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It’s back to school for students across the province, so we sat down with the executive Director for “Support Our Students” Medeana Moussa! In this conversation we cover a lot of ground, including what some of the biggest issues teachers and students are facing with the return to the classroom as while as what the future of those classrooms could like like with the looming threats from “Take Back...

Time for another Alberta Politics Roundup! The renewable moratorium situation just keeps getting worse, and Smith just keeps getting caught in lie after lie! Plus, what is going on in Fort MacLeod, who's going to be the new UCP president and does someone need to check on the leader of Take Back Alberta? Now is the time on The Breakdown when we dance! As always, if you appreciate the kind of conten...

We are SO excited to present our conversation, with survivor, advocate and all around amazing person Guy Felicella! This is one of the most intense episodes we've done yet, and it's an absolute must watch/listen! Guy Felicella grew up in a middle-class home in British Columbia but due to trauma, undiagnosed ADHD and difficulty at home and school, he fell into addiction at a young age. Guy spent 30...

We're back from break with our first live Alberta Politics roundup in a few weeks and it's a monster episode! In this episode we take a look at the concerns Alberta Fire Chiefs have with the UCP's unexpected changes to Bill 5, Danielle Smith's Chief of Staff Marshall Smith’s Scandals that keep gaining mass, the Dynalife Buyback, the Renewables Moratorium, Dani’s very bad presser, Take Back Alberta...

Back to school is coming and with it (in parts at least) is a new curriculum! But what about the most controversial part of the new curriculum, the social studies component? To try and find out a more on the status of things and what the Smith government intends to do with Social Studies in Alberta, we sat down for a chat with curriculum expert and amazing advocate Dr Carla Peck! As always, if you...

It's a takeover edition of The Breakdown! In a complete switch up, disability advocate Don Slater takes over the hosting duties and our regular host gets put in the hot seat! Don runs the gamut of topics from the provincial election, the future of the major political parties in Alberta and a whole lot more in this unique and one time episode! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that w...

In this chat with Alberta Party Leader Barry Morishita, we cover the Calgary Stampede scandal, what went right and wrong with the Alberta Party's strategy in the last provincial election, what the future of the Alberta Party looks like (and we've got a bit of a scoop there!) and what Barry believes is necessary for the future of politics in Alberta! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content...

Time for another Alberta Politics roundup! Fundraising! Healthcare Restrictions Revelations (but not really)! Private Healthcare in Alberta! Healthcare/EMS Crisis! No New Renewables! The UCP on Substance Use/Houselesness! Stampede Scandals! All this, our regular open mic and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, pleas...

Time for another Alberta Politics roundup! On this episode we start by catching up with a missing MLA, before we take a look at the potential privatization of healthcare, the history of the lab services debacle before we do a deep dive on the recent settlement of the lawsuit where the Calgary Stampede admitted liability and negligence for decades of abuse, but for seemingly inexplicable reasons Da...

We return for our first live recording in two weeks! Donairs! Healthcare crisis! Management Opportunities in Alberta! And Alberta Pension Plan! Cronyism Contracts? Danielle Smith's Secret Council for the future of energy in Alberta! Our FOIP results for who runs Smith's Social Media and how many accounts has SMith blocked? All this and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of con...

The conclusion to our conversation with Energi Media Founder Markham Hislop! Markham has been reporting on Energy and the future of Energy for years following an entire career and lifetime in the energy industry, and in this conversation we go through Parts 1 & 2 of his “Unethical Oil” series! What’s the future of Oil and Gas in Alberta? What’s the future of bitumen? What’s going on with abandoned...

We’ve got a conversation with Energi Media Founder Markham Hislop that’s so big we’re breaking it into two episodes over this week! Markham has been reporting on Energy and the future of Energy for years following an entire lifetime and in the energy industry, and in this conversation we go through Parts 1 & 2 of his “Unethical Oil” series! What’s the future of Oil and Gas in Alberta? What’s the f...

