The Real News Podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 22, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Cops crack heads at encampment at UQAM but activists at Ontario Tech U win huge advances from their admin. Story 2 - Government committee identifies 35 threats to the security of Canadiands. Billionaires are number 5 though impact pretty much the entire list. Story 3 - Countries around the world react to the ICC case against Israeli and Hamas leaders. In Canada, it took more than 31 hours for Trudeau to say anything and media to report on anything. Story 4 - Israel attacks one of two hospitals left in northern Gaza. Story 5 - Three Americans charged in failed and bizarre coup attenmpt in Congo. Story 6 - William Ruto is in the US to discuss forming Kenyan-led military initiative in Haiti. 

Nearly two months have passed since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the city is still reeling from the disaster. The bridge collapse immediately rendered the Port of Baltimore inoperable, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions in wages, business revenue, and state taxes. While channels into the port have begun to open back up slowly, workers on the waterfront have been deeply affected, and the road to recovery will be long. As questions linger about the root causes of the Key Bridge collapse and what sort of future Baltimore can salvage for itself, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show, team up to speak with John Blom, a veteran longshoreman who worked in the Port of Baltimore for over 30 years, to get a workers' history of the port and its meaning to the city it nurtured. Additional links/info below…Kari Lydersen, In These Times, "Making waves: Baltimore longshoremen fight for democracy within union"Dominick Phillippe-August, WMAR, “Nearly 140,000 jobs could be impacted by Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse”Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, “Largest channel so far opens for 24/7 vessel traffic into Port of Baltimore after Key Bridge collapse”Michael Sainato, The Guardian, “Maryland lawmakers draft emergency bill to help Baltimore port workers”Permanent links below...Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music...Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme SongStudio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Jules Taylor Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

It’s been six years since the IPCC released its 2018 report warning that mean global temperatures would rise past 1.5 Celsius unless drastic action was taken by 2030. While climate change is already impacting all aspects of our lives, there is one area where relatively rapid and meaningful steps could be taken, but have yet to materialize: sports. Rising temperatures, seas, and emissions all call into question the sustainability of current sports practices. Can athletes continue to compete outdoors under current game conditions in scorching climates? What happens to athletes from island nations threatened by rising sea levels? How can mega-events like the Olympics and the carbon footprints left behind by associated construction and tourism continue to be justified? Professor Madeleine Orr joins Edge of Sports to discuss these questions and other topics addressed in her book, Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sports.Studio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Taylor HebdenAudio Post-Production: David HebdenOpening Sequence: Cameron GranadinoMusic by: Eze Jackson & Carlos GuillenHelp us continue producing Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 21, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - SIRT investigating after " officer-involved shooting: in Regina. Story 2 - Unexploded incendiary devices found at site of future EV battery site. Story 3 - Omar Khadr denied an appeal with the US Supreme Court. Story 4 - Top Iranian officials die in helicopter crash in region blanketed in thick fog.Story 5 - The ICC issues arrest warrant for leadership of both Hamas and Israel, will allow events of Oct. 7 and the genocide of Gaza to be examined in court. Story 6 - Julian Assange wins the right to appeal his extradition to the US.

Critics of the prison industrial complex have long noted the system's failure to properly rehabilitate those who are locked away in its bowels. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous return to Rattling the Bars for the second part of a two-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland's only women's correctional facility.Studio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Cameron GranadinoHelp us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Edmonton police say that have evidence that a serial killer operated in the 1970s. He's dead. Story 2- Speaker of Sk's Legislative Assembly tears up membership card and makes serious allegations of harassment against the incoming speaker. Story 3 - Loblaw agrees to voluntarily sign the Grocery Code of Conduct. Walmart is still holding out. Story 4 - Half of telcos in Canada are not compliant in alllowing people to make complaints on their websites. Story 5 - Phoenix rose from the ashes only to be finally killed. Story 6 - Mahamet Deby has been elected president in Chad though election watchers are concerned about how free and fair the process was. Story 7 - 700,000 Palestinians flee Northern Gaza as Israel lays seige again to the region and also prepares for ground invasion in the south.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 16, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Double-digit profit percentage increases for two REITs making money off Halifax renters. Story 2 - McGill loses second injunction. Students have a right to stay in their encampment. Story 3 - CN will sell the Pont de Québec will be sold to the federal government for a symbolic $1 ending a very long political saga. Story 4 - A barge hits a bridge in Galveston, Texas causing an oil spill. Story 5 - 8 Mexican farm workers killed in bus crash north of Orlando. Story 6 - Drone attacks in Amhara region of Ethiopia kills some number of civilians.Story 7 - Assassintation attempt targets Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia.

