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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.

Daily News – March 16

March 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Vigilantism is on the rise in BC, advocates remind people that forming relationships in your communities goes a long way if ever you need to work something out with your neighbours

Story 2 – Calgary Police issue an alert looking for man who had not been in contact with his family for a few days, three days later, the man is shot by Red Deer RCMP

Story 3 – Reuters republishes a very condensed DND media release about new shipments of ammo being sent to Ukraine

Story 4 – Honduras to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan, seek financial help from China

Daily News – March 15

March 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Child dies in fire at the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation

Story 2 – Shamattawa First Nation is the second first nation in Manitoba in a week to declare a state of emergency:

Story 3 – Driver uses his pick up to deliberately strike and kill pedestrians in downtown Amqui

Story 4 – If the RCMP was tracking drug shipments related to Pivot Airlines passengers, why didn’t the they intervene when the Pivot Airlines crew was detained in the Dominican Republic when drugs were found in their aircraft?

Story 5 – journalists targeted by an Islamic State group in Afghanistan, Hosein Naderi killed

Daily News – March 13

March 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – the death of three German tourists brings the deathtoll from avalanche season this year up to 12

Story 2 – Charges dropped after man charged with squatting on public land. No word on whether or not RCMP have to re-build the shelter they destroyed

Story 3 – Falls are the leading cause of accidental death in Quebec. 375 Quebecers aged 65+ died from a fall while receiving care in 2020-21.

Story 4 – At least 36 were killed in a machete attack in the DRC near Uganda.

Story 5 – Contrary to the official police line, Tortugita’s hands were up in the air when police shot them at a Stop Cop City protest

Daily News – March 10

March 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – workers sent to hospital after ammonia leak inside a slaughterhouse in Burlington

Story 2 – RCMP oversight body to probe the special RCMP unit set up specifically to bother and harass Indigenous and enviromental land defenders

Story 3 – Two charged with corruption over a contract awarded to renovate St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto

Story 4 – French workers cut power to an Amazon facility, reduce power generated across the country, to protest pension reforms that will steal two years from their public pensions

Story 5 – Pedro Castillo, Peru’s leftwing ex-president has his pre-trial jail sentence doubled

Daily News – March 9

March 9, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Investigation into Mi’kmaw claims of MUN’s president Vianne Timmons shows that Timmons is a white woman playing fast and loose with the facts.

Story 2 – Scholars call for international academic conferences in Canada to be put on hold because visa delays and refusals threaten the participation of academics from Pakistan, India, Iran, Turkey and many other countries.

Story 3 – Good news from a Quebec judge — using our fingers to tell our neighbours to fuck off is a “god-given right”

Story 4 – Medical tourism from the US to Mexico is in the news after four Americans were shot, two killed, as they travelled for a medical procedure.

Daily News – March 8

March 8, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Should the mismanagement at Laurentian University result in criminal charges?

Story 2 – O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation declares state of emergency after three deaths in two weeks

Story 3 – hate crimes jumped during the early days of the pandemic, finds a new report from British Columbia. Of an estimated 20,000 hate crimes, only three people were convicted of hate crimes

Story 4 – About 100,000 jeepney drivers in the Philippines go on strike to protest the modernization of their fleet — at the expense of the drivers themselves

Daily news – March 7

March 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – former child residents of Hatts Off-owned group homes in Ontario launch a class action over abuse and trauma they experienced while living there.

Story 2 – 43 witnesses to the parliamentary committee studying MAID issue and open letter, warning that the committee has not done enough work to approve MAID for mental illness and minors.

Story 3 – 23 people, a Canadian included, have been charged with domestic terrorism charges after a protest at a police training facility that’s currently under construction in Atlanta. HRW calls for the spurrious charges to be dropped.

Story 4 – A rise in violence and harassment against migrants in Tunisia has triggered the leadership of Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger and Guinea to repatriate their citizens.

Daily news – March 6

March 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: A man gets severe burns after falling asleep on a heater in his long-term care facility room.

Story 2 – Dying woman is evicted from her residence. The landlord cut her power, turning off her oxygen machine. CHEK makes confounding decision to not name the landlord.

Story 3 – very, very few cops participate in police-related death investigations that involve them. But is the issue really that they have the right to remain silent?

Story 4 – Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation furious that Imperial Oil and Alberta’s Energy Regulator did say that a tailings pond had been leaking for months and months

Story 5 – Canada’s top soldier went to Ukraine this past weekend. The Canadian Press reports on the DND readout and gives us nearly no additional information. Which begs question: why not just copy and paste the readout and throw some quotes around it?

Daily news – March 3

March 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP release information related to a massive weapons seizure back in November in Vaudreuil-Dorion, the weapons were found alongside a cache of far-right hate materials, something that only gets a short mention by Canadian Press.

Story 2 – Abuse protected and perpetuated by the Catholic Diocese of Hearst looms large over the town, as investigated by the Radio-Canada show Enquête

Story 3 – Canada Pension Plan Investment Board boosts its shares in Tesla by 160%, also invests in BCE, Rogers and Telus, making it such that profits from our high cell phone bills help fund the CPP we might get one day

Story 4 – Unions decry $500M contract given to company half-owned by Loblaw to coordinate health and employment services for veterans

Story 5 – Indigenous leader in Ecuador, Eduardo Mendua has been assassinated. He had been resisting expanded oil drilling on his territory against the state petro company Petroecuador

Daily News – March 2

March 2, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – CTV News journalist is struck and critically injured while reporting. I ask — what was the failure by police to properly secure the site?

Story 2 – Montrealers who were arrested and/or detained in 2012 and 2015 might be eligible to compensation, the city will apologize for trampling on people’s rights

Story 3 – 43 people dead after head-on collision of two trains in Greece. The Minister of Transportation has resigned. The sysem was privatized as part of the international bail out package in 2017

Story 4 – Dow, the petrochemical giant, is not recycling shoes, as per their program’s promise in Singapore. Instead, shoes are showing up in Indonesia’s second-hand market

Daily News – March 1

March 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – former Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt pleads not guilty to obstructing police, media has nearly no information about what happened.

Story 2 – Girl dies from hit and run at Norway House Cree Nation.

Story 3 – Mexican man dies at the border between Quebec and Vermont after interaction with US border agents

Stroy 4 – Governor of the Bank of Canada isn’t sure who is supposed to set his salary, nor does anyone seem to know what he’s paid.

Story 5 – Attacks against Palestinians intensify near Nablus and Jenin, only 8 Isralies of the some 400 who went on a rampage through Palestinian villages were arrested, and all have been released already.

Daily News – Feb. 28, 2023

February 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – tenants facing eviction by DP Murphy Inc. so DP Murphy Inc. could house temporary foreign workers that they brought to Canada to work inside a Tim’s that they own, win!

Story 2 – Police shoot man in Vancouver. Their defense? They got the wrong guy!

Story 3 – Police punch man repeatedly in Edmonton. Their defense? He had “a number” of traffic summons! But oops, it was caught on tape

Story 4 – fire in Pikangikum claims the lives of three people; none of the fire fighting equipment was working due to cold weather. This community lost 9 people to a house fire in 2016.

Story 5 – More than 100 people are feared dead as a boat capsizes near the cost of southern Italy

Daily News – Feb. 27

February 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Nearly 13% of Manitobans left an emergency room or urgent care centre without receiving care. This is the highest since … before the pandemic, 5 years ago.

Story 2: Victoria City Council asks all departments to hold budet increases to 6.96% The Victoria Police Department responds with “fu i won’t do what you tell me,” basically.

Story 3: Inuit are 15 times more likely to be jailed in Quebec, 1 out of every 20 Inuit was detailed *in a single year,* double the rate of other Indigenous people.

Story 4: Roosevelt “Rosie” Douglas was targeted by the RCMP’s so-called “dirty tricks” campaign in the 1960s, new documents reveal

Story 5: @ACTRAnational calls out the federal government for using scab labour in government advertising while they’re promising to ban scab labour in the federal industries

Daily News – Feb. 24

February 24, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City of Edmunston and police officer who murdered Chantel Moore argue that her death was her own fault

Story 2 – Academic researchers have created a database of all police-related death in Canada going back to the year 2000. Deaths average nearly three per month, though have spiked since 2019

Story 3 – Allegations that the federal minister of health @jyduclos interfered in Canada’s drug price regulator to stop consultations to reduce drug prices

Story 4 – Canadian Press does PR for Galen G. Weston on day that Loblaw’s Q4 and 2022 net profits are released

Daily News – Feb. 23

February 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Man who shot and killed someone who entered his home at 5:00 AM claims it was legal

Story 2: Melanie Mark resigns, calls the BC Legistlature like “a torture chamber”

Story 3: Trudeau vows to close Roxham road by re-negotiating the Safe Third Country Agreement even though whether or not the agreement is even legal is in question

Story 4: Brian Mulroney is on the board of the investment firm that owns PSSI — a cleaning company accused of hiring children to work in a slaughterhouse in Nebraska

