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Daily News – April 10, 2024

April 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Oral surgeon who directed a cop in extracting four teeth from a sedated inmate receives absolute discharge.

Story 2 – Syncrude fined $390,000 for worker’s death. The money will go to three group to develop an … app … about excavation safety, even though the trouble was a lack of analysisn of the ground where the worker was working from an engineer.

Story 3 – The AFN says that there is a $350 billion gap between infrastructure within Indigenous communities compared to non-Indigenous communities. When you add in Inuit communities, the number rises to $425 billion.

Story 4 – Very little information about Canada’s Syrian embassy, which was damaged when Israel struck Iran’s embassy which is right beside.

Story 5 – UNRWA says that Israel is lying about how much aid is reaching Gaza via truck.

Story 6 – At least three dead in hydroelectric plant explosion in Italy.

Daily News – April 9, 2024

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Daily News – April 8, 2024

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Daily News – April 5, 2024

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Daily News – April 4, 2024

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Daily News – April 3, 2024

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Daily News – April 2, 2024

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Daily News – March 29, 2024

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Daily News – March 28, 2024

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Daily News – March 27, 2024

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Daily News – March 26, 2024

March 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Three cops charged with the murder of a baby have their charges dropped because there was no way to prove they weren’t shooting in self defence.

Story 2 – 1600 teaching assistants at McGill go out on strike. They join the more than 3500 academic workers currently on strike at York.

Story 3 – Workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario? Also on strike.

Story 4 – The UN Security Council passes a motion in favour of a cease fire. The US finally doesn’t veto it.

Story 5 – Instagram “updates” everyone’s settings and removes political content from everyone’s feed. You have to go and turn it back on if you want to see it.

 
 

Daily News – March 25, 2024

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Daily News – March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Alarming spike in death among Edmonton’s homeless population. 72 people have died in just 78 days.

Story 2 – Canada to peg temporary resident visas to 5% of the population, effectively dropping the number of temporary residents by 1.5%. Migrant rights groups call for better treatment rather than messing with caps.

Story 3 – Quebec’s economy and energy minister says that Montreal “no longer works” and it’s because there are too many cars on the road.

Story 4 – Talks continue to secure a cease fire though Israel refuses to agree to permanently stop their war.

Story 5 – Bombing outside of a bank in Khandahar City kills at least 3.

Daily News – March 21, 2024

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Daily News – March 20, 2024

March 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Ottawa police violently arrest man who they “mistook” for someone else. Both are Black .

Story 2 – Hoopla over the Hoopla as parents target the teacher’s union over provincial basketball tourney cancellation. Meanwhile, Cockrill says that binding arbitration is like bargaining with a gun to his head — which is absolutely is not.

Story 3 – Marc Miller will allow more Gazans to come to Canada except Canada never cleared the program with Israel or Egypt and people are not able to leave Gaza unless they pay.

Story 4 – Lawsuit brought to an Amserdam judge against Vale over Mariana dam collapse that triggered massive and deadly landslide in Brazil.

Story 5 – Javier Milei’s plan to ignore congress is not accepted by the senate. Mass protests continue to challenge the fascist leader.

Daily News – March 19, 2024

March 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cabin Radio getting another chance at winning radio license from the CRTC.

Story 2 – Airbus workers in Quebec, members of IAMAW, a heading towards a strike.

Story 3 – Parliament passes NDP motion to call for a Palestinian State, with the point about Palestinian State removed.

Story 4 – WHO plan for future pandemics is in jeopardy.

Story 5 – No evidence that the so-called Havanna Syndrome caused physical harms.

March 18, 2024

March 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – High school equivalency program is cancelled in Ontario by the private company that ran it and there is no plan to replace it.

Story 2 – Migrant Spring protests call for justice for migrant workers.

Story 3 – EU and Egypt work to form controversial migrant deal to stop people from coming from Europe.

Story 4 – Niger’s military leadership is kicking out the United States military.

Story 5 – DR Congo lifts the moratorium on the death penalty.

Daily News – March 15, 2024

March 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Class actions launched against the six largest private long-term care facilities in Ontario over failures leading to thousands of deaths from COVID.

Story 2 – Manitoba Chiefs warn against cutting more than $400 from Indigenous ministries due to devastating impact on service delivery.

Story 3 – Israel had asked Canada for armoured vehicles in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Canada dragged its feet dealing with the request to not fulfill it

Story 4 – Just 12 people have been approved to come to Canada from Gaza, no one has actually arrived yet. Inside the families’ struggles to get loved ones out of Gaza and to Canada.

Story 5 – The UK had developed a new definition of “extremism” and activsts are worried it will be used to target Palestinian protests.

Daily News – March 14, 2024

March 14, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Edmonton city workers are set to go on strike today.

Story 2 – Members of committee for police reform in Nova Scotia have been named, 3 of 16 who are police officers.

Story 3 – Loblaws has installed receipt scanners in 4 stores as a pilot to see how customers react to needing to scan their receipts to leave the store.

Story 4 – Two Auditor General employees fired after it was found out they were also working as government consultants.

Story 5 – The UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is now going to come with a £3000 payout.

Daily News – March 13, 2024

March 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Inside recording from the real estate event in Montreal selling land in the West Bank.

Story 2 – 10 Pakistani flight attendants who work for PIA have gone missing in the past few months in Toronto after their flights landed.

Story 3 – The monument to the 14th Division of the SS in Oakville isn’t down forever, it’s just in the monument shop for … repairs.

Story 4 – Haitians in Canada call for Haitians to be involved in stabilization plans for that country.

Story 5 – Canada opposes new Produced in USA labels on meat, poultry and eggs and argues that Canadian products should be exempt, and also declared Produced in USA.

Story 6 – With just weeks to go before possible re-election, Modi says he will implement 2019 law that many called anti-Muslim because it excludes Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Daily News – March 12, 2024

March 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Big investigation into fire safety lapses in properties owned by Paul Dediala, after one of his properties burns, killing two occupants.

Story 2 – Naheed Nenshi throws hat into the race to become leader of the Alberta NDP.

Story 3 – Saltwire is on the ropes as it files for creditor protection. But COO promises that this will make the company stronger and more dynamic!

Story 4 – Boeing whistleblower found dead in hotel garage during week where he was testifying against Boeing for safety lapses.

