Daily News

Daily News – Sept. 20, 2023

September 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Durham police tased a girl in her school.

Story 2 – A worker died in Calgary in an incident inovolving a marble slab.

Story 3 – Artur Pawlowski gets 60 days in jail for his involvement at the Coutts border blockade. The judge gave him credit for time already served.

Story 4 – Waitlist for CSHLDs in Quebec is the largest its been since Oct. 2018.

Story 5 – Azerbaijan launches military attack against ethnic Armenians in the Nargorno-Karabakh region.

Daily News – Sept. 19, 2023

September 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Strike deadline passes by, Unifor members are in legal strike position with Ford Motor Company.

Story 2 – Sex workers’ rights organizations decry Superior Cour decision to not strike down sex work laws as unconstitutional

Story 3 – The e. coli outbreak in Calgary linked to a common daycare kitchen continues to grow

Story 4 – Canada lays the blame for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar at the feet of the Indian government.

Story 5 – 24 people killed in bus accident in Peru.

Daily News – Sept. 18, 2023

September 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Devestating cuts announced at Metroland Media Group — 605 workers will be laid off, accounting for 60% of the company’s workforce.

Story 2 – Wildfires force evacuations in central BC, parts of the Okanagan region and Sunshine Coast while Hay River residents are finally allowed back home.

Story 3 – Today is the National Day of Action to demand that Manitoba search the Prairie Green landfill in Winnipeg to find the remains of two murdered Indigenous women.

Story 4 – Protesters take to the streets of Quebec demanding that Bill 31 be scrapped, hoping to protect the rights tenants have to pass their lease onto a new tenant.

Story 5 – A new military and economic alliance forms between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Daily News – Sept. 15, 2023

September 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive fire at industrial recyling facility in Saint John forces people to shelter in place because of concerns of air quality.

Story 2 – Man’s 8-year prison sentence overturned because police violated his charter rights and considering of the Good Samaritan Act — his call to 911 saved his friend’s life.

Story 3 – Dozens of people held in a migrant jail in Laval are on hunger strike, demanding an end to arbitrary detentions.

Story 4 – Canada isn’t producing the munitions that we’ve promised to send to Ukraine and the defense industry is frustrated.

Story 5 – Nigeria had catastrophic power failure yesterday — their national grid wasn’t producing a single megawatt of power for some of yesterday morning.

Story 6 – Dominican Republic is closing its border with Haiti over a dispute over canal construction shared by both countries.

Daily News – Sept. 14, 2023

September 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Abortion access in rural Newfoundland difficult, as featured in this Radio-Canada deep dive.

Story 2 – About 100,000 workers were shortchanged what they were owed from Ontario workplace insurance board. Amounts range from $70 to $40,000.

Story 3 – The driver of the truck that crashed into the Humboldt Broncos bus killing 16 fights his deportation.

Story 4 – A British soldier is accused in the murder of a Manitoba man in Downtown Toronto.

Story 5 – 56 people are dead after a fire in an apartment building in Hanoi.

Story 6 – Mexican legislators either hear about aliens or hear about a hoax; who is to say?

Daily News – Sept. 13, 2023

September 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Life expectancy in Saskatchewan has dropped by 2 years since 2019. Data does not tease out First Nations from non-First Nations people.

Story 2 – It will take 20 years for Canada to have its money paid back from Stellantis and Volkeswagen, ot 5, as the Liberals have claimed.

Story 3 – Stop buying decongestants in pill form! New report for the US FDA strongly suggests that they don’t work (something that some people have been saying for a long time)

Story 4 – More money than ever was spent last year policing the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Story 5 – Libya hit by massive storm, causing two dams to give out and unleashing huge amounts of water on towns and cities. 10,000 people at least are feared missing.

Daily News – Sept. 12, 2023

September 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wondering where to do your driving test in Ontario? Head to a rural testing centre, where the odds of passing rise to 88%

Story 2 – The Toronto trial of Peter Nygard starts as charges against the fashion mogul drop from 11 to 6.

Story 3 – The e. coli outbreak at a Calgary kitchen that sent food to daycares has risen to 231, including severe illness in 21 children. There are “fewer than 10” children currently on dialysis.

Story 4 – The CBC does propaganda for the Department of Defence with their embedded media crew on board the HMCS Ottawa who is “patrolling” the East China Sea.

Story 5 – the US has had 23 separate billion-dollar storms in 2023, surpassing the record of 2020 when the entire year had 22 billion-dollar storms. And there are still four months left!

Story 6 – Six soccer players abducted in Balochistan province in Pakistan are still missing.

Daily news – Sept. 11, 2023

September 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The town of Conception Harbour cannot afford garbage collection or city lighting as it seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes from … well, they aren’t sure who.

Story 2 – About 50 workers in Mississauga are owed up to $13,000 each after their food processing company goes belly up. The workers are protesting their worksite every day demanding that back wages are paid.

Story 3 – Disturbing video released as part of trial of correctional officer accused in the death of William Ahmo, an Anishanabe man who told officers he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times as they restrained him.

Story 4 – More than 2000 people in Morocco have been killed by the biggest earthquake in more than a century.

Story 5 – Coup leadership in Niger warns that France is amassing troops to try and restore former President Mohamad Bazoum.

Daily News – Sept. 7, 2023

September 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Looking for cheap bread in Nova Scotia? If Dollarama is close to Sobeys, you wont find it there.

Story 2 – Man dies in police custody in Winnipeg, the third to die in police custody in two months

Story 3 – Man who came to Canada when he was 11 is scheduled to be deported

Story 4 – As Antony Blinken visits Ukraine, Russia strikes a busy market, killing at least 17 people.

Story 5 – At least 32 people killed after strike from Sudenese Army in Omdurman.

Daily News – Sept. 6, 2023

September 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Alberta Human Rights tribunal has found that two Black men were discriminated against by Edmonton police but, as the police officers were ignorant to their ignorance, the individual complaints were dismissed.

Story 2 – ER overcrowding is a national crisis and one UK model suggests that between 800 and 15,000 people are dying as a result.

Story 3 – Newly minted minister says that the delay in the delivery of the Canada Disability Benefit is due to her wanting to get it ….. right. Activists call for an interim benefit.

Story 4 – Record flooding in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Spain have killed, at least, nearly 15 people.

Story 5 – At least 21 people killed by cyclone in Brazil as that country sees a rise in extreme weather (and extreme weather-related death).

Daily News – Sept. 5, 2023

September 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Jury selection starts today in the trial of Nathaniel Veltman for the murder of the Afzaal family. It will be the first time terror charges are put to a jury since they were passed after 9/11.

Story 2 – The Toronto Metropolitan University soccer team has been suspended. The university is investigating something but wont say what.

Story 3 – Massive e. coli out break affecting 50 children due to a central kitchen used by 11 daycares and children’s insitutions in Calgary.

Story 4 – Protests erupt in Morocco over the murder of two vacationers on jetskis who accidentally crossed into Algerian waters and were killed by the Algerian coast guard.

Story 5 – Massive walk-out staged by teachers in South Korea who are demanding an end to harassment, particularly from overbearing parents.

Daily News – Sept. 4, 2023

September 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – More evacuations in British Columbia due to wildfires.

