Danielle Smith

Danielle Smith joins Ryan Jespersen live from the rotunda of the Alberta Legislature building ahead of the throne speech. Danielle & Ryan set the stage with campaign strategist Stephen Carter. Premier Rachel Notley, UCP leader Jason Kenney, Alberta Party leader Stephen Mandel, Liberal Party of Alberta leader David Khan and Freedom Conservative leader Derek Fildebrandt all join Ryan & Danielle to discuss what their parties are expecting from the throne speech and look ahead to this spring election.

Kenney and Fildebrandt also address the 'kamikaze campaign' scandal.

United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney joins Danielle Smith and Ryan Jespersen on the rotunda of the Alberta Legislature to address the "kamikaze campaign" scandal ahead of the throne speech.

David Khan, Alberta Liberal leader, joins Danielle Smith and Ryan Jespersen in the rotunda of the Alberta Legislature ahead of the throne speech to discuss the challenge of perception of the Liberal party in Alberta and the engagement he's seen in Calgary-Mountain View.

Derek Fildebrandt, leader of the Freedom Conservative Party, join Danielle Smith and Ryan Jespersen in the rotunda of the Alberta Legislature ahead of the throne speech to discuss being the leader of a nascent party and addresses his relationship with Brian Jean.

Alberta Party leader Stephen Mandel joins Danielle Smith and Ryan Jespersen ahead of the throne speech to discuss issues affecting Albertans like the carbon tax and health care.

Premier Rachel Notley joins Danielle Smith and Ryan Jespersen live from the Alberta Legislature rotunda ahead of the throne speech to outline her vision for Alberta and to answer some questions about the past four years of her government.

On today’s show we start things off with Ryan Jespersen, radio host on 630 CHED talking about the upcoming Throne Speech and the RCMP taking over the investigation of United Conservative Party “irregular financial contribution” allegations. The UCP says they will kill farm safety Bill 6 if elected. Glenn van Dijken, MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, he’s a farmer, and our caucus critic for agriculture tells us more. Mark MacKinnon, Senior International Correspondent with The Globe and Mail talks about the leaked banking records that show Canada’s Bombardier Inc. was paid tens of millions of dollars by a shell company that received money from massive Russian tax fraud. Lastly, Robert Evans, freelance journalist studying far right radicalization for Bellingcat talks to us about the 49 people killed in New Zealand mosque shooting