The Breakdown With Nate Pike

With Treaty Chiefs having voted unanimously in a non-confidence vote in Danielle SMith's UCP, separatism on the rise and over racism towards First Nations only growing more bold, what can be done? We're extremely excited to present this conversation with First Nations Scholar and Associate Professor from the University of Alberta Dr. Matthew Wildcat, which not only gets into what First Nations can...

It's time to re-up this very, very special episode! Originally from June of 2025, this episode seems to have only become more relevant as Alberta has escalated tensions towards Treaty Chiefs and the province has been set careening to a separatism referendum by Danielle Smith and the UCP. With relations between the government of Alberta and First Nations at an arguable low with Treaty Chiefs expres...

Time for another Alberta Politics Roundup! We start with a bit of a follow up worm last weeks show before we get into yet another EMS policy shift from the UCP, a deep dive into the by-election candidates in Calgary, Smith's latest performance on Your Province, Your Premier before we end up with what could be another development in the "Corrupt Care" scandal! Plus we reveal another panelist for ou...

It's another Breakdown open mic night and we're talking healthcare, crisis comms, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas and a whole lot more! To get tickets to our July 25th live show in Edmonton, visit www.thebreakdownablive.ca! If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million lawsuit against us by Sam Mraiche, the man who imported Vanch masks and the Turkish Tylenot as...

It's another Alberta Politics roundup, and between the last week's events and the absolutely bonkers layers surrounding them... Well, it's a pretty bonkers episode. Dani's war with First Nations heats up, there's some new developments for the referendum and also the "Corrupt Care" scandal. Plus it seems like a lot of the senior leadership in Smith's government are letting the mask slide because we...

It's another open mic night at The Breakdown!

We start with Nate answering as many of the chat questions as we can before we get into a very deep conversation on th enrapture and history of AISH/ADAP with caller Cassandra! To get tickets to our July 25th live show in Edmonton, visit www.thebreakdownablive.ca! If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million la...

It's another live Alberta Politics Roundup and it's a big one! This week we're taking a look at the shut down of the disastrous EMS rebranding, unpacking what's happening with health inspectors, breaking down why the "Water Not Coal" petition likely won't see a ballot box for at least 2-3 years before we runravel the tangeled web over at The Western Standard! To get tickets to our July 25th live s...

It's our first open mic! To get tickets to our July 25th live show in Edmonton, visit www.thebreakdownablive.ca! If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million lawsuit against us by Sam Mraiche, the man who imported Vanch masks and the Turkish Tylenot as well as who hosted MLA's and Ministers in his skybox as he had business with the government... You can do...

We're back with another roundup of the last week in Alberta Politics!

We start with some of the major developments in the former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopolous ongoing lawsuit and the implications now that two podcasters have been found to have engaged in criminal contempt of court! From there we take a look at the defunding of rural women's shelters and the latest in the UCP's gerrymandering of A...

With separatism sucking all the oxygen out of the room, we’re refocusing on Alberta’s health care crisis with ER physician Dr Paul Parks! Alberta has seen another tragic death in an Emergency Room waiting room, the government has distracted itself away from addressing the real healthcare issues facing the province and there's real concerns that Danielle Smith's impending separatism referendum will...

We're back with another live show and this one has a singular purpose! What the heck is going on with Alberta's new referendum on separatism and how the heck did we get here? We take a look at the history of separatism in Alberta before we work through the major events that led up to last week on a rollercoaster of a ride you not only miss, you'll want to share with your friends! Plus we announce...

It's a special crossover episode between The Breakdown and Jeremy Appel's "The Orchard"!

Originally recorded on May 6, 2026 on substack, we're excited to be able to bring the whole conversation to all of our platforms! 

In this chat, Nate and Jeremy cover the separatist data breach, the current NDP strategy against Smith and the UCP, the disassembly of democratic protections in Alberta, the futu...