Story 5 – Pope calls for peace negotiations to bring an end to Russia’s aggression, NATO says sure, they will negotiate peace through cheering on more war.

Daily News – March 11, 2024

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Daily News – March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Four children, their mother and a man who lived in the house have been killed by another boarder.

Story 2 – Teenager called out for help days and weeks before she and her cousins and aunt were killed.

Story 3 – Fire breaks out at apartment building displacing 100 people.

Story 4 – Ebola vaccine superstar in Canada sent the virus to the Wuhan infectious disease lab at the centre of the COVID lab leak.

Story 5 – 280 students have been kidnapped in Nigeria from their school yard.

 

Daily News – March 7, 2024

March 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Bodies pile up in freezers in St. John’s and the NDP says its because people can’t afford to bury the dead.

Story 2 – Black Press passes major hurdle, will dispense with pension debt and is in the clear to be sold to small, American publisher that has newspapers in the southern US. Oh, and paid 6-figures in a ransomware attack.

Story 3 – Canada’s new, $5 billion navy ships have a few small problems. One is that they flood.

Story 4 – Half of the Two Michaels settle with the federal government after Michael Spavor accused Michael Kovrig of spying on him. And it does seem that Canada has a rinkydink spy agency that is operating in an extreme grey area.

Story 5 – Ahmed Hussen cancelled announcement about UNRWA. The Canadian Press granted anonymity to someone to say that they’re still deciding on what to do

Story 6 – Election date set in Senegal for end of March after a month of protest over the president’s decision to postpone February’s election.

Daily News – March 6, 2024

March 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Massive investigation by Global News shows Residential school-like conditions that Indigenous youth are subjected to in private, for-profit youth homes.

Story 2 – Mohawks of Kahnawake have spent $100,000 trying to clean up a diesel spill coming from Châteauguay.

Story 3 – Five dead after plane crashes in Nashville, all on board were Canadian.

Story 4 – CBC’s Catharine Cullen reports that the government will reverse its decision on UNRWA because it’s seen an interim UN report, makes no mention of the social pressure to do this … and the press conference was just cancelled.

Story 5 – Underwater cables in the Red Sea have been severed, impacting 26% of all east-west communications. No word yet on whether it was sabotage or an accident.

Story 6 – Yahya Dillo, the head of the Parti Socialiste sans frontières in Chad was killed as Chadian forces stormed their headquarters.

Daily News – March 5, 2024

March 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Montreal is Ground Zero for Canada’s Measles outbreak.

Story 2 – Newfoundland and Labrador is still housing migrants in prisons, creating fears that other provinces may send migrants there to get around their own provicinial bans of holding migrants in jail.

Story 3 – Jamil Jivani, who was fired by Bell from his radio show for not pushing back against COVID disinfo and misgendering Demi Lovato, wins Oshawa by-election (he argues it was because Bell wanted him to be a stereotypical Black man).

Story 4 – Canada is set to buy $43 million in anti-tank missiles from Israel to use in Latvia in … NATO war games? Why else, if we aren’t actually at war with Russia?

Story 5 – Violence in Haiti erupts, with groups taking over two prisons and trying to shut down air traffic, in protest of the return of Ariel Henry.

Story 6 – France makes abortion a protected right in the constitution.

Daily News – March 4, 2024

March 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Landlords are getting around rental increase laws through fixed-term leases.

Story 2 – More than 100 weapons seized from a residence in Gatineau, man in his 60s is not yet arrested.

Story 3 – Protests shut down dinner with a fascist at the AGO.

Story 4 – Shervin Hajipour is condemned to three years in prison for having penned a protest song.

Story 5 – Nearly 170 people have neen killed by violence in Burkina Faso amid state security forces conducting air raids on rebel groups.

Daily News – March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – The man driving a stolen U-Haul truck is charged in the death of a woman he hit; she was only out of her car though because of a police-thrown spike belt that she ran over.

Story 2 – York University says that it never invited nor did it know that Toronto Police would crash a lecture on Palestine.

Story 3 – Arms manufacturers were blockaded all over Canada this past week.

Story 4 – Global News investigation finds that Canada paid higher prices for foreign-made COVID tests than Canadian-made tests.

Story 5 – Bill 21 found to be constitutional, except not the part that banned the niqab in the National Assembly — that is unconstitutional.

Story 6 – National emergency declared in Zambia due to drought.

Story 7 – The far right is the big winner of this week’s municipal elections in Israel.

Daily News – Feb. 29, 2024

February 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Alavida Lifestyles is jacking up rents but hundreds and thousands of dollars, pushing people to find a new place to live.

Story 2 – Former PPC party guy who ran on an anti-vax platform, and who works for DND, was paid millions to work on the ArriveCAN app (and hundreds of millions for other contracts!)

Story 3 – Visas are back for Mexicans who visit Canada.

Story 4 – On the eve of the Flour Massacre, Canada said that it wants to drop aid on Gaza from the sky.

Story 5 – Violence in Chad as the government announces a date for the next election that is supposed to restore civilian, democratic rule.

Daily News – Feb. 28, 2024

February 28, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man who was charged in connection with stealing a U-Haul and who was forced into incarceration while waiting trial, dies in a London prison.

Story 2 – Students force the University of Waterloo to ditch new vending machines that use facial recognition software for some reason.

Story 3 – Conestoga College offered a stunning 30,000 international student permits in 2023 alone; information coming from new CBC investigation about which institutions are driving international student enrolment.

Story 4 – It’s the eighth anniersary of the Phoenix payroll system and there are more problems then ever! Currently, there are 444,000 outstanding payroll issues.

Story 5 – Chinese migrants are increasingly moving through south to north American routes to migrate to the US.

Story 6 – The same day an attack on a Catholic church in Burkina Faso’s north killed 15 people, dozens were killed in the country’s east when a mosque was attacked.

 

Daily News – Feb. 27, 2024

February 27, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Woman hits police-thrown spike belt, gets out of her car to inspect and then is killed by the person that the police are recklessly chasing.

Story 2 – Some 3000 contract workers and TAs are on strike at York University.

Story 3 – New regulatory bodies, fines and complaints mechanisms promised in Online Harms Act.

Story 4 – Government criticized over its Sudanese sponsorship program as being insufficient.
Story 5 – Active member of the US airforce sets himself on fire outside of Israeli consulate; last words are Free Palestine.

