Episode 382 – Carney’s Senate Snooker
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s new senate appointees. Plus, why are progressives calling for more surveillance tech?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s new senate appointees. Plus, why are progressives calling for more surveillance tech?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canadian culture and sport, and how governments have consistently defunded that which makes Canada, Canadian.
Story 1 – Federal bridge commission replaces unionized workers for non union,
Story 2 – Three dead after fire fighting plane crashes in NWT
Story 3 – High ranking soldier charged with sexual assault but no details released, devastation
Story 4 – Venezuela after two massive earth quakes
Story 5 – Turkish journalists denied accreditation for upcoming NATO summit in Ankara
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the shooting attack of incel Seth Hatfield. Plus, Carney promises to bail out developers and calls it housing relief.
Story 1 – Former soldier pleads guilty to selling restricted weapons materials
Story 2 – UR Pride and URSU settle lawsuit
Story 3 – The Five Eyes eyes AI’s spy tries
Story 4 – American Ebola centre construction halted in Kenya
Story 5 – Libyan prison director is convicted at the international criminal court.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine the teenagers who are being paid to carry out late-night attacks. From the tow-truck wars to waste management, from intimidation and murder to shooting on the US Consulate, who are the wealthy individuals exploiting Toronto’s Black teens to settle their scores?
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Story 1 – Updates on circumstances surrounded the death of Toronto officer
Story 2 – Five children are dead in a vehicle accident north of Kitchener
Story 3 – Sixteen Montreal-Nord cops are suspended for racism
Story 4 – Deal between the US and Iran to open the Straight of Hormuz could be signed Friday
Story 1 – Deaths at Sudbury homeless encampment
Story 2 – Former top general warns Canadians against booing Americans
Story 3 – Carney to give small grocers access to food terminals
Story 4 – The US is set to deport Iranians fleeing persecution to Centrafrique
Story 5 – UN refugee numbers show a drop in the number of refugees in the world who were resettled.
Story 1 – Bison are back at Starblanket Cree Nation
Story 2 – Dutch rocket is launched from Nova Scotia for some reason
Story 3 – The BC CCLA calls for cops to be removed from schools
Story 4- India summons the US over attack on vessel that had Indians on board
Story 5 – Peru’s presidential election runoff has razor thin margin.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Residential School denial, and how the Globe and Mail’s editorial board has jumped in with two feet. Plus, Canada’s new “AI strategy” is heavy on making stuff up, light on the strategy. Did AI write it??
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about mass immigration from the United States and how, once again, Canada doesn’t seem to be planning for a possible surge in immigration. Plus, why don’t temporary residents get the right to vote?
Story 1 – Cree child’s death was linked to atrocious housing conditions
Story 2 – Toronto cops flashed badge after arrest for sexually assaulting a sex worker in Barcelona
Story 4 – CBC reports silly promises as if they’re fact if Canada buys German submarines
Story 5 – Five people rescued in Laotian cave but 2 remain missing
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the politcal powerplay behind the Alberta referendum. Plus, Sandy rants about everyone getting As.
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Story 1 – London homeless housing program to close 48 units amid funding shortfall
Story 2 – Social media presents higher risk to kids’ health than smoking, drinking: Doctors Manitoba
Story 3 – Tribunal begins investigation into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials
Story 4 – Israel pounds Lebanon with fresh air strikes despite ceasefire
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about pandemics — what was learned from COVID-19, what should we worried about with emerging outbreaks.
Story 1 – Speeding up 235% on road that Doug Ford removed speed cameras
Story 2 – Canadian Pacific will not pay for role in Lac Megantic explosion
Story 3 – Kapuskasing mine signs deal with Japanese company
Story 4 – 20 million people in Sudan in catastraphic hunger
Story 5 – Russia pounds Ukraine for 3 days with drons and missiles, killing 9
Story 1 – Delivery drivers in Saskatoon protest brutal working conditions
Story 2 – Ontario to inspect all trucking schools after auditor exposes problems
Story 3 – Independence peition rulled out of order in Alberta
Story 4 – More than 61 dead in South Sudan after the RSF attacks villiages
Story 5 – Dominican Republic agrees to take US deportees (but still deports Haitians)
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s desire to pump Canada’s AI industry full of money so that … well … what happens next isn’t exactly clear. Plus, Sandy complains about robots again.