Story 5: In two days Nigerians head to the polls. Here are the leading candidates to replace President Muhammadu Buhari

Daily News – Feb. 22

February 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – New unmarked graves found by Tseshaht First Nation at the site of the former Alberni Indian Residential School

Story 2 – Despite the freezing temperatures, omelessness in Saskatoon reaches crisis levels

Story 3 – Canada outsourced the management of the CEBA loan project to Accenture and we’re only finding out about it now

Story 4 – Daughter of Malcolm X plans to sue NYPD, CIA and FBI over death of her father

Daily News – Feb 21

February 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Community rallies to demand answers from @CalgaryPolice in death of Latjor Tuel

Story 2: 240 jobs to be cut at Groupe TVA

Story 3: Portugal’s government tries to rein in AirBnBs, end the so-called Golden Visas program to stop a runaway housing market.

Story 4: 18 Afghan refugees found dead in a truck near Sofia in Bulgaria, 34 others treated for carbon monoxide inhalation. Six Bulgarians indicted.

Daily News – Feb. 20

February 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Daily news for Feb. 23

Story one: Former leader of a neonazi group (and let’s be serious, near certainly current neonazi) given discharge after breaking into Vice office to intimidate journalists

Story two: One day after an SIU report into the death of someone falling from a high rise during a Toronto Police intervention, two men are seriously injured after falling from a high rise during a police intervention

Story three: 86,000 square kilometres of forest has been lost in BC over 20 years due to logging and forest fires

Story four: Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report on the US’s likely involvement in bombing Nord Stream.

Daily News – Feb. 17 2023

February 17, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – An injunction blocks striking workers in Yellowknife from picketing their workplaces in groups larger than six.

Story 2 – a Campaign 2000 report finds that child poverty is highest in Manitoba

Story 3 – lion’s share of money flowed to clean up oil and gas in Alberta went to private oil and gas companies

Story 4 – JTF2 sniper goes on US podcast, they air video of the assumed world record long range sniper kill (3500 m), the Canadian military insists video is taken down

Story 5 – Pablo Neruda was poisoned

Daily News – Feb. 16

February 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: almost no complaints to Quebec’s police ethics commission about racial profiling actually result in punishment — of 780 complaints in five years, just four police were sanctioned.

Story 2 – Statscan data shows that Black people are far more likely to die of HIV/AIDS, diabetes and some forms of cancer than are white people.

Story 3 – The number of permanent residents seeking citizenship in Canada has plummeted, though how quickly we forget that this was exactly what the Harper government intended to do

Story 4 – Nicola Sturgeon resigns, fears that the Scotish National Party might turn to the right as pressure rises from gender fascists

Daily news – Feb. 15

February 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Daily news headlines for Feb. 15 2023

Story 1 – Spike in injury claims from Amazon workers since the start of the pandemic.

Story 2 – Another call for an end to provincial prison detention for people held by CBSA

Story 3 – Another Liberal MP has their wrist slapped by the ethics commissioner. Mario Dion calls for MPs to ask for help and training from his office

Story 4 – of the 380 people who crossed into Quebec through Roxham Rd. this past weekeed, only 8 stayed in Canada as the feds transport people seeking asylum out of the province to Ontario

Story 5 – thousands rally in support of Petro’s new leftwing reforms in Colombia

Daily News – Feb. 14, 2023

February 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Story 1 – Imperial Oil submits plan to clean up the largest oil spill in Alberta’s history (the largest oil spill in Alberta’s history … yet!)

https://t.co/FE61aBWbUg

Story 2 – Airdrie RCMP shoot and critically injure woman in mental distress

https://t.co/Eje9DCAjA3

Story 3 – Horrifying details in a Feb 3 decision from an Ontario judge about sadistic abuse in minor hockey

https://t.co/XJL8ul41ti

Story 4 – @thenarwhalca sues RCMP over arrest of @photobracken

https://t.co/Lo1dsxFDag

Daily News – Feb 13

February 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: What was the Friday shelter-in-place order in eastern Ontario about, and how come five journalists could not get the OPP to spill?

https://t.co/FkFda1dcFY

Story 2: Anglo Montrealers plead to businessmen who do not *at all* care that the Montreal Gazette is important to English speakers, asks for help from Trudeau rather than looking to buy the newspaper (ok this is me editorializing)

https://t.co/V554dUsDIr

Story 3: Canada’s army will fast track the purchase of new military equpment, no procurement, for ongoing operation in Eastern Europe

https://t.co/XyXx6Bezn6

Story 4: Turkey goes after building developers as the death toll from last week’s earthquakes rises above 33,000

https://t.co/3EZy8hzajT