Daily News – Feb. 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Woman is the victim of a crane accident in Vancouver, IUOE Local 115 decries the state of crane operation safety in BC.

Story 2 – Cop (who was on sick leave) gets into a brawl with local teens; rallies his friends to convince a hearing that he’s actually a good guy.

Story 3 – Gatineau’s first woman mayor resigns over how horrible it is to be a woman and elected these days.

Story 4 – 7600% spike inpediatric flu hospitalizations between 2021-22 and 2022-23.

Story 5 – Ukraine blames the United States on their inability to resist Russia, warns Munich conference that every town in Europe is next on Russia’s list of invasions.

Story 6 – A US private company has landed a space craft on the moon; first time in more than 50 years that Americans have done this.

Daily News – Feb. 22, 2024

February 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man fined $1800 for spending more than 21 days in one spot on Crown land.

Story 2 – Quebec’s government is ready to go to the supreme court to fight refugees who want to send their children to Quebec’s public daycare system.

Story 3 – During lockdowns, Quebec prisons saw a spike in suicides and suicide attempts.

Story 4 – 23 people dead after mine wall collapses in an illegal gold mine in Venezeula.

Story 5 – The prime minister of the DRC has resigned to sit as a member, triggering the dissolution of government.

Daily News – Feb. 20, 2024

February 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Renters in Canada are more likely to experience loneliness and financial difficulties. Related: up to 30% of Canada’s rental stock is owned by investment firms.

Story 2 – Profiteering by shrinking packaging but charging the same (or more!) abounds. Here’s what other countries are doing to signal to their population that it’s happening (Canada has promised to pay for research into shrinkflation)

Story 3 – The US may move a motion at the UN Security Council that calls for a cease fire — the first time that they have used those words.

Story 4 – Julian Assange might be out of legal options before being forcibly transfered to the US to face up to 175 years in prison.

Daily News – Feb. 19, 2024

February 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – 16 year-old violently arrested, held for 13 hours in police detachment, in NWT

Story 2 – Homeless man lives on $175 per month, highlighting how completely inadequate Canada’s benefits are.

Story 3 – Zombie fires threaten to kickstart wildfire season even earlier this year.

Story 4 – Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis is completely out of commission and the WHO is being glocked by the Israeli military from bringing along emergency fuel.

Story 5 – Russia captures Avdiivka in Eastern Ukraine.

Daily News – Feb. 16, 2024

February 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Two teens intentionally run down by man in Abbotsford.

Story 2 – TSB recommends that regulations mandate that helicopters have technology to help guide pilots in zero visibility, after inquest into crash that killed three people.

Story 3 – Parliamentarians are increasingly relying on RCMP security details.

Story 4 – Canada working on raising defense spending to get it closer to NATO’s required 2% of GDP.

Story 5 – 72 of 99 journalists killed last year around the world were Palestinian.

Story 6 – Kenya moves 21 black rhinos to a vast preserve in the hopes of growing their population.

Daily News – Feb. 15, 2024

February 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cop hockey coach charged with assaulting and threatning a 12-year old on opposing team.

Story 2 – January was a month of record average rents across Canada. Highest percentage increase was in Edmonton.

Story 3 – The company behind the ArriveCAN app scandal was given more than $200M in contracts since 2015.

Story 4 – Canada, alongside New Zealand and Australia is calling on Israel to stop its plans to invade Rafah. No news on whether or not Canada will stop selling arms to Israel.

Story 5 – Leaders in Tobago call for the owner of a barge that spilled oil in their waters to identify themselves so they can clean it up.

Story 6 – Prabowo looks to have won the election in Indonesia, alongside the son of Jokowi.

Daily News – Feb. 14, 2024

February 14, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 -Rogers Sugar strike is over and The Tyee introduces us to the Dude of Dudes, a Canada goose.

Story 2 – Quebec fast-tracks training for new home-based personal service workers, will pay students $12,000 to attend.

Story 3 – The feds flow $176M to small municipalities to build housing in exchange for bylaw and regulation changes that will make it easier to build housing.

Story 4 – Hospital targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza.

Story 5 – At least 45 people were killed by Ethiopian forces in Amhara region, finds Ethopian Human Rights Commission.

Daily News – Feb. 13, 2024

February 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man charged with first degree murder of his wife, niece and three children.

Story 2 – A Calgarian is sitting on 20 empty units in St. Stephen NB, a town of 4600 where more than 500 families are waiting for affordible housing.

Story 3 – Ontario Court of Appeal finds that Bill 124 was as unconstitutional as everyone was saying it was.

Story 4 – Canada Border Services — not just racist but also bad with money.

Story 5 – Imran Khan’s party wins the most seats in Pakistan.

Daily News – Feb. 12, 2024

February 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Southern Manitoba man in custody after three children, two women at three different sites are all found dead.

Story 2 – Extremely powerful opioid has turned up in the Quebec City region and public health is warning to watch out for little green tablets. They evade fentenyl testing. Carry naloxone.

Story 3 – Exports to Israel from Canada since Oct. 7 are higher than ever reported before.

Story 4 – Cousins are going extinct in Canada

Story 5 – Israel bombs Rafah by air and by sea, killing between 50 and 100+ people.

Daily News – Feb. 9. 2024

February 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Widow of Amazon worker who died after a fire alarm is moved to a 1-bdroom appartment to be able to avoid a massive rent increase in her 2-bdroom appartment.

Story 2 – Montreal couple had to pay $200 to get access to the Minister of Transportation to talk about reducing drunk driving.

Story 3 – Three delegates uninvited from a meeting with clerks of the SCC over posts in support of Gaza.

Story 4 – 4800 jobs cut at Bell, including brutal cuts to Bell Media; company made more than $2B in profts last year.

Story 5 – Thousand flee from villages around Goma in DRC as M23 fighters arrive.

Daily News – Feb. 8, 2024

February 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – 14 ODs in a matter of hours in downtown Belleville, CBC only talks to cops about it

Story 2 – CTV Calgary ran a poll from a far-right group about abortion and parental involvement and then had to overhaul their story to make it about the group that ran the poll.

Story 3 – Big investigation into why 34 trucks have hit overpasses on BC roads since 2021 by the Vancouver Sun finds that a wide range of cost-cutting measures are to blame.

Story 4 – Amid a total cellphone service blackout, Pakistan heads to the polls today.

Daily News – Feb. 7, 2024

February 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Bees in Saskatchewan think that it’s spring already, which will be a disaster for their population if they start to make baby bees.

Story 2 – Massive recall fo Honda vehicles made between 2020 and 2022 over airbag sensor issues.

Story 3 – “Trust Ukraine” says Canadian advisor to Ukraine’s military, over request to give that country 83,000 decomissioned, potentially untable and ready-to-be destroyed missiles from a CAF munitions depot

Story 4 – Cease fire extended between the ELN and Colombia’s military for 180 days.

Story 5 – At least 10 people are dead after blast in busy market in Mogadishu.

Daily News – Feb. 6, 2024

February 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cops in Val d’Or want millions of dollars over how they were protrayed in an episode of Enqûete about abuse of Indigenous women from 2015

Story 2 – Selina Robinson out as PSE minister for saying that Palestine before Israel was “crappy land” … Global News manages to report about pre-Isreal Palestine without saying Palestine once.

Story 3 – Turns out that the PMO invited a Ukrainian Nazi to the after-party event in Toronto with Zelensky.

Story 4 – Federal government blew $600,000 on hotel rooms that no one used, plus millions to leadership consultants for a federal anti-homelessness strategy.

Story 5 – Deaths in West Bank highest since 2005, when data started being counted.

Story 6 – Nicaragua is bringing Canada and other countries to the ICJ over arms exports to Israel.

Daily News – Feb. 5, 2024

February 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Mosque leadership says NDP MLAs not welcome in their spaces until Robinson is sanctioned for her racist comments.

Story 2 – 150 cm of snow have buried parts of Cape Breton.

Story 3 – Foreign property owner Christya Freeland extends Canada’s foreign property ownership rules.

Story 4 – Probably more than 100 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile.

Daily News – Feb. 2, 2024

February 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man who had seizure while police pined him down, tased him and then arrested him for assaulting then, has charges dropped.

Story 2 – Edmonton police chief Dale McFee attended UCP fundraiser where MLAs dressed up as dinosaurs and ran around.

Story 3 – Vitamin makers go on strike!

Story 4 – Transit workers represented by CUPE 4500 will be voting on an agreement that was hammered out with the help of a mediator.

Story 5 – The 2013 murder of Sammy Yatim by former cop James Forcillo has been deemed a homicide by a jury.

Story 6 – UAW crosses important milestone in their organizing drive at the Alamaba Hyundai plant.

Daily News – Feb. 1, 2024

February 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Rotating strikes start today in Saskatchwan as the province continues to refuse to actually do its job.

Story 2 – Is it aliens or Starlink satellites? These pilots were alarmed enough to file unidentified object reports.

Story 3 – The federal government has approved news military equipment sales to Israel since Oct. 7, but Global Affairs says that the equipment was “non-lethal” … without saying what that actually means.

Story 4 – Tesla sued by 25 counties in California for mislabelling hazardous waste and sending it to local landfills.

Story 5 – General strike has successfully pushed against some reforms from Argentina’s new far-right government, but the IMF is still happy

Daily news – Jan. 31, 2024

January 31, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Sudbury police’s “systemic issues” has put 13 cases related to child pornography cases into jeopardy.

Story 2 – A stunning 82% of people who are jailed in Ontario jails right now are legally innocent.

Story 3 – Manulife and Loblaws collude to force Canadians to shop only at Loblaws’ owned pharmacies.

Story 4 – The IMF has released new economic forecasts and Russia’s forecast is higher than any other economy on the list, begging the question about what sanctions were intended to do.

Daily News – Jan. 30, 2024

January 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – BC is the latest province to have law prohibiting the non-consentual distribution of intimate imaes

Story 2 – DNA profile has cracked a 17-year-old cold case of death of Indigenous woman in St. Ambroise, MB.

Story 3 – The feds pause MAID expansion for a second time, says the health care system isn’t ready to deal with MAID for mental illness alone.

Story 4 – NCCM cancels its meeting with Justin Trudeau saying that the organization has lost confidence in him based on the government’s inaction over Gaza.

Story 5 – Israeli ministers attend far-right conference that calls for Israel to create illegal settlements in Gaza.

Daily News – Jan. 29, 2024

January 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Elderly man living in a Walmart parkinglot in East Vancouver shows the gravity of the poverty crisis facing seniors.

Story 2 – Tar sands emissions up to 6300% higher than reported, according to new study.

Story 3 – Canadian-Palestinian journalist has not been heard from since Jan. 21, witnesses say he was taken by the IDF.

Story 4 – UNRWA appeals to countries who believe everything that Israel says to maintain funding to the Palestinian relief agency.

Story 5 – Three US servicement dead in Jordan from drone attack, the first Americans to die on duty since Oct. 7.

Daily News – Jan. 26, 2024

January 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – First devestates the John C. Yesno Educational Centre in Eabemetoong First Nation.

Story 2 – Brand new, state-of-the-art sawmill burns to the ground in Waswanipi.

Story 3 – Canada will send 1000 troops to participate in NATO’s biggest war games in 36 years; will simulate a NATO response to a member being attacked.

Story 4 – Analysis shows that 90% of opinions publised from Dec. 15 to Jan. 15 in major newspapers defend or support Israel’s genocide.

Story 5 – Alabama murders a man by asphyxiation to replace lethal injection on death row.

Daily News – Jan. 25, 2024

January 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – President of Sutton Quebec is charged with arson related to burning two rival real estate offices.

Story 2 – A woman gave birth in a homeless encampment in Hamilton and we only know because the councilor who saw it saved this anecdote for a debate in favour of boosting the police budget.

Story 3 – Edmonton police tase and shoot teenager who was fighting with her pre-teen sister.

Story 4 – Five members of the 2018 World Juniors hockey team are arrested in pre-dawn raids over sexual assault charges. No, sorry, that isn’t right. They are kindly asked to come to the police dept. during scheduled hours to be charged.

Story 5 – $80 billion warship program is shrouded in secrecy.

Story 6 – Kim Bolan heads to Fiji to see how BC-made methamphetemine is causing havoc to the nation of hundreds of islands.

Story 7 – At least 70 dead in unregulated gold mine collapse in Mali.

Daily News – Jan. 24, 2024

January 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Royal Jubilee Hospital apparently leaves patients in distress at a nearby bus stop.

