Year: 2026
Episode 379 – Toronto’s teenaged guns-for-hire
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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Daily News – June 15, 2026
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
Daily News – June 12, 2025
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.
Daily News – June 11, 2026
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.
Daily News – June 10, 2026
Episode 378 – Residential school denial gets Globe boost
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??
Episode 377 – The right kind of immigrants
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?
Daily News – May 28, 2026
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
The Free State of Alberta
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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Daily News – May 25, 2026
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
Episode 375 – Pandemic panic?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about pandemics — what was learned from COVID-19, what should we worried about with emerging outbreaks.
Daily News – May 15, 2026
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
Daily News – May 14, 2026
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)
Episode 374 – Fuck AI. All our friends hate AI.
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.
Daily News – May 12, 2026
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.
Daily News – May 8, 2026
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
Episode 373 – Harassed into silence over Gaza
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?
Daily News – May 1, 2026
Daily News – April 30, 2026
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.
Daily News – April 29, 2026
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.
Episode 372 – Carney’s free ride
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.
Daily News – April 23, 2026
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
Daily News – April 22, 2026
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
Episode 371 – Where is Canadian media getting their script from?
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!
Daily News – April 17, 2026
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.
Daily News – April 16, 2026
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
Episode 370 – Majority Carnage
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.
Daily News – April 14, 2026
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
Daily News – April 10, 2026
Daily New – April 9, 2026
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
Episode 369 – Canada has … no … position on the US war on 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.
Daily News – April 8, 2026
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
Episode 368 – A new dawn of the NDP?
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.
Daily News – March 26, 2026
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.
Episode 367 – Receiving criticism, reacting to criticism, self-immolation over criticism
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.
Daily News – March 18, 2026
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.
Episode 366 – Deep dive into the NDP leadership race
Sandy and Nora break down their thoughts on the NDP leadership race.
Daily News – March 13, 2026
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
Avi Lewis on Sandy and Nora
In this episode, Avi Lewis tells Nora why he thinks he should lead the NDP.
Rob Ashton on Sandy and Nora
Nora talks with Rob Ashton about why he’s the best person to lead the NDP.
Episide 365 – Untangling Canada’s response to Iran
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?
Tanille Johnston on Sandy and Nora
Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Tanille Johnston about why she wants to lead the NDP.
Heather McPherson on Sandy and Nora
Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson about why she wants to lead the NDP.
Daily News – March 4, 2026
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.
Episode 364 – Canada supports bombing Iran; feels bad about it
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.
Daily News – Feb. 27, 2026
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.
Daily News – Feb. 26, 2026
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.
Episode 363 – Sandy and Norway Talk Politics
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what Norway does right in winter sport, why they whooped our ass at the Olympics, and how the constant pressure to win only privileges people with resources and time to work on winning.
Daily News – Feb. 24, 2026
Story 1 – Police watchdog investigates Ontario cop killing of 48-year-old man
Story 2 – Saskatchewan CEO charged with mistreating foreign workers
Story 3 – Ottawa summons OpenAI in connection with Tumbler Ridge shooting
Story 4 – Chad shuts down eastern border with Sudan
Story 5 – US withdraws from key base in Syria
Daily News – Feb. 20, 2026
Story 1 – One in four patients leave Winnipeg ERs without seeing a doctor
Story 2 – Thunder Bay declares humanitarian crisis hough not state of emergency over homelessness,
Story 3 – Woman sounds alarm over epidemic of Black boys going missing
Story 4 – General strike in Argentina
Story 5 – Former South Korea president receives life sentence for organising an insurrection.
Daily News – Feb. 19, 2026
Story 1 – Nunavik health board asks the red cross for help to beat back TB outbreaks
Story 2 – Arbitrator rules in Air canada flight attendants struggle
Story 3 – Canada to make it easy for people to immigrate to canada if they work for the military
Story 4 – Russia and Cuban leaders meet about US embargo
Story 5 – Five European countries are trying to build off shore migrant holding centres
Episode 362 – Can’t stop a mass shooting, but we can arm the world for war?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge and the way that right-wing politicians jumped onto the obsession over gender identity to obscure from decaying social conditions. The federal government thinks that we can fix these social conditions by arming other countries to murder people. How is that going to work?
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