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Daily News – Nov. 6, 2024

November 6, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Two women are arrested for drunk driving after each crashing the same car into the same car in a hotel parking lot.

Story 2 – NDP MPs urge Ottawa to stop endangered monkey imports.

Story 3 – BCE to shed shares in MLSE while pick up an American fibreoptic internet company.

Story 4 – Yoav Gallant is out as Minister of Defence, Israel Katz is in.

Story 5 – Mount Fuji’s iconic ice cap is still iceless

Daily News – Nov. 5, 2024

November 5, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – BC longshoremen locked out

Story 2 – Protests at Hindu temple in Brampton after Indian officials are rumoured to be inside.

Story 3 – “Justice for Joshua” Police in Saluit shoot twins, killing one and leaving the other severely injured.

Story 4 – 25 migrants die after traffickers deliberately capsize a boat off the coast of Comoros

Story 5 – Fears of heightened death toll in Valencia, Spain, after historic floods.

Daily News – Nov. 4, 2024

November 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Charges dropped in case where a Palestinian woman had hijab pulled off her head.

Story 2 – No charges in the violent takedown of the Palestinian solidarity camp in Edmonton

Story 3 – RCMP plans to go undercover to surveil the far right but also the far left.

Story 4 – More than 100 BBC journalists decry the pro-Israeli bias inherant in coverage at the broacaster.

Story 5 – Civil society across Nigeria calls for the release of minors detained in anti-cost of living protests.

Daily News – Nov. 1, 2024

November 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – RCMP didn’t release details about a murder in Iqaluit until journalists asked questions.

Story 2 – SIU investigating after York police kill a teenager.

Story 3 – Quebec freezes applications for two major immigration programs.

Story 4 – Ford looks to be out of new electrode plant in Bécancour.

Story 5 – Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Herrods, has been accused of sexual assault by 421 women.

Story 6 – Six people have died after a boat of Rohingya refugee arrives on Sumatra island in Indonesia.

Daily News – Oct. 30, 2024

October 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 26 youth and 1 adult injured in bus crash near Tisdale, SK on their way home from school.

Story 2 – SK Party wins fifth mandate, surprising pollsters.

Story 3 – Sexual assault allegations against staff at a youth jail in Quebec leads to the resignation of the head of the DPJ.

Story 4 – Joriki, the facility where listera poisoned plant-based milks killing three, didn’t adequately control for listeria.

Story 5 – Israel killed more than 150 people killed so far this week in Gaza and Lebanon.

Story 6 – A third of all trees on the planet are at risk of extinction.

Daily News – Oct. 29, 2024

October 29, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Report shows that poor people are more likely to seek expanded MAID.

Story 2 – Femicide of Brkti Berhe re-ignites calls for action on gender-based violence.

Story 3 – Sensing their governing days are over, the Liberals reach to a fan favourite: high speed rail is coming to the Quebec City – Toronto corridor (ya right)

Story 4 – Israel passes motion to ban UNRWA.

Story 5 – Government accuses Morales of staging an assassination attempt that saw the car he was riding in to a radio interview riddled with bullets.

Daily News – Oct. 28, 2024

October 28, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 24h strike for Montreal longshoremen.

Story 2 – Infections usually associated with living in a trench are appearing among people who have had organs donated by unhoused individuals in Alberta.

Story 3 – Still no result from BC’s election but boy are we ever close!

Story 4 – Israel’s genocide marches on in northern Gaza.

Story 5 – Massacre by the RSF in Sudan displaces tens of thousands, as they lose ground to the Sudanese military.

Daily News – Oct. 25, 2024

October 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Zamboni driver is charged with impaired driver.

Story 2 – Tesla batter explodes after crash, killing 4 people.

Story 3 – Possibly 4 people dead after Vancouver’s atmospheric river.

Story 4 – The Liberals to cut immigration by 21%

Story 5 – Harris says that Trump is a fascist

Daily News – Oct. 23, 2024

October 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Edmonton cop admits that he became a cop to be able to sexually terrorize women.

Story 2 – Blaine Higgs is out and the news has been warmly received by Indigenous leaders.

Story 3 – Is listeria on the rise or are we hearing more about cases? This is the question posed by CTV and for some reason is not actually answered in the subsequent article.

Story 4 – Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been accused of running an international sex trafficking ring, luring men into the ring by promising to help their modelling careers.

Story 5 – Top Ukrainian prosecutor resigns over scandal where prosecutors seemingly got disability designations to avoid being conscripted into war. Some 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers have deserted this past year.

Daily News – Oct. 22, 2024

October 22, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Man sues cops after they shoot him in the head.

Story 2 – Death in a Halifax Walmart now confirmed: a 19 year old Sikh woman died in a walk-in oven.

Story 3 – Canadian military didn’t apologize to a civilian member of the forces for sexual assault because they didn’t want the media to report on it.

Story 4 – The IDF is using Gazans as human shields.

Story 5 – UK cop is aquitted after having murdered Chris Kaba by shooting through his window.

Daily News – Oct. 21, 2024

October 21, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A worker has died at a Walmart in Halifax and online consensus seems to be that he died in a walk-in oven.

Story 2 – Police clear Allan Gardents encampment in Toronto.

Story 3 – BC’s election results are still too close to call.

Story 4 – Greek dockworkers stop shipment of ammunition to Israel in protest of the war on Gaza.

Story 5 – Cuba is without power as they deal with Hurricane Oscar.

Daily News – Oct. 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Worker found dead in supermarket freezer in Cambridge.

Story 2 – Ontario’s energy demand will spike under the pressuer of new EV battery plants and data centres needed to power AI.

Story 3 – New report recommends fixing inequality and better data sharing as ways to manage the next pandemic.

Story 4 – Palestians who have fled Gaza will be eligible for financial support, if they manage to make it to Canada.

Story 5 – 147 people are dead after a fuel tanker explodes in Nigeria.

Daily News – Oct. 16, 2024

October 16, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Emergency landing of Air India plane in Iqaluit after bomb threat.

Story 2 – Strike in Kanata drags on for five months.

Story 3 – Canada follows the United States, names Palestinian prisoner rights organization Samidoun as a terrorist organization.

Story 4 – The US claims that it will reduce money to Israel if they continue to inhibit the passage of humanitarian aid … in 30 days.

Story 5 – Southern African countries enduring devastating draught.

Daily News – Oct. 15, 2024

October 15, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Woman re-arrested after anti-racism group pressures police to take her crimes seriously. Her crime? Throwing boiling water on a child in her neighbourhood.

Story 2 – Another investigation into Thunder Bay police renew calls to disband them.

Story 3 – RCMP accuses Indian officials in Canada of being involved in violent crime.

Story 4 – Tensions rising again between Taiwan and China.

Story 5 – Patients burned in new air strike carried out by Israel in northern Gaza.

Daily News – Oct. 11, 2024

October 11, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – A BC candidate asks a Muslim friend to vouch for him after screencaps from 2015 show that he holds deeply racist and Islamophobic views.

Story 2 – Pierre Poilievre looks to silence critics of Israel by expanding Canada’s terrorist list.

Story 3 – TD Bank is levied a record-high fine for allowing money laundering for many years.

Story 4 – New investments flow into Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, including an IMF loan that Saudi leaders helped broker.

Story 5 – Israeli bombs murder dozens in Gaza and Beirut, while injuring UN peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon.

Daily News – Oct. 10, 2024

October 10, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Winnipeg man charged with human smuggling after a traffic stop.

Story 2 – Landlord who evicted dozens of tenants (by surprising them with changed locks and throwing their belongings out on the lawn) will be fined $9000.

Story 3 – Massive Honda recall due to a steering wheel that might malfunction.

Story 4 – Treble Charger’s Grieg Nori is accused of sexual assault and grooming in new memoire by Sum 41 frontman.

Story 5 – Rio Tinto to become the world’s third largest producer of lithium after acquisition.

Story 6 – North Korea says it will cut off all road and rail access to South Korea to retaliate for SK’s war games activity.

Daily news – Oct. 9, 2024

October 9, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – New northern Ontario hospital will be a P3, with Pomerleau coordinating the construction and PriceWaterhouseCoopers securing the financing.

Story 2 – Group of downtown business associations want to fight mental health and addictions crisis by jailing more people.

Story 3 – If Bay St. were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of fossil fuels in the world.

Story 4 – Florida braces for Hurricane Milton, just weeks after the disaster wrought by Hurricane Helene.

