 2 – International student who was in Canada only for a few weeks stabbed to death by coworker. Police withheld the student’s name and place of work, until his friends told CBC.

Story 3 – Alberta government trolls facts by releasing a COVID report that is like 75% fiction.

Story 4 – M23 rebels take the city of Goma in the DRC.

Story 5 – EU to lift some sanctions on Syria.

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Episode 307 – Anti-intellectualism and our fascist slide

January 28, 2025 Sandy and Nora

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

January 27, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – CN Rail signal workers, members of IBEW, ser to go on strike.

Story 2 – Climate activist Zain Haq faces deportation, his lawyer says that his rights to a fair process have been violated.

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. 24, 2025

January 24, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive data breach has exposed the personal data of at least 2.4 million people.

Story 2 – CBC News reports that the Transmountain Pipeline is already paying off for the oil industry.

Story 3 – RSF and Sudanese military fight over control for important oil refinery.

Story 4 – Canada has not recovered anything from its Russian sanctions.

Story 5 – 12 people dead in train accident in India.

Daily News – Jan. 23, 2025

January 23, 2025 Sandy and Nora

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. 22, 2025

January 22, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Windsor company fined $180,000 after worker was killed inside of a press

Story 2 – Ontario government has hired private investigators to look into safe injection sites and daycares nearby.

Story 3 – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to cut 25% of its workforce.

Story 4 – 76 people are dead after resort fire in busy Turkish tourist town.

Story 5 – Israel captures new hostages in the West Bank, kills 10 and 120 bodies are uncovered in Gaza.

Daily News – Jan. 21, 2025

January 21, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Kingston declares food security emergency.

Story 2 – Vancouver Public Library decides to ban signs of Palestinian solidarity among the staff.

Story 3 – Elon Musk proudly does two Nazi salutes.

Story 4 – Mali seizes Barrick Gold gold in an attempt to force the government to adhere to the new mining code.

Story 5 – Belgian prosecutors to investigate the possibility of blood mineral sales.

Episode 306 – Day 1 of the fascist republic of the United States

January 21, 2025 Sandy and Nora

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. 20, 2025

January 20, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Black and Indigenous people are overrepresentated in police encounters.

Story 2 – Woman is dead after interaction with RCMP north of Winnipeg. Very few details have been released yet and it took 2 days before RCMP informed the oversight body:

Story 3 – Egg recall for salmonella

Story 4 – 80 dead near Venezuelan after peace deal with ELN collapses in Colombia.

Story 5 – Cease fire in place in Gaza, 90 Palestinians detained by Israel will be released for 3 hostiges taken on Oct. 7, 2023.

Daily News – Jan. 17, 2025

January 17, 2025 Sandy and Nora

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.

Story 5 – The UK and Ukraine sign a 100-year defense pact.

Daily News – Jan. 16, 2025

January 16, 2025 Sandy and Nora

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

January 15, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Refugee crisis in Peel region is stealing lives.

Story 2 – Woman dies while trying to scale a balcony after cops show up at the door.

Story 3 – Nun who worked at St. Anne’s Residential School has abuse charges stayed.

Story 4 – More than 30 miners dead in South Africa after rescue mission, after authorities refused to allow food and water to reach the miners.

Story 5 – South Korean president is detained.

Daily News – Jan. 14, 2025

January 14, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Chrystia Freeland is going to run for Liberal party leader.

Story 2 – Educational support workers on strike in Edmonton.

Story 3 – Quebec City hospital staff refused to help to a paralized patient get out of his car.

Story 4 – Ceasefire is imminent in Gaza.

Episode 305 – Fires in LA and Ottawa

January 14, 2025 Sandy and Nora

In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about fires in LA and political turmoil in Ottawa.

Daily News – Jan. 13, 2025

January 14, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toxic drugs are circulating in Saskatoon.

Story 2 – Doug Ford quietly introduced a new border patrol program, paid for from OPP budget.

Story 3 – At least 24 dead in LA fires.

Story 4 – RSF is pushed out of Sudanese city of Wad Madani.

Daily News – Jan. 10, 2025

January 10, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Lisa MacLeod said she should have known better than to do racism publicly (you keep those comments to real-life spaces, duh), in apology to candidate.

Story 2 – New report shows that more than 80,000 people in Ontario are unhoused and that number is going to climb without radical interventions into the housing market.

Story 3 – A tootless CFIA is allowing grocery stories to overcharge for meat and then apologize when they’re caught.

Story 4 – Lebanon’s new president elected in the aftermath of Israel’s incursion into the south.

Story 5 – A grop of fighters armed with knives stormed the presidential palace in D’Jamena, the same day that President Deby met with China’s foreign minister.

Daily News – Jan. 9, 2025

January 9, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – New deal to increase Quebec’s payments to NL Hydro by 30x to be voted on today, but the Conservatives want another review to see if the deal is good.

Story 2 – A new survey shows what new immigrants to Canada think about Canada.

Story 3 – Two men found dead in an airplane wheel well in JFK-Ft. Lauderdale flight. 80% of stowaways who try to stay in the wheel well don’t make it.

Story 4 – WIldfires rage across Los Angeles, 5 people have been killed so far.

Story 5 – Facility that Russia says is manufacturing drones in Ukraine is hit by bomb, killing at least 15 civilians.

Daily News – Jan. 8, 2025

January 8, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Patient dies in Winnipeg ER

Story 2 – Woman who has been charged in multiple newborn deaths previously, charged again after a baby dies.

Story 3 – CRA collecting increased capital gains tax rate, will reimburse if the legislation isn’t ultimately passed.

Story 4 – South Africa has boosted security along its border, but Zimbabweans are still crossing daily for goods.

Story 5 – Earthquake in Tibet kills 126 people.

Daily News – Jan. 7, 2025

January 7, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Trudeau out, parliament prorogued until March 24.

Story 2 – Montreal doctors join global strike to protest Israel’s genocide.

Story 3 – Workers out tens of thousands of dollars after their boss refuses to pay what they are owed.

Story 4 – Death from bird flu is first in the US.

Story 5 – Indonesia joins BRICS.

Daily News – Jan. 6, 2025

January 6, 2025 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario college professors may soon be on strike. The employer council argues that improving job conditions would be too expensive.

Story 2 – Pickering city council moves meetings online due to far-right freak member who has called her colleagues pedophiles and Nazis.

Story 3 – Israel helps a former IDF member to get out of Brazil after the former member faced war crimes charges for his actions in Gaza. Plus, Israel’s slaughter continues.

Story 4 – Côte d’Ivoire is the next country to kick out the French military.

Story 5 – Justin Trudeau resigns