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Daily News – Jan. 29, 2026
Story 1 – Cop who killed man in 2021 will not be charged
Story 2 – Ontario progressive conservatives will not allow media into their convention
Story 3 – These Canadian companies are supporting ICE
Story 4 – Canada to force refugees to pay for health services and new report estimates
Story 5 – Casualties in Russia and Ukraine could hit 2 million by the spring.
Episode 359 – Carney’s One Solitude at the Citadel
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s Act II — after his head-turning speech at Davos, he comes home to expose how little he knows about Canadian history. Plus, why are we always talking about military invasion when the real threat from the United States is cultural and economic?
Daily News – Jan. 27, 2026
Story 1 – CSIS tries to repair relationship with Indigenous people
Story 2 – ICE wants to Canadian billionaire’s warehouse property
Story 3 – Carney announces boost to GST credit aimed at lowering food costs
Story 4 – Israel finds hostage remains in Gaza
Story 5 – Cyclone in Mediterranean potentially kills hundreds
Daily News – Jan. 23, 2026
Daily News – Jan. 22, 2026
Daily News – Jan. 21, 2026
Episode 358 – New World Order same as the Old World Order
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the speech heard around the world: Mark Carney announces that neoliberalism was premised on lies, and now that the US is collapsing, it’s time for Canada to help fill the void.
Daily News – Jan. 16, 2026
Story 1 – Teen charged with manslaughter in overdose death of other teen
Story 2 – Immigration charges laid against fake consultant in Saskatchewan
Story 3 – A Canadian is reported dead in Iranian protests
Story 4 – Europe sends soldiers to Greenland
Story 5 – Thailand goes after contractor with deadly record,.
Daily News – Jan. 15, 2026
Story 1– Former Canadian soldier is sentenced for setting a condo on fire
Story 3 – Premier Francois Legault resigns
Story 3 – CBC features Canadians excited to get their hands on Venezuela
Story 4 – 850 jobs to be cut at Statscan
Story 5 – Returns from ISS due to medical emergency with crew members.
Daily News – Jan 14, 2026
Story 1 – Death at Sudbury encampment fire
Story 2 – Bus rolls into ditch, students airlifted to hospital in northern Manitoba
Story 3 – NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton uses AI to respond to questions in Reddit AMA
Story 4 – Trump to end Temporary Protection Order for Somalis
Story 5– Soldiers in streets, Internet blackout for Ugandan election
Episode 357 – Defunding ICE is the moderate position
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about ICE, murder, detention, and why it takes so long to get white moderates to understand that police violence is rampant.
Daily News – Jan. 9, 2026
Story 1 – Layoffs of senior leadership at the city of Sudbury to make operations more efficient
Story 2 – Scotiabank CEO thinks that Donald Trump is very good for business
Story 4 – South Korea taps President XI to help mediate relationship with North Korea
Story 5 – Saudi Arabia accuses the UAE of smuggling out a leader from southern Yemen
Daily News – Jan. 8, 2026
Story 1 – Nine people arrested at rally where cop drove into protesters have charges dropped
Story 2 – Three restaurant owners get 90 days in jail for employee treatment
Story 3 – List of Canada’s highest paid CEOs is out
Story 4 – The US seizes vessel with Russian flag
Story 5 – The opposition challenges the elections in the Central African Republic.
Daily News – Jan. 7, 2026
Story 1 – The university of Alberta looks to jack tuition fees
Stories 2-4 – Three states of emergency in Canada and all are due to water infrastructure or water damage
Story 5 – 7 dead in Syria as fighting erupts between Kurdish-led forces and the government of Syria.
Episode 356 – The view on Venezuela from Canada
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the US’ war on Venezuela, the sham charges against Nicolas Maduro and what Canadians should be paying attention to.
Looking back on a shit year. So long, 2025!
In this epsiode, Sandy and Nora look back on the year that was, and argue that we better get our shit together soon if we’re going to resist rising fascism.
Daily News – Dec. 19, 2025
Daily News – Dec. 18, 2025
Story 1 – Alberta municipality on the hook for $9.8 billion
Story 2 – Quebec Liberal party is leaderless
Story 3 – Federal government eyes hiring 50 corporate leadership to work across the civil service
Story 4 – British junior doctors are on strike
Story 5 – FAA and the Army both to blame in jet crash last year that killed 67
Daily News – Dec. 16, 2025
Story 1 – 3 children die as a result of flu;
Story 2 – Soleiman Faqiri’s family demands apology from Ontario govt;
Story 3 – Five incidents of human trafficking reported in PEI;
Story 4 – Trump declares fentanyl ‘weapon of mass destruction’
Story 5 – ICC rejects Israel’s bid to stop Gaza investigation
Episode 354 – Antisemitism and rising hatred in Canada
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about rising social disintegration, and how it triggers a rise in hatred. Plus, should femicide be considered extra illegal?
