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Daily News – Sept. 16, 2024

September 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The BC NDP turns its back on progressive drug policy, promises to involuntarily commit more people and hire more cops.

Story 2 – Part 3 nurses in New Brunswick reject tentative agreement.

Story 3 – Canada extends its ban to former senior Iranian officials to 2003, potentially stripping some of their PR or citizenship status.

Story 4 – Storm Boris slams Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

Story 5 – 45 people have died crossing the English Channel this year — a spike since 2021.

Daily News – Sept. 13, 2024

September 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – TIFF stops screening of movie about Russia soldiers due to threats.

Story 2 – Blaine Higgs goes on racist rant on Twitter, lying about asylum seekers arriving in New Brunswick.

Story 3 – Activists given trespass notices at Berczy Park in Barrie.

Story 4 – Rats fleeing the ship as it goes down? Second caquiste leaves the party in a week.

Story 5 – Boeing workers on the US west coast vote overwhelmingly to strike.

Story 6 – Typhoon Yagi slams Vietnam leaving more than 300 people missing or dead.

Daily News – Sept. 12, 2024

September 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sikh Press Association rings the alarm bell on rising violent hate crimes targeting Sikhs in Canada after a Tim Horton’s worker is stabbed by a box cutter in Edmonton and dies.

Story 2 – AHS quietly pushed vulnerable people’s prescriptions from AHS over to Shoppers Drug Marg.

Story 3 – A child connected to child welfare services dies every three days in Ontario.

Story 4 – Chrystia Freeland hasn’t seen the movie but insists that it’s Russian propaganda, condemns public agencies for having funded it.

Story 5 – A Canadian is among the dead in Morocco’s massive floods.

Daily News – Sept. 11, 2024

September 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City workers in Yellowknife win 3% pay raises and new time off benefits.

Story 2 – Mike Bettiol, a developer in the Hamilton area, has license revoked for financial mismanagement and corruption.

Story 3 – Journalist Duncan Kinney is trying to get documents from the Edmonton Police as he defends himself from charges that he vandalized a Nazi memorial.

Story 4 – A Canadian far-right media company has been named in a US court case as a beneficiary of $10M from RT.

Story 5 – At least 26 are dead and dozens more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Senegal.

Daily News – Sept. 10, 2024

September 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Air Canada workers gear up for a strike, the company starts cancelling flights.

Story 2 – Two Indigenous people were killed in Canada by police this weel. One in Elsipogtog and another in Ahtahkakoop.

Story 3 – A sixth cyclist has been killed by a driver in Toronto in 2024, bringing deaths to a five-year high.

Story 4 – Germany closes its land borders to limit the entry of migrants as the far right is on the rise in parts of the country.

Story 5 – Outspoken critic of the government, Nigeria’s National Labour Congress president has been arrested.

Daily News – Sept. 9, 2024

September 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Protests are back on campus and campus administrators are pulling out ridiculous (and likely anti-constitutional) rules to try and crush dissent.

Story 2 – Ceremony held to remember Hoss Lightning, the Cree teenager who Alberta RCMP shot and killed after he called 911 for help.

Story 3 – Ottawa police have allegedly spied on Somali officers. Five Somali officers are now suing the force.

Story 4 – Are the Liberals on track to lose this Montreal by-election?

Story 5 – Turkish-American peace activist murdered by Israeli forces in the West Bank

Story 6 – UN calls for security force to protect civilians in Sudan as the war between the military and the RSF continues to ravage the civilian population.

Daily News – Sept. 6, 2024

September 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Corporate landlord Dream Unlimited colludes with other corporate landlords through an app to determine the highest possible rents they can charge.

Story 2 – Ontatio Ombudsman to investigate the practice of child welfare agencies housing children in hotels, motels, trailors and office buildings.

Story 3 – Officials are worried that a list of 900 Nazi collaborators created in 1986 will embarass Canada if it’s released.

Story 4 – Abousfian Abdelrazik still waiting for his day in court as the Crown tries to push some of their witnesses to be allowed to tesitfy in camera.

Story 5 – 99,000 Mpox vaccines arrive in the DRC and more are on their way.

Daily News – Sept. 5, 2024

September 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Police kill woman in park while driving like “a bat out of hell” in Winnipeg. CBC News gives more airtime to the true victims in this, the driver of the car, than to the family of the victim.

Story 2 – At a rally condeming the recent police murder by car, a protester was struck by a driver who drove through the rally. CTV News asks Winnipeg Police for comment, despite them having just done the same thing the day earlier, but deadlier.

Story 3 – The sucking and blowing deal is off! The NDP experiments with doing politics again.

Story 4 – Negligence, greed and lies at the heart of the preventable Grenfall Tower tragedy, report finds.

Story 5 – At least 21 people, Syrians and Sudanese, have died after their boat capsized off an Italian island.

Story 6 – At least 81 people were killed in an attack in northern Nigeria after Boko Haram targets a village that police say had been working with the Nigerian military to push against the militant group.

Daily News – Sept. 4, 2024

September 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unifor files to represent workers at Walmart warehouse in Mississauga.

Story 2 – 13 people were killed in police interactions in August, a high that only ties Sept. 2022, according to the Media Co-op.

Story 3 – Scotiabank is funding Elbit Systems at a rate that is far greater than any of the other big 6 Canadian banks (though all have some money with the Israeli arms dealer).

Story 4 – Ugandan Olympic marathoner burned and severely injured in a case of apparent intimate partner violence.

Story 5 – Missiles strike military school in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people — seemingly the largest attack by Russia since they invaded 2 1/2 years ago.

Daily News – Sept. 3, 2024

September 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Picket lines are up at Western University as 90% of CUPE Local 2361 members vote 99% in favour of a strike.

Story 2 – Law union wins at labour tribunal as McGill is found to have interfered with their strike.

Story 3 – The UK will stop exporting some arms to Israel but critics say that’s not nearly enough.

Story 4 – Presidential candidate in Tunisian election is arrested just after his name is approved to be one of just three candidates on the ballot.

Daily News – Sept. 2, 2024

September 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP murder First Nations teenager who called them for help.

Story 2 – Opaskwayak Cree Nation reports finding evidence of unmarked graves at site of former Residential School.

Story 3 – General Strike called today in Israel to protest how Benjamin Netenyahu has handled the hostage situation in Gaza.

Story 4 – Ambulances blocked as Israel lays siege to Jenin in the West Bank.

Story 5 – Far right party in Germany poised to make gains in easter part of the country.

Daily News – August 2, 2024

August 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dakota Tipi First Nation struggles to contain the drug crisis on their territory.

Story 2 – Father and son both say that the son had nothing to do with any terror plot.

Story 3 – Canada said it wuld stop future export permits of weapons to Israel. Now we know that the current export permits total $107M, news that’s only being reported by @readthemaple

Story 4 – As protests sweep across various African countries related to the cost of living, Nigeria is next, as people call for an end to petroleum subsidies and economic reforms that are driving up the cost of living.

Story 5 – Biggest losses ever for the Wagner group as rebel forces say 84 soldiers and almost 50 Malian soldiers were killed in a clash near the Algerian border.

Daily News – August 1, 2024

August 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Amensty International adds Wet’sewen’ten hereditary chief to list of prisoners of conscience.

Story 2 – Employees at two PEI Saltwire newspapers filed to form a union back in October. But they haven’t heard back from the Labour Board and they’re demanding to know why.

Story 3 – Two Radio-Canada broadcasters refused to call the beach volleyball match that featured a convicted rapist.

Story 4 – Landslide is blocking the Chilcotin river and officials have ordered the evacuation of people downstream from it, in fear that there may be flooding.

Story 5 – Canadian billionaire who founded Swiss Chalet died in obscurity in Paris – and no one seemed to notice.

Story 6 – Heat and wildfires are creating terrible conditions in Spain.

Daily News – July 31, 2024

July 31, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dalhousie calls in the cops to clear the student encampment Al Zeitoun University.

Story 2 – Quebec is leading the provincial pack in how fast the healthcare system is privitizing.

Story 3 – AirBnB says that the 107K rental units on their platform that could be used as long-term housing, wouldn’t actually help the housing crisis. But these kinds of housing as part of short-term rentals have increased by 80% since 2017.

Story 4 – Fascist mob smashes the windows of the local mosque in the aftermath of mass stabbing that left three girls dead.

Story 5 – Flooding and landslides have killed more than 100 people in India and Pakistan.

Daily News – July 30, 2024

July 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Doug Ford buys helicopters to fight car thefts, despite car thefts being at a low in a 40-year trend.

Story 2 – Healthcare workers in Saskatchewan are not being paid correctly.

Story 3 – RCMP officer found guilty in death of Dale Culver.

Story 4 – Far right riots in support of torture and rape in Israel.

Story 5 – China brokers deal between Palestinian factions.

Daily News – July 29, 2024

July 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – ACORN Calgary protests against the high cost of food.

Story 2 – Reducing funding for searches near former residential school sites for bodies from $3M to $500K enrages activists.

Story 3 – Atlantic Canada media is about to be absorbed by the Postmedia empire as Saltwire is the latest to fall to the newspaper giant.

Story 4 – Fire exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel results in 12 deaths in the occupied Golan Heights.

Story 5 – Venezuelans head to the polls (and update: Maduro squeaked out a victory)

Daily News – July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two companies faced charges for explosion and fire that seriously injured 7 refinery workers and killed an 8th in Come By Chance NL

Story 2 – The owner of the Edmonton Oilers were quietly lobbying the city of Edmonton to clear unhoused people from the neighbourhood adjacent to their arenas.

Story 3 – In the end, no charges were successfully laid against the two Niagara cops who got into a shoot-out against one another.

Story 4 – CRA finally tells the Jewish National Fund that it will revoke its charitable status because it funds military installations in Israel (which is illegal).

Story 5 – More than 150 people have been killed in protests in Bangladesh; the UN calls on the leadership of the country to let them investigate.

Daily News – July 25, 2024

July 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Murder at the Lindsay jail and two inmates are charged. But why no mention of institutional failures that made this possible?

Story 2 – The prez of the LCBO is also a board member of the Retail Council of Canada — a formal lobby group calling for Ontario to liberalize liquor sales so that the Loblaws and Sobeys of the world can make even more money.

Story 3 – Online trading website that has bilked more than $2 billion from people in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is headquartered in Markham.

Story 4 – Typhoon Gaemi slams Manila, several dead due to resulting landslides.

Story 5 – At least a third of all people in state and religious care in New Zealand experienced abuse; 14% of all Catholic clergy likely engaged in abuse, new Royal Commission finds.

Daily News – July 24, 2024

July 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfires force chaotic evacuation from Jasper.

Story 2 – Behind the line that concerned emails are what convinced the Higgs government to review Policy 713.

Story 3 – The RCMP allowed a Canadian to travel to London where he was promptly arrested for terror charges. He was convicted yesterday.

Story 4 – At least 200 people have been killed by landslides in southern Ethiopia.

Story 5 – Leftwing party in France moves to scrap Macron’s anti-worker pension and retirement reforms. And with support from the far right, it could pass.

Daily News – July 23, 2024

July 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Health emergency declared at Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation over lack of healthcare workers.

Story 2 – Two men have been charged with calling for the murder of Justin Trudeau and other politicians. For some reason, their names have been withheld.

Story 3 – Canadian man shot and killed near the Gaza border; Canadian officials say nothing.

Story 4 – New round of fire from Israel kills 80 people, polio is detected in Gaza’s sewer system.

Story 5 – 40 Haitians killed in boat fire as they try to reach Turks and Caicos.

Daily News – July 22, 2024

July 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – LCBO workers to vote on agreement, ending their strike.

Story 2 – Solidarity actions with Gaza at Halifax and St. John’s Pride parades.

Story 3 – Cop who broke man’s nose during arrest didn’t break the law.

Story 4 – Israeli retaliatory attack in Yemen kills 80. Houthis vow to keep attacking Israel.

Story 5 – Diplomatic relations betwen Sudan and Iran open up again.

Daily News – July 19, 2024

July 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Montreal children’s hospital is seeing a spike in children injuries due to e-scooters.

Story 2– Vancouver Island University is suing its own students over a Gaza solidarity encampment.

Story 3 – Own a handheld steam cleaner from Bissell? It might burn you and is now under a recall notice.

Story 4 – At least 17 people dead in student protests in Bangladesh over civil service hiring quotas.

Story 5 – Itamar Ben-Gvir visits Al-Aqsa mosque, sparking fears that Israel has its eye on the Occupied Jerusalem site.

Daily News – July 18, 2024

July 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Weapons manufacturer Colt Canada plans to double in size.

Story 2 – Two dead due to listeriosis outbreak tied to Silk and Great Valu non-milk milks.

Story 3 – Despite united call by premiers for better distribution of asylum seekers in Canada, only two provinces have agreed to accept people from Quebec.

Story 4 – Randy Boissonault’s former business parnter claims that text messages that referenced “Randy” were all autocorrects — despite him never correcting himself in texts.

Story 5 – Black man killed by out-of-state cops for living near the RNC.

Story 6 – 9 people at least were killed in collapsed clandestine mine.

Daily News – July 17, 2024

July 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Child and youth advocate in BC calls for radical changes to the child welfare system, after inquiry into torture and murder of boy.