Story 2 – Plane crash on way to Diavik mine had Rio Tinto staff on board. Earlier reports of 10 casualties have been updated to just say there were casualties.

Story 3 – Class action is greenlighted in Quebec against the province’s 118 CHSLDs for negligence related to COVID-19 deaths.

Story 4 – Using the Emergencies Act to clear the trucker convoy was unconstitutional.

Story 5 – Largest day of casualties for the IDF yesterday when the building they were rigging up with explosives collapsed on them. A Hamas rocket caused a chain reaction, triggering the collapse.

Daily News – Jan. 23, 2024

January 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Day two of a 48-hour bus strike in Metro Vancouver as the union vows to increase pressure tactics.

Story 2 – A stunning number of senior’s residences in Montreal don’t have evacuation plans that are up to code in case of fire, and very few owners are facing judicial consequences.

Story 3 – Population has increased but the number of doctors has not. CBC tells us what’s going on but fails to mention why.

Story 4 – New round of airstrikes conducted against Yemen by the US and UK.

Story 5 – Officials in Donetsk say Ukrainian fire has killed 27 and injured 25. Ukraine hasn’t commented.

Daily News – Jan. 22, 2024

January 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – After being forced out of the factor due to a fire alarm, Amazon workers in London stayed outside for some 20 minutes in -17 C windchill. An hour later, a worker collapsed and died.

Story 2 – Black and Middle Eastern Ottawans were over-represented in Ottawa Police use-of-force statistics.

Story 3 – CSIS is allegedly sniffing around the Conservative candidate riding nomination of a former Kenney staffer and co-chair of Poilievre’s leadership team.

Story 4 – Death toll in Gaza surpases 25,000.

Story 5 – At least 47 people were buried by a landslide in southwest China on Mnday morning.

Daily News – Jan. 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Hamilton is first city in Ontario to pass a bylaw to try and stop renovictions.

Story 2 – More than 936K visas have been given to Ukrainians to come to Canada and more than 200,000 of them have actually come. Officials expect a rush of people before March 31.

Story 3 – Agreement to devolve responsibility from the federal government to Nunavut is finally signed.

Story 4 – Largest NATO war games are set to start next week.

Story 5 – Jordan seems to be boming Syria over drug smuggling.

Daily News – Jan. 18, 2024

January 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Spike in infections and deaths related to invasive Strep A. CBC News has what you need to know.

Story 2 – Former Grand Chief of the Council of the Crees spent 4 days in the ER without being given a room in Montreal.

Story 3 – Ontario family kidnapped and extorted $10,000 in Eswatini while visiting with missionary family.

Story 4 – Protests in Tunisia call for more action to search for a missing boat of 37 people on the Mediterranean.

Story 5 – Public prosecutor who was working on the live TV hostage charges in Ecuador has been shot and killed.

Daily News – Jan. 17, 2024

January 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man obsessed with the conspiracy theory that the government was starting forets fires, pleads guilty to setting 14 forest fires.

Story 2 – SK teachers go on one day strike, government claims that they aren’t responsible to negotiate things like class sizes or class composition (they are).

Story 3 – Strike at military bases across Ontario and Quebec over wages that are far lower than people doing similar work employed by National Defense.

Story 4 – Iranian airstrike kills two children and injures three in Pakistan as they aim for armed group bases that have attacked Iranian border guards.

Daily News – Jan. 16, 2024

January 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cops threaten people with arrest if they dare to call in fake missing kangaroo tips.

Story 2 – Just 7.9% of cyclists who are injured in Toronto are reported by Toronto Police, finds a new study from researchers at York University.

Story 3 – Police in BC held a massive DNA sweep at a Kurdish New Year party where they pretended to be tea salesmen, to try and solve the murder of a child.

Story 4 – Some 180,000 people live in Alberta who don’t have permenant status in Canada.

Story 5 – Nauru severs diplomatic ties with Taiwan, moves towards China.

Story 6 – From ancient manuscripts stored at the Great Omari Mosque to a recently-discovered Roman necropolis, here is a short list of the cultural landmarks that Israel has destroyed.

Daily News – Jan. 15, 2024

January 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Voting begins for public sector workers who are members of the Front Commun, plus details about the teachers’ settlement are revealed.

Story 2 – Flag flown that netted a hate crimes charge was the flag of a secular, communist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an organization that hasn’t killed nearly as many Israelis as Isreal has killed Palestinians.

Story 3 – CBC News interactive feature on lonliness shows the disintegration of social solidarity and cohesion through the lens of seniors’ lonliness.

Story 4 – Fuel prices surge in Cuba causing economic crisis.

Daily News – Jan. 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cops declare protesting at one specific 401 overpass illegal in Toronto; arrest man for inciting violence for holding a flag of an organization that Canada deems to be terrorist.

Story 2 – New study shows that prescription opioids keep opioid users alive.

Story 3 – Of 21 million hectares of boreal forest in Ontario and Quebec, just 14 million are left thanks to logging and deforestation, devestating caribou herds.

Story 4 – Israel is at the Hague arguing how killing 1% of all children in Gaza is not actually on the track of full-blown genocide.

Story 5 – Canada is part of coalition that started bombing Yemen last night to retaliate for their campaign to support Gaza.

 

Daily News – Jan. 11, 2024

January 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Journalist Brandi Morin was arrested on a criminal offence while reporting on the Edmonton camp raids.

Story 2 – Two years ago, DFO ordered that all egg-bearing lobsters be slaughtered to prevent invasive species from spreading but lobster industry leaders say that had never heard this and don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

Story 3 – The Globe finds out that Alberta’s turkish Tylenol adventure was even worse — the medicine was too thick, clocked feeding tubes and kids refused to swallow it because of its taste.

Story 4 – Mass grave found behind a Mississippi jail has buzzards and scavengers all around it — many of the people buried there have families who still thought they were alive.

Story 5 – Al-Shabab has captured a UN helicopter and taken at least six of the nine people on board.

Daily News – Jan. 10, 2024

January 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – The RCMP misses its own deadline to present a plan to implement recommendations from Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission.

Story 2 – I do a deep dive into the copaganda that CTV is promoting to justify encampment raids.

Story 3 – The equivalent of 1,253 Honda civics in weight of cannabis product has been destroyed in Canada since pot was legalized

Story 4 – FAA grounds 737 Max 9 planes in the US after loose bolts found.