Story 2 – Is Robert Miller Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein? Montreal billionaire has been accused of setting up underage sex ring by someone who says she was sold out to older men.

Story 3 – A report from CIBC Capital Markets accuses Statscan of undercounting the number of non-permanent residents in Canada by more than 1 million. Statscan rejects this but will release updated data on Sept. 27.

Story 4 – 18 people have died after a bus rolled over in Iraq, north of Baghdad.

Story 5 – Israeli officials vow to expel African migrants.

Daily News – June 28, 2023

July 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Long-term care facility in Nova Scotia has a Legionnaires outbreak.

Story 2 – TC Energy is splitting itself in two to make one company focus on oil and one company focus on energy transition.

Story 3 – Trudeau has promised to create something called the National Security Council. But why? And what will it be? We don’t yet know.

Story 4 – from grain to university education to news bureaus — what is Russia’s plan on the African continent?

Daily News – July 27, 2023

July 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Winnipeg police bring in forensics investigators to investigate protest graffitti … protesting their harassment of protesters demanding action from the police and government.

Story 2 – A look at how abusers’ relationships can enable abuse during trial against former teacher for sex crimes committed against former students.

Story 3 – The Calgary Stampede takes 100% liability for sexual assaults that happened over decades against youth members of a performance troupe.

Story 4 – Huge settlement win in case against the federal government’s underfunding of child welfare services on reserve.

Story 5 – Stellantis makes record profits, surpassing $12 billion in just 6 months. Just in time for them to also get a $15 billion break from Canada to build an EV plant here.

Story 6 – Coupt d’état in Niger, one of the last countries in the region with positive ties to the West.

Daily News – July 26, 2023

July 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Whistleblower who took down Patrick Brown during the Conservative leadership race had their legal fees paid for by the Pierre Poilievre campaign.

Story 2 – Trudeau shuffles his cabinet as he stares down a 2025 election.

Story 3 – Canada to purchase new planes for VIP transfer and military air-to-air refueling to replace aging fleet.

Story 4 – India bans exports of non-basmati rice due to climate change-related crop damage.

Daily News – July 25, 2023

July 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Search to begin by excavating the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows church at Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation.

Story 2 – Antibiotic resistant strain of gonorrhea has spiked in Canada

Story 3 – A group of academics are calling for a public inquiry into what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Story 4 – The US slaps Malian military leadership with sanctions for their reliance on the Wagner group.

Daily News – July 24, 2023

July 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Retired RCMP officer has been charged with spying for China.

Story 2 – 36% of applications made for visas to attend international AIDS conference in Montreal were rejected, finds the Canadian Press.

Story 3 – Spain’s socialist party surprises pollsters, comes in a close second to the right-wing People’s Party but both will struggle to form a coalition government.

Story 4 – Greece’s biggest evacuation effort ever is ongoing as the island of Rhodes is threatened by forest fires.

Daily News – July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An exoneration 50 years in the making, exposing racist failure after failure from the trial through to the parole system.

Story 2 – Link found between mercury poisioning from paper industry and suicide rates at Asubpeeschoseewagong in Northwestern Ontario

Story 3 – Calgary’s public energy utility is paying to defeat a referendum in Maine where voters are being asked to create their own public utility.

Story 4 – 1200 barrels of oil spill on Ecuador’s northwest coast, reason for why not yet known.

Story 5 – Nine dead and 16 others injured after a bomb goes off accidentally in North Kivu province in the DR Congo.

Daily News – July 20, 2023

July 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Extremely tiny fines have been levied for not helping residents wash their hands, inadequate wound care and ensuring that abuse reporting standards are maintained against 3 Ontario LTC facilities.

Story 2 – COVID-19, the Freedom Convoy, the “short lived Russian rebellion” (???) and now the port workers Strike: The feds convoke their incident response group for the fourth time over striking port workers.

Story 3 – Children being held in Louisiana’s Angola prison are being confined to cells for nearly 24 hours per day in sweltering conditions.

Story 4 – Turkey’s tune change on Sweden’s NATO membership has triggered Holland to drop its refusal to supply Turkey, UAE and Yemen with military equipment.

Daily News – July 19, 2023

July 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – No charges for police officer who sicced dog on man, ripping off his ear and biting him all over his body

Story 2 – Report into the conduct and operations of the Prince Albert Police will not be released, only the recommendations will be. Plus, PAPS officer just charged with an in-custody death and man died Sunday in custody of RCMP in Pelican Narrows

Story 3 – CCPA report finds that minimum wage would have to surpass $40/h for minimum wage workers to be able to afford rent in Toronto and Vancouver. Cheapest places to live are in Quebec.

Story 4 – The Regina Manifesto turns 90!

Story 5 – Kenya decries Russia’s decision to leave the Black Sea grain export deal.

Daily News – July 18, 2023

July 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive fish die-off in the Cowichan river confounds conservationists

Story 2 – Story 2 – Nine-year-old Carter Vigh dies from asthma attack aggravated by wildfire smoke

Story 3 – 17 members of the Canadian Forces did not have permission to operate Myria Aid, use CF resources, coordinate with defense contractors and meet with US officials for their charity’s work.

Story 4 – MP Niki Action, the Climate Action Network Canada and others call on the TSX to suspend the listing of ReconAfrica, a Vancouver-based oil and gas company.

Story 5 – 11 employees with Twitter Africa have not heard from the company since May when they agreed to a severance package for having been laid off just 4 days after Twitter Africa started operating in Accra.

Daily News – July 17, 2023

July 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 300 tenants in northwest Toronto are now on rent strike to protest landlord Dream Unlimited’s request for an above rental guideline rent increase.

Story 2 – Death toll related to bus accident in Carberry Manitoba rises to 17.

Story 3 – Spike in accidents and deaths on Ontario roads includes highest number of truck-involved collisions in 10 years

Story 4 – Largest forest fire ever to rage north of the 49th parallal is raging east of James Bay. It’s 1 million hectares large.

Story 5 – Quebecers stolen from birth in Guatemala search for their biologicial families

Story 6 – At least 40 people have died in flooding caused by heavy rains in central South Korea.

Daily News – July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City of Edmonton closes water fountains used by unhoused individuals for “safety concerns” just ahead of extreme heat.

Story 2 – Danielle Smith and David Eby are in talks about expanding LNG — Smith wants Canada to be able to get credit for selling LNG to countries as a transitionary energy source

Story 3 – 87 bodies have been found in a mass grave in West Darfur

Story 4 – Explosion at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico kills at least 2 workers; mismanagement blamed on increasing accident rate.

Story 5 – Guatemala’s fragile democracy under threat as the leftwing Seed Movement is suspended in advance of a run-off ballot for president.

Daily News – July 13, 2023

July 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – As many as 200 youth were sexually assaulted at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre.

Story 2 – Judge questions why the prosecution is asking for such an easy sentence for neo nazi.

Story 3 – Silvio DeGasparis tries to evade summons by Ontario’s auditor general to explain why his company’s lands were excluded from the Greenbelt.

Story 4 – Rains in Cote D’ivoire have killed at least 30 people

Story 5 – deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29% in 2022, dropped by 34% so far in 2023 in Brazil. Petro and Lula call for international support to help save the Amazon.

