In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how Canada’s Zionist elites are trying to pin antisemitic violence on Palestinian solidarity, while the far right is fed by anti-solidarity public policies. Plus we talk Quebec election and speed cameras.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Summit of Black Canadians and how media ignored it, the left seemingly didn’t realize it was a thing and the Liberals expertly used it to organize.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how pervasive white supremacy permeates Canadians leftist spaces, and what must be done to try to weed it out, if the left has any hope of success.

After three sleepy summer federal byelections, there are no signs of cracks in the Carney consensus. How should progressives read these results? Plus we talk about Canada’s dismal help for Nepal.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canada’s trade war with the United States and how Quebec has an outsized influence over how Canada reacts.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the death of Dr. Jason Arday, and how mainstream media took a story from the far right and turned it into a harassment campaign against the now-deceased Cambridge professor.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the recent study into antisemitism on campus in Canada and look at how the authors have intentionally tried to turn solidarity with Gaza and opposition to Israeli war crimes into a hate crime.

Photo is from the Palestinian Youth Movement – Toronto

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Carney the Conservative, and how the Conservatives are drawing on international far-right tactics to try and eke out a space for them. Plus, media is complicit and the NDP floats around in the ether.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Carney’s consistent capitulation to the United States, including sending representatives to the latest attack on leftwing activists.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what happens when everyone starts to all sound like ChatGPT, and how alienation from what is real and authentic will drive everyone over the edge.

In this episode, Nora talks with Luke Lebrun, editor in chief of Press Progress, about SLAPP lawsuits and free speech in Canada.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s new senate appointees. Plus, why are progressives calling for more surveillance tech?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the shooting attack of incel Seth Hatfield. Plus, Carney promises to bail out developers and calls it housing relief.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine the teenagers who are being paid to carry out late-night attacks. From the tow-truck wars to waste management, from intimidation and murder to shooting on the US Consulate, who are the wealthy individuals exploiting Toronto’s Black teens to settle their scores?

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In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Residential School denial, and how the Globe and Mail’s editorial board has jumped in with two feet. Plus, Canada’s new “AI strategy” is heavy on making stuff up, light on the strategy. Did AI write it??

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about mass immigration from the United States and how, once again, Canada doesn’t seem to be planning for a possible surge in immigration. Plus, why don’t temporary residents get the right to vote?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the politcal powerplay behind the Alberta referendum. Plus, Sandy rants about everyone getting As.

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In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about pandemics — what was learned from COVID-19, what should we worried about with emerging outbreaks.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s desire to pump Canada’s AI industry full of money so that … well … what happens next isn’t exactly clear. Plus, Sandy complains about robots again.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the forces in Canada that try to harass journalists out of reporting on Gaza. Plus why do we allow vehicles to terrorize our roads?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s new majority government, the decisions its making and how little journalists are asking him critical questions.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canadian media, the scripts they all reproduce and how Canadians are getting less and less of the story. Plus, data centres!

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s majority government and what it will mean for Canadians. Plus, they talk about Doug Ford’s silent revolution.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how little Canada is saying, or doing, to help de-escalate the United States and Israel from their war on Iran.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the NDP convention, far-right attacks on equity cards and what the NDP needs to do next.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about some of the criticisms they have of the NDP, that listeners have had of recent episodes, and the colossol meltdown happening over at Canadaland.

**Episode clarification: Nora mentioned that people blamed the Air Canada Jazz flight crash on the fact that one of the pilots was a woman. This piece of internet disinformation took the name of one of the victims, and created a fake person to then use to rile people up. This is what Nora saw online, not that she thought that one of the pilots was a woman.

Sandy and Nora break down their thoughts on the NDP leadership race.

In this episode, Avi Lewis tells Nora why he thinks he should lead the NDP.

Nora talks with Rob Ashton about why he’s the best person to lead the NDP.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberals, NDP and Conservative reactions to the war in Iran. Plus, AI sucks and what is with the return to normative gender roles?

Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Tanille Johnston about why she wants to lead the NDP.