Daily News – Jan. 9, 2024

January 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Family of Nigerian international student shot and killed by Winnipeg Police call for justice.

Story 2 – Newfoundlanders are turning to Facebook groups to try and find food to not starve.

Story 3 – Four people charged with painting a Toronto Indigo to protest it’s CEO’s support for the IDF appear in court.

Daily News – Jan. 8, 2023

January 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora Daily News
Story 1 – The Front Commun wins a 17.4% wage increase over 5 years — far from the government’s initial offer of 9% — and the agreement-in-principle will go to a vote over the next month.
Story 2 – Juries are not paid enough to ensure that people are tried by “a jury of their peers” in Ontario.

Daily News – Dec. 22, 2023

December 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News
Story 1 – Second 14-year-old Indigenous person to be killed in a week in Canada, this time it’s a girl in Winnipeg who had been released from custody the day before she was stabbed by another teen.

Daily News – Dec. 21, 2023

December 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Indigenous leaders call into question the protocols being used by Thunder Bay police after a 14 year old from Neskantaga First Nation is found dead.

Story 2 – Man is killed at a GFL Environment location in Rosslyn, Ontario. Owner of the company donates $25,000 to the family’s GoFundMe.

Story 3 – OPP steals a reporter’s camera (and then gives the camera back but takes the SD card) at the site of a fatal car crash.

Story 4 – the Yellowhead Institue announces that there is too little progress on the 94 recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for them to release their annual report any longer.

Story 5 – Kia Canada is withholding cars that Canadians have purchased to not go over their 2023 sales targets. The plan is enraging car lot owners and consumers alike.

Story 6 – Yesterday was Day 666 of the Ukrainian war. Here’s where things are at:

Daily News – Dec. 20, 2023

December 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Hate crimes are up in Toronto — 900% increase of Islamophobic hatecrimes and 200% increase of antisemitic hatecrimes, reported by police.

Story 2 – Woman dies after 14 hour wait in Abbotsford Regional Hospital — same hospital where an 85 year old woman stayed in a hallway for five days a month ago.

Story 3 – Canada set to blow more thab $2 billion on a fleet of flying murder robots for some reason.

Story 4 – Sudan has booted Chadian diplomats out of Sudan, accusing Chad and the UAE of supporting the Rapid Support Forces, something that Chad denies.

Story 5 – The DRC is kicking out 14,000 UN peacekeepers, the UN security council agrees to withdraw earlier than expected.

Daily News – Dec. 19, 2023

December 19, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Daily News – Dec. 18, 2023

December 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Judge grants interim injunction stopping this morning’s raid of encampments in Edmonton — police must wait until at least noon, today to dismantle the only homes people have right before Christmas.

Story 2 – Boy in Quebec dies at a hockey practice when a puck hits his neck.

Daily News – Dec. 15, 2023

December 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Driver who crashed into the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus killing 16 loses appeal to be deported. Despite having been set up to fail, serving time in jail, expressing deep remorse, CBSA wants him out of Canada.

Story 2 – Nurse in Edmonton who is gay faces deportation to Uganda where queer acts can be punishable by death.

Story 3 – Fourth person in Calgary, third teenager, has been arrested on terrorism charges.

Story 4 – The US has supplied white phospherous to Israel that was used on civilians, constituting a war crime.

Daily News – Dec. 14, 2023

December 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – No charges recommended in fatal police shooting in St. John’s.

Story 2 – Dollarama scores big thanks to people getting poorer, profits up to $1.48B in Quarter 3. The Canadian Press manages to make the story about people needing to brace for even higher prices.

Story 3 – Baby formula has spiked by more than 20%, CTV News misses the chance to ask why a company that set up in 2016 to manufacture formula is still not manufacturing formula, despite a $24M grant from the Ontario government.

Story 4 – New report links Canadian mining companies to the Wagner group in Mali, except extremely indirectly — through their tax dollars. The report authors are a new think tank concerned about Russia’s growing influence in mining.

 

Daily News – Dec. 13, 2023

December 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – A worker dies in Edmonton’s Refinery Row. They fell from “a height.”

Story 2 – Worker dies in a log sorting facilitiy on Vancouver Island.

Story 3 – Canadian couple who was doing so-called missionary work in the Dominican Republic has been found guildy of child sex crimes, sentenced to jail time.

Story 4 – Common Front workers are back on strike, alongside teachers and nurses, for a big week of strike.

Story 5 – Very high number of so-called friendly fire deaths within the IDF, including on Oct. 7, which the IDF refuses to investigate due to it being “complicated.”

Story 6 – Person dies at Britian’s floating prison barge that is being used to hold asylum seekers who are awaiting trial.

Daily News – Dec. 12, 2023

December 12, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – 12 more second degree charges laid against Kenneth Law for aiding and abetting suidice. CTV estimates that there are more than 100 victims.

Story 2 – Edmonton police break into a woman’s apartment and kill her. She’s the second person to be killed by Edmonton police in a week.

Story 3 – A child dies not long after having been assaulted in the bathroom of the Toronto children’s aid offices. A 22-year-old woman who is not related to the child has been arrested.

Story 4 – Beth Kotierk resigns from the board of Nutrition North over the federal government’s support of Israel.

Story 5 – All 12 members of the Indigenous Advisory Board for CN Rail resign.

Story 6 – Yemen warns that they will shoot at any vessel passing through the Bab El-Mandeb straight either to or from Israel.

Daily News – Dec. 11, 2023

December 11, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Five people have died, hundreds infected by salmonella outbreak linked to canteloupe.

Story 2 – Two men arrested for terrorism due to their involvement in the Atomwaffen Division. For some reason that CTV doesn’t explain, they aren’t named and everyone’s identity is protected.

Story 3 – Bill 15 passes in Quebec creating Santé Québec, a single employer for all healthcare workers in the province. This will create a bureaucracy so enormous that no problems will ever be adequately fixed, pushing people to private healthcare:

Story 4 – Man’s body who died in the custody of Alabama’s corrections department is returned to his family but is heart is missing.

Story 5 – The WHO is the first UN body that manages to take a position in favour of a ceasefire and humanitarian aid.

Daily News – Dec. 8, 2023

December 8, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Hay River representative RJ Simpson is the new NWT premier.

Story 2 – 88 cops in Calgary and Edmonton resigned or retired while they were under investigation for misconduct. This let them find work as cops elsewhere.

