Danielle Smith

Mike Bradshaw, a candidate for Wards 12/14, joins the show. He formerly worked on Julie Hrdlicka's campaign - who took almost 20k in union donations, so sees how it works and the impact. 

The German election is on Sunday September 24. Jeremy Hexham, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communications, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. He joins the show to explain the election system there. 

Sherry Sutherland, has had four family members that were booted out of the park. 

Today's full show includes interviews and audio about Calgary's arena, the UCP debate, Secondary Suites, MLA Rick Fraser, Canadian oil production and municