The Breakdown With Nate Pike

With the UCP continuing to push through a curriculum that only 5% of teachers view positively and that many curriculum experts have panned as dangerous and harmful, grassroots groups across the province are banding together to raise awareness and to try and fight back. One of the ways that they’re doing this is through is through a province wide protest and rally on April 2nd. To learn more about...

On our regular weekly Live at the Space Bar with politico Sarah Biggs, we take on the new “Jason Kenney Power Hour” and it’s assorted abuses of power and falsehoods, the continued misbehaviour of Shane Getson, the disqualification of UCP nomination candidates Jodie Gateman & Tim Hoven DQ, proposed healthcare wage cutbacks, the pipeline pipedream of KXL and we get into the province wide “Ditch the...

On our new episode, we’re taking a look at the wild world of “Freedom Convoy” finances! You may recall that after raising millions on Gofundme, convoy organizers were forced to move their fundraising efforts to Christian platform, GiveSendGo. Problem was, GiveSendGo didn’t take the appropriate measures to ensure that the “private” data of donors was kept private and it was leaked out to the intern...

On our regular weekly Live at the Space Bar, we take on the continued efforts by the UCP to silence their critics, the rise of the right against the right, the prospects of an early election, the ongoing EMS crisis and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patre...

On a supersized episode, we try and tackle the major events of the week, and it’s been a busy one! With a throne speech, a cabinet shuffle that sees Kaycee Madu remain in cabinet despite the findings that he attempted to interfere in the administration of justice and a new justice minister who is under investigation from the law society with pending hearings, Tyler Shandro, plus a throne speech, a...

Another busy week in Alberta Politics, and Sarah and Nate are here to try and break things down! With yet another week of significant scandals plaguing Jason Kenney and the UCP, Jason Kenney was lashing out at pretty much everyone this week. We take a look at some of the things that Kenney decided to try and make targets out of plus a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of conten...

With the Emergency Act being invoked, UCP MLA’s sharing hate group memes and a whole lot more going on in the last couple of days we knew we had to do another emergency episode! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re li...

With a provincial conservatives in Alberta heading into a leadership review and the federal conservative leadership imploding, we sat down with Jennifer Sanford from the Conservative Like Me podcast to try and get a sense as to what is going on and what is driving these events. This is a pretty spicy and at times challenging episode, but the greater themes that we get into towards the end make it...

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If the announcement that Alberta is rolling back restrictions effective at midnight wasn’t enough to necessitate an Emergency Episode, Jason Kenney’s shocking comments about AIDS victims and the need to eliminate calling some protestors racist definitely were. Sarah and Nate got together to unpack what was quite possibly Jason Kenner’s most shocking press conference to date! As always, if you appr...

With so much going on in provincial politics (and frankly, federal politics), it’s easy for ongoing issues to fall through the cracks. Recently, the province began an “engagement” process to get feedback from Alberta’s on the extremely controversial curriculum draft. To get a better understanding of what that process has looked like and whether or not participants feel like their feedback will hav...

On this weeks Live Twitter event, Nate & Sarah broke down the week in Alberta politics with a particular focus on the events surrounding the border blockades and the UCP’s caving to the demands of people who fit the definition of terrorists under the Canadian Criminal Code. As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing...

This week we sit down with Barry Morishita, the new leader of the Alberta Party! We get into Barry’s political history, get his (and the Alberta Party’s) positions on SCS, the new curriculum, Safe supply, a provincial police force an a whole lot more! (Plus we’re especially proud of the intro) As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, plea...

This weeks live event comes on the heels of a dark weekend for Canada. A protest convoy arrived in Ottawa and caused all kinds of havoc, including the desecration of multiple war memorials, the Terry Fox memorial, shut down a vigil to observe the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting, assaulted a homeless man after coercing a soup kitchen to give them food and a whole lot more. We try and sort...

Alberta politics is never without controversy, but one of the most unexpected political controversies in recent memory has to do journalist Wyatt Sharpe. Wyatt is a 12 year old from Ontario who hosts “The Wyatt Sharpe Show” and his list of interview subjects and contributions to journalism in Canada really shouldn’t be underestimated. Nonetheless, when he began calling in to UCP press conferences...

On this weeks Live Twitter event, Nate & Sarah broke down the week in Alberta politics and possible rationale for the recent explosion in dig whistle commas we’ve seen form the UCP. Plus, Madu Monday! COVID! Testing kits missing pieces! And so much more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supp...

While many have been paying close attention to the Bills that the UCP are passing, it’s equally important to pay attention to the ones they have failed to pass. Bill 220 is a bill that would legislate that parents who experience the loss of a child through miscarriage or stillbirth have the right to take three unpaid days from work, and it’s in danger of falling through the cracks. To learn more,...

On our weekly live Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate the big political stories of the last week and this one is a spicy week! The new legislative session has been announced, and with it, there have been some bills that have now fallen through the cracks, not the least of which is Bill 220 which supports grieving parents of miscarrie...

For more than two years, Albertans have had to endure “Freedom protests” with increasingly alarming behaviour from some of the primary figures. With their behaviour growing more bold and more threatening, it’s also becoming increasingly clear there is more going on than what they claim. To learn more about the dark undercurrents of these movements, We sat down with Kurt Phillips of the Anti Racist...

On our weekly live Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate the big political stories of the last week and this one is a spicy week! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, an...

We’re starting of the new year with a spicy conversation that we recorded with the host of the Cross Border Interview Podcast, Chris Brown! This conversation was recorded at the very end of November and covers provincial politics, Calgary municipal politics, how the Cross Border Interview Podcast came to be and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to...

On a special (and last of 2021) episode of our weekly live Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us count down our totally subjective top 10 of the biggest events in Alberta politics of 2021! There’s a few of the obvious contenders as well as a few surprises! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The...

On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the events of the week, and this week we talk the massive changes to health restrictions in Alberta, the confusing launch of rapid testing, the announcement police will be facilitating IOAT (Injected Opioid Antagonist Therapy) in municipal jails, curriculum changes, the ongoing...

The recent announcement by the UCP that they would be (somewhat) taking the social studies curriculum back to the drawing board has given some Albertans hope, but as has been pointed out there are still many problems with the framework that will be used, and many other parts of the curriculum draft. In our final conversation with advocates from the Albertans Reject Curriculum Draft advocacy group,...

On our weekly Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate all of the events of the week, and this week we talk about Alberta’s newly appointed status as the most Canadian Province, the UCP Board seemingly dismissing the Leadership review request from 23 UCP Constituency Associations, EMS Red Alerts, Angela Pitt, The newly announced Safe suppl...