Guest David J. Bercuson is a fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and director of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary

Guest Ben Grant, lawyer based in Ottawa with experience in constitutional cases and who has represented clients in the Supreme Court

Guest Nathan Cooper, Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly and MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills

Guest Rick Bell, columnist, Calgary Sun

On today’s show, we start the show by talking news of the day and provincial politics. Peter Shawn Taylor, contributing editor at Maclean's magazine joins the show to talk about how Syrian refuges have fared in Canada since 2015. We talk renewable energy storage projects in Alberta with Peter Bubik, renewable energy engineer and co-founder of Turning Point Generation. Lastly, what is the possibility of using small nuclear reactors to make Alberta’s oilsands cleaner. John Stewart, Director of Policy and Research at the Canadian Nuclear Association lets us know

Guest John Stewart, Director of Policy and Research at the Canadian Nuclear Association

Guest: Peter Bubik is a renewable energy engineer that spent past 20 years building small hydro, wind and more recently solar power projects in Alberta and around the world. He is also a co-founder of Turning Point Generation - the company behind Alberta's first pumped hydro energy storage project approved to be constructed by Hinton.

Guest Kurt Huebner, Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy, University of British Columbia