Story 1 – Palestinian solidarity encampment activist sue Calgary police
Story 2 – Ottawa cop has been chared with domestic assault with his police-issued gun
Story 3 – A bunch of members of Toronto police’s drug squad are being investigated for misconduct,
Story 4 – 6 migrants found dead in a shipping container in a Texas rail yard and
Story 5 – At least 40 people are dead in Congo after attacks in border towns near Uganda.
Story 1 – Doug ford appoints new overseer to Conestoga college except she’s part of the problem
Story 2 – Canada assured FIFA it could avoid certain labour laws while here
Story 3 – Canada to give ford motor company half a billion dollars for Oakville plant
St0ry 4 – Three Canadians are isolating due tot he hantavirus
Story 5 – And assets frozen of two members of the El Faro investigative group in El Salvador
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the forces in Canada that try to harass journalists out of reporting on Gaza. Plus why do we allow vehicles to terrorize our roads?
Story 1 – Surgeries cancelled in Grande Prairie
Story 2 – North Bay mayor who spent $16K in public dollars on personal expenses will not be charged
Story 3 – Average wages in canada are down from 2020
Story 4 – Madagascar arrests French serviceman accused of fomenting destabilization a
Story 5 – Soldiers on trial in Indonesia over acid attcck against activist.
Story 1 – Former mining executive charged with fraud
Story 2 – Rogers plans to offer 10,000 workers a buy out
Story 3 – Carney promises to throw money at the trades to try and address high youth unemployment
Story 4 – UAE pulls out of OPEC
Story 5 – Bosnia signs contract with Croatia to build US_backed pipeline.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s new majority government, the decisions its making and how little journalists are asking him critical questions.
Story 1 – Free spuds in Calgary
Story 2 – Lockheed Martin inks deal to maintain F35s
Story 3 – Air Canada flight in near miss incident at JFK airport in New York City
Story 4 – Suspect arrested in Argentina connected to murder of Colombian president hopeful
Story 5 – And 20 dead in separate attacks in Borno State, Nigeria
Story 1 – Mama Earth Organics to fire 101 unionized workers
Story 2 – Winnipeg city counciler to be removed from cmmittes while he waits sexual assault trial
Story 3 – Labrador inquiry makes recommendations in inquest into the death of 6 Innu young adults
Story 4 – Regina suburb’s unelected, government apopinted leadership votes yes to Bell data centre
Story 5 – Two CIA officers are killed in Mexico when their car goes over a cliff
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canadian media, the scripts they all reproduce and how Canadians are getting less and less of the story. Plus, data centres!
Story 1 – Coronor’s report released to stop mining accidents
Story 2 – Health Caanada approves first non-needle allergic reaction medicine
Story 3 – 136,000 addresses to lose mail delivery
Story 4 – China warns its citizens to avoid travel to the US
Story 5 – Europe may only have enough jet fuel to last 6 weeks.
Story 1 – Winnipeg paramadic disciplined for calling Hamas “resistance fighters”
Story 2 – Toronto cop charged with manslaughter
Story 3 – Canadian Armed Forces trained a member of Ukraine’s neonazi brigade
Story 4 – Two navy members charged with negligence with death of superior
Story 5 – Some 250 people dead after ship capsizes between Bangladesh and Myanmar
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s majority government and what it will mean for Canadians. Plus, they talk about Doug Ford’s silent revolution.
Story 1 – N.S. long-term care workers go on strike
Story 2 – Canadian killed in Lebanon
Story 3 – Carney wins his majority
Story 4 – US blockades Iranian ports
Story 5 – Protests in India over cost-of-living
Story 1 – Former law school dean on Canada-wide arrest warrant
Story 2 – Canada’s most successful defense industry company is cutting its workforce
Story 3 – Carney is one seat away from a majority and the residents of Sarnia are pissed
Story 4 – Israel violates cease fire pretty much immediately
Story 5 – Dozens of accounts make money off Polymarket from specific and precise bets about Iran
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how little Canada is saying, or doing, to help de-escalate the United States and Israel from their war on Iran.
Story 1 – Migrant who died after being evidcted is mourned
Story 2 – Algoma steel gets new life in partnership with armoured vehicle company
Story 3 – Carney to reverse Trudeau election fundraising reforms to make things secret again
Story 4 – CBC uncovers more about state surveillance during the early days of COVID
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the NDP convention, far-right attacks on equity cards and what the NDP needs to do next.
Story 1 – Ottawa crossing guard killed in pick up truck hit and run.
Story 2 – AI seems to have denied a post doc’s request for permanent residence.
Story 3 – Canada needs some 200 more people working in Air traffic control.
Story 4 – Dozens of people crammed into containers used as detentention centres in Goma.
Story 5 – At least 15 Zimbabwaens have died fighting Ukraine, lured by scam recruiters.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about some of the criticisms they have of the NDP, that listeners have had of recent episodes, and the colossol meltdown happening over at Canadaland.
**Episode clarification: Nora mentioned that people blamed the Air Canada Jazz flight crash on the fact that one of the pilots was a woman. This piece of internet disinformation took the name of one of the victims, and created a fake person to then use to rile people up. This is what Nora saw online, not that she thought that one of the pilots was a woman.
Story 1 – Man forced to pay damages over calling someone who is not Indigenous a pretendian
Story 2 – One-third of life threatning complication happen after birth
Story 3 – Canada quiet about middle east involvemet and impact
Story 4 – Trial can go ahead for 1961 murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lamumba
Story 5 – Hundreds die in pakistani airstrike against Kabul hospital.
Sandy and Nora break down their thoughts on the NDP leadership race.
Story 1 – Niagara region official resigns over owning Hitler’s memoire signed by Hitler
Story 2 – 30 soldiers got serious frostbite during exercise in Alaska
Story 3 – The CRTC is banning some telecom fees
Story 4 – Eswatini accepts third group of deportees from the United States
Story 5 – More than 100 dead in landslide in southern Ethiopia
In this episode, Avi Lewis tells Nora why he thinks he should lead the NDP.
Nora talks with Rob Ashton about why he’s the best person to lead the NDP.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberals, NDP and Conservative reactions to the war in Iran. Plus, AI sucks and what is with the return to normative gender roles?
Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Tanille Johnston about why she wants to lead the NDP.
Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson about why she wants to lead the NDP.
Story 2 – Alberta seniors beneift to be cut to balance burget
Story 3 – Mark Carney is is confused about his own support for the US and Iarael’s attacks on Iran
Story 4 – Canadian company trying to build nuclear reactors in eastern europe
Story 5 – France to lend its nuclear fighter jets out to European Allies when needed.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canada’s bizarre support for bombing Iran, and how despite all Mark Carney’s rhetoric, the old order (Canada’s full support for US imperialism) remains in tact.
Story 1 – Two Montreal schools have had IDF soldiers speak to students more than a dozen times
Story 2 – 1 in 4 residents of long term care are on anti psychotic medication
Story 3 – Ottawa MP on witch hunt for Antifa in the armed forces
Story 4 – 59 people dead from landslides in Brazil
Story 5 – Man arrested in Kenya for human trafficking people to Russia to fight in Ukraine.
Story 1 – Two junior hockey players killed driving home from practice in Alberta
Story 2 – Ontario quietly stops compiling the annual list of deaths of children in Care
Story 3 – Canada’s government says never mind about all that India interference stuff
Story 4 – 19 dead after bus plunges off mountain highway in Nepal
Story 5 – 16 Sierra Leonean soldiers captured by Guinea after border incursion.
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