Episode 338 – Should we save the NDP y or n?
This Question and Answer period is from the live show in St. John’s on June 6, 2025. The questions discuss the future of the NDP, Alberta Wexit, fighting fascists and much more.
This Question and Answer period is from the live show in St. John’s on June 6, 2025. The questions discuss the future of the NDP, Alberta Wexit, fighting fascists and much more.
Q&A from the Mayworks Halifax live show on May 1, 2025. In this episode, Sandy and Nora take audience questions and explain that we can stand to lose a few billionaires, it’s important to practice the art of debate and don’t worry too much if cops show up to your meetings — just isolate them and don’t give them any tasks.
Photo from Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax on Bluesky
Story 1 – So-called victims of communism monument to cost 4x more in maintenance
Story 2 – Two cops get suspensions massively reduced due to technicality
Story 3 – Albertans to be cut off from US road that they’ve been using freely forever
Story 4 – Israel steps up its obliteration of Gaza City
Story 5 – Mercenary group Blackwater will provide services to Haiti’s government.
Story 1 – OPP shot and kill a man whose crime was driving really fast on a jetski
Story 2 – Ontario misses its target to give long term care residents 4 hours of daily direct care
Story 4 – Pro and anti government protesters clash in Serbia
Story 5 – Exxon Mobile secures deep sea mining plot off the coast of trinidad
Story 1 – A Hamilton cop suspended with pay for sharing far right information on social media
Story 3 – Canada wants to frack harder than we have ever fracked before
Story 4 – China says it will put a duty on Canadian canola
Story 5 – Mexico extradites alleged cartel leaders to try and please Donald trump
In this conversation, Sandy and Nora talk about the need to tackle extreme wealth inequality and to not allow the right to control the message that greed and wealth are good.
Photo from Bus Stop Theater: https://busstoptheatre.coop/
From Pierre Poilievre trying to woo the working class to building movements on campus, here’s the Q&A period from Sandy and Nora Live in Charlottetown on April 29, 2025.
Eric Wickham from Press Progress talks about his work examining how Doug Ford plans to sell off parts of the world’s longest fresh water sandy beach, Wasaga. Story here: https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-plans-to-dismantle-wasaga-beach-provincial-park/
Story 1 – 19 people have died on Quebec roads in one week
Story 2 – Police shootings in Nunavik far outpace police shootings in the rest of Quebec
Story 3 – Canada has greenlit arms exports to Israel as recently as lat week
Story 5 – 50 soldiers dead in Burkina Faso after clashes with an al quad affiliate
How can Canadians resist the rightwing politics of the Liberal-Conservative convergance? Sandy and Nora talk about this and more in front of a live audience. Originally recorded on April 29, 2025 but never released.
Jeremy Appel writes for The Orchard on Substack. Jeremy finds that the Alberta Next panel is full of UCP donors. Read more here: https://www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_next_appointees_have_donated_more_than_40k_to_the_ucp
Zak Vescera with the Investigative Journalism Foundation shares his investigation into the BC Energy Regulator. Original reporting here: https://theijf.org/cnrl-broke-deal-bcer
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the connection between the attacks on campus organizing in solidarity with Palestine over the past two decades, and how these campaigns faced backlash that sought to silence Canadians who speak out about Israeli apartheid.
Story 1 – Northwood long term care loses its appeal to stop a class action against it
Story 2 – Non binary American’s deportation order halted by a federal judge
Story 3 – The gap between the rich and poor in canada grows to a new record high
Story 4 – Mark Carney wants your favourite federal institutions to cut millions out of their budgets
In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about the abrupt Liberal decision to defund the Canadian state while pouring money into the military.
Story 1 – Toromont workers strike for first collective agreement
Story 2 – Spike in fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in Toronto
Story 3 – Ontario colleges laying off 17% of their staff
Story 4 – El Salvador recalls their ambassador from Mexico
Story 5 – Houthis re-start their Red Sea attacks in solidarity with Gaza.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about increasing state surveillance. Plus, understanding the attacks on Mamdani.