Story 3 – CIBC and RBC fined for insufficient alerts related to suspcious financial transactions; TD is under investigation in the US for enabling money laundering.

Story 4 – Despite being as high as three times as many emissions as industry produces, the emissions released by wildfires will not be included in annual emissions reports.

Story 5 – Liberals to double how much they have to pay despite the fact that they already pay as much as triple what Canadian students pay. Will create program for “underrrepresented international students” to compensate.

Daily News – Dec. 7, 2023

December 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Province cancels St. Stephen’s declaration of a state of emergency, says that homeless people die all the time so there’s no emergency there.

Story 2 – Surrey cop originally charged with 15 counts including sexual assault, and who plead guilty to breach of trust, is being sentenced. Will likely only get house arrest and probation.

Story 3 – Edmonton cop who beat a man in the head and left him bleeding in the Edmonton river valley can return to work at a lower rank.

Story 4 – An American and a former DEA informant, has been charged in the assassination plot against Jovenal Moïse.

Daily News – Dec. 5, 2023

December 5, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Man who drove his car into pro-Palestinian protesters is charged but not named.

Story 2 – New Brunswick leaders are coy about whether or not their members are prepared to break the law over province’s proposed  pension reform.

Story 3 – Four charged in the death of Daniel Langois.

Story 4 – Deathtoll rises in Tanzania flood and landslides.

Story 5 – Internet is nearly totally out in Gaza as Israel increases its bombardments.

 

 

Daily News – Dec. 4, 2023

December 4, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Disability advocates refuse to stand alongside government officials in NL due to ableist policies

Story 2 – The Ontario Liberals have a new leader: Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie.

Story 3 – Ontario government doing away with mandatory coroner’s inquiries after someone dies on a construction worksite. Govenrment blames backlog on decision.

Story 4 – CBC/Radio-Canada will cut some 700 jobs, including 300 in Quebec, to make up for government defunding of the public broadcaster.

Story 5 – Mystery surrounds the death of Canadian journalist who has been living and working in Freetown, Sierre Leone, since 2009.

Daily News – Dec. 1, 2023

December 1, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – A Guinéan international student has been shot and killed by police in the Saguenay.

Story 2 – Video shows a very different story of what happened when Winnipeg police killed man they were arresting.

Story 3 – Hockey Canada’s new independent complaints body received nearly 1900 complaints.

Story 4 – Complaint made by four CSIS workers exposes a culture of violence, toxic behaviour.

Story 5 – Muxe festival in Mexico held in the shadow of recent, high-profile Muxe murders.

Daily News – Nov. 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Hotel in Barrie that has been used as a temporary shelter is evicting people at the end of this week.

Story 2 – There has been a spike in asylum claims among international students, most of who study at an Ontario college.

Story 3 – Abstinence-based, residential treatment for opioid addiction has no, even worse outcomes than people who don’t go for any treatment.

Story 4 – India paid a man to coordinate the murder of a Sikh activist in New York City, around the same time that Hardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered.

Daily News – Nov. 29, 2023

November 29, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Federal housing watchdog says that the state of housing in Canada’s north is a breach of human rights.

Story 2 – Canada to donate more ammunition, coordinate uranium exports, for a total contribution to Ukraine that costs $8 billion

Story 3 – Life expectancy in Canada is falling, says Statscan.

Story 4 – Australian Christian cult seemingly influenced Kenyan death cult.

Daily News – Nov. 28, 2023

November 28, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Mass shooting that killed 4 people in Winnipeg killed two sisters.

Story 2 – CST Coal wants to deepen two of its mines despite the fact that its’ currently under investigation by the provincial regulator.

Story 3 – 2100 workers at Air Transat have voted overwhelmingly to go one strike.

Story 4 – 20 people killed in Sierra Leone in attack on a prison that lead to nearly 2000 peple escaping.

Story 5 – Border blockade batween Poland and Ukraine has slowed truck traffic to a trickle.

Daily News – Nov. 27, 2023

November 27, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Cops put out very little information, but enough to cancel the Santa Claus Parade just 30 minutes before it started.

Story 2 – Five people died in a car crash in Hunstville — one car was a Mercedes SUV that had four teens in it, between the ages of just 15 and 17.

Story 3 – Danielle Smith hopes that her cosplaying politics will stop the application of a federal law that insists that provinces will reach net zero emissions by 2035.

Story 4 – 10 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and farmers are scared that their farms will be raided and stolen by armed Israeli settlers.

Daily News – Nov. 24, 2023

November 25, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Barista fired from Starbucks after leading unionization campaign at Vancouver store.

Story 2 – Despite an overwhelming majority in a record-turnout referendum, B’nai Brith gets successful injunction to stop McGill’s student union from implementing a motion in support of Palestine.

Story 3 – The City of Toronto turned down federal support to expand temporary shelters.

Story 4 – Migrant crisis growing at a northern checkpoint on the Russia-Finnish border, both countries blame each other.

Story 5 – Far-right rioters set fire to Dublin.

 

Daily News – Nov. 23, 2023

November 23, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – CN train hits Montreal commuter train on tracks that are owned by CN. Seven are minorly injured.

Story 2 – A lack of information from police and no local news have created a vicious rumour mill in Smiths Falls, Ontario, related to three men who have gone missing or died in the past year.

Story 3 – Danielle Smith’s scheme to purchase children’s medicine from Turkey cost tens of millions of dollars and less than 2% of the medicine was actually delivered to hospitals and pharmacies.

Story 4 – Geert Wilders projected to win most seats in Holland’s election.

Daily News – Nov. 22, 2023

November 22, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News
Story 1 – The CAQ is in scolding hot water over it’s plan to pay up to $7 million to bring the LA Kings to Quebec City to play a single game.

Daily News – Nov. 21, 2023

November 21, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Video of Soleiman Faqiri’s murder by police guards showed for the first time since he died, to inquest.

Story 2 – Anti-strike bias in a Canadian Press story focuses more on bakers than on sugar refinery strikers who are fighting for their right to a weekend.

Story 3 – Strikes start today and will sweep Quebec for the rest of the week (and possibly beyond!)

Story 4 – Windsor Police announce that Stellantis is planning to hire 1600 temporary foreign workers in Windsor to work at the plant that was given $15 billion from governments to operate:

Daily News – Nov. 20, 2023

November 20, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Was Saskatchewan MLA seeking sex from someone who was coerced into the sex trade? Or is this just a puritan witch hunt?