Daily News – July 12, 2023

July 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – US longshore workers refuse to offload Canadian cargo in solidarity with Canadians on strike

Story 2 – Scabies at Iqaluit jail stops in-person visits

Story 3 – Laurentian Bank may soon be up for sale

Story 4 – Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise goes ahead with two investigations both looking into forced labour among China’s Uighur population.

Story 5 – Australia’s top soldier loses defamation case; a judge finds that he did murder Afghan civilians.

Daily News – July 11, 2023

July 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Camp Morgan remains at the Brady Roard landfill in Winnipeg

Story 2 – Family’s deportation stopped thanks to intervention from the United Nations

Story 3 – Wild weather has decimated India’s tomato crops, pushing prices up by 400%

Story 4 – Turkey emerges as key player in the current NATO meeting

Daily News – July 10, 2023

July 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Few details are out about Canadian soldier who has been charged with human trafficking; will be tried in civilian court.

Story 2 – Two Tisdale, SK men have been charged with human trafficking and sexual assault for forcing a woman from Bangladesh to work 7 days a week, for between 10-12 hours per day in three separate restaurants.

Story 3 – Former cop gets an 18 month sentence to be served at home so that he can care for his high blood pressure, his step children and stay safe from prison violence. He sexually abused 11 people while posing as a massage therapist.

Story 4 – Worker dies at Montreal’s Trudeau airport.

Story 5 – Between 22 and 31 people have been killed in Sudanese military airstrike that hit Omdurman and Khartoum.

Daily News – July 7, 2023

July 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Five Canadians who missed their repatriation flights back in April because Kurdish forces brought them to a prison are on their way back to Canada.

Story 2 – Now that RoseAnne Archibald has been ousted, will the AFN executive move forward with a forensic audit she had brought forward?

Story 3 – The RCAF spent nearly $3 milllion for searching for the Titanic sub. The search lasted for three days even though the US Navy picked up evidence that the sub was imploded before Canada’s rescue mission even started.

Story 4 – Top US officials have been quietly doing diplomacy in Russia to try and find a way to stop their invasion of Ukraine.

Story 5 – The UN rings the alarm bell on Haiti as extrajudicial murders are on the rise.

Daily News – July 6

July 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – APTN obtains video of Métis man being punched in the head in a cell; the same officer has been charged with beating two other people months later.

Story 2 – Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, as “neither owner or tenant” of BMO Field refuses to pay property taxes, is in arrears for $1.8 million.

Story 3 – Canada and Ontario agree to give Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions $15 billion to open a plant in southwestern Ontario. That is $6 million per anticipated job.

Story 4 – Ten years after the Lac-Mégantic train disaster, rail safety in Canada has not gotten much better.

Story 5 – The UN’s nuclear watchdog wants more access to the Zaporizhzha nuclear plant to investigate claims of sabotage and counter sabotage.

Daily News – July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A spike in babies born with syphallis in Alberta has lead to 1 in 5 babies born with syphallis born in stillbirth. If treated early, the infection can be stopped.

Story 2 – Life expectancy for First Nations people in Alberta has dropped 7 years for both men and women; the gap is now 19 years between FN men and non FN men and 18 years between FN women and non FN women.

Story 3 – 15 bison carcases have been found between Fort Smith and Fort Resolution and its feared they died from Anthrax.

Story 4 – Ethnic fighting in Manipur state in India has killed 130 people, rased several villages and forced many people into relief camps.

Daily News – July 4, 2023

July 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Oil contaminants have been found in eggs and arctic char near Postville and Nain in Labrador.

Story 2 – CRA fires 20 employees for improperly accessing CERB but the story leaves the reader with more questions than answers.

Story 3 – Two Canadian warships are dispatched to quell Russian aggression. But do not say that NATO is at war with Russia.

Story 4 – Black childbearers die most often in the year after giving birth, and maternal mortality rates have more than doubled from 1999 to 2019.

Daily News – July 3, 2023

July 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Jerry Martin, the person who opened the first store for clean hard drugs in Canada or the US, his died.

Story 2 – CBC primes its readers to accept paying more than 30% of their incomes on mortgage payments, upending logic that has been in place since 1986.

Story 3 – BC port workers are on strike; the Canadian Press gives more voice to the industry groups who oppose the strike than the workers who are on strike.

Story 4 – Despite their tough talk towards Israel’s far right government, the US will send the country 25 new F35s, paid for through military aid.

Daily News – June 30, 2023

June 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Off-duty Winnipeg RCMP is being investigated for making racist comments and uttering threats (sorry, not going to use the police speak of “racial comments” because saying racial comments isn’t against the rules).

Story 2 – Neveah Tucker is finally identified as the little girl whose body was found in a construction dumpster more than a year ago.

Story 3 – April saw Alberta’s highest spike ever of toxic drug-related deaths.

Story 4 – Police shoot and kill man inside of a Hope, BC emergency room.

Story 5 – Ground penetrating radar has identified 88 potential graves near the site of the former St. Bruno’s Indian Residential School in northern Alberta.

Story 6 – France shows the world the way in how to react to police violence.

Daily News – June 29

June 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Here’s what we know so far about the attack in a Philosophy of Gender class at the University of Waterloo.

Story 2 – Family of five faces deportation to two separate countries demonstrating the inhumanity of Canada’s immigration and refugee system.

Story 3 – $78 million is up for grabs in an autoparts classaction settlement after a broad conspiracy is reported to fix the price of 45 autoparts sold to 12 car companies.

Story 4 – The US greenlights Canada’s purchase of new surveillance aircraft as it is in the Americans’ military interests to allow the sale.

Story 5 – Calm after elections in Sierra Leone, despite fears that there might be violence. Bio wins on the first ballot — the first candidate to do so since the civil war ended in 1992.

Daily News – June 28

June 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Mi’kmaq elder Danny Paul has died. Among so many other accomplishments, he wrote the groundbreaking history book We Were Not the Savages.

Story 2 – Canada’s competition bureau thinks that Canada needs more competition in its grocery industry.

Story 3 – Toronto Star owner Nordstar is in talks with Postmedia for a merger, a potentially cataclysmic decision for Canadian news.

Story 4 – former head of anti-kidnapping unit for Mexico’s attorney general has been arrested in relation to the kidnapping and deaths of 43 students in 2014.

Daily News – June 27

June 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – First Nations Leadership Council is calling on BC’s Minister Children and Family Development to resign over horrifying abuse case that resulted in the death of First Nations boy.

Story 2 – NB man dies in Edmonston ER, had been dropped off by his long-term care facility and left alone. The report with recommendations had to be accessed through freedom of information.

Story 3 – Nova Scotia has not built any new public housing in 28 years.

Story 4 – Israel’s Defense Ministry has fast tracked the approval of 5000 new homes in the West Bank — something that even the United States is criticizing.

Story 5 – Fighting in Syria has killed 15 people, both by rebel forces who control Idlib and Russia forces working alongside the Syrian government.

Daily News – June 23

June 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP finally release the names of the victims of the bus crash in Carberry

Story 2 – Report released into the live of Eishia Huson before she was shot and killed by Winnipeg Police

Story 3 – RCMP have not enforced an injunction to clear far right protest off an overpass; they want to respect protesters’ rights to protest.

Story 4 – Fort Albany evacuated as wildfires rapidly grow and threaten the community.

Story 5 – Motion presented in Manila to get the government to deal with a string of gruesome gender-based murders in the Philippines.

Daily News – June 22, 2023

June 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Death toll from Carberry bus crash rises to 16; names have still not been released by the RCMP of the victims.

Story 2 – Rose Finley applies for MAID after fighting for 17 years or so for disability supports.

Story 3 – Metro workers across the GTA have given their union a 100% strike mandate. It will be the first time that these grocery workers are in bargaining since the start of the pandemic.

Story 4 – Canada’s energy regulator models when Canada will hit peak oil and it looks like demand will start to decline in 3 years as countries race to hit their own net-zero targets.

Story 5 – 31 people killed in restaurant explosion in China due to a leak of liquified petroleum used by the restaurant’s barbecues.

Daily News – June 21, 2023

June 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Residents in Elliot Lake want radiation waste from uranium mining in their yards cleaned up. Canada’s nuclear registry and Natural Resources Canada says that it was cleaned up and it isn’t their problem.

Story 2 – Barrie’s city council is about to vote to make it illegal to give water to someone living on the street. Activists have set up a protest camp.

Story 3 – Two Air Force crew members are still missing after a helicopter crash yesterday morning, says the military. Trudeau though, he’s said that they’re dead.

Story 4 – At least 41 women are dead after a prison riot in Honduras.

Daily News – June 20, 2023

June 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – @CANADALAND stays on top of the mystery neurodegenerative disorder that as many as 200 people now have symptoms of in New Brunswick. Why isn’t the government taking it seriously?

Story 2 – President of a Surrey gurdwara who had been targeted by India was shot dead as he was leaving the gurdwara on Sunday night.

Story 3 – A snowbird pilot has had his duties reassigned as he faces a sexual misconduct allegation

Story 4 – Horizon North moved housekeeping workers 2 hours away to make room for pipeline workers. Their new bus ride now takes 4 hours of their day. And their bus just flipped.

Story 5 – $10 billion settlement between the Crown and 21 Anishinabe communities to update the Robinson-Huron Treaty after more than 100 years of individual payments of $4 for use of their land.

Daily News – June 19

June 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Group is on their way to Roxham Road from Montreal in protest of Canada’s border policies. Action happens in the shadow of the Supreme Court’s Safe Third Country Agreement decision.

Story 2 – Blaine Higgs walks back his comments about going to an election amid a caucus revolt over Policy 713.

Story 3 – After a ship capsized off the coast of Greece likely killing nearly 600 people, the BBC questions the official line from the Greek Coastguard — that the ship was heading for Italy — and instead says it didn’t move for 7 hours before capsizing

Story 4 – Worst attack in more than a decade in Uganda after ADF soldiers kill 41 people, mostly students, at a school near the DRC border.

Daily News – June 16

June 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 15 people dead, 10 others in hospital after collision between a bus and a truck in Carberry, MB.

Story 2 – Two Innu families prepare to exhume the bodies of two infants who had been sent to hospital in 1970 but who came home in coffins. This is happening thanks to a new law that is supporting families to find out what happened to their children.

Story 3 – Canada will be coordinating a new team out of the Dominican Republic to help the Haitian police, plus will offer $13 million.

Story 4 – 500 people are dead after a shipwreck off the coast of Greece.

Daily News – June 15

June 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police in Saanich and Victoria spied on man who filed FOI requests, violated his privcy finds the privacy commission.

Story 2 – “Damning” report released into the internal culture at UPEI.

Story 3 – Bloodbath at Bell Media as Bell decides that $2.9 billion in profits isn’t enough and therefore lays off 1300 positions.

Story 4 – Tesla’s Self-driving cars are crashing 10x more than everyone else.

Story 5 – Governor of West Darfur is killed after going on TV and saying that what’s happening in Sudan is genocide.

Daily News – June 14

June 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Woman’s knee is shattered after driver hits her. He was fined a whopping $110.

Story 2 – What is driving the rental crisis in university and college towns? International students! That’s right, this article focuses more on them than the for-profit operators who are using students to get rich.

Story 3 – In 2022, the US spent more on nuclear weapons than all other countries combined.

Story 4 – Flooding in Cuba has killed 6 people. The floods have hit have a long period of drought.

Story 5 – The largest arial war games since the end of the Cold War kicks off in Germany.

Daily News – June 13

June 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Spike in applications for temporary foreign workers in Canmore and Banff. But don’t worry — the program is mostly good, according to CBC.

Story 2 – Man probably shot and killed by police in St. John’s though very few details are out yet

Story 3 – “Experts” say that rent control is bad. Except the story only contains one guy who I’m not sure is even an expert.

Story 4 – New Zealand’s public broadcaster is under fire after it’s found that 16 of 250 Reuters stories were edited by someone to replace Ukraine’s persepctive with Russia’s perspective on events.

Daily News – June 12

June 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Crop failure due to a lack of precipitation and grasshoppers are worrying farmers in southern Alberta.

Story 2 – PEI hopes to attract nurses from seven countries through a new credentialization fast track program

Story 3 – Buried in the federal budget docs is a change to move interswitching distances from 30 KM to 160 KM, increasing competition in freight but making the rail companies lose their minds (why don’t we have public freight in Canada??)

Story 4 – After a tough week in politics, Trudeau kicks back in Kyiv where he announces $500 million more for weapons for Ukraine.

Story 5 – Honduras opens embassy in Beijing, hopes to join BRICS.

Daily News – June 9

June 9, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Parliamentary committee unanimously calls on CBSA to stop the deportation of hundreds of students who were scammed

Story 2 – Scoop at the Narwhal shows that former Suncor exec has been involved in drafting the federal government’s carbon capture plan

Story 3 – Globe and Mail journalist from Donbass has his media accreditation not renewed, subjected to lie detector in the process of trying.

Story 4 – Nearly 300 children and 70 workers evacuated from Khartoum amid fighting.

Daily News – June 8

June 8, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family’s camp dismantled after police intervention in Regina.

Story 2 – Peter Khill is sentenced to 8 years for the murder of Jonathan Styres from Six Nations. Khill had argued that he was justified in shooting Styres in self defence.

Story 3 – Hearings continue in Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation for the treatment of Innu children in the care of Labrador.

Story 4 – Family and supporters of mining activist murdered in Mexico in 2009 take their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to try and get Canada to account for its role in his murder.

Daily News – June 7, 2023

June 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Evacuations ordered for everyone living in Chibougamou and Oujé-Bougoumou as wildfires engulf more than 65,000 hectares in Northern Quebec

Story 2 – BC’s Donnie Creek fire is already the second-largest fire in the province’s history at just over 2600 hectares.

Story 3 – Saskatchwan’s income support program SIS doesn’t answer 60% of the calls it receives, frontline staff don’t know how to help someone enrol on the program.

Story 4 – Advocates condemn the lack of action on the 231 Calls to Action of the Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.

Story 5 – Atlanta officials approve Cop City.

Story 6 – The bodies of 8 workers from a suburb of Guadalajara have been found at the bottom of a ravine.

