Story 1 – Workers at two newspapers on Prince Edward Island are forming a union! Staff at The Guardian and the Journal-Pioneer are creating the Island News Guild [no link].

Story 2 – INKAS, a defense firm that was blocked by 100 protesters on Monday morning, has sold more weapons than previously said pubicly, through their Israeli subsidiary

Story 3 – Immigrants are increasingly leaving Canada, in a story that CTV editorializes in their headline by explaining it’s to move to “greener pastures” and not because Canada is in a generalized state of decline

Story 4 – Northern College exploits the hell out of international students — rescinds January admissions offers from 200 international students and boosts the share of their budget in international fees from $12M in 2021 to $67M in 2023.

Story 5 – Rocket that hit the café in Hroza was launched by Russia, investigation confirms; Biden tries to push through a $106B spending package to stop Russia from winning the war, says his defense secretary.

Story 6 – Israel attacks the Jabalia refugee camp twice killing probably hundreds of people to, they claim, try and kill a single guy.

Daily News – Oct. 31, 2023

October 31, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Evelyne Beaudoin, mayor of Sherbrooke takes a leave of absence, Raïs Kibonge takes over.

Story 2 – 17 MPs’ offices in 12 cities were occupied yesterday by folks demanding Canada call for a cease fire in Palestine.

Story 3 – Jamaican Minister of Labour tours Ontario farms to see the horrible living and working conditions that Jamaican Temporary Foreign Workers endure.

Story 4 – Dr. Ezzat Gouda faces deportation tomorrow, even though he’s been sentenced to death in Egypt, begging the question what is our refugee system even for if not this?

Story 5 – First Nations and Inuit Chiefs of Police Association of Quebec take the federal government to the Human Rights Tribunal over systemic underfunding.

Daily News – Oct. 30, 2023

October 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police officer is convicted of excessive violence for slamming the head of someone into the jail bars and strangling her

Story 2 – Quebec’s Front Commun deeply disappointed in latest government offer — promising well below projected inflation (10.3% over 5 years)

Story 3 – 2022 numbers are out about who accessed MAID. The Canadian Press missed that expanded MAID (MAID for people whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable) have doubled since 2021.

Story 4 – Reporters Without Borders confirm that Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed by fire that came from Israel and that it was likely targeted.

Story 5 – Talks in Jeddah resume coordinated by Saudi Arabia to bring an end to Sudan’s civil war.

Daily News – Oct. 23, 2023

October 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Andy Shwetz survived being stuck in a well for eight hours. Warns others in Alberta to take special care around old wells

Story 2 – St. Lawrence Seaway workers walk off the job; the CFIB is saying that they’re so essential that they deserve low wages *and* should be stripped of their right to strike.

Story 3 – Farmers in Western Canada are receiving more than $200 million in aid to help deal with the impacts of draught.

Story 4 – Peronist Sergio Massa wins with 36% of the votes in Argentina’s presidential election, will face off against “Argentina’s Donald Trump” Javier Millei on November 19.

Story 5 – Worst night so-far for Gaza as Israel continues to pound the area with bombs.

Daily News – Oct. 27, 2023

October 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man who likely lit the fire in Montreal’s Old Port, killing 7, was out of jail after escaping from serving a murder sentence

Story 2 – Vancouver Police harass the Drug User Liberation Front, raid their offices and two homes, arrest and release two people without charges, can’t say what quantities of drugs they seized.

Story 3 – Temporary foreign workers from Phillippines are still being forced to pay huge amounts of money to be able to come to Canada to work.

Story 4 – At least 27 dead in Mexico after the south Pacific coast is slammed by Hurricane Otis

Daily News – Oct. 26, 2023

October 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Newfoundland and Labrador’s for-profit shelter system is a nightmare, pushing people into tents.

Story 2 – Some kids with complex needs are being housed in hotels or in the buildings where they receive services as Children’s Aid CEO says that the system is in crisis.

Story 3 – Federal meeting will be held among Ministers of Finance to discuss Alberta’s desire to leave the Canada Pension Plan

Story 4 – UAW workers get major wins after 41-day strike.

Story 5 – Wael Dahdouh, Gaza bureau chief for Al Jazeera Arabic’s family is massacred by Israeli forces.

Story 6 – The UN says that 114 million people are displaced worldwide, a record high since the data started to be collected in 1975.

Daily News – Oct. 25, 2023

October 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Residents of Cochrane, AB risk running out of water after construction punctured a sewage and water line.

Story 2 – Six people dead, including the shooter, in Sault Ste. Marie

Story 3 – Ontario calls for the feds to drop their plans to apply environmental assessment laws to Highway 413 and Ontario Place construction.

Story 4 – Black and Brown communities live under something called Black Snow — the ash that falls on them from the practice of burning sugar cane in south Florida.

Story 5 – Russia says that it’s ready for new sanctions.

Daily News – Oct. 24, 2023

October 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 –Ottawa police cleared by SIU for man’s murder in Byward Market.

Story 2 – NB judge who OK’d a rent increase of $200 per month is also a landlord.

Story 3 – Canada and Enbridge are fighting the Bad Riverå Band of the Lake Superior Chippewas to keep Line 5 operating.

Story 4 – 36 buses torched along with many trucks and a train to retaliate over police shooting of a paramilitary organized crime leader in Rio de Janeiro.

Daily News – Oct. 20, 2023

October 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sarah Jama sends Doug Ford a cease and desist letter; the ONDP abstain from motion that supports Israel dropping 6000 bombs on Gaza in 6 days

Story 2 – Some produce industry voices warn that to protect their profits, they will pass on costs related to reducing plastic packaging to the consumer.

Story 3 – Over 20 years, a lack of competition in Canada has driven prices up through markups and profits. The report though doesn’t name any industries to protect the confidentiality of the criminals.

Story 4 – Israel’s Knesset member Ofer Cassif is suspended for 45 days for comments that criticize Israel.

Daily News – Oct. 19, 2023

October 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Red Deer Catholic School Board trustee said that the Holy Spirit told her to “go for it” and post a transphobic meme. An air-tight defense!

Story 2 – ACORN Hamilton activist and new wife are killed in firey crash on the QEW.

Story 3 – Man revealed to be police informant at his trial for fraud and money laundering.

Story 4 – The Government of Saskatchewan is trying to punish a man who shared his story with CBC. The story? About the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Saskatchewan government.

Story 5 – 28 people dead in bombing in Kachin State in Myanmar

Daily News – Oct. 18, 2023

October 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Human rights commissioner resigns over province’s transphobic bill, Regina students walk out of highschool classes in protest of bill.

Story 2 – Arthur and Sarah Irving step down from the leadership of Irving Oil.

Story 3 – The oil and gas industry in Canada is “flush with cash” as mergers and acquisitions for 2023 surpass $12B.

Story 4 – The son of a banana mogul wins the election in Ecuador, will serve for 16 months.

Daily News – Oct. 17, 2023

October 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The unbelievable story of Andrew Abbass, seeking a public review of how he was involuntarily committed to a psych ward over a tweet.

Story 2 – Kingston man who should never be allowed be allowed near cars again, loses his license for just two weeks.

Story 3 – Canada re-negotiates its free trade deal with Ukraine

Story 4 – Poland’s Law and Justice party might lose government, but with President Duda in power and a coalition of three parties hoping to form government, the road of Donald Tusk is full of obstacles.

Daily News – Oct. 16, 2023

October 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 54 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been charged or are facing trial for fishing in violation of federal regulations.

Story 2 – RCMP in Slave Lake, AB killed a man with a taser. The Canadian Press reprints the RCMP press release but forgets to put it into quotation marks.

Story 3 – Rents are up 11% over last year, and as high as 78% for shared accommodations in Ontario.

Story 4 – Lawyers who settled the historic class action case for on-reserve child welfare underfunding are requesting $80 million in compensation, something that the feds and advocates alike think might be too high.

Story 5 – Update on Palestine and Israel — Israel hits 250 north Gazan targets yesterday.

Daily News – Oct. 13, 2023

October 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Nathan Veltman takes the stand in his own defense, though it isn’t clear what his actual defense is.

Story 2 – The CAQ floats idea of raising tuition fees at English universities for non-Quebec students to protect French — something that makes absolutely no sense, though will attract richer anglos to the province.

Story 3 – NDP Convention starts today and there is no Israel or Palestine motion in the motions to be debated.

Story 4 – Australians will vote tomorrow on whether or not to create the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advisory body that will inform government policy.

Daily News – Oct. 12, 2023

October 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Rotten wood and insect damage caused the collapse of a wooden footbridge that collapsed, sending 17 children and one adult to hospital at Fort Gibralter in Winnipeg.

