Sandy and Nora talk politics Sandy Hudson & Nora Loreto

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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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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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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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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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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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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