Story 2 – Immigration lawyer David Hirsch Davis, previously sanctioned for sexual assault and professional misconduct, is suspended by the Law Society for 6 months for punching articling student in the groin.

Story 3 – TC Energy loses its bid for $15B in damages over cancelled Keystone XL pipeline.

Story 4 – Six people dead from apparent poisoning in luxury hotel in Bankok.

Story 5 – ISIS claims responsibiilty for attack inside Oman mosque where 6 were killed and 28 injured.

Daily News – July 16, 2024

July 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Video released that shows that police negligence caused the death of John Ettawakapow.

Story 2 – Encampment dismantled by activists at the University of Manitoba before the university could have “the spectacle they wanted” of taking it down.

Story 3 – Massive protests in Bangladesh over hiring practice changes leaves at least 100 students injured.

Story 4 – Paul Kagame wins Rwandan election with a vote share of 99%

Daily News – July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Justice for Migrant Workers calls for protections for migrant workers against extreme heat.

Story 2 – Capacity in women’s jails in Saskatchewan, where 90% of inmates are Indigenous, is at a crisis level.

Story 3 – Canada finally to drop “refugee” designation given to Dakota and Lakota people.

Story 4 – Israel murders 90 Palestinians in latest attack.

Story 5 – Tunisian opposition leader are being jailed as that country’s democracy is eroded.

Daily news – July 12, 2024

July 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Fantasia Film Festival workers are on strike, hoping that negotiations can advance to avert a strike when the festival opens next week.

Story 2 – Nine people have died in BC road crashes in the past week.

Story 3 – CBC acts surprised: turns out that melting arctic sea ice is bad for shipping (obviously?)

Story 4 – Insurance industry funded oil and gas to the tune of almost $20B last year.

Story 5 – Korean Samsung workers on strike in that company’s largest ever work action.

Daily News – July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – MUN students set up new encampment days after being arrested; McGill hires cops and mercenaries to clear its encampment, big win at the University of Windsor over divestment and academic boycott demands.

Story 2 – Not enough slack in BC hospital system for nurses to call in sick; emergency wards in the Interior are closed as a result.

Story 3 – IRCC not renewing contract with hotel in Cornwall, kicking more than 500 people to the curb by the end of July.

Story 4 – Feeling the pinch of the affordability crisis? Don’t worry, Canada is going to take your tax money and buy some subs.

Story 5 – Sudanese officials receive first visit of a nation’s head since the start of the civil war.

Daily News – July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – After 5 years, a $2m corruption and harassment probe into the Durham Police has turned up … nothing. Not that there is no problem, it hasn’t reported at all.

Story 2 – A shortage of nurses and doctors in remote First Nations communities is killing people.

Story 3 – Throw out your Silk and Great Value almond, oat, cashew and coconut milk ASAP.

Story 4 – Lady accused of producing fraudulent timesheets bilked federal departments and Crown corps some $250,000. But her supervisors didn’t notice and it took the RCMP to read them and say, wait, what?

Story 5 – Orban, as the new president of the EU, is on a tour to try and stop the war in Ukraine. But Western countries think that he’s causing more harm than good.

Daily News – July 9, 2024

July 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Record deaths from toxic drugs in New Brunswick in 2023.

Story 2 – Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg is planning to pay for AI-power weapons detection.

Story 3 – Edmonton police shot and killed a man, three minutes of video of the confrontation has been deleted.

Story 4 – New defence pact between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as the three countries quit ECOWAS.

Story 5 – 11 dead in landslide at illegal gold mine in Indonesia.

Daily News – July 8, 2024

July 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – ILWU Local 514 set to strike, but the employer is set to lock them out.

Story 2 – New report details horrors of residential school to push back against residential school denialism.

Story 3 – The Lancet estimates that the death toll in Gaza could be higher than 186,000.

Story 4 – Environmental activists jailed in Cambodia.

Story 5 – France’s leftwing coalition beats back the fascists.

Daily News – July 5, 2024

July 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 150 anomalies have been found at the site of the former residential school at Pimicikmamak.

Story 2 – Strike at the LCBO for the first time in the Crown’s history.

Story 3 – Pro-Palestinian protesters at Western refuse to leave.

Story 4 – Israel moves to make the biggest land grab in the West Bank since the Oslo Accords.

Story 5 – With a small percentage of the popular vote, Labour careens to victory in the UK.

Daily News – July 4, 2024

July 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Brian Nadler’s first degree murder charges tossed out on Day 1 of his trial.

Story 2 – The John Howard Society of PEI warns that there are a high number of people being released from jail into homelessness.

Story 3 – Legal Aid Alberta is about to cease operations over fight with the province about funding and control.

Story 4 – 47 people killed in police-involved incidents so far this year in Canada.

Story 5 – Nearly 20 dead in Khan Younes, Israeli settlers burn fields south of Hebron and attack fire services so they can’t put the fires out.

Daily News – July 3, 2024

July 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – UofT wins injunction, cops promise to clear out encampment today.

Story 2 – A class action has been launched against the English Montreal School Board over decades of sexual assaults alleged against one teacher.

Story 3 – Secret trials in Canada? Five Iranians face deportation except we don’t know their names or much about the case against them.

Story 4 – Violence breaks out in Turkey against Syrian refugees. President Erdogan urges people to stop burning down houses and attacking refugees.

Story 5 – Mass deportation in Pakistan about to start of Afghan refugees.

Story 6 – Jamaica braces for hurricane Beryl, a climate change-driven hurricane.

Daily News – July 2, 2024

July 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Winnipeggers rally for more international students to be able to stay in Canada.

Story 2 – WestJet mechanics make gains after strike.

Story 3 – Israel tells people to clear out of Khan Younes sparking fears of a new ground invasion there.

Story 4 – Fascists win 33% of the vote in France and Macron’s party will make the difference in trying to get the leftwing regroupment ahead in next rounds of voting.

Story 5 – A UN working group calls for Imran Khan to be released from prison.

Daily News – June 28, 2024

June 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – OPP shoot and kill man in part that hosted armed resistance against the Department of Indian Affairs 50 years ago.

Story 2 – Safe injection site in Timmins to close due to a lack of provincial funding. Users warn that this will murder people.

Story 3 – Karima Manji will serve three years in prison over fraudently getting her daughters enrolled as Inuit.

Story 4 – An inside look into lobbyists for TC Energy and the NDP government of BC.

Story 5 – 3 workers die mysteriously at a Sweedish Northvolt plant.

Story 6 – a look at the Iranian presidential elections.

Daily News – June 27, 2024

June 27, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Mountie was promoted and is back on duty even though he is facing charages for shooting someone.

Story 2 – Bus driver at fault in crash that killed 17 people will not face charges.

