Sandy and Nora talk politics

Daily news for June 27, 2024

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 bead 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.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the temporary foreign worker program and how the number of workers who are in Canada through the program has doubled since 2018. Plus: what are the pitfalls to calling a foreign military a terrorist entity?

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.

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. 

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.

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.

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about foreign influence in Canadian politics and how, once again, Poilievre is eating everyone's lunch.