Story 2 – Air Canada fires a pilot for participating in Palestinian rally, posting about it online and saying mean things about Israel.

Story 3 – The Gatineau Prison has the highest number of inmates in Quebec who are there because they were homeless and can’t pay municipal fines. This was supposed to be outlawed back in 2020.

Story 4 – Land on the Adriatic coast is at the heart of a struggle between Greece and Albania that may see Albania’s application to the EU blocked by Greece.

Daily News – Oct. 11, 2023

October 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP opens criminal investigation into Doug Ford and the Green Belt

Story 2 – Hundreds rally in Regina to oppose Scott Moe’s attack on trans children.

Story 3 – Natural gas pipeline and telecommunications cable that links Finland and Estonia appear to have been sabotaged

Story 4 – Updates from Israel and Palestine; Palestininian neighbourhoods pounded by Israeli bombs.

Daily News – Oct. 10, 2023

October 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 62 asylum seekers who had been sleeping on a Toronto street outside a shelter service centre have been given temporary lodgings in an Etobicoke church.

Story 2 – Junior C hockey player in Alberta stomps on another player’s head, slashing his neck, in a game where his team was up by 4 points and with less than a minute left to go. The victim says he thought he was going to die.

Story 3 – I give you a round up of news in Israel thanks to the Times of Israel and in Palestine thanks to Al Jazeera. (Based on lots of links).

Story 4 – Consensus emerges in support of Israel among Canada’s political class.

Story 5 – Edmonton Mayor’s reasonable and empathetic tweet calling for peace is slammed as “disgusting” by Edmonton’s Jewish Federation.

Story 6 – Earthquake death toll in Afghanistan’s Herat Province rises to 3000 as resuce efforts are stymied by a lack of expertise, support and the remoteness of the region.

Daily News – Oct. 6, 2023

October 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Annual Homeless count finds that homelessness has jumped significantly in Vancouver and other communities.

Story 2 – Higher interest rates have pushed people’s mortgages to surpassing 40 years.

Story 3 – Canadian ex. RCMP tried to contact international money launderer, documents in trial suggest.

Story 4 – 51 people killed in a Russian attack on a café in Kharkiv region.

Story 5 – 100 people killed in attack on military acadmy, US brings down a Turkish drone, the first time NATO members have taken done eachothers’ weapons.

Daily News – Oct. 5, 2023

October 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Her Majesty’s Penitentiary is closed to visits because of the awful state of the jail. “You’d be charged for putting an animal in something like this.”

Story 2 – Investment company Equiton buys up older rental units where people pay lower-than-average rents, renovates them and then jacks the rent. Renters are fed up.

Story 3 – People who murder Indigenous women and girls are given lighter charges than people who murder non-Indigenous women and girls says a new Statscan report.

Story 4 – At least 21 dead in tourist bus accident near Venice.

Story 5 – France declares war on its growing bedbug problem.

Daily News – Oct. 4, 2023

October 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Massive outage of commuter rail in the Greater Toronto Area is cauesd by a CN internet outage.

Story 2 – 34 library workers in Bradford, Ontario are ordered back to work after a judge sends the negotations to binding arbitration.

Story 3 – Pacey Dumas’ quest for justice against the Edmonton cop who kicked him in the head is stopped by the Crown.

Story 4 – Socialist Pedro Sanchez is given the opportunity to try and form a government in Spain. He must do this before November 24 or else the country goes back to the polls.

Story 5 – India cracks down on news posting agency, claiming that it’s money laundering, shocking free press advocates.

Daily News – Oct. 3, 2023

October 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Manitoba sold off more social housing units than it created in the past 7 years. The good news is that the NDP is poised to win today. The bad news is that their social housing policy isn’t great.

Story 2 – Man murders woman in an assisted living facility for people with neurodegenerative illness. He was not a resident though he was the woman’s partner. Since opening in 2021, La Ressource/L’Étincelle has been plagued with safety issues.

Story 3 – Is the CRTC coming after my free speech as a podcast? No. But will they actually make Spotify pay me for the content they’ve stolen from me? Also no.

Story 4 – Dengue outbreak in Bangladesh has infected more than 200,000 people and killed at least 1017 people.

Daily News – Oct. 2, 2023

October 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Rent strikes in Weston grow as tenants at two Lawrence Ave. W. appartments go on rent strike.

Story 2 – Puffins experienced a massive die-off of puffin babies this summer. Some are calling for an end to the capelin fishing industry as a result.