Daily News – Dec. 12, 2025
Story 1 – SIU clears cops in shooting death of Indigenous man
Story 2 – Rents rose faster in Quebec than other provinces last year
Story 3 – Mark Carney even closer to his majority
Story 4 – More than 400 dead in fighting in South Kivu state
Story 5 – 37 are dead after airstrikes in Myanmar hit regional hospital.
Daily News – Dec. 11, 2025
Story 1 – Alberta breaks the constitution to attack children
Story 2 – Feds plan to make femicide extra illegal
Story 3 – Four new groups added to Canada’s terrorist list
Story 4 – The US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
Story 5 – Crew dead after military plane goes down due to mechanical issue in Port Sudan.
Episode 353 – Media finally call Trump racist
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what has finally pushed the press to call Trump racist (or, xenophobic in the case of the NYT), and what Trump’s latest mask-off moment means for racism within the US, and relations with Canada.
Daily News – Dec. 3, 2025
Episode 351 – Preparing for Canada’s migrant crisis
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the beginnings of a migrant crisis in the United States, and how Canadian politicians and journalists are seemingly incapable of imagining how Canada would navigate one.
Daily News – Nov. 28, 2025
Story 1 – Montreal Cop showed nude image to Grade 10s in a workshop about sexual assault and consent
Story 2 -Four arrested at old growth forest blocked on Vancouver Island
Story 4 – 40 dead in flooding and landslides in Sri Lanka
Story 5 – The death toll for the apartment complex fire in Hong Kong is now 83.
Daily News – Nov. 27, 2025
Story 1 – Anti-war activists’ homes targeted by an early morning police raid
Story 2 – Brampton Mayor says that landlord of property that burned killing 4 was absent
Story 3 – Government Committee recommends stripping services of anyone facing deportation
Episode 351 – Radical politics through community, care and struggle
In this live episode, Sandy is joined by Syrus Marcus Ware and Matthew Green to discuss the current state of the left, and all the possibilities that exist to save ourselves.
Episode 350 – Actually, war is bad.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a hard look at war and remind listeners that it is very, very bad.
Daily News – Nov. 14, 2025
Story 1 – GM plant workers say they will take the plant over if GM leaves Canada
Story 2 – More Canadians are dying from chronic kidney disease than 30 years ago
Story 3 – Canada wants to be headquarters for a new international war financing bank
Story 4 – The US has conducted its 20th strike in the Caribbean with a death toll of 80
Story 5 – Portugal’s government offers to meet with unions to stave off national general strike.
Daily News – Nov. 13, 2025
Story 1 – PEI Oyster farmers want to replace diseased oysters with US oysters
Story 2 – Mine project in NB slated to be among Carney’s nation building projects
Story 3 – 87 jobs to be eliminated at TVA Groupe
Story 4 – Prison ombudsman decries the lack of access to mental healthcare in Canadian prisons
Story 5 – 37 people are dead after bus plunges into ravine in Peru.
Daily News – Nov. 12, 2025
Story 1 – Train company blames derailment and fuel leak on rock slide
Story 2 – Ontario gets extension for childcare program and spaces will remain 19$ per day on average
Story 3 – Pharmaceutical company blocks highrise development over national serucirty concerns
Story 4 – Military helicopter crashes on boarder between Azerbaijan and Georgia
Story 5 – Residents of Bamako in Mali defy jihadist orders and go ahead with annual puppet festival
Episode 349 – Who is Canada’s Mamdani?
Zohran Mamdani has inspired progressives across the English-speaking world (and French-speaking, at least in Quebec). But who is Canada’s Mamdani? And what are the conditions necessary for someone like this to emerge?
Daily News – Nov. 7, 2025
Story 1 – IDF soldier, cops assault student protesters who crashed pro-Israel event
Story 2 – Cops who spied on firmer Lethrbridge MLA will not be charged
Story 3 – Cops did not heed complaints that an arsonist was setting fires in Conception Bay North
Story 4 – More than $1,.2 million in underground construction costs must be repaid
Episode 348 – 2025 Budget; Liberal Carnage
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the 2025 Liberal budget — Mark Carney’s first — and how he blurs the line between Liberals and Tories like never before.
Daily News – Nov. 3, 2025
Story 1 – Man dead in police shooting in BC
Story 2 – Alberta labour groups threaten general strike;
Story 3 – Immigration Canada fast-tracking visas for Sudanese following El-Fasher massacre
Story 4 – Drinking water in Tehran on the brink of running out
Story 5 – Earthquake in Afghanistan two months after another deadly quake
Daily News – Oct. 31, 2025
Story 1 – Halifax cop on paid leave for operating a bike theft ring
Story 2 – Quebec cabinet minister quits over conflict between his daughter and his government
Story 4 – Donald Trump to drop the US’ intake of refugees to historic low
Story 5 – Death toll rises to at least 121 from raid on favelas in Rio de Janiero. Xa
Daily News – Oct. 29, 2025
Episode 347 – Live view from the border on trade, immigration and Gaza
In this episiode, Sandy is joined by Travis Laver and Elizabeth Ha to talk about racism, immigration, the trade war and living in a border town when the US is being belligerant.
