Year: 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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