Daily News – June 6, 2023

June 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Internal emails show that Vancouver officials knew that there wouldn’t be enough shelter beds for the people who were forced off of the Downtown East side last April.

Story 2 – A second rent strike in Toronto is on and this time, the building’s owner is a Crown corporation.

Story 3 – Internal documents show what CSC considers to be excessive force and what is appropriate.

Story 4 – At least 42 dead in floods in Haiti.

Daily News – June 5, 2023

June 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Five people, including 4 children, were swept by the tide into the St. Lawrence while fishing and have died.

Story 2 – Quebec is paying for lifesaving qualifications to boost number of lifeguards in the province. Already, there’s been an increase of 40% in the enrollment of people taking their bronze medallion.

Story 3 – Quality reporting from Global News’ new HMCS Montreal Bureau direct from the Taiwan straight.

Story 4 – Massive train disaster in India was likely caused by faulty electrical switch.

Story 5 – 77 school girls have been poisoned in two schools in Northern Afghanistan.

Daily News – June 2, 2023

June 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – About 200 tenants are on rent strike at appartmnet building in Toronto.

Story 2 – Despite Danielle Smith’s victory, Suncor is still planning to axe 1500 jobs.

Story 3 – Death toll linked to Kenneth Law reaches at least 21, per CTV’s research.

Story 4 – New journal article shows that Black men are being underdiagnosed for various respiratory illnesses.

Daily News – June 1, 2023

June 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Financial Accountability Office has found $4.4 billion extra in healthcare spending, private spending will surpass 106%

Story 2 – The second deferred prosecution agreement has been handed down to a Montreal company that was bribing Phillipine leadership.

Story 3 – Stellantis gets its blood money? $13 billion looks to be promised to the EV batter plant in Windsor.

Story 4 – Ukraine’s minister of defense of appeals directly to defense companies to send weapons to Ukraine.

Story 5 – 15 family members have died as a result of consuming toxic porridge in Namibia.

Daily news – May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Priest arrested in Little Grand Rapids, MB for sexual assault on child

Story 2 – Hero tenant refuses to give up her $400 appartment in Montreal so that condos can be built, is holding out for enough money to ensure she doesn’t find herself homeless.

Story 3 – Criminal lawyers warn that Canada’s new bail laws will be unconstitutional.

Story 4 – Fighting continues in Khartoom, Khartoom North and Omdurman despite ceasefire.

Daily News – May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unmarked police car collides with school bus, both drivers die and the SIU is investigating.

Story 2 – After a “slow moving chase” police open fire on three occupants of a cube van for being “suspicious” or maybe “impaired” murdering two of the occupants.

Story 3 – Forest fires force massive evacuations in Halifax

Story 4 – Privileged members of Canada’s Special Forces evade accountability when accused of harassment, including sexual harassment

Story 5 – In Northern Kosovo, NATO has been protecting municipal buildings from Serbs after three Albanian mayors are elected, one with just 3.5% because Serbs boycotted elections.

Daily News – May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police murder man who murdered his two tenants. Reporting made it sound as if the tenants had allowed their unit to fall into disrepair.

Story 2 – Members of CUPE Local 5047 in Halifax enter week three of their strike. The province has started using scabs.

Story 3 – Public housing workers in Iqaluit pass 70 days of strike, rejecting a very low pay increase offer from the employer.

Story 4 – RCMP apologizes for “misscommunication” about Indigenous girl’s death being deemed not suspicious.

Story 5 – Turkey’s Erdogan wins another 5-year mandate.

Daily News – May 26

May 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto Police tries to charge Pride Toronto 150% more than they charged last year for the honour of their presence.

Story 2 – The University of Waterloo will give tuition waivers to members of the Six Nations of the Grand and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in what they call an act of reconciliation

Story 3 – Canada’s big banks miss analysts’ predictions, only making like $5 billion in three months rather than like $8 billion

Story 4 – Brazil’s Lula faces challenge as a congressional committee strips the power out of his newly reformed environmental ministry and newly created Indigenous people ministry

Daily News – May 25

May 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – People evicted from a publicly-funded temporary shelter in Summerside were given no notice and two hours to move their lives. About 10 people were evicted.

Story 2– Girl who was found dying under pallets and garbage behind a motel in Cowichan’s death consdiered “non-criminal” by Cowichan police.

Story 3 – Eight charges laid against employer after three men die in an explosion. Steelworkers’ rep praises prosecutors for referencing the Westray law.

Story 4 – 190 ER physicians in Calgary write open letter warning that they cannot deliver the care that people need; system is on brink of collapse

Story 5 – Boat carrying 500 people has issued a distress call but Maltese and Italian officials do nothing, say activists who help rescue people at sea.

Daily News – May 24

May 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Canadian government has been declaring people who are not dead, dead.

Story 2 – Calls for sodium nitrate to be restricted grow as more suicides emerge caused by purchasing sodium nitrate online.

Story 3 – Canada promies “an end to airport chaos” by relaxing security measures. But only for soldiers and cops.

Story 4 – Canada’s household debt surpases Canada’s total GDP.

Story 5 – Dormitory that mostly housed Indigenous girls was set fire by a student who was in an exploitative relationship.

Daily News – May 23, 2023

May 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Teens give money to coworker who can’t afford maternity leave; journalist forgets to actually interview anyone with the power to give worker the maternity leave.

Story 2: Bonaparte First Nation is challenging the expansion of a rail terminal after construction disturbed ancestors, encroached on traditional lands.

Story 3: Nearly half of all nurses registered in Ontario were trained outside of Canada

Story 4: Ceasefire collapses with the EMC-Farc in Colombia after they murder four Indigenous teenagers.

Daily News – May 22

May 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Some Canadians are having their tax returns withheld because of CERB overpayments. Except they’ve already repaid.

Story 2 – Wildfires continue to burn across Alberta and BC, more than 11,000 people are waiting for the green light to return home and rain is in the forcast for both provinces’ fire regions.

Story 3 – The Globe uncovers proof of clerical errors leading to hundreds of people being incarcerated longer than they should be in Quebec.

Story 4 – Greece’s conservative New Democracy Party wins just over 40% of the vote; they now decide if they can govern in a coalition or try to win an outright victory in a new election.

Daily News – May 19

May 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hamilton Police cannot say what their armoured vehicle is being used for, unless CBC coughs up $5000

Story 2 – Commission report finds that Baby Tanner Brass died as a result of police negligence of duty, PA police chief resigns.

Story 3 – Coronor’s report makes 21 recommendations into death of Skyler Sappier after he acquired COVID-19 in a Saint John prison. Neqotkuk chief calls for an Indigenous-led inquiry into systemic racism in prisons.

Story 4 – Second child in two weeks dies while in border patrol custody in the US

Daily News – May 18

May 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Very low number of people who have been hired through a new pilot program to fill healthcare jobs with refugees have actually been able to come to Canada.

Story 2 – State of Emergency declared in Kinngait, Nunavut, due to electrical problem at pump house.

Story 3 – Two Vancouver-based brothers and their two asbestos abatement companies have wracked up nearly 70 heath and safety violations.

Story 4 – Westjet pilots are set to strike.

Story 5 – Workers at North Hollywood’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar are finally having their votes counted by the NLRB, on the cusp of forming the US’ only stripper union in the US.