Daily News – Oct. 24, 2025
Story 1 – Job cuts and service fees at North Bay hospital
Story 2 – TC Energy has convinced CSIS to share intelligence with them and other large corporations
Story 3 – Canadian soldiers were scheduled to train in Israel in July 2024
Story 5 – At least 50 boko haram militants killed by Nigeria’s army.
Daily News – Oct. 21, 2025
Story 1 – Kitchener man is being held in Ethiopia for bringing banned items to South Sudan
Story 2 – Quebec’s proposed average rent guidelines are going to wallop tenants
Story 3 – IAMGOLD buys two mines in Quebec, consolidating their Canadian operations
Story 4 – Bolivia’s new president is a centrist for the first time in two decades
Episode 346 – Are protests … useless?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take apart the argument that the No Kings protests were useless and explain what the purpose of a protest is, and what a protest cannot do.
Image of the Marche mondiale des femmes in Quebec City, via La CSN.
Transcript available upon request: sandyandnora at protonmail dot com.
Daily News – Oct. 17, 2025
Story 1 – City councillor in Sault-Ste-Marie faces conduct investigation over social media posts
Story 2 – Nova Scotia ends public complaints against city councillors
Story 3 – Marc Carney to hire 1000 new cops
Story 4 – CO2 levels in earth’s atmosphere rival that of 800,000 years ago
Story 5 – Possibly hundreds dead from torrential rains in Mexico
Episode 345 – Who’s afraid of Antifa?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain why the US administration has decided to go after “Antifa” — what that is and what it isn’t.
Episode 344 – Our Unfree Press
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Ellison project of money laundering through purchasing a blog for $150M to suck up even closer to the empire as the US collapses. And what does this all mean for Canada?
Daily News – Oct. 3, 2025
Story 1 – Someone is firebombing the offices of two Indigenous women MLAs in Winnipeg
Story 2 – New Auditor General report in Ontario strongly suggests corruption in Ford’s government
Story 3 -A new settlement has been found in Saskatchewan — new but also 11,000 old
Story 4 – CRA terrorism audits overwhelmingly targeted Muslim charities new report finds
Story 5 – Devestating wildfires have increased by 4.4 times since the 1980s
Daily News – Oct. 2, 2025
Story 2 – Vancouver’s condo kings are mad that people won’t pay 800,000 for 450 square feet.
Story 3 – Danielle Smith wants to build a new pipeline through British Columbia.
Story 4 – Church collapse in Ethiopia kills 36.
Story 5 – At least 69 though likely far more people have died after earthquake in the phillipines.
Daily News – Oct. 1, 2025
Story 1 – Hundreds of thousands of charges withdrawn in Ontario due to court system problems
Story 2 – The feds are hoping to use AI for translation in six departments
Story 3 – Imperial oil plans to cut workfice by 20%
Story 4 – Cops tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken detained for months
Story 5 – Car bomb kills 10 in Baluchistan province, pakistan
Episode 343 – The cops are out of control
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the police murder of Nooran Rizayi in Saint-Hubert, and how the police in Canada are totally out of control. Plus, they talk about Canada Post and what we stand to lose if the corporation makes the changes that the federal government is allowing them to make.
Daily News – Sept. 26, 2025
Story 1 – Ontario ombudsman slams conditions in remote first nation.
Story 2 – Canada post workers are on strike.
Story 3 – Criminal network is funnelling stolen cars to Western Africa.
Stories 4 and 5 – Protests in Madagascar and in Ladakh region in the Himalayas are confronted by police brutality and state violence.
Daily News – Sept. 25, 2025
Story 1 – Students vote to postpone decision to fold up the University of Regina Students Union
Story 2 – Horrific conditions condemned by embeds office at mental health hospital in New Brunswick
Story 3 – Ontario ombudsman decries atHome Health program’s supply shortages
Episode 342 – Everywhere, everyone is feeling the same thing
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how similar Canadians’ reactions have been to the state of the world, based on the past 6 months of touring.
Daily News – Sept. 23, 2025
Story 1 – Quebec police shoot and kill a young man – watchdog investigating
Story 2– Ontario MPP charged with assault and assault with a weapon charges
Story 3 – Thunder Bay police search landfill as part of homicide case
Story 4 – Italian workers strike in solidarity with Gaza
Story 5 – British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison
Daily News – Sept. 18, 2025
Story 1 – Former youth jail worker charged with 66 counts of sexual assault.
Story 2 – The lockout at Dalhousie is over.
St0ry 3 – Lawyer decries how difficult it’s been for Gazans to get visas to come to Canada
Story 4 – Jerry from ben and jerry’s fame has quit over a lack of free speech.
Story 5 – At least 11 men deported from the US are still being held in Ghana.
Daily News – Sept. 17, 2025
Episode 341 – Charlie Kirk in Canada
In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain how Canadians should (and should not) understand Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and how resisting the attack on Free Speech will be fundamental to our future work.
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