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Here's the call in section from our Dec 3rd, 2023 Alberta Politics Roundup! We get into the housing crisis, long COVID, the healthcare crisis, the Alberta Pension, the lifting of gift limitations for MLA's and a whole lot more! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The...

We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup! On our last live show of 2023, we try and debunk some of the myths that are being spun on th carbon tax, we take a look at the bizarre meeting Adriana Lagrange had this last week leading to two rants on naturopaths and the Alberta Paramedic Association! From there, we take a look at the new federal emissions caps on oil and gas before we brea...

Here's the call in section from our Dec 3rd, 2023 Alberta Politics Roundup, with a special surprise appearance from a former 2 term MLA! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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.pa...

We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup! We start by breaking down some of the biggest news stories of the last week of Alberta politics, including the Westlock Crosswalk situation, a CSIS report that should turn significantly more heads than it has, Tanya Fir's very bad week in the Legislature, multiple leaks from the oils sands up north, Smith launching the Sovereignty Act (kinda)...

Dr. Joe Vipond is an ER physician who has been an advocate for a number of causes, but over the lest few years his voice particularly stood our for his passioned positions on healthcare and on COVID prevention and mitigation. We sat down with Dr. Vipond to hear what his concerns are on Alberta healthcare, the respiratory virus season, COVID and perhaps most importantly, what people can do to prote...

During this weeks open mic we heard from Jenney Yeremiy on a disturbing situation developing with logging in Southern Alberta and as well got some good news from one of our regular callers! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up...

We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup! We start by breaking down the whole saga with Red Deer Catholic School Board Trustee Monique Lagrange before we tackle the provinces war on affordable housing, their war on healthcare, the continuing Turkish Tylenol debacle, some fascinating developments in renewable energy (despite the renewables moratorium from the UCP), the Manning Report,...

Alberta is seeing seismic changes to it's healthcare system and the implications can be a bit overwhelming. To try and make sense of the changes that Danielle Smith and the UCP are implementing and threatening to implement, we sat down with an expert in the field of health law, Dr. Lorian Hardcastle! Lorian Hardcastle is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, wi...

Time for another weekly roundup! Ethics rules re-written! AHS Implosion! And... Tucker Carlson is coming to town for a play date with Smith? We had a LOT to talk about this week, including a special visit from David Grey for and update on the Citizens Research Foruum and we had our regular open mic!! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if y...

Dr Andrew Leach is an economist, a constitutional law scholar and a professor at the University of Alberta! He recently released a new book entitled “Between Doom and Denial” which takes a look at the ongoing conversation about Oil and Gas during a time of climate change and where investors are demanding companies and jurisdictions work to reach net zero. Plus we ask him for his thoughts on the Al...

After our weekly roundup, we always open our mic up to the "X Spaces" for people to share their thoughts on the show, the topics we cover and Alberta Politics in general! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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 suppo...

It's game on in the Alberta Legislature and we're back with another Alberta politics roundup in two parts! In this back to session episode, we take a look at the throne speech, all of the bills that have been introduced so far and we try and make sense of their impact and what they mean for Albertans. But if that wasn't enough... This weekend also saw the UCP AGM, and we take a look at the policie...

A conversation with David Gray! Some of you might remember David from our earlier episode where we talked about how the primary driver of skyrocketing electricity prices was the policy of economic withholding that the UCP brought in. David is now working to create a space where Albertans can access unbiased information about the issues facing their province and sat down with us to talk about this...

Time for another weekly roundup of Alberta politics! The Banff Centre is embroiled in scandal (again)! We learn how much the Alberta Government is willing to pay for a prime website address! Take Back Alberta continues with some major drama! There's pension problems aplenty, Albertans got SCREWED on Smith's Turkish TyleNot and more! Plus our regular segment "Stuff Smith Said", and we host our week...

Time for another weekly roundup of Alberta politics! This week we're taking a look at the Red Deer School Board Trustee who claims she was told by god to post Nazi memes, Danielle Smith's Childrens Tylenol scandal that just keeps getting worse before we do a deep dive into the pension situation with Rachel Notley, Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre all taking the stance that Alberta shouldn't lea...

The Alberta Pension Plan Proposal from Danielle Smith took a lot of people by surprise given she said that it wouldn't be an issue she would pursue, but nonetheless, Alberta's find themselves facing down an almost certain referendum and trying to make sense of what it all means... To help make sense of this situation, we sat down with renowned economist Dr. Trevor Tombe to first walk us through wh...

We're back after two weeks which makes this a record long episode! There's an absolute dumpster fire going in health care in Alberta, coal mines in the mountains are back, the UCP policies for their policy convention are public and we spend literally an hour fact checking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith before we open up the floor on our regular open mic! Pack a lunch because this is a long one! Pl...

There's no question that the public education system has been under attack from the far right lately, and the attention that they've drawn by attacking vulnerable kids in the LGBTQ2S+ has had the additional side effect of distracting from some of the other major issues that teachers and kids in schools are facing! To help try and re-centre the conversation a bit, we sat down with Alberta Teachers...

Many Albertans might be surprised to know that the oldest political party in Alberta is also the first political party to form government in the province of Alberta, the Alberta Liberal Party! While the Alberta Liberals have had a challenging run since the late 2000's and have been shut out of the legislature since 2019, Alberta Liberal Leader John Roggeveen assumed the role of permanent leader in...

It's our Alberta Politics Roundup for the week ending on October 1st! We start with taking a look at a few stories that were ironically ignored in the run up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, because these stories speak to how much work is still needed. We then run through a the biggest stories in Alberta politics including Smith's embarrassing performance on Power and Politics, he...

With a monster week in politics we're back with another 2 part episode! In Part one, we do our weekly round up of Alberta Politics and in Part 2, we're joined by politico Sarah Biggs for her take on the week before we open up the floor for our regular open mic! In our roundup, we take a look at more changes to provincial party leadership, health care and curriculum "announcements", the latest envi...

With a monster week in politics we're back with another 2 part episode! In Part 1, we do our weekly round up of Alberta Politics and in Part 2, we're joined by politico Sarah Biggs for her take on the week before we open up the floor for our regular open mic! In our roundup, we take a look at more changes to provincial party leadership, health care and curriculum "announcements", the latest enviro...

With an E. Coli outbreak striking to the heart of the province, we're back for another Alberta Politics Roundup! We start by taking a look at the environmental situation in Alberta before moving on to the incredibly on brand appointment of a lowered standard "writer" to the office of the deputy premier's press secretary. From there we get into the E. Coli tragedy and the provinces inexplicable res...

With many people in Alberta (and across the world) trying to make sense of Alberta’s Renewable Energy Moratorium, we decided to try and get some context from someone who works in that field to not only better understand the moratorium but the whole process for getting renewable energy approved in Alberta. Lindsay Amantea is a lawyer who works in renewable energy who has an up close view of what th...

For a "quiet" week in Alberta Politics, there's no shortage of ground to cover in this weeks roundup! This week saw the Kananaskis being clear cut while a company apparently violated protected lands, the War Room/Canadian Energy Center throwing taxpayers dollars across the border, the last day of the Shandro hearings and a whole lot more, and that's not even our main subject! Because we also unpac...