Crossover event! In a special episode of The Breakdown, we sit down with the 905’er podcast from Ontario to discuss the state of politics, provincially and nationally, what Alberta’s future looks like and we re-litigate the 2023 Alberta provincial election! (Note- this episode was recorded on June 16th when it appeared that the memo of the hiring and firing of Dr. Deena Hinshaw had been fabricated...

Following the appalling comments by then UCP candidate Jennifer Johnson regarding trans kids, Jonathan and the Leduc Pride began trying to reach out to Johnson to try and not only educate her, but also to heal the community. Johnson hasn't committed to a time yet, but Jonathan isn't giving up and he took some time to share with us a bit of the progress he and Leduc Pride are making in their commun...

On this live episode of The Breakdown, we take a look as the anti-LGBTQs+ protests that are claiming to be protecting kids, but more and more it looks like they're weaponing them! From there we take a look at the BC Ports strike, the Preston Manning Report, the toxic supply crisis, the catastrophic drop in FIrst Nations life expectancy, before we get into Danielle Smith's recent interview with the...

We're excited to present a conversation with Executive Director for the Queer Alberta Safety Net William Conner! The QASN started out as a grassroots facebook community providing mutual aid support for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and with the rise of hate targeting their community have made the decision to rise to the challenge! We chatted with Will to learn the history of the QASN and where...

On this episode of The Breakdown... This week, Leduc made the news for all of the wrong reasons, and we try and put some proper context and apply some facts to the hate filled rants that came out of the Leduc CIty Council chamber. Take Back Alberta also made the news with not a small amount of internal and external drama, the Hinshaw hiring and Un-hiring spent a lot of time in the news and in what...

On this episode of The Breakdown... What's all the fuss about Supreme Court judges? What are the scandals with Danielle Smith and why is the NDP calling for an RCMP investigation? It turns out the Hinshaw memo was REAL! What was behind that survey that made so many people so upset? And we have a chat with Disability Advocate Don Slater who raised concerns about whether or not the province will ens...

Collin May is a highly educated lawyer who made the news in 2022 when he was appointed to be the chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, but that was only the start of his media coverage… Later that year, an academic book review he provided was portrayed as being Islamophobic by some and racist by others. Collin was eventually fired from his position by the government and has since initiated...

If you thought Alberta Politics were going to be less dramatic after the election... That's definitely not the case. So on this episode, we try to make a little sense of all the drama of the last week, from the real stats about the wildfires being investigated for arson to Danielle Smith using her platform as premier to plug her restaurant and then claiming to be cancelled from Facebook when she w...

He's been a hard core conservative activist, a firebrand city councilor and for the last two years he has been on something of a journey of self discovery that has led him across a continent, up more than a few mountains and sees him recently teaming up with former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi to call out the UCP and their candidates. We sat down with Jeromy to hear his story in his own words for a...

TIme for another roundup! We start of by taking a look at Danielle Smith's revisionist history attempts (from just this week) before we cover off the air quality complaints in schools here in Calgary followed by a look at Smiths new cabinet! And then, we do a deep dive on the recent audio from an Edmonton School where a teacher has become the centre of controversy from alleged Islamophobic comment...

With Adriana Lagrange being the newly appointed minister of health, we decided to do our very first episode mashup! Back in December of 2021, we started telling a story of a potential abuse of power by Lagrange to ensure wealthy donors got paid as part of the mask procurement for kids in school, and that story ended up spanning almost an entire year! So in recognition of Lagrange's new appointment...

With the election dust settling,we sat down again for another chat with former MLA, Minister and Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk for his thoughts on what went right and what went wrong in election 2023 as well as what the future holds for Alberta and how Albertans can make that future as positive as possible! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The...

On another weekly run down of the week in Alberta politics, we take a look at how so far, 2 new MLA's who were faced scandal over comments they made about the Trans community during the election have both failed to acknowledge Pride Month despite commitments to "do the work". From there we take a look at how multiple UCP MLA's (past and present) manage to fail upward despite major lapses in judgem...