Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk …

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

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 T…

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about foreign influence in Canadian politics and how, once again, Poilievre is eating everyone's lunch. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The genocide in Gaza has captured the attention of the world, but nowhere in Palestine is safe from Israel's onslaught. Israeli repression, land grabs, and deadly raids in the West Bank have increased dramatically since Oct. 7. Long subjected to a brutal apartheid system and routine attacks from settlers and the IDF, Palestinians in the West Bank n…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk P…

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 lands…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 17, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Po…

The prison system keeps millions of families from celebrating Father's Day together. For Alexia Pitter of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, separation from her father, Gasi Pitter, has been a lifelong reality. Kept from even embracing her father during prison visits as a child, Alexia's struggle to build and maintain a relationship with Gasi has…

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 scar…

Read the transcript of this podcast here: On June 10, in the working-class community of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, over 50 residents, activists, and supporters from around the city marched through the streets of Curtis Bay to hold CSX Transportation accountable for polluting their community, homes, and bodies with toxic coal dust. Even after an…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 14, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Po…

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 de…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 13, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk …

Story 1 - Two cops involved in the high-speed chase that lead to a family being killed are refusing to cooperate with the SIU. Story 2 - Some number of jobs are being cut at Global News as Corus tries to save money. Story 3 - The CWB is being acquired by the National Bank. Story 4 - Almost 50 people killed in an apartment fire in Kuwait in a distri…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 12, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

Story 1 - Indigenous students in PA were targeted for bizarre brain waves therapy, funded by a billionaire and that was never approvd by an ethics board. Story 2 - Christian school director's trial for assault with a weapon is on now and former students have horrifying stories. Story 3 - Inside St. John's for-profit shelter system, residents are sc…

In this episode, Sandy and Nora try to answer the question: can you detatch national pride from the actions of your state? Canada and Israel both struggle with the realities of genocidal programs. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The June 2 election of Claudia Sheinbaum made history for two reasons: Sheinbaum will be Mexico's first woman president ever, and the progressive MORENA party will now control the executive and both houses of the national legislature. MORENA's rise to power has brought an enormous historical shift to Mexico, which for more than a century prior was …

In the late 1980s, British film director Alex Cox spent several months in Nicaragua filming Walker, a movie about the U.S. filibuster who invaded and took over the country in the mid-1800s. As Cox puts it, he was trying to make “a revolutionary film in a revolutionary context." That did not go over well in Hollywood. The movie would get him blackli…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk P…

Story 1 - CBSA workers push their strike deadline to Friday. Story 2 - Hamilton holds people in solitary confinement more than anywhere else in Ontario, regularly breaking the limit of time for what the UN considers to be humane. Story 3 - MLA who was victim of police surveillance resigns, citing the culture of politics. Story 4 - Unanimous vote at…

The lived reality of the racist prison system can get lost in the swirl of facts and figures surrounding mass incarceration. Frigid cells in winters and sweltering conditions in summers; the volatility and capriciousness of hostile guards and correctional staff; food barely fit for human consumption; isolation from one's community and deprivation f…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 10, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Po…

Story 1 - Three companies have been charged in the workplace deaths of two men in Alberta. Story 2 - Community rallies against new proposed graphite project, especially after hearing that defense interests in the US have funded the project. Story 3 - Four people arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto; police appears to punch protester. Stor…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 7, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Pol…

Story 1 - Strategy document shows how police want to be the centre of drug policy in Alberta. Story 2 - Opioid deaths are 8x higher among First Nations in Alberta. Story 3 - Cop who kicked man in the head also kicked another man in the head. Story 4 - The SIU in Ontario is charging a cop with assault. Story 5 - A "Framework Agreement" has been reac…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 6, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk P…

Story 1 - Ontario to stop wastewater surveillance. Story 2 - York University students set up Palestine solidarity encampment. Story 3 - International campaign targeting Palestinian activists uncovered by Israeli media. Story 4 - RSF massacres 100 people in in Sudan Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa…

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 5, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk …

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, …

On May 2, students at the University of Toronto organized under the banner of UofT Occupy for Palestine seized King's College Circle at the university's St. George Campus, establishing what has come to be known as the People's Circle for Palestine. The People's Circle has now held its ground for over a month, withstanding threats from university ad…

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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Close to nine months into the genocide in Gaza, the Biden administration shows no sign of stopping the flow of arms and aid to Israel. Earlier in May, Biden declared that he was drawing a 'red line': should Israel invade Rafah, the southernmost corner of the Gaza Strip where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families have sheltered in …