Story 1 – Lake in northern Quebec disappears
Story 2 – Apparent hate crime as youth swarm a Muslim woman worker at a Pizza Pizza
Story 3 – Lytton fire started when an RCMP trailer lost its wheel
Story 4 – Wildfires are devestating Greek island
Story 5 – 5 dead in helicopter crash at the Mogadishu airport in Somalia
Story 1 – Halifax blew its budget on the wrong kind of firefighting coveralls for wildfire
Story 2 – Nova Scotia RCMP under investigation for sexual assault is charged again
Story 3 – UFCW certifies Uber drivers in Victoria
Story 4 – Did Sheila Copps secure the biggest pandemic contract illegally?
Story 5 – And US contractors say they’ve been using live ammo on Gazans who seek food aid.
Story 2 – Lytton receives emergency alert warning about nearby wildfire
Story 3 – Mother into week three of protest demanding a landfill search for her daughter in Regina
Story 4 – 80 fighters dead in Mali, announces the Malian army
Story 5 – The US to hold back weapons that had been promised to Ukraine
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Carney’s decisions — from ramming through legislation that will give extraordinary powers to Ministers in the name of national security and interest, to sky-high deportations and removals, the signs are showing that Canadians were given the opposite of what they said they wanted in the last federal election.
Story 1 – Ontario cop cleared in murder of Six Nations man
Story 2 – Alberta on track to have a record breaking oil production year
Story 3 – Zohran Mamdani wins the democratic primary in New York City
Story 4 – Cambodia and Thailand border tensions increase
Story 5 – Colombia’s Petro to put a referendum to the people to improve labour laws.
Story 1 – Ontario cop cleared in murder of Six Nations man
Story 2 – Alberta on track to have a record breaking oil production year
Story 3 – Zohran Mamdani wins the democratic primary in New York City
Story 4 – Cambodia and Thailand border tensions increase
Story 5 – Colombia’s Petro to put a referendum to the people to improve labour laws.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the parallels between 2003 and 2025, Iraq and Iran, Bush and Trump, and how Toronto has enforced it’s so-called bubble zone bylaw to restrict anti-war protests.
Story 1 – Search and rescue in northern Quebec after air ambulance crashes into lake
Story 2 – Non status albertan youth are being kept out of public school
Story 3 – 40 years since the air India bombing
Story 4 – What we know about the US’s bombs in Iran
Story 5 – Suicide bomber kills 22 in a greek orthodox church
Story 1 – RCMP investigated journalist who published the names of Canadians serving in the IDF
Story 2 – Child dies at horse racing event in New Brunswick
Story 3 – Toronto cop who killed someone after a bad Kijiji deal gets suspended sentence
Story 4 – Saskatchewan says that Canada can’t stop them from poisoning Canadian air
Story 5 – Update on the new Russian paramilitary group that’s working in the Sahel region.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Israel bombing Iran, the world’s leaders meeting in Canada and how Mark Carney is seemingly looking to influence the global poles of power.
Story 1 – Students protest pause to special needs school enrolment
Story 2 – London cops charge man with assault that was hate-motivated
Story 3 – High school tells valedictorian to stay home after she mentions Gaza
Story 4 – Israel attacks Iran’s state-run broadcaster
Story 5 – Kenya’s deputy police chief resigns following protests
Story 1 – G7 protests limited to designated zone
Story 2 – Jury makes recommendations in inquest of man’s death in Windsor jail
Story 3 – Alberta to raise prescription costs for seniors
Story 4 – Gunmen kill 100 people in Nigeria
Story 5 – UK sends fighter jets to MidEast amid attacks between Israel and Iran
In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss rising fascism and how to fight it.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s lust for war.
Story 1 – Teenager charged with terrorism,
Story 2 – Government of Quebec passes anti union law
Story 3 – BC will not require MMR shots as a condition of entering public school
Story 4 – Israelies storm through Muslim quarter in Jerusalem to intimidate locals
Story 5 – Upwards of 30 people dead from heavy rains in Nigeria.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the attacks on Canadians’ right to assemble — from Toronto’s so-called bubble law to PEI police telling peace activists to buy a $2 million insurance policy.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about why the mail is so much more important than just a service to send letters through. Plus, they also talk about the Alberta government’s plan to expand involuntary detention for people who struggle with addiction.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about their latest books, and why as corporations continue to chase higher and higher profits, government relies more and more on the security apparatus to keep people in line. Plus — Mark Carney’s cabinet is out!
Story 1 – Cluster of ALS cases in Southern Quebec may be linked to living near open water
Story 2 – Yukon premier abruptly resigns
Story 3 – A Canadian is behind the worlds most significant deepfake porn site
Story 4 – Libya denies rumour that they agreed to accept migrant deportations from the US
Story 5 – Ukraine is considering tying its currency to the euro.
Story 1 – Community rallies to find two missing children from Pictou County
Story 2 – Woman who pretended to be a nurse at Kingston general hospital given house arrest
Story 3 – Canada Post workers may be on strike again soon
Story 4 – Ugandan opposition experiencing increasing violence
Story 5 – Escalating tensions between india and pakistan result in military actions
In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine Mark Carney’s decision to have the King read the Speech from the Throne — is he foring a new Canadian MAGA path? Also, the stunning silence from Canadian politicans about Israel.
Story 1 – BC company proposes new sand mine as province fast-tracks LNG projects
Story 2 – Alberta companies must pay $550K over workers’ deaths
Story 3 – First Nations groups call for repatriation of artifacts from the Hudson’s Bay
Story 4 – Gaza bound aid ship tries to get repairs in Malta
Story 5 – Japanese finance minister says selling US bonds a “card on the table”
Story 2 – Indigenous teen held in detention for terrorism charges
Story 3 – Shareholders at Levi Strauss reject a proposal to kill DEI policies at 99%
Story 4 – 70 dead and more than 1000 injured after massive explosion at Iranian port
Story 5 – More than 70 people killed by US bombing in Yemen, mostly at a migrant detention centre.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberal victory, the Conservative vote gain and the bloodbath of NDP candidates.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how journalists have gone soft on Poilievre and about how no one is talking about the big issue in this election: income inequality.
Story 1 – Man arrested over having an AK47 in downtown Quebec city
Story 2 – Elderly friends are in critical condition after being struck by a car in a parking lot
Story 3 – Spike in complaints to Saskatchewan’s ombudsman related to women’s jail
Story 4 – Russia delists the taliban as a terror entity
Story 5 – Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan testing the limits of livability
Story 1 – Highly concentrated cocaine is killing people in Newfoundland and Labrador
Story 2 – Evacuation orders at two northern Ontario first nations communities due to spring flooding
Story 3 – The UCP kicks Peter Guthrie out of caucus
Story 4 – Russian attack on Kherson kills one and injures 9 civilians
Story 5 – And 50 dead after boat capsizes on the Congo river.
Story 1 – Driver hits four pedestrians on Toronto campus pedestrian pathway
Story 2 – Part-time profs at Ontario colleges finally allowed to unionize
Story 3 – 50-year high in food inflation increase
Story 4 – The divide between the rich and the poor grows even more wide
Story 5 – Bandit leader in Nigeria is killed, along with 100 of his group
In this episode, Sandy and Nora analyse the parties’ platforms related to borders, policing, crime and punishment.
Story 1 – Nurses decry a violent patient’s fast track through the ER
Story 2 – A crash south of Montreal between a minibus and an SUV kills one and sends 10 to hospital
Story 3 – Artist resigns position after PEI college condemns his art for being anti-American
Story 4 – Keystone pipeline is offline due to oil spill
Story 5 – Fishers in India’s Kerala state promise to fight government’s plan for offshore mining
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