Story 3 – Frank Stronach is facing more sexual assault charges.

Story 4 – Massive asset dump in global oil and gas industry.

Story 5 – Bolivia’s attempted 4-hour coup.

Daily News – June 26, 2024

June 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Uday Jaswal, former deputy chief of the Ottawa Police has been charged in the sex assault of a woman.

Story 2 – The University of Waterloo issues a tresspass notice to the pro-Palestinian encampment there, something that the students call “absolutely nonsensical.”

Story 3 – The Liberals shit the bed in Toronto-St. Paul’s.

Story 4 – Julian Assange is free!

Story 5 – Kenyan police arrive for their mission in Haiti, just as Kenyan police kill protesters in Nairobi over anti-austerity protests.

Daily News – June 25, 2024

June 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – NL bill will bring ankle bracelets to the province to track offenders.

Story 2 – MP Ryan Williams uses ChatGPT to be very publicly incorrect over the capital gains exemption.

Story 3 – Two US soldiers consciously object to service over the US’ support for Israel’s genocide.

Story 4 – Death toll at his year’s Hajj tops 1300.

Story 5 – Activists arrested in New Caledonia brought to France for detention.

Daily News – June 21, 2024

June 21, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Diesel spill in Pond Inlet.

Story 2 – The Rebel News has a racism truck.

Story 3 – Liberals unveil details of their national food program, promise that it will be universal.

Story 4 – Protests in Kenya over austerity measures.

Story 5 – By destroying Hamas, Gaza police and bombing aid convoys, Israel has made humanitarian distribution dangerous and near impossible.

Daily News – June 20, 2024

June 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfire evacuation order in place in Churchill Falls.

Story 2 – A construction worker struck by something and died at a downtown Montreal worksite.

Story 3 – Cargill will not pay damages to its employees at their High River factory over COVID-19 outbreak and related deaths.

Story 4 – Canada declares Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror group though the reasons listed by CTV for why are not terrorism.

Story 5 – Death toll rises to four in Houthi campaign to disrupt ships passing through the Red Sea, to pressure Israel to stop its genocide.

Daily News – June 19, 2024

June 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The remains of two Cree women, cousins, were identified weeks from one another in Dawson Creek BC.

Story 2 – Canada has refused to give emergency visas to the family of a man who was killed in a random act of violence for his funeral.

Story 3 – Liquor store workers in Ontario are ready to strike.

Story 4 – Same-sex marriage legalized in Thailand.

Story 5 – Nine people die in fire at hospital in northern Iran. Fire was likely linked to the hospital using emergency power generators due to extreme heat.

Daily News – June 18, 2024

June 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Kabyle Canadians accuse Algeria of spying on them.

Story 2 – A young man self-immolated inside a Winnipeg mosque.

Story 3 – The world will spend $100B on nuclear weapons this year.

Story 4 – The Greek Coastguard threw nine migrants into the sea, killing them, new BBC investigation reveals.

Story 5 – At least 6 dead in Ecuador due to landslides.

Daily News – June 17, 2024

June 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family says that father’s death at a hospital ER was due to an overloaded system.

Story 2 – Trudeau calls Russia’s attack on Ukraine a genocide but cannot bring himself to say the same thing about Israel.

Story 3 – UN warns of escalating violence along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Story 4 – The US undertook a secret antivax campaign to scare Filipinos out of taking China’s Sinovac vaccine, a decision that cost thousands of lives.

Daily News – June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 90% of teachers in Nunavut report having witnessed some kind of violence in the past year.

Story 2 – Ottawa cop gets to remain a cop after he beat a child in the custody of the mental health act.

Story 3 – Two workers are injured in Calgary while trying to repair the city’s catastrophic water main break.

Story 4 – Canada will send 2000 decommissioned rocket motors to Ukraine.

Story 5 – 120 million displaced people on the planet — the highest probably in the history of the world.

Daily News – June 13, 2024

June 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two cops involved in the high-speed chase that lead to a family being killed are refusing to cooperate with the SIU.

Story 2 – Some number of jobs are being cut at Global News as Corus tries to save money.

Story 3 – The CWB is being acquired by the National Bank.

Story 4 – Almost 50 people killed in an apartment fire in Kuwait in a district where foreign workers live.

Story 5 – Boat capsizes in Congo killing 80 people.

Daily News – June 12, 2024

June 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Indigenous students in PA were targeted for bizarre brain waves therapy, funded by a billionaire and that was never approvd by an ethics board.

Story 2 – Christian school director’s trial for assault with a weapon is on now and former students have horrifying stories.

Story 3 – Inside St. John’s for-profit shelter system, residents are scared for their lives. The mother of a woman murdered in one details how hard she tried to get another place to live.

Story 4 – Javier Milei is good for mining and Canadian companies are licking their chops.

Story 5 – Chiquita Banana ordered to pay millions to people whose families were slaughtered by paramilitary groups funded by the company.

Daily News – June 11, 2024

June 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – CBSA workers push their strike deadline to Friday.

Story 2 – Hamilton holds people in solitary confinement more than anywhere else in Ontario, regularly breaking the limit of time for what the UN considers to be humane.

Story 3 – MLA who was victim of police surveillance resigns, citing the culture of politics.

Story 4 – Unanimous vote at the UN security council (w/Russia abstaining) calling for ceasefire in Gaza.

Story 5 – EU parliament elections show that Europe is on a slide to the Right.

Daily News – June 10, 2024

June 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Three companies have been charged in the workplace deaths of two men in Alberta.

Story 2 – Community rallies against new proposed graphite project, especially after hearing that defense interests in the US have funded the project.

Story 3 – Four people arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto; police appears to punch protester.

Story 4 – Nearly 300 people killed in Israeli attack on refugee camp; Netenyahu faces uncertain political future.

Story 5 – Allied Democratic Forces in the DRC have killed at least 50 people in the past week.

Daily News – June 6, 2024

June 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Strategy document shows how police want to be the centre of drug policy in Alberta.

Story 2 – Opioid deaths are 8x higher among First Nations in Alberta.

Story 3 – Cop who kicked man in the head also kicked another man in the head.

Story 4 – The SIU in Ontario is charging a cop with assault.

Story 5 – A “Framework Agreement” has been reached between the ATU 113 and the TTC averting a transit strike at the eleventh hour.

Daily News – June 6, 2024

June 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario to stop wastewater surveillance.

Story 2 – York University students set up Palestine solidarity encampment.

Story 3 – International campaign targeting Palestinian activists uncovered by Israeli media.

Story 4 – RSF massacres 100 people in in Sudan

Daily News – June 5, 2024

June 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Saskatoon Public library workers might go on strike.

Story 2 – Grassy Narrows sues the federal and provincial government over mercury poisoning.

Story 3 – Foreign streaming services need to pay to a Canadian content creation fund.

Story 4 – UN Human Rights chief slams Israel’s attacks on the West Bank.

Story 5 – Modi’s BJP wins minority, surprising pollsters and analysts. He now must make a coalition to govern.

Daily News – June 4, 2024

June 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man pleads guilty to stabbing at UW but not to terror or hate crimes charges.

Story 2 – Spike in Canadians fleeing Canada to the United States

Story 3 – At the fifth anniversary of the Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, Canada has made nearly no progress on the 231 calls to action.

Story 4 – Neo-Nazi leader in Greece wil not get an early prison release.

Story 5 – Nigeria’s unions are on unlimited general strike demanding a hike in the country’s minimum wage.

Daily News – June 3, 2024

June 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Encampment set up at Université Laval is dismantled hours after it was set up.

Story 2 – Childcare kitchens are not being inspected enough in Alberta, months after a devastating e. coli outbreak.

Story 3 – Unifor decries Amazon’s interference in union drive.

Story 4 – Inside the crisis that faces Netenyahu in his own government.

Story 5 – Sudanese refugees are facing violence in Ethiopia.

Daily News – May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – UWO prez pens long letter explaining all the ways that the university refuses to meet student demands who are demanding action related to Gaza.

Story 2 – Police who murdered an Indigenous man decry the prohibition of cops sharing notes before they are investigated on the grounds of mental health.

Story 3 – One of Canada’s richest men, Robert G. Miller, has been arrested for sexual assault of 8 girls and 2 women. His assistant and other associates were charged too.

Story 4 – The EU is imposing high tariffs on Russian and Belarussian agriculture products to stop their flow into the European market. Europe is buying +3x as much ag from Russia since their invasion.

Story 5 – The US and Argentina are doing war games, showing off the cozy relationship betwen the two countries, despite the leadership of a fascist.

Daily News – May 30, 2024

May 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 5% of RMC students say they’ve been sexually attacked in the last year, 9% sexually assaulted.

Story 2 – A random group thinks that it’s unfair that the Minister of Health can now pull products off the shelf that are being used dangerously off-lable.

Story 3 – BMO missed it’s earnings target by only making $2.03B in the first quarter; Canadian profit up by 23%.

Story 4 – Sierre Leone struggles with Kush-driven epidemic.

Story 5 – Lula recals Brazil’s ambassador from Israel.

Daily News – May 29, 2024

May 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Class action has been greenlighted against Bombardier.

Story 2 – Dozens of people have been smuggled from Canada into the United States via freight train.

Story 3 – At least 126 youth have died from toxic drugs since 2019.

Story 4 – Almost 100 million chickens have been slaughtered to try and stop bird flu.

Story 5 – Georgian law makers pass law that will require media, NGOs and other organizations who are more than 20% foreign funded to register with government as operating for a foreign agency.

Story 6 – Dick Schoof, a guy with no government or parliamentary experience, is being named Prime Minister by the right-wing cabinet of Holland.

Daily News – May 28, 2024

May 28, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Migrants in PEI are on day 4 of hunger strike over proposed changes to immigration in that province.

Story 2 – Glad Day Bookstore in Toronto, the world’s oldest 2SLGTBQ bookstore, faces closure.

Story 3 – The world reacts to Israel’s massacre of people living in tents in Rafah.

Story 4 – Possible 2000 people dead after landslide in Papua New Guinea

Story 5 – The military government of Burkina Faso has declared it will stay in power for another 5 years, foregoing July’s election (and planned return to democracy)

Daily News – May 27, 2024

May 27, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Deadline was 8 AM for Palestinian solidarity activists to clear out of their encampment. Rally is on now …

Story 2 – Canada set to deport the truck driver who caused the Humboldt Broncos bus accident — after he’s served his 8-year prison sentence.

Story 3 – The US has quietly funded two mining projects in Canada in the hopes of securing access to critical minerals as China’s grip tightens around the industry.

Story 4 – Massacre in Rafah has killed many, the world watches in horror.

Story 5 – More than 100 killed in el-Fasher in Sudan as fighting intensifies between the RSF and the Sudanese military.

Daily News – May 24, 2024

May 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – SK teachers to vote on tentative deal.

Story 2 – Methylmercury, more toxic than mercury is now a growing compound in the English-Wabigoon river.

Story 3 – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Canada to defund its revenues so that its members can make more money on capital gains.

Story 4 – Cacao producers in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana are organizing to get higher tariffs on the fruit so that they can exit poverty. Global chocolate giants make more than $100 billion in profits.

Story 5 – The UK heads to the polls for the first time in 4.5 years.

Daily News – May 23, 2024

May 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Robert Pickton in a medically-induced coma after being beaten nearly to death in Port-Cartier.

Story 2 – Wealthy donor to the University of Manitoba is trying to get valedictorian of the graduating medical class in trouble for mentioning Gaza in his speech.

Story 3 – Loblaws is planning to ditch Freedom Mobile in favour of a company co-owned by Rogers and Bell. Singh and Quebecor are calling for an investigation by the competition bureau.

Story 4 – Indigenous people in New Caledonia are rioting over proposed changes to voting; France has sent police and military to put down protests. At least 6 have been killed. Plane spotters say that French planes are refueling at YVR.

Story 5 – Lam To is Vietnam’s new president, a position that is largely symbolic.

Story 6 – Democracy activist Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom dies in custody after more than 110 days of a hunder strike for democratic reform in Thailand.

Daily News – May 22, 2024

May 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cops crack heads at encampment at UQAM but activists at Ontario Tech U win huge advances from their admin.

Story 2 – Government committee identifies 35 threats to the security of Canadiands. Billionaires are number 5 though impact pretty much the entire list.

Story 3 – Countries around the world react to the ICC case against Israeli and Hamas leaders. In Canada, it took more than 31 hours for Trudeau to say anything and media to report on anything.

Story 4 – Israel attacks one of two hospitals left in northern Gaza.

Story 5 – Three Americans charged in failed and bizarre coup attenmpt in Congo.

Story 6 – William Ruto is in the US to discuss forming Kenyan-led military initiative in Haiti.

Episode 281 – Weaponizing the politics of identity to support Israel

May 21, 2024 Sandy and Nora

In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about how the politics of identity have been weaponized to silence people out of criticizing Israel. Plus, a former CBC producer speaks out about bias at the public broadcaster, Canada is questioning a doctor from Gaza about which members of Hamas he treated while working as a doctor and how are care and violence sometimes entwined?

Daily News – May 21, 2024

May 21, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – SIRT investigating after ” officer-involved shooting: in Regina.