Nora talks with NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson about why she wants to lead the NDP.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Canada’s bizarre support for bombing Iran, and how despite all Mark Carney’s rhetoric, the old order (Canada’s full support for US imperialism) remains in tact.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what Norway does right in winter sport, why they whooped our ass at the Olympics, and how the constant pressure to win only privileges people with resources and time to work on winning.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge and the way that right-wing politicians jumped onto the obsession over gender identity to obscure from decaying social conditions. The federal government thinks that we can fix these social conditions by arming other countries to murder people. How is that going to work?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the dangers of anonymity online, the lack of public infrastructure to allow democratic access to the Internet, and how we need to resist always reaching to our leisure machines.\

In this episode, Sandy and Nora go through a few Canadians names who appear in the Epstein files. Plus ICE and 911, a Canadian soldier killed in Latvia, Canada to cut refugee health funding programming and more!

Correction — the increase in the number of refugees receiving health services does not include Ukrainians. The increased numbers are related to increased delays and an increased number in refugees over the past decade.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s Act II — after his head-turning speech at Davos, he comes home to expose how little he knows about Canadian history. Plus, why are we always talking about military invasion when the real threat from the United States is cultural and economic?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the speech heard around the world: Mark Carney announces that neoliberalism was premised on lies, and now that the US is collapsing, it’s time for Canada to help fill the void.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about ICE, murder, detention, and why it takes so long to get white moderates to understand that police violence is rampant.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the US’ war on Venezuela, the sham charges against Nicolas Maduro and what Canadians should be paying attention to.

In this epsiode, Sandy and Nora look back on the year that was, and argue that we better get our shit together soon if we’re going to resist rising fascism.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about rising social disintegration, and how it triggers a rise in hatred. Plus, should femicide be considered extra illegal?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about what has finally pushed the press to call Trump racist (or, xenophobic in the case of the NYT), and what Trump’s latest mask-off moment means for racism within the US, and relations with Canada.

In this live episode, Sandy is joined by Syrus Marcus Ware and Matthew Green to discuss the current state of the left, and all the possibilities that exist to save ourselves.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a hard look at war and remind listeners that it is very, very bad.

Zohran Mamdani has inspired progressives across the English-speaking world (and French-speaking, at least in Quebec). But who is Canada’s Mamdani? And what are the conditions necessary for someone like this to emerge?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the 2025 Liberal budget — Mark Carney’s first — and how he blurs the line between Liberals and Tories like never before.

In this episiode, Sandy is joined by Travis Laver and Elizabeth Ha to talk about racism, immigration, the trade war and living in a border town when the US is being belligerant.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take apart the argument that the No Kings protests were useless and explain what the purpose of a protest is, and what a protest cannot do.

Image of the Marche mondiale des femmes in Quebec City, via La CSN.

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In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain why the US administration has decided to go after “Antifa” — what that is and what it isn’t.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Ellison project of money laundering through purchasing a blog for $150M to suck up even closer to the empire as the US collapses. And what does this all mean for Canada?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the police murder of Nooran Rizayi in Saint-Hubert, and how the police in Canada are totally out of control. Plus, they talk about Canada Post and what we stand to lose if the corporation makes the changes that the federal government is allowing them to make.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how similar Canadians’ reactions have been to the state of the world, based on the past 6 months of touring.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora explain how Canadians should (and should not) understand Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and how resisting the attack on Free Speech will be fundamental to our future work.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how culture wars are fed off of virtual connection and fake community, and that we need to inject real community in the debates to take away some of the power that a culture war can have.

*Image is the painting Waterloo Gordons and Greys to the Front

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the genocide in Gaza, what Air Canada flight attendants’ actions have meant for labour, and burning books in Alberta.

This Question and Answer period is from the live show in St. John’s on June 6, 2025. The questions discuss the future of the NDP, Alberta Wexit, fighting fascists and much more.

Q&A from the Mayworks Halifax live show on May 1, 2025. In this episode, Sandy and Nora take audience questions and explain that we can stand to lose a few billionaires, it’s important to practice the art of debate and don’t worry too much if cops show up to your meetings — just isolate them and don’t give them any tasks.