Daily News – May 17

May 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dead birds found near tar sands tailings ponds. If it isn’t the wildfire, it’ll be the toxic sludge that gets ya, birds.

Story 2 – Third Nunavut community is dealing with a TB outbreak, three years after the Liberals’ program funding to eradicate TB from Nunavut dried up.

Story 3 – A southwestern Ontario judge slams the conduct of several officers with the Norfolk OPP, Richard Fody in particular, for racist violence in the frivolous arrest of young Black man.

Story 4 – At least 200,000 people have fled Sudan amid fighting, putting pressure on cities like Port Sudan to deal with an influx of people amid an extreme heat wave.

Story 5 – At least 22 people have died amid massive flooding in Somalia. More than 400,000 people have been impacted by the floods, just after the same region was dealing with extreme dought.

Story 6 – The death toll of the Shakahola Massacre has reached 201 — that’s how many bodies have been exhumed at the site of an extreme Christian death cult in the Kenyan coastal region.

Daily News – May 16

May 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family of man murdered by police wants @TorontoPolice to stop shooting to kill when intervening with people in crisis.

Story 2 – Documents obtained by the Globe and Mail show that Montreal’s fire department had formally STOPPED doing fire code enforcement back in 2018. They quietly ended the moratorium after 7 people were killed in an appartment fire.

Story 3 – First Nations women are 11x more likely to die from toxic drugs than all other women in British Columbia.

Story 4 – Potato, Potato? What the Globe calls a ‘standoff’ and a ‘bind’ is actually just Stellantis and LG doing extortion. But the narrative tells us that governments just won’t have any other choice than to pay the ransom.

Daily News – May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfires burn across Canada, Indigenous communities bear the brunt of the disasters.

Story 2 – nearly 1,000,000 birds have been killed in Quebec, and 7.6M birds in Canada, due to Avian Flu.

Story 3 – Documents from a Canadian Forces propaganda training program have gone missing.

Story 4 – Thai voters reject military rule

Story 5 – Is Turkey headed to a run-off ballot?

Daily News – May 3

May 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two Toronto cops, including one who makes $213,000 are suspended with pay after being charged with stealing bottles of booze from someone they had arrested.

Story 2 – How much more are Ontario for-profit clinics charging for surgeries than public hospitals? City News says we don’t know, though we do know a little.

Story 3 – Important investigation into how many MPs own stock in oil and gas companies. Bad news: a third of members of the natural resource committee do.

Story 4 – Round three of talks between Colombia and the ELN bring the two sides closer to a cease fire.

Story 5 – Content moderators who work for the world’s largest media platforms form the African Content Moderators Union.

Daily News – May 2

May 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfire smoke causes heart illness with rates rising just hours with contact with smokey air, says new study.

Story 2 – The jury at the Coroner’s Inquiry into the police murder of Myles Gray has determined that he died by homicide.

Story 3 – Inquiry starts into how the RCMP handled complaints of abuse at Indigenous Day Schools in Burns Lake and Prince George. The high profile accused won his right to be anonymous, despite there being lots of reporting out there on him already.

Story 4 – Israel has bombed the Aleppo airport for the third time in about six weeks. They also conducted an air raid over Homs.

Daily News – May 1

May 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – No charges recommended by ASIRT for cop who kicked Indigenous teen in the head.

Story 2 – Fire breaks out underground at the Donkin mine.

Story 3 – Surrey’s mayor wants the city to stop its transition away from the RCMP, the province is strongly urging that they stick to the plan and have their own municipal force take over from the RCMP.

Story 4 – Santiago Pena wins election in Paraguay continuing the seven-decade streak of rule of the Colorado Party.

Daily News – April 28

April 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/homeless-homicide-quebec-city-1.6824099

Story 2 – https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1974806/nunavik-kuujjuaq-meteo-temperature-printemps-fonte

Story 3 – https://globalnews.ca/news/9654900/james-smith-cree-nation-murder-timeline/

Story 4 – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/27/rohingya-yemeni-and-syrian-refugees-plead-for-help-in-sudan

Daily News – April 27

April 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario government asks people to narc on their neighbours, family members who receive social assistance.

Story 2 – A review into the operations of the PA police is not being released … yet. PAPS has been responsible for three deaths, including that of an infant when they charged his mother with being intoxicated (she wasn’t) during a domestic abuse call.

Story 3 – The Alberta Energy Regulator is afraid that the movie How To Blow Up A Pipeline will inspire people to go out and blow up pipelines.

Story 4 – Fascinating investigation from ProPublica about trains that are left sitting on tracks for hours, even days, preventing kids from getting to school or ambulances and fire from getting to emergencies.

Story 5 – 57 bodies off the coast of Libya and 70 bodies of the coast of Tunisia have been found due to boats that had migrants aboard sinking in the Mediterranean.

Daily News – April 26

April 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Flight Attendants rally at four airports to demand that they’re paid when they show up to work.

Story 2 – Mikisew Cree First Nation declares a state of emergency, requests emergency health services from Indigenous Services Canada and the Alberta Health Service.

Story 3 – CBC’s workforce has too many temporary and contract workers and that creates situations that are rife for abuse. A quarter of the workforce are temps.

Story 4 – Improperly stored ammunition and an electrical fire is being blamed for two explosions that killed 17 people in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

Daily News – April 25

April 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Emissions from the tar sands are likely 65% higher than what industry is reporting, according to new scientific study.

Story 2 – Group of citizens, active with Climate Justice Saskatoon, are taking the Saskatchewan government to court over climate change denial and their to slow net-zero plans.

Story 3 – Omar Alghabra finds himself in TERF ire for posting a video of male parliamentarians walking around in high heel shoes to raise money for the Halton Women’s Place.

Story 4 – Former longtime Liberal MP and former Industry Minister Navdeep Bains lands gig at Rogers closing the MP-to-Rogers loop.

Story 5 – Hassan Diab maintains his innocence as he is sentenced to life in prison by a French court, hopes he will not be extradited a second time by Canada.

Daily News – April 24

April 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Layer over layer of systems failures lead to the overdoes death of Thre Windego in a seedy Fort Frances motel. The boy was just 16.

Story 2 – Workers employed by Civeo at a camp that houses mostly Imperial Oil workers have voted against the company’s offer to cut their wages. Civeo made a profit in 2022.

Story 3 – The RCMP brutally arrested an Inuk-Dene teen in Whitehorse leaving her needing surgery. In the end, she wasn’t actually charged with anything.

Story 4 – Update on the story of Boden Umpherville, the man who was tasered and pepper sprayed by PA police. His family has announced that he is brain dead.

Story 5 – The University of Waterloo reminds its researchers of their rights if CSIS comes knocking and the Globe pumps out another nice piece of propaganda.

Story 6 – 47 people’s bodies have been exhumed from a mass grave that was related to a religious cult, say Kenyan authorities.

Daily News – April 21

April 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto cop ODs on drugs that he stole from an investigation, two people have charges dropped as a result.

Story 2 – Forty unmarked graves detected at the site of the former St. Augustine Residential School. The TRC had found that five children had died at that location.

Story 3 – Discord leaks show that Trudeau said Canada would never meet it’s NATO obligation for military spending, something that his government has been saying for years.