Story 3 – Indigenous leadership in New Brunswick decry the centralization of Indigenous issues within Aboriginal Affairs.

Story 4 – Afghanistan embassy in India closes.

Story 5 – A crash in Chiapas, Mexico kills 10 migrants. Nearly 100 migrants have died in road accidents in Mexico this year alone.

Daily News – Sept. 29, 2023

September 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – IED explosion in Barrie neighbourhood puzzles investigators.

Story 2 – Scott Moe to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to enable his legislation that attacks trans children to pass.

Story 3 – 15 potential unmarked graves found at the site of former residential school in Carcross, Yukon. Poor record keeping means that finding names and communities for the school’s students has been difficult.

Story 4 – Nisga’a to celebrate the rematriation of a totem pole that was stolen from them in 1929 and placed in the Museum of Scotland.

Story 5 – Canada, UK, US and Taiwan condemn plans of Myanmar’s militry junta to hold elections.

Daily News – Sept. 28, 2023

September 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Source of the e. coli outbreak in Calgary is mostly likely a meat loaf and a vegan loaf served to toddlers at the end of August. Charges against the owners of Fueling Minds have been laid.

Story 2 – Quebec white nationalist has his invitation to appear before a parliamentary committee hearing on immigration rescinded.

Story 3 – Lobby organizations and bureaucrats with CFIA and Health Canada co-developed a new policy on GMO plants.

Story 4 – Tens of thousands of Indigenous people rally in Bogota calling for an end to the violence that Indigenous people face, especially land defenders.

Daily News – Sept. 27, 2023

September 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man’s arm is severely injured after Saskatoon police sic their dogs on him.

Story 2 – Two conservative party activists have been charged with defrauding the Royal Canadian Legion in Vaughan.

Story 3 – A blast at a fuel station in the Nagorno-Karabakh region kills 20 and injures 300 as ethnic Armenians flee from Azerbaijan’s attacks.

Story 4 – 100 people have died in a fire that broke out at a wedding reception in Iraq’s north.

Story 5 – 453 people, mostly children aged 5-14 have died in massive diptheria outbreak in Nigeria. The outbreak is being fuled by a historical gap in vaccination.

Daily News – Sept. 26, 2023

September 26, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Crown decides there was no reasonable prospect for conviction of Con Drain Group in death of six people — a company owned by the politically-connected and super wealthy Degasperis family.

Story 2 – Children are waiting longer and longer for surgeries, with a massive gap in wait times emerging from province to province.

Story 3 – Quebec government promises to extend COVID premiums to public sector workers and says that if the Common Front is good, they might even get these premiums forever. Things are heating up in public sector bargaining.

Story 4 – A Malian airplane has crashed in the city of Gao, killing some number of Wagner group soldiers.

Story 5 – At least 29 people have died in this year’s rainy season from mudslides in Guatemala.

Daily News – Sept. 25, 2023

September 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – With insurance companies refusing to insure certain kinds of water damage, the federal government looks to underwrite water damage.

Story 2 – Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park might have all of its fish culled to get a handle on a parasite that caues something called whirling disease in trout and salman.

Story 3 – Canadian parliamentarians perform their tenuous grasp of history by applauding a veteran of the SS.

Story 4 – Have talks between Kosovo and Serbia gone as far as they can go? Kosovoan president is saying they need to be scrapped entirely and started from scratch.

Daily News – Sept. 22, 2023

September 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Three women who fraudently claimed Inuit status to get scolarships, awards and other benefits have been charged with fraud over $5000.

Story 2 – Woman is defrauded hundreds of thousands of dollars after she responded to an online job ad for a job that would pay up to $400 per day.

Story 3 – Symposium on Long COVID hears from researchers about how prevalent Long COVID is among healthcare workers (it’s 10%, according to one study).

Story 4 – The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has said that he will ask the UN to withdraw peacekeeping troops by next year.

Daily News – Sept. 21, 2023

September 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Bigots vandalize three CUPE educational worker offices in London, Ontario just before the national day of protest against gender being taught in schools.

Story 2 – Another Ontario cabinet minister resigns, this one because he had a massage, in Vegas, with a developer who had land removed from the Greenbelt, in 2020 that he forgot to mention.

Story 3 – Poland announces that it will cease sending arms to Ukraine over grain export tensions

Story 4 – Six Palestinians have been killed by Israel, most during Israel’s night raids into refugee camps.

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.

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