Sandy and Nora talk politics Sandy Hudson & Nora Loreto

Daily news for June 3, 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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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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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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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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