Photo from Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax on Bluesky

In this conversation, Sandy and Nora talk about the need to tackle extreme wealth inequality and to not allow the right to control the message that greed and wealth are good.

Photo from Bus Stop Theater: https://busstoptheatre.coop/

From Pierre Poilievre trying to woo the working class to building movements on campus, here’s the Q&A period from Sandy and Nora Live in Charlottetown on April 29, 2025.

How can Canadians resist the rightwing politics of the Liberal-Conservative convergance? Sandy and Nora talk about this and more in front of a live audience. Originally recorded on April 29, 2025 but never released.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the connection between the attacks on campus organizing in solidarity with Palestine over the past two decades, and how these campaigns faced backlash that sought to silence Canadians who speak out about Israeli apartheid.

In this episide, Sandy and Nora talk about the abrupt Liberal decision to defund the Canadian state while pouring money into the military.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about increasing state surveillance. Plus, understanding the attacks on Mamdani.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Carney’s decisions — from ramming through legislation that will give extraordinary powers to Ministers in the name of national security and interest, to sky-high deportations and removals, the signs are showing that Canadians were given the opposite of what they said they wanted in the last federal election.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Israel bombing Iran, the world’s leaders meeting in Canada and how Mark Carney is seemingly looking to influence the global poles of power.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss rising fascism and how to fight it.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney’s lust for war.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the attacks on Canadians’ right to assemble — from Toronto’s so-called bubble law to PEI police telling peace activists to buy a $2 million insurance policy.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about why the mail is so much more important than just a service to send letters through. Plus, they also talk about the Alberta government’s plan to expand involuntary detention for people who struggle with addiction.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about their latest books, and why as corporations continue to chase higher and higher profits, government relies more and more on the security apparatus to keep people in line. Plus — Mark Carney’s cabinet is out!

In this episode, Sandy and Nora examine Mark Carney’s decision to have the King read the Speech from the Throne — is he foring a new Canadian MAGA path? Also, the stunning silence from Canadian politicans about Israel.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Liberal victory, the Conservative vote gain and the bloodbath of NDP candidates.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how journalists have gone soft on Poilievre and about how no one is talking about the big issue in this election: income inequality.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora analyse the parties’ platforms related to borders, policing, crime and punishment.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how the imminent collapse of mainstream media in Canada is on full display in mainstream election coverage.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how little imagination and creativity that the parties have on offer, and all the ways that they’re hiding from Canadians the possibilites that abound in this moment.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about federal election, how tax cuts are dominating discussion and how no one seemed ready despite the fact that we’ve all known for months this was coming. Plus, Israel re-ignites its bombardment of Gaza and so long, Hudson’s Bay Company.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora discuss Trump’s attack on citizenship rights, due process and how its influencing people’s decisions to travel. Plus, what does Mark Carney’s cabinet say about his priorities?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Mark Carney, his rapid ascent to the top of Canada, and what it all means for everyone down below. Plus, the disapperance of Mahmoud Khalil.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the chaos at the White House and how to buckle up for a world where the United States’ empire is collapsing.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take stock of where things are on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also talk about defunding higher education and how Canada has chosen atrophy in the face of crumbling US hegemony.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how “anti-woke” politicians are just white nationalists, and how Liberals have so effectively coopted DEI.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about nationalism, how this moment needs to be one where radical politics are put front and centre, and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora look at the connection between the anti-intellectualism that has swept Canadian institutions and how this has primed them to accept fascism whether they want to or not.

In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about how the tech world has so rapidly mobilized around Trump and how with regime change, they have shed the old vestiges of the former people in power.

In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about fires in LA and political turmoil in Ottawa.

Sandy and Nora look back on the biggest news of the year.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, what it means for the broader region and why people shouldn’t get too hung up on figuring out which side to cheer for. Plus, they talk about how the murder of a CEO brought the internet together.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how many supporters of Israel are using their support to express racism. Plus, a GST holiday? Where we going?

In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a break from the stuff that matters to talk about the current migration from Twitter towards Bluesky and what it all means (and doesn’t mean).