Story 4 – Foodbank usage in southern ontario is at an all-time high.

Story 5 – Trudeau commits $13 billion annually to Volkeswagon to get them to build EV batteries in Canada.

Daily News – April 20

April 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Investigation from CBC Nova Scotia shows how few complaints against police are actually investigated — just 6%

Story 2 – 6 million litres of water is dumped illegally by Suncor, NWT government is frustrated that they were not notified.

Story 3 – Grocer Metro sees 10% profit raise in most recent quarter.

Story 4 – In a display of awww precious, ADM for DND asks defense companies if they can stop over promising and under delivering.

Story 5 – Ukraine struggles to export grain as the Euro Commission’s decision to drop tariffs on Ukrainian gran has been brutal for other Eastern European farmers. Now, countries are refusing to purchase Ukrainian grain.

Daily News – April 19

April 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Publication ban lifted, Catherine Fournier’s identity is formally revealed as survivor of high-profile sexual assault.

Story 2 – A couple has set up a camp at Victoria’s legislative building demanding that the state give them back their newborn.

Story 3 – Five people who were supposed to be repatriated to Canada from Syria have gone missing in Syria, and their lawyer is baffled as to why Canada didn’t ensure their safe repatriation.

Story 4 – Heatwave kills 13 at a massive government awards ceremony in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra State.

Story 5 – plus! Find the closest picket line to where you live or work and head out to support the 155,000 workers who have just walked off the job.

Daily News – April 18

April 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Workers with Vancouver Coastal Health and hundreds of academics denounce how the City of Vancouver cleared the encampment on East Hastings St.

Story 2 – Canada needs immigrants to fill the 30,000 farming jobs that will be open by 2033 but don’t give TFWs permanent residency, says the office of the federal immigration minister

Story 3 – Violence erupts in Sudan after a pact between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces falls apart.

Story 4 – the US says that they have killed senior ISIS leadership in northern Syria

Daily News – April 17

April 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: BC Energy Regulator investigating 2 spills under the Morice River in Wet’sewet’en territory.

Story 2 – Just before the Canadian women went onto the gold medal game yesterday, the Canadian government restored funding to Hockey Canada. Amazingly cynical!

Story 3 – Incredible investigation from Tavia Grant about Canada’s corporate responsibilty Ombudsman — the office has yet to complete a single case since it was founded in 2015.

Story 4 – A Canadian Pacific train has derailed in Maine. No spill of the hazardous material it had been carrying — only cars filled with lumber and electrical wiring left the track.

Daily News -April 14

April 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive failures in child services protocol puts girl at risk of human trafficking. She went missing for 47 days while in the custody of a for-profit foster agency.

Story 2 – Woman’s dog bites someone. She is charged with bylaw offenses and she refuses to give her name. RCMP don’t understand what bylaw offenses are means so they detain her for nearly a week, deny her a shower, film her going to the washroom.

Story 3 – Royal Bank of Canada is the largest funder of fossil fuels *in the world*

Story 4 – Single barn fire at a Texas farm kills 18,000 cattle. Back in Feb., 10,000 hogs died in a barn fire in SK — something that happened as well in 2018.

Daily News – April 13

April 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two girls found dead in a hotel in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Story 2 – MLSE, the love child of Rogers and Bell has sweetheart deal to host the World Cup. They get all the revenue and taxpayers will pay all of the costs.

Story 3 – TB rates on the rise across Canada’s North. Inuit have a rate of TB infection that is 135.1 cases per 100K people. Non-Indigenous people born in Canada have a rate of 0.2 cases per 100K.

Story 4 – Successful strike votes put 155,000 PSAC members in legal strike position.

Story 5 – Myanmar’s military government bombed a gathering celebrating the opening of an administrative office organized by the National Unity Government, the group who had been in power until a coup d’etat.

Daily News – April 12

April 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man goes on hunger strike to pressure the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to restore a Black settler cemetary

Story 2 – The community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug signs history agreement giving them power over child and family services; a coalition of three First Nations in Alberta sign similar agreement

Story 3 – In the wake of a meeting between Trudeau and the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Canada brokers private deals with Colt and Cameco to supply 21,000 guns and uranium. Do we at least get a cut of the deals?!

Story 4 – Chile passes law that will very slowly phase in a 40-hour work week, down from 45 hours.

Daily News – April 11

April 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Homicide investigators and cadaver dogs on the site of man arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting sex workers near Calgary.

Story 2 – Another mosque attack this week end, this time in Montreal.

Story 3 – CBC Feature “When Anarchists Attack” has nothing about anarchists actually attacking, does copaganda for the RCMP.

Story 4 – Northern Graphite wants approval and federal funding for new graphite mine in Quebec. CBC uncritically publishes PR for the company; mentions that maybe the US Department of Defense might invest, as if this is no big deal.

Story 5 – Amnesty International condemns the treatment of journalists in Burkina Faso

Daily News – April 10

April 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Apparent hate crime at a Markham mosque after man walks into mosque, rips up a Qu’ran and then tries to hit people with his vehicule

Story 2 – Journalists try to figure out why cops don’t take good notes and what can be done, don’t consider that taking bad notes has become part of their job and is very much intentional.

Story 3 – Federal minister responsible for families blames provinces on not doing enough to make things affordable.

Story 4 – Oman coordianating talks between Saudi Arabia and Houthis to try and establish a lasting peace in Yemen.

Daily News – April 7

April 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Members of FFAW are furious that the price of snow crab for the upcoming season is set at a rate that wont let them actually make any money.

Story 2 – Details about what David Johnson will be doing as the special rapporteur on election interference has come out. The 81-year-old will receive a per diem between $1400-$1600 per day.

Story 3 — Canada sends military aircraft to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea. Why now, though?

Story 4 – Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in Eibit Systems, Israel’s leading defence contractor. They make, among other munitions, cluster bombs.

Daily News – April 6

April 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – About 10 Ukrainian women in London report being asked to do sex work to make money by the women who they were living with.

Story 2 – Despite not having enough submariners to crew the current fleet of 4 submarines, Canada’s Navy is pushing for 12 subs to be purchased by Canada, for a cost that could rise up to $100B.

Story 3 – Liberal MP calls out her party for being pathetic and cowardly in defense of Palestinian lives (well, she uses different words) as Israeli violence escalates at the al-Asqa mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

Story 4 – After massive fire at the Bongo Bazar in Dhaka, 3000 businesses are gone. Good news: very few injuries. Bad news: many people have lost everything.

Daily News – April 5

April 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Devestating news from Winnipeg as the body of Linda Mary Beardy is found at the Brady Road site landfill.

Story 2 – VANDU warns that the city is planning to clear tents and shelters along East Hastings St., folks brace for confrontations while asking: where are people supposed to go?

Story 3 – Saugeen First Nation wins land claim over 2.5 KM of beach land at Sauble Beach. The beachfront was part of an 1874 Treaty that had been broken.

Story 4 – Canada’s worst person got a $1.5 million raise last year

Story 5 – A new Nature Astronomy paper says that scientists have found a planet that may have a magnetic field (necessary, we think, for fostering life!)

Daily News – April 4

April 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An inquest has decided that Beau Baker, who was killed by Waterloo Police Officer Eric Boynton, officially died by suicide.