Story 2 – The Alberta government’s plan to dismantle the Alberta Health Service has started: six senior executives of the AHS have been fired.

Story 3 – Gatineau man racially profiled by CATSA workers and police at the Edmonton airport.

Story 4 – We finally have our sequel: 2 Michaels 1 Furious.

Story 5 – Javier Millei wins election in Argentina.

Daily News – Nov. 17, 2023

November 18, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – London doctor has been arrested in connection with a ketchup incident at an MP’s office.

Story 2 – No Frills workers are set to walk off the job on Monday if an agreement cannot be reached.

Story 3 – Canadian troops will be involved in US-lead war excercises in Africa – – the same ones that have trained many soldiers who have overthrown civilian governments.

Story 4 – Measles has jumped by 40% globally in the past year.

 

 

Daily News – Nov. 16, 2023

November 16, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Karl Tremblay from Les Cowboys Fringants has died.

Story 2 – A record number of people sought asylum in September.

Story 3 – Loblaw reports higher Q3 sales than last year thanks to everyone being poor and buying no name brands at no name stores.

Story 4 – Active member of RCAF is arrested over weapons cache he smuggled home from the US.

Story 5 – 40 workers are still trapped in a tunnel in Northern India while rescue efforts continue.

Daily News – Nov. 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Foodbank usage in Toronto has doubled and users have increased by more than 150%.

Story 2 – Hamilton Wentworth District School Board Trustee Sabreina Dahab responds to investigation launched against her pro-Palestinian social media posts.

Story 3 – Ford ministers are barely using their government-issued cell phones saying that they instead talked to people in person or via teams, and not that they’re just using private devices so that journalists can’t scrutinize them.

Story 4 – The rich are becoming more succulent.

Story 5 – M23 re-captures Kichishe in the DRC, the villiage where the UN alleges they committed a massacre last year.

Daily News – Nov. 14, 2023.

November 14, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – CBC News reports an 11-year-old’s targeted murder as if the boy is an adult.

Story 2 – Just how many members of Canada’s 1% were sex traffickers? Well, we know of at least two of them.

Story 3 – About 250 workers who have been on strike for a year and a half are about to go back to work in Quebec’s public pot shops. They won a starting salary of $21, over $17.14 that non-union workers are paid.

Story 4 – A list of Suella Braverman’s worst moments.

Daily News – Nov. 13, 2023

November 13, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – The Alberta Government is lowballing the number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 as CTV News get docs that show that AHS says that there are three times more people hospitalized than the government is reporting.

Story 2 – The Canadian Press turns a single protest in Toronto for Israel into being the counterbalance to tens of thousands of Canadians protesting for a cease fire in nearly 50 cities across Canada.

Story 3 – The Breach finds that there is severe anti-Palestinian bias in CTV News’ national broadcasts.

Story 4 – Canadian company owns copper mine that is at the heart of anti-government protests in Panama.

Story 5 – Israel sells Finland David’s Sling air defense system for some reason.

Daily News – Nov. 10, 2023

November 10, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Bullet holes found at two Jewish schools in Montreal; politicians insist that country where this is very much who we are, is not who we are.

Story 2 – A bus carrying 11 high school students crashes in to a house in Burnaby.

Story 3 – Founder of Spain’s far right party is shot in the face.

Story 4 – Updates from Israel and Palestine (and Syria and Yemen).

Daily News – Nov. 9, 2023

November 9, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Even Shania Twain’s crew isn’t safe in a tour bus along the transcanada!

Story 2 – Father of man killed by impaired driver has his visa denied for months putting the funeral on hold. IRCC’s fear? He might stay in Canada when he comes.

Story 3 – Investigation into Paper Excellence finds that they are probably far closer to Asia Pulp and Paper than they want peple to know and Greenpeace wants this to threaten their FSC certification.

Story 4 – Canada and other high-emitting nations on track to increase emissions, making the goal for limiting heating increases 1.5C unlikely.

Story 5 – The Rapid Support Forces closes in on Northern Darfur making them on the cusp of controlling all of the 11-million person region.

Daily News – Nov. 8, 2023

November 8, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Federal government reveals a new affordable housing plan and it is … paltry.

Story 2 – The feds paid KPMG money to help them figure out how to save money on paying consultants.

Story 3 – What exactly is Canada’s military doing in Israel?

Story 4 – Transphobia the big loser of last night’s elections in the US.

Story 5 – Prime Minister of Portugal resigns amid corruption probe.

Daily News – Nov. 7, 2023

November 7, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Some 420,000 workers were on strike across Quebec tomorrow as worker pressure ramps up demanding higher wages for public sector workers.

Story 2 – Avian flu outbreak in the Fraser Valley leaves farmers worried about their bottom lines, but article doens’t mention how many birds have died or any of the significant reforms needed to reduce the spread of the virus.

Story 3 – Explosion kills two, injures two at Canada’s High Commission in Abuja in Nigeria

Story 4 – Sexual assault survivor calls out top military official for calling her sexual assault an “alleged sexual incident”

Story 5 – Top Ukrainian advisor is killed when a birthday gift exploded in his hand. The gift? A box of grenades from a friend.

Daily News – Nov. 6, 2023

November 6, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – TVO workers end their three-month strike! Accept an offer for 7.7% wage increases over 3 years.

Story 2 – Transit operators in Hamilton are set to walk off the job at the end of the day on Wednesday.

Story 3 – Huge surprise! Companies jacked prices to boost profts under the cover of inflation. Where labour imputs rose by just over 10%, prices rose by 70%.

Story 4 – Community calls for action as two people go missing from tiny community along BC’s Highway of Tears in the past year.

Story 5 – Former military leader of Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara is back in jail after armed commandos break him and two others on trial, out.

Daily News – Nov. 3, 2023

November 3, 2023 Sandy and Nora Daily News

Story 1 – Albertans face existential threat to their identities as rats are found in Calgary:

Story 2 – TVA Groupe slashes nearly one third of its workforce.

Story 3 – Canada’s prisons have an even higher percentage of Indigenous people than a decade ago, now at nearly one-third of all inmates (50% in women’s facilities).

Story 4 – Canada set to spend $73.8 billion on new fighter jets for some reason.

Story 5 – The White House is trying to keep arms deals with Israel a secret.