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**Sandy and Nora talk politics**

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Latest Episodes:

DN - Stoon library workers strike? Grassy sues gov'ts, Modi wins fewer seats than anticipated Jun 05, 2024

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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.

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Hallucinating AI says eat a pebble per day Jun 04, 2024

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In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about how we need public options for verification as AI hallucinates itself into telling us to eat glue on our pizza. Plus -- financial literacy classes and a premier who blames immigrants on antisemitism.

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DN - guilty plea in UW hatecrime stabbing, Cdns fleeing for the US, strike in Nigeria over minimum wage Jun 04, 2024

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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.

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DN - UL Gaza camp shut down, daycare food isn't being inspected in AB, is Amazon union busting? Jun 03, 2024

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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.

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DN - UWO says no to encampment demands, billionaire Miller finally arrested and the US and Argentina get cozy May 31, 2024

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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.

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DN - 5% of RMC students sexually attacked, BMO made +$2B in 3 months, Brazil recalls Israeli ambassador May 30, 2024

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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.

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DN - 126 youth dead from toxic drugs, BC human smuggling ring uncovered and Dick Schoofed into Dutch PM May 29, 2024

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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.

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Canadians react to Gaza; politicians do not May 28, 2024

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In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the lack of reaction from Canadian politicians to the ICC decision to charge Israeli leadership with war crimes. Plus, encampment victories, encampment struggles and why is Jesse Brown so obsessed with Shree Paradkar?

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DN - Migrants on hunger strike in PEI, Gladday faces crisis and 2000 dead in Papua New Guinea May 28, 2024

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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)

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DN - Encampment update, US giving grants to expand mining in Canada, 100 dead in Sudan May 27, 2024

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