Welcome to episode 8.20, a conversation with AFL President Gil McGowan and it's a no holds barred chat on the plan that organized labour has for a day of action on May 29th to push back against the UCP. But we don't just talk about that day of action... This conversation includes Gil's explanation for what happened to the General Strike that Albertans were told to expect in the aftermath of the UC...

Two weeks ago, The Breakdown reported on a text sent out by strategist Stephen Carter that seemed to show he was in the process of orchestrating a takeover of the Alberta Liberals! Since then, Mt. Carter has been on the offense, claiming that we didn't reach out to the Liberals or their leader, that the effort was coordinated between Mr Carter and the Liberal Executive/Leader and a whole lot more!...

It's an extended Alberta Politics Roundup because we have a lot of ground to cover! To start with, we take a look at two of the new entries into the referendum game, the first being The Rebel and their new TPA (Third Party Advertiser) and the second being the impending takeover/makeover of the Alberta Liberals by controversial strategist Stephen Carter. But what is it that makes Carter so controve...

On March 10th, 2026 CoRE (which is a part of the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction) published a paper in the Journal “Addiction” that the UCP then used to justify shuttering Supervised Consumption Sites. But there’s some pretty big problems with the paper, and there’s some massive problems with how it has been represented! To get to the core of the problem, we sat down with 3 professors who...

With separatism at the forefront of Alberta's political discussion right now, a lot of people are asking how they can possibly help in the fight to keep Alberta in Canada! To find an answer to that question, we sat down with Thomas Lukaszuk of Forever Canadian to find out more about how he's asking people to get involved as well as to set the record straight on what his goals are with the original...

Are Danielle Smith and the UCP about to execute their greatest subversion of democracy yet? As the boundaries of constituencies in Alberta are about to be redrawn after years of consultation, two UCP appointed members of the commission abandoned the report they signed off on and created new maps that many experts have called straight up gerrymandering. In order to try and make sense of this, we sa...

Are the UCP fixing to fix the next election? The electoral boundaries commission has released it's report and recommendations, but it's one of the wilder reports in recent memory because of the inclusion of a mini report put together by two members who went rogue in an apparent attempt to redraw boundaries to gerrymander another election win for the UCP!Just in case that wasn't serious enough, we...

Who would have thought that a committee meeting would bring even more scandals to the forefront of Alberta Politics? Nonetheless, here we are and we're breaking down the secret 7 star hotel stays, the golden cat and the rest!

Plus, we take a look at the SCS closures and the bizarre set of coincidences that raise real questions about Alberta premier Danielle's Smith's podcasting habits with a deep...

With both separatism and racism on the rise, particularly with First Nations leading the charge against the separatist movement including a non-confidence vote in the UCP government, we had the privilege of sitting down with MLA Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, who is the first First Nations woman to be elected to the ALberta Legislature and who witnessed the treatment of First Nations Chiefs inside and o...

It's time for a chat on Alberta Politics with NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi! And we get into a lot! Corrupt Care! The Provincial Budget! Coal Mines! Healthcare! Cost of Living! And we ask the hard question directly that has been circulating in the ether for a few weeks and get a response to the criticisms of the current Alberta NDP Leadership! If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight b...

Time for another Alberta Politics Roundup and this week we have two deep dives! To start with we take a look at Danielle Smith's war against judges, including the straight up falsehoods, misinformation and straight up propaganda that both Smith and her Justice Minister, Mickey Amery have been engaging in. From there we have a deep dives on Smith's immigration claims which are also well into the re...

Alberta is the land of recall petitions right now! But with most of the focus on whether or not recalls are successful, there’s a lot that’s being overlooked in the conversation. We sat down with three recall organizers to hear from them as to what made them decide to initiate recall petitions, what the experience has been like and perhaps most importantly, when the recalls are done is this the en...

It's time for another Alberta Politics Roundup! There's a grab bag of things going on with Alberta Politics and we try to cover a bunch of them! What does the new Legislative calendar have to say? Are overdoses being underreported? What's going on with the Tory Party? AND! We have a double deep dive on both Danielle SMith's attempts to consolidate power by demonizing the courts as well as a deep d...