Story 2 – Unexploded incindiary devices found at site of future EV battery site.

Story 3 – Omar Khadr denied an appeal with the US Supreme Court.

Story 4 – Top Iranian officials die in helicopter crash in region blanketed in thick fog.

Story 5 – The ICC issues arrest warrant for leadership of both Hamas and Israel, will allow events of Oct. 7 and the genocide of Gaza to be examined in court.

Story 6 – Julian Assange wins the right to appeal his extradition to the US.

Daily News – May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Edmonton police say that have evidence that a serial killer operated in the 1970s. He’s dead.

Story 2– Speaker of Sk’s Legislative Assembly tears up membership card and makes serious allegations of harassment against the incoming speaker.

Story 3 – Loblaw agrees to voluntarily sign the Grocery Code of Conduct. Walmart is still holding out.

Story 4 – Half of telcos in Canada are not compliant in alllowing people to make complaints on their websites.

Story 5 – Phoenix rose from the ashes only to be finally killed.

Story 6 – Mahamet Deby has been elected president in Chad though election watchers are concerned about how free and fair the process was.

Story 7 – 700,000 Palestinians flee Northern Gaza as Israel lays seige again to the region and also prepares for ground invasion in the south.

Daily News – May 16, 2024

May 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Double-digit profit percentage increases for two REITs making money off Halifax renters.

Story 2 – McGill loses second injunction. Students have a right to stay in their encampment.

Story 3 – CN will sell the Pont de Québec will be sold to the federal government for a symbolic $1 ending a very long political saga.

Story 4 – A barge hits a bridge in Galveston, Texas causing an oil spill.

Story 5 – 8 Mexican farm workers killed in bus crash north of Orlando.

Story 6 – Drone attacks in Amhara region of Ethiopia kills some number of civilians.

Story 7 – Assassintation attempt targets Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia.

Daily News – May 15, 2024

May 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Owner of MTL Gaming Centre (who is for some reason not named), seen dumping water on a sleeping man to try and get him to move. Global reports the storyt as “neighbourhood tensions” and not the story of an assault.

Story 2 – Wildfires force evacuations in Fort Mac.

Story 3 – Great Slave Lake and surrounding rivers are all at record lows due to draught that started in 2022.

Story 4 – Chinese EVs pose huge threat to the North American auto industry and Biden’s plan is to use tariffs to keep them out.

Story 5 – Three Libyan fighters die near Algerian border in a fight with drug smugglers.

Story 6 – Former minister of the economy of Kazakhstan has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife. The trial sparked a movement against domestic violence.

Daily News – May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The CSN manages to unionize Amazon in Laval, a first in Canada and only a second in North America.

Story 2 – Encampments are budding in Canada like tulips. U of T encampment leaders are unsatisfied after meeting with administrators.

Story 3 – Tunisia is cracking down on dissenters, triggering calls for a general strike.

Story 4 – The Socialist Workers’ Party wins big in local elections in Spain, including unseating independence party reps in Catalonia.

Story 5 – At least 300 people are dead after flash flooding in Afghanistan.

Daily News – May 13, 2024

May 13, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Wildfire season has started and evacuation orders are already in place.

Story 2 – Pro-Palestinian encampments have been violently dismantled in Alberta.

Story 3 – Few details released after 37 year old is murdered by Sault Ste. Marie police.

Story 4 – Man behind the viral black/blue dress is convicted of violence towards his wife.

Story 5 – Egypt is joining South Africa’s case at the ICJ, signalling a change in that country’s relationship with Israel.

Story 6 – 27 people have been killed as the RSF tries to move into El Fashir in North Darfur.

Daily News – May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family refuses to pay fine levied on them for refusing to allow their mother to a horrifying long-term care facility.

Story 2 – Teachers in Saskatchewn overwhelmingly tell the government to take it’s latest offer to hell.

Story 3 – National Post columnist mad that the Conservative nomination races are not transparent and probably fair.

Story 4 – Quebec’s National Assembly plans to sue Quebecor for not having paid their rent since August.

Story 5 – Four emergency incidents involving Boeing planes this past week (though Global News missed the one that happened in Canada).

Daily News – May 9, 2024

May 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ghislain Picard reminds François Legault that Indigenous people are not an afterthought in Quebec history.

Story 2 – CIJA broke lobbying rules in January but faced no sactions as a result.

Story 3 – Ontario woman loses citizenship because her mother was incorrectly told he was a citizen when she was born, 32 years ago.

Story 4 – Cholera emerges in regions in Kenya hit hardest by floods.

Story 5 – Ukraine passes bill to allow current prisoners to serve in their army, something that Russia allowed at the start of their invasion.

Daily News – May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Residents of Dalhousie NB are being promised jobs for environmental destruction for more enviro-friendly concrete, but for global markets.

Story 2 – While writing a political column, Andrew Coyne was a member of a foundation funded by Peter Munk that delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars to climate change denying organizations.

Story 3 – The feds agree to BC’s request to recriminalize public drug use while both governments also admit that criminalization only causes harm.

Story 4 – Six kids held in northern Syria have been repatriated to Canada though their mother is not with them. Canada doesn’t want her to come home because they can’t arrest her when she lands.

Story 5 – Wealthy Haitian man demands to know why he is still sanctioned by Canada when Canada used his property to airlift Canadians out of Haiti and train police.

Story 6 – Saadia Mosbah, a prominent migrant justice activist in Tunisia, has been detained.

Story 7 – Israel seizes the Rafah border crossing, signaling their “shooting fish in barrel” war strategy.

Daily News – March 7, 2024

May 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Convicted cop rapist Carl Snelgrove isn’t working with the RNC any longer but the force refuses to say whether he quit or was fired.

Story 2 – Doug Ford say that he’s tired of encampments for Gaza and they need to leave (though has trouble locating the University of Toronto on a map.)

Story 3 – Canada to expand power of CSIS to stop what they call foreign interference in elections.

Story 4 – Cease fire deal brokered by Qatar and Egypt accepted by Hamas, seemingly rejected by Israel.

Story 5 – At least 75 dead as climate change supersized El Nino causes devestating flooding in Brazil.

Daily News – May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Westjet to lock out its mechanics because they don’t want them to strike for higher wages.

Story 2 – Canada Post announces $748 million loss, just in time for bargaining with its workers.

Story 3 – India says that Canada’s investigation of Sikh activist’s arrest is a “political compulsion”

Story 4 – The sinking ship that is the British Conservative party.

Story 5 – Israel bans Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel and the West Bank.

Story 6 – At least 12 people have been killed after bomb blast near a market in DRC set by M23.

Daily News – May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Three men, two of whom are related, have fathered 600 kids in Quebec, from ages 15 to infant in “artisenal sperm” operation.

Story 2 – $2.4 billion carbon capture and storage project has been cancelled by Capital Power Inc. for being too expensive.

Story 3 – Loblaw leaders ask Canadians to not steal from them as they count their profits after having stolen from Canadians.

Story 4 – A second whistleblower at Boing has died.

Story 5 – Russians have landed at an airbase in Niger where US troops are stationed.

Daily News – May 2, 2024

May 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – McGill’s attempt to clear out pro-Palestine encampment is blocked by judge for being too broad

Story 2 – Landfull search in Saskatoon begins to find remains of woman missing since 2020.

Story 3 – ER at Williams Lake hospital closed over night this week due to a lack of nursing staff.

Story 4 – The Treasury Board has announced that civil servants will be expected to be in the office three days per week as of the fall. PSAC and PIPSC both vow to fight the plan.

Story 5 – The Scottish National Party wins confidence vote after Greens pull support for Humza Yousaf as leader, triggering his resignation.

Daily News – May 1, 2024

May 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Peel Police Chief is being criticized for posting, in uniform, with a Sri Lankan chief of police who had just been convicted of participating in torture.

Story 2 – Police chase ends up on the 401 going the wrong way, killing a family of three and a man who had allegedly robbed a liquor store.

Story 3 – Scientists warn that Canada is not tracking H5N1 adequately.

Story 4 – The Transmountain Pipeline opens today. Canada spent $34B on it and it should pay bacl $2.8B in taxes to Canada in … uh …. 20 years.

Story 5 – Police mass arrested protesters at Columbia last night.

Daily News – April 30, 2024

April 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Gate Gourmet workers’ strike is over.

Story 2 – A judge rejects the call for a publication ban by Peel Police to hide the identity of cops who were present when a cop shot and killed Ejaz Choudry.

Story 3 – TTC workers vote for a strike, the first time since the Liberals made it illegal for TTC workers to go on strike (that law was found to be unconstitutional).

Story 4 – Israeli media reports that the ICC is considering charging top officials for genocide.

Story 5 – At least 120 people dead after dam bursts in Kenya.

Story 6 – the UN warns that another genocide may be brewing in the Darfur, calls on groups to stop arming the RSF and the Sudanese army.

Daily News – April 29, 2024

April 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Alberta cop nailed with child pornography charges

Story 2 – Encampments established in Concordia and McGill

Story 3– The Freedom Flotilla has been denied its passage after Guinea Bisseau called for them to remove their flag

Story 4 – Argentina’s government is setting its sights on education:

Daily News – April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Supervisor criminally charged, owner pleads guilty in death of young worker.

Story 2 – Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 7 to hospital in Calgary. Workers were using a pressure washer inside of a parkade.

Story 3 – Benzene rates are sky-high at Aamjiwnaang First Natåion due to a petrochemical plant’s shutdown. The community has declared a state of emergency,

Story 4 – Transitional council to take over now that Ariel Henry has residen as PM of Haiti.

Story 5– More than 220 people massacred in a single day by the military in Burkina Faso.

Daily News – April 25, 2024

April 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Woman has to clean her dead husband’s body because of staffing shortage in Montreal hospital.

Story 2 – Former VP with SNC-Lavalin (now AtkinsRéalis) sentenced to prison for corruption.

Story 3 – Every SQ shooting range is closed in Quebec due to cops being poisoned by toxic gas that accumulates in the spaces.

Story 4 – Wildfire season off to brutal start in Alberta; officials declare sweeping open fire ban due to tinderbox conditions.

Story 5 – US quietly supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine, they’ve been used twice.

Daily News – April 24, 2024

April 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Family of Wet’suwet’en man who was murdered by RCMP vows to keep fighting for justice after BC’s prosecution service drops charges against the cops.

Story 2 – Date has been set for policing in Surrey to be transfered from the RCMP to the Surrey Police.

Story 3 – BC Ombudsman slams the province for having done nothing to stop putting youth into solitary confinement despite damning report 2 years ago.

Story 4 – More than 30 people missing or dead after boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti.

Story 5 – 5 people die trying to cross the English channel just after the UK passes law to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Daily News – April 23, 2024

April 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – The CSN files to represent workers at Amazon in Laval.

Story 2 – Young worker poisoned on the job from carbon monoxide, but his employer, Co-op, isn’t even being sanctioned.

Story 3 – First Nations patients are more like to leave the ER without being seen and the reason? Racism.

Story 4 – No evidence at all that UNRWA staff had any link to terrorism.

Story 5 – Ecuadorians agree to stricter security measures in referendum vote.

Daily News – April 22, 2024

April 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Quebec 13 y/o is banned from social media over harassment and child pornography accusations.

Story 2 – 36 year old man dies at Regina Correctional Centre with no information about cause of death or what happened.

Story 3 – International student will not be deported over his climate justice activism but his future in Canada is still uncertain.

Story 4 – Canadian aid organization’s water truck is bombed in targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Story 5 – Solidarity actions at Columbia university and other universities are met with intense opposition from administrators and police.

Story 6 – Mass grave discovered at the al-Shifa hospital complex.

Daily News – April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Encampments are growing in Halifax and the municipality doesn’t seem to know what to do about it.

Story 2 – Student self-immolates at college in Red Deer but no one is talking about it.

Story 3 – Spike in cost for infant formula leaves parents reeling.

Story 4 – India heads to elections in what is the largest election in the world.

Story 5 – US deports Haitians back to Haiti despite the instability there.

Daily News – April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 14 out of 15 drug poisoning deaths in Windsor-Essex were related to fentenyl.

Story 2 – The Ontario Legislature’s speaker MPP Ted Arnott bans Keffiyehs as being political symbols.

Story 3 – Crisis in Alberta’s NICUs spurns doctors to call for action; minister floats idea of airlifting infants in critical care to other provinces.

Story 4 – Private citizen to be questioned over ArriveCan app by the House of Commons for the first time in 100 years after Kristian Firth was found in contempt.

Story 5 – Pakistan blocked out social media just before and just after the elections, in a move meant to harm Imran Khan’s chances.

Story 6 – 1 in 5 Palestinians living in the occupied territories have been arrested, a rate that is doubled when only men are concerned. Yesterday marked Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

Daily News – April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Sexual assault charges laid against three teenagers in a case of apparent hgh school hockey team hazing incident in Manitoba.

Story 2 – Gate Gourmet workers at Toronto’s Pearson Airport have walked off the job.

Story 3 – FOI docs reveal that the UCP had been talking with coal industry execs for months before they announced their intentions to allow open pit mining in the Rockies.

Story 4 – The 2024 Federal Budget: Asset dumping, but call it a housing strategy.

Story 5 – UN Special Envoy to Libya resigns over lack of good faith among Libya’s fueding leaders.

Daily News – April 16, 2024

April 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Unifor files with the BC labour board to represent Amazon workers in Delta and New Westminster.

Story 2 – Resignations en masse at the RM Armstrong in Manitoba puts governance of the municipality into question.

Story 3 – More than 1/4 young people are dying from Opioids with Alberta the location with the highest rates of death by far.

Story 4 – Azerbaijan asks the ICJ to through out ethnic cleansing charges brought by Armenia over conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Story 5 – Georgia proposed law to designate NGOs and media orgs that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources as foreign actors is met with protests, especially from pro-EU partisans.

Daily News – April 15, 2024

April 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Third arrest made related to the Thunder Bay police force and this time, it’s the former chief.

Story 2 – Nurses union in Quebec rejects latest government deal.

Story 3 – Ontario has spent more than $134M over 10 years on cops who were paid to stay home while being investigatd for misconduct. One third of the allegations related to sexual violence.

Story 4 – Today is the one year anniverary of the war in Sudan and Canada is offering $132M to provide aid and help people flee to neighbouring countries.

Story 5 – After a weekend where Iran attacked Israel, Israel seemingly still managed to kill more people in Gaza and the West Bank than Iran did in their retaliatory airstrikes.

Story 6 – Cyprus is suspending asylum claims after rush of claimants from Syria.

Daily News – April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Montreal’s STM is increasing security patrols to deal with impact of the affordability and drug crises.

Story 2 – Family of man who died in a Fredericton ER calls for change so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Story 3 – A Canadian woman will be evacuated from Gaza.

Story 4 – New affordability measures for housing introduced will do absolutely nothing to boost affodability (but they will plunge you deeper in debt!)

Story 5 – Political parties and civil society groups decry the military leadership’s decree to ban political activity in Mali.

Daily News – April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Edmonton Police stop man at 2:15 am over bylaw infraction and then chase him into the North Saskatchewan River.

Story 2 – Former lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police is facing criminal charges; the second person charged in criminal probe of that force.

Story 3 – Canadian company sold paternity tests even though they knew that the tests were faulty, causing tremendous trauma to individuals around the world.

Story 4 – Massive flooding in Russia and Kazhakstan has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people.

Story 5 – Lufthansa (the only operator that connects Tehran to the West) has suspended flights to Tehran over fears of military action after Israel bombs Iranian embassy in Syria.

Daily News – April 10, 2024

April 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

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

April 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Cop has assault charges discharged. Just 7 years ago, he also had been charged with manslaughter, charges that were also dropped.

Story 2 – Humboldt Broncos truck driver fighting his deportation.

Story 3 – SFU hired private security firm to spy on striking workers.

Story 4 – Canada promising a ridiculous amount of money to go to war machines in its pre-budget tour.

Story 5 – At least 94 dead in Mozambique after boat capsizes. Most on board were fleeing due to misinformation related to cholera.

Daily News – April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – NFLD Justice Minister John Hogan apologized for not know how cross-examination works when the person on the stand is a survivor of sexual assault.

Story 2 – Airbus workers in Quebec reject the company’s latest offer.

Story 3 – Trudeau to dump $2.4B into a black hole and say that it will help foster AI in Canada.

Story 4 – Israel’s war on Gaza passes the six month mark.

Story 5 – Ecuador stormed Mexico’s embassy, Mexico pulls its diplomatic staff.

Daily News – April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Hospital in Halifax had not heat or water after the second water main break in 24h.

Story 2 – Widow of migrant worker injured on the job in Ontario wants to see working conditions improved.

Story 3 – CMHC says hold on to your butts: housing prices will surpass the 2022 peak by 2026.

Story 4 – Myanmar’s junta capital was hit by a drone attack by opposition forces.

Story 5 – Peru’s president Boluarte avoids being impeached over wealth probe.

Daily News – April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A Longueuil cop sexually assaulted someone whose sexual assault case he was working on.

Story 2 – Two Indigenous fishermen taken on a Starlight Tour in Nova Scotia by DFO officers.

Story 3 – Trans-mountain pipeline set to open in time for International Workers Day. Only cost us $34B.

Story 4 – Pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate in Van is re-instated after being DQed. He won with 55% of the vote.

Story 5 – Thailand’s Move Forward Party might be dissolved and its leaders banned from politics after it tried to amend the royal defamation law.

Daily News – April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – City of Kingston to enforce park camping ban pushing marginalized Kingstonins out with nowhere else to go.

Story 2 – Emails reveal the extent to which cuts by the Yukon Hospital Corporation would delay care and burn nurses out.

Story 3 – Ghost ship the likely culprit behind the Red Sea Internet cable cuts.

Story 4 – Israel has killed more than 200 aid workers since Oct. 7, including 7 in a targeted strike yesterday.

Story 5 – Opposition leader in India jailed just weeks ahead of the election.

Story 6 – 9 dead, up to 1000 wounded after massive earthquake hits Taiwan.

Daily News – April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Carbon tax protests greet the new tax, Premier of NL is Furey…ous.

Story 2 – Dan Philip, longtime civil rights activist and former president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, dies at 87.

Story 3 – Statscan data shows that armoured vehicles and other weapons have been exported to Israel since Oct. 7, contradicting the official government line.

Story 4 – Israel passes a law to outlaw Al Jazeera.

Story 5 – Unthinkable carnage remains at al-Shifa hospital after Israeli troop withdrawal.

Story 6 – UN warns that the DRC is reaching a humanitarian breaking point due to fighting in the Eastern part of the country.

Daily News – March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two voluteer firefighters in a small town in Quebec died trying to rescue people in a flood due to a lack of training and poor equipment, finds the the CNESST.

Story 2 – Nursing unions call for an end to the use of agency nurses in Ontario facilities.

Story 3 – Trudeau continues his pre-budget tour and promises $1B for childcare centres in loans to expand. No explanation for why loans and not grants. ($60M will be grants)

Story 4 – Some 1500 people have been killed in Haiti due to increasing violence.

Story 5 – Jacob Zuma cannot run in South Africa’s May election, rules the election commission. His party plans to appeal.

Daily News – March 28, 2024

March 28, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Office building that was home to Nunatsiaq News has burned to the ground.

Story 2 – Hamilton School Board trustee faces sanctions if she does not delete a tweet where she says she is being investigated for … other tweets.

Story 3 – The Liberals unveil new protections to help renters like a common lease agreement, a tiny amount of money for legal aid programs across Canada and … uhh … for your rent to count towards your credit score.

Story 4 – 116 forest fires are raging across Mexico, 400 already have burned this year and four people have died.

Story 5 – 2 dead and 106 hospitalized in Japan after eating supplements that contain red rice yeast.