Story 2 – Not April Fools? John Horgan becomes member of new coal company board, a spin-off from Teck Resources.

Story 3 – seven of the eight people who died on the St. Lawrence as they tried to cross from Canada into the United States have been identified

Story 4 – At least 27 people and likely dozens more have been killed in a landslide in the south of Equador.

Daily News – April 3

April 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An inquest has decided that Beau Baker, who was killed by Waterloo Police Officer Eric Boynton, officially died by suicide.

Story 2 – Not April Fools? John Horgan becomes member of new coal company board, a spin-off from Teck Resources.

Story 3 – seven of the eight people who died on the St. Lawrence as they tried to cross from Canada into the United States have been identified

Story 4 – At least 27 people and likely dozens more have been killed in a landslide in the south of Equador.

Daily News – March 31

March 31, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – OPP officer is found guilty of sexual assault, has been on paid leave for having been found guilty of drug trafficking, made +$121,000 in 2021.

Story 2 – Saskatchewan is going to send people to Calgary to get knee surgery at for-profit clinic with close ties to UCP.

Story 3 – Leaders from five First Nations in Northwestern Ontario disrupt Queen’s Park.

Story 4 – Dominic LeBlanc’s sister-in-law is appointed to be interim ethics commissioner, which is not a great look for the Liberals.

Story 5 – Six bodies of migrants recovered from the St. Lawrence.

Daily News – March 30

March 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Feature into the life of a man who recently killed a Quebec police officer shows that the system was not able to give him the help he needed.

Story 2 – Woman is dead days after Toronto police dismissed her fear that her ex would cause her harm.

Story 3 – Briefing note shows that Harjit Sajjan was to show that the Canadian government was “pleased” about a possible deal between Qatar and Canada-based General Dynamics to build LAVs.

Story 4 – Journalist in Bangladesh is arrested after quoting someone who said he couldn’t afford rice. The government calls it “False News” and many worry that the Bangladeshi government is increasingly totalitarian.

Daily News – March 29

March 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Nova Scotia doctors prescribed 95% of prescriptions for off-label weight loss drugs that were bought by Americans from BC pharmacies

Story 2 – Families hope that McGill and MUHC will finally account for MKUltra

Story 3 – Hoping for some discipline over how the RCMP bungled the mass shooting in Nova Scotia in 2020? Unlikey as most of the force’s leadership from that time has either been promoted or has retired.

Story 4 – The UK is sending munitions to Ukraine with depleted uranium in them. What is depleted uranium and how dangerous is it?

Daily News – March 28

March 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Explosion at a home in northeast Calgary injures 12.

Story 2 – Auditor General finds that accessibility is a mess at ViaRail, CATSA and the Canadian Transportation Agency; not enough enforcement or priority placed on supporting disabled travellers.

Story 3 – The AG also found that Canada has not fulfilled its promises to support gender equality, cannot demonstrate which feminist measures it spent $3.5B on

Story 4 – Canada refuses to repatriate four men held in a Syrian prison, will appeal judge’s ruling that said they had a responsibility to.

Story 5 – At least 39 dead after fire breaks out at migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juarez

Daily News – March 27

March 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A worker found without vital signs at the Residence Inn in Rexdale in apparent workplace accident.

Story 2 – Sargeant André Chenier from the Nipissing West OPP was charged with criminal harassment back in November, though journalists are only getting wind of it now. No details on what he’s alleged to have done …

Story 3 – Quebec vows to crack down on illegal AirBnBs but outlook not so good if you look at the history of them not cracking down.

Story 4 – The deal to close unofficial border crossings, thereby tightening the Safe Third Country Agreement, was actually signed in secret a year ago.

Story 5 – Benjamin Netenyahu’s ex-minister of defence Yoav Gallant might be the moment’s hero but he has also done war crimes.

Daily News – March 24

March 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The biggest earthquake in Alberta’s history? Turns out it was caused by the practice of shooting toxic tar sands water 2 KM into the ground.

Story 2 – Residents of Fort Chip are angry with Imperial Oil after finding out that tailings ponds from the Kearl site had been leaking for almost a year and they weren’t told, meeting with Imperial Oil goes poorly.

Story 3 – Canadian politicians and organizations are having their Tweets blocked by Twitter in India, hiding their critical messages of oppression in Punjab.

Story 4 – Investigation into how Qatar successfully wooed the ILO in advance of the World Cup so that labour practices would be downplayed

Daily News – March 23

March 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – violent, dog abusing fake pastor is in front of a judge in a bail hearing in Calgary for yelling homophobic and transphobic things at children.

Story 2 – Another allegation of sexual assault in Quebec’s junior hockey league comes out at commission

Story 3 – Canada wanted to edit a statement condemning the death of Palestinian journalist to say that her murder, by the Israeli army, was “accidental”

Story 4 – homosexuality punishable by death if Uganda’s president signs a bill that parliament just voted overwhelmingly to pass.

Daily News – March 22

March 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – residents at a seniors’ facility in Nelson have been slapped with an illegal 10% rent increase. The owners try to get cute with what is the definition of rent.

Story 2 – Thunder Bay’s new police commander is the son of Métis Federation of Manitoba founder George Fleury

Daily News – March 21

March 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Explore Regina pulls a boner with new tourism campaign.

Story 2 – PEI PC leader Dennis King caught on camera not challenging transphobic comments, just days after he pledged to defend trans islanders in a debate

Story 3 – Gagandeep Singh, an international student, is swarmed, attacked, has his turban stolen and is dragged across the sidewalk by his hair in shocking hate crime attack by 12-15 people in Kelowna.

Story 4 – More than 500 people have been arrested protesting the South African government for failing to address high unemployment and unteneble rolling blackouts.

Story 5 – Protests across Kenya against the government for not dealing with the increasing cost of living or fulfilling any promises to help Kenyans with the cost of food.

Daily News – March 20

March 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – three unhoused Torotonians died per week in 2022. Most from toxic drugs though the second most common cause of death was “unknown/pending”

Story 2 – one body has been recovered in first at illegal AirBnB in Montreal, police say between 7 and 10 people are feared dead. 92% of AirBnBs in the city are illegal.

Story 3 – The ROM fights CRA for $13.7 million that it claimed in CEWS wage subsidy. CRA says that the ROM was not eligible.

Story 4 – Death toll from cyclone Freddy, the longest cyclone ever recorded, rises to 522.

Daily News – March 17

March 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1a – Despite collusion between lobby orgs and the Toronto Star to sink her campaign, Sarah Jama wins the Hamilton Centre byelection

Story 1b – Guillaume Cliche Rivard won this week too, and turned Saint-Henri Sainte-Anne orange, for the first time in the history of the riding, the Liberals lost.

Story 2- Quebec’s National Assembly puts on a “We’re not more racist” hat and hopes it clears the air.

Story 3 – Teenager dies in a grain elevator shaft in Aylmer, Ontario, Elgin Feeds falls outside the jursidiction of the Ministry of Labour for some reason

Story 4 – Why was the age of the police shooter suppressed all day yesterday?

Story 5 – Mississippi police say there was no foul play in the death of Rasheem Carter, his family calls his death a lynching.

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