Story 5 – Netenyahu promises to turn southern Lebanon into Gaza if his demands aren’t met.

Daily News – Oct. 8, 2024

October 8, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – McGill’s law school strike is over.

Story 2 – Officer demoted over brutally arresting Black man that cops mistook for being another Black man. Case has been called a situation of “mistaken identity” rather than of racial profiling.

Story 3 – The feds argue that they are not responsible to supply clean drinking water on reserve.

Story 4 – Thousands of people have fled after a violent massacre this past weekend at Pont-Sonde, Haiti.

Story 5 – Kais Saied is re-elected president in Tunisia with 90.7% of the vote, showing that the anti-democratic tactics used against his opponants worked.

Daily News – Oct. 7, 2024

October 7, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – First Nations communities in Ontario say no to nuclear waste dumping.

Story 2 – Public school workers in Edmonton might walk off the job after having been without a contract for 4 years

Story 3 – Another journalist is killed by Israeli raid. This time, he was 19 years old and his body had to be collected in pieces and placed into bags.

Story 4 – France, under pressure from its relationship with Lebanon, calls for an arms embargo against Israel.

Story 5 – New Zealand heads into showdown with tech giants.

Daily News – Oct. 4, 2024

October 4, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Clarence Woodhouse is exonerated. The Innocence project calls for a review of all murder convictions in AB, SK and ON where the guilty was Indigenous.

Story 2 – Ontario child from rabies acquired from a bat.

Story 3 – The Canadian Real Estate Agency is being probed by the Competition Bureau.

Story 4 – At least 78 dead after boat capsizes on Kivu Lake in the DRC.

Story 5 – The US is “discussing” bombing Iranian oil fields in retaliation but has ruled out bombing their nuclear energy facilities.

Daily News – Oct. 3, 2024

October 3, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Winnipeg cops kills someone, again.

Story 2 – Three new women come forward with allegations of sexual violence against Frank Stronach.

Story 3 – No Indigenous-lead addictions groups have adopted the Alberta government’s addictions program management app due to concerns over privacy and control.

Story 4 – 13 temporary foreign workers have either resigned or been fired from a Canadian Tire location after months of maltreatment.

Story 5 – Claudia Sheinbaum makes Mexican and North American history as she takes the role of president.

Story 6 – Five high ranking officials arrested in Haiti for corruption, including three members of the temporary executive branch.

Daily News – Oct. 2, 2024

October 2, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dozens of RPAs in Montreal are not up to fire code.

Story 2a – Election fever, Saskatchewan edition

Story 2b – Election fever, New Brunswick edition.

Story 2c – Election fever, British Columbia edition.

Story 3 – New surtax on some Chinese materials made with aluminum and steel announce.

Story 4 – Barrick Gold is worried that the Malian will take over more of the mining industry there.

Story 5 – Iran showers Israeli military installations with missiles.

Daily News – Oct. 1, 2024

October 1, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Longshoremen in Montreal are on strike (and so too are longshoremen along the US’ eastern and gulf coast).

Story 2 – Blood Tribe chief decries the death of John Wells at the hands of police.

Story 3 – The RCMP wants drones.

Story 4 – Israel launches ground invasion of Lebanon.

Story 5 – Heavy rains in Nepal kill at least 150 people.

Daily News – Sept. 30, 2024

September 30, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Ontario will continue to house migrants in prisons for another year, despite promising to end the practice.

Story 2 – OPP unmarked cruiser strikes and kills a pedestrian early Sunday morning in Bala, Ontario.

Story 3 – Ford government sends directive to school boards that no politics in the classroom will be tolerated on the eve of the Oct. 7 anniversary.

Story 4 – Moodies lowers Israel’s credit rating.

Story 5 – 48 people are missing after boat sinks off the coast of the Canary Islands.

Daily News – Sept. 27, 2024

September 27, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – 22 cows die in a semi rollover in southern SK.

Story 2 – Longshoremen at the Port of Montreal set to strike.

Story 3 – Coalition forms to challenge track-2 MAID under the Charter.

Story 4 – New report shows the rate that rents are outpacing salaries.

Story 5 – Presidential candidate in Tunisia is sentenced to prison.

Story 6 – Twitter reportedly ready to comply with Brazil’s demands.

Daily News – Sept. 26, 2024

September 26, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Veteren Montreal cop condemns cancerous systemic racism within the Montreal police force in resignation letter.

Story 2 – Canadians have stopped having babies and Global News neglects to seriously report on why.

Story 3 – A Canadian couple is among the dead in Lebanon and Canada still cannot bring itself to condemn Israel.

Story 4 – Longshoremen who work at Eastern and Gulf ports are set to strike and the employer group companies are mad.

Story 5 – Israel sent a container with 88 unidenfied, decaying bodies to Gaza. Officials there have refused to accept the container until Israel explains who they were, how they died and why they were in Israel at the moment of death.

Daily News – Sept. 25, 2024

September 25, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1: Radio station in Kamloops is being downsized, format is moving from news to entertainment.

Story 2: University of Windsor President is being pushed to retire early after pressure over deal reached between the university and students protesting Israel.

Story 3: Innocent man Marcellus Williams slated for execution in Missouri.

Story 4: Evo Morales makes ultimatum to demand changes to the cabinet of Luis Arce in Bolivia.

Daily News – Sept. 24, 2024

September 24, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Grain terminal strike in Vancouver. The bosses want the feds to step in to thwart.

Story 2 – The Alberta Medical Association warns that the medical syastem is on the brink of collapse.

Story 3 – The NDP calls on the Liberals to declare Palestinian statehood.

Story 4 – Israel bombs Lebanon, killing some 500 people.

Story 5 – Oil prices going up in the wake of war in the Middle East.

Daily News – Sept. 23, 2024

September 23, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Dofasco worker killed on the job.

Story 2 – Truckers in Brampton are fighting against wage theft, a common practice within the trucking industry.

Story 3 – McGill’s administration extorts the students’ union to remove club designation for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.

Story 4– A probe into a group chat between several RCMP officers reveals racist, homophobic and misogynistic messages.

Story 5 – The IDF raids the West Bank offices of Al Jazeera and forces it to shut down.

Daily News – Sept. 20, 2024

September 20, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Worker struck on picket line by a Ford F-150 at Western University.

Story 2 – Judge orders the website IndigoKillsKids.ca be taken offline, argues that it is not an attack on net neutrality.

Story 3 – Singh tries out new personna in House of Commons

Story 4 – The RCMP lost 205 guns since 2020. What happened to them? We don’t know!

Story 5 – After 7 months of the program being operational, Canada has accepted zero Sudanese. And their families are wondering why they’re treated differently than Ukrainians.

Story 6 – ELN attacks a military base killing Petro’s dream of a lasting peace in Colombia.

Daily News – Sept. 19, 2024

September 19, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Eighth First Nations person killed by police in Canada in just three weeks.

Story 2 – Man has heart attack in hospital parking lot, but the hospital is closed so workers call 9-1-1 for him instead.

Story 3 – Big three newspapers overwhelmingly rely on military-funded thinktank analysts to react to military decisions.

Story 4 – Elephant cull to feed people who are starving due to draught seems like best of terrible options, given the circumstances in Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Story 5 – Germany will stop approving war exports to Israel. While the Chancellary insists that this isn’t a boycott, Green ministers in the economy and foreign affairs departments fear increasing legal action for aiding war crimes.

Daily News – Sept. 18, 2024

September 18, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Condo scheme collapses in Iqaluit, leaving 11 households in the lurch.

Story 2 – A man has died at Ontario Place following an industrial accident.

Story 3 – The Globe and Mail scrubbed every reference to Israel in award winner’s article.

Story 4 – MUHC and the federal government are trying to get a lawsuit tossed out seeking compensation for victims of MK-ULTRA

Story 5 – Israel planted explosives in pagers that Hezbollah bought months later.

Daily News – Sept. 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 Sandy and Nora

Story 1 – Toronto pepper spray, assault and arrest protesters who showed up at a UJA event featuring an active IDF soldier and Bari Weiss.

Story 2 – London Police hired Navigator to help them pass a massive budget increase.

Story 3 – Lori Idlout triggers a national debate after six First Nations people are killed by police in just two weeks.

Story 4 – A Canadian has been sentenced to death in the DRC over the attempted coup from a few months ago.

Story 5 – Israeli army says that they did not authorize leaflets dropped into Lebanon that told residents to evacuate or be considered a terrorist.

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.

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