“South Baltimore is a sacrifice zone,” Michael Middleton and Dr. Sacoby Wilson wrote in a guest commentary published in Maryland Matters this February. “The six communities that make up South Baltimore—Cherry Hill, Westport, Mt. Winans, Lakeland, Brooklyn, and Curtis Bay—rank in the top 3% of the state for environmental burden using a Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) screening tool. Curtis Bay, the highest in the state, is Maryland’s poster child for environmental injustice. Industrial areas near Curtis Bay house oil tanks, a wastewater treatment plant, chemical plants, landfills, the country’s largest medical waste incinerator, and more. Heavy diesel trucks frequent residential streets. The Wagner’s Point and Fairfield communities that were once Curtis Bay’s neighbors to the east are gone. Those residents accepted buyouts to leave between the 1980s and 2011 after a series of chemical spills and accidents.” In this episode, we continue our “Sacrificed” series by focusing on communities in South Baltimore and a story that quite literally hits close to home, less than half an hour from where Max lives. We speak with a panel of residents of South Baltimore about how they have seen their communities change over the years, what it feels like to be “sacrificed” by industry and their government, how they and their neighbors are fighting for change, fighting for justice, and what others in Baltimore and beyond can do to help. Panelists include: David Jones, who has lived in Curtis Bay for over 35 years; Angela Smothers, a lifelong resident of Mt. Winans; Carlos Sanchez, a youth leader born and raised in Lakeland; and Tiffany Thompson, who was born and raised in Cherry Hill and has lived in Curtis Bay for the past three years.Additional links/info below…Coal-Free Curtis Bay Facebook pageNicole Fabricant, University of California Press, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in BaltimoreNicole Fabricant, The Real News Network, “Opinion | CSX explosion in Curtis Bay should alarm Baltimore City and accelerate real change”Michael Middleton & Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Maryland Matters, “Commentary: Maryland deserves a better environmental justice bill”Chloe Ahmann, Baltimore Sun, “Curtis Bay residents deserve a coal-free future”Christine Condon & Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, “Curtis Bay residents ask state to shut down South Baltimore CSX facility after study documents toll of coal dust”Aman Azhar, InsideClimate News, “On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City”Christian Olaniran, Adam Thompson, Caroline Foreback, CBS News, “Residents meet after air quality study reveals presence of coal dust in Curtis Bay”Studio Production: Maximillian AlvarezPost-Production: Jules TaylorHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 15, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Sports gambling's rapid takeover of the professional sports industry is arguably the most important development of our time in the world of athletics. The introduction of legal betting has created a powerful new source of temptation with corrosive effects on fans, players, owners, and ultimately the games themselves. Sports journalist Danny Funt joins Edge of Sports to discuss the phenomenon and his upcoming book on the subject.Studio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Taylor HebdenAudio Post-Production: David HebdenOpening Sequence: Cameron GranadinoMusic by: Eze Jackson & Carlos GuillenHelp us continue producing Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced stories:Story 1 - Wildfire season has started and evacuation orders are already in place. Story 2 - Pro-Palestinian encampments have been violently dismantled in Alberta. Story 3 - Few details released after 37 year old is murdered by Sault Ste. Marie police. Story 4 - Man behind the viral black/blue dress is convicted of violence towards his wife.Story 5 - Egypt is joining South Africa's case at the ICJ, signalling a change in that country's relationship with Israel. Story 6 - 27 people have been killed as the RSF tries to move into El Fashir in North Darfur.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced stories:Story 1 - Family refuses to pay fine levied on them for refusing to allow their mother to a horrifying long-term care facility. Story 2 - Teachers in Saskatchewn overwhelmingly tell the government to take it's latest offer to hell.Story 3 - National Post columnist mad that the Conservative nomination races are not transparent and probably fair.Story 4 - Quebec's National Assembly plans to sue Quebecor for not having paid their rent since August.Story 5 - Four emergency incidents involving Boeing planes this past week (though Global News missed the one that happened in Canada).

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 9, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced stories:Story 1 - Ghislain Picard reminds François Legault that Indigenous people are not an afterthought in Quebec history. Story 2 - CIJA broke lobbying rules in January but faced no sactions as a result. Story 3 - Ontario woman loses citizenship because her mother was incorrectly told he was a citizen when she was born, 32 years ago. Story 4 - Cholera emerges in regions in Kenya hit hardest by floods. Story 5 - Ukraine passes bill to allow current prisoners to serve in their army, something that Russia allowed at the start of their invasion.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 8, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Convicted cop rapist Carl Snelgrove isn't working with the RNC any longer but the force refuses to say whether he quit or was fired. Story 2 - Doug Ford say that he's tired of encampments for Gaza and they need to leaveStory 3 - Canada to expand power of CSIS to stop what they call foreign interference in elections.Story 4 - Cease fire deal brokered by Qatar and Egypt accepted by Hamas, seemingly rejected by Israel.Story 5 - At least 75 dead as climate change supersized El Nino causes devastating flooding in Brazil.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Westjet to lock out its mechanics because they don't want them to strike for higher wages. Story 2 - Canada Post announces $748 million loss, just in time for bargaining with its workers. Story 3 - India says that Canada's investigation of Sikh activist's arrest is a "political compulsion"Story 4 - The sinking ship that is the British Conservative party.Story 5 - Israel bans Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel and the West Bank.Story 6 - At least 12 people have been killed after bomb blast near a market in DRC set by M23.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 3, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Three men, two of whom are related, have fathered 600 kids in Quebec, from ages 15 to infant in "artisenal sperm" operation. Story 2 - $2.4 billion carbon capture and storage project has been cancelled by Capital Power Inc. for being too expensive. Story 3 - Loblaw leaders ask Canadians to not steal from them as they count their profits after having stolen from Canadians. Story 4 - A second whistleblower at Boing has died. Story 5 - Russians have landed at an airbase in Niger where US troops are stationed. 

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 2, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - McGill's attempt to clear out pro-Palestine encampment is blocked by judge for being too broad  Story 2 - Landfull search in Saskatoon begins to find remains of woman missing since 2020. Story 3 - ER at Williams Lake hospital closed over night this week due to a lack of nursing staff. Story 4 - The Treasury Board has announced that civil servants will be expected to be in the office three days per week as of the fall. PSAC and PIPSC both vow to fight the plan. Story 5 - The Scottish National Party wins confidence vote after Greens pull support for Humza Yousaf as leader, triggering his resignation.

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 1, 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 around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast