Episode 312 – Backlash, decline or both?
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the chaos at the White House and how to buckle up for a world where the United States’ empire is collapsing.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the chaos at the White House and how to buckle up for a world where the United States’ empire is collapsing.
Story 1 – Human remains may have been found at the Prairie Green landfill North of Winnipeg
Story 2 – Quebec government limits procurement in reaction to Amazon leaving the province
Story 3 – The number of people that Canada deported in 2024 rose to a decade high
Story 4 – Romanian far right presidential candidate arrested
Story 5 – BP to end its aggressive renewables investment plan
Story 1 – Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is out
Story 2 – Nova Scotia’s Conservative government stages massive attack on democracy
Story 3 – Alberta infrastructure minister resigns over alleged corruption in contract deals
Story 4 – Five people found hypothermic near the border with the United States
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take stock of where things are on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also talk about defunding higher education and how Canada has chosen atrophy in the face of crumbling US hegemony.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how “anti-woke” politicians are just white nationalists, and how Liberals have so effectively coopted DEI.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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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
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
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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
In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about fires in LA and political turmoil in Ottawa.
Sandy and Nora look back on the biggest news of the year.
Story 1 – RCMP killed a person in Cold Lake, Alberta.
Story 2 – Man died of aneurysm after waiting for 6 hours in an emergency room and then going home.
Story 3 – Enbridge pipeline leaks 265,000 litres in Wisconsin.
Story 4 – Israel promises to settle Golan Heights area that they have occupied for five decades.
Story 5 – Israel kills 3 journalists in just over 24 hours.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, what it means for the broader region and why people shouldn’t get too hung up on figuring out which side to cheer for. Plus, they talk about how the murder of a CEO brought the internet together.
Story 2 – International student killed on his third day on the job as security guard.
Story 3 – Man accused of terrorism’s defense outlines how he was entrapped by FBI informants.
Story 4 – At least 184 people have been killed in Haiti, mostly who were elderly.
Story 5 – Germany’s government pauses asylum applications from Syrians.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the state of higher education, and how student organizing is the only force powerful enough to keep administrators in check.
Story 2 – No, there’s not more food recalls right now.
Story 3 – GM’s Chinese holdings are losing money.
Story 4 – CEO of UnitedHealth shot dead in the streets of Manhattan. The Internet rejoiced.
Story 5 – French government falls, opposition calls for Macron’s head.
Story 6 – At least 50 people are killd by Israel in separate airstrikes in Gaza.
Story 1 – SIU investigating after officer shooting leaves person in hospital.
Story 2 – Possible unmarked graves found at site for former Lejac Indian Residential School
Story 3 – New Brunswick Liberals to introduce rent cap but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.
Story 4 – Canadian news companies launch lawsuit against OpenAI
Story 5 – Amazon facing legal challenge in India over abusive labour practices
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how many supporters of Israel are using their support to express racism. Plus, a GST holiday? Where we going?
Story 1 – New government in NB promises a brain illness probe.
Story 2 – Sunshine Oilsands shut down by Alberta’s energy regulator over environmental infractions.
Story 3 – Ottawa removed 1100 businesses from the Indigenous procurement list though didn’t say why.
Story 4 – Security forces in Haiti kill 28 people who had raided wealthy neighbourhood.
Story 5 – Ukraine uses long-range missiles as the war hits day 1000.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a break from the stuff that matters to talk about the current migration from Twitter towards Bluesky and what it all means (and doesn’t mean).
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how to understand Trump’s victory without being misanthropic. And critically, what it all means for Canada.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the state of democracy in Canada, especially as we stare down a US election. Plus, police keep killing people.
Story 1 – BC longshoremen locked out
Story 2 – Protests at Hindu temple in Brampton after Indian officials are rumoured to be inside.
Story 4 – 25 migrants die after traffickers deliberately capsize a boat off the coast of Comoros
Story 5 – Fears of heightened death toll in Valencia, Spain, after historic floods.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberals’ cynical use of immigration, whether encouring more of it or cutting it, all for cheap points at the polls.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the BC election, Indian interference into Canadian politics and Israel’s campaign to forcible displace and murder people in Northern Gaza.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora dissect what is behind the push to restore civility to discourse and what incivility should teach us. Plus they talk about more media failures related to tragedies that have happened to Black people.
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