Sandy and Nora talk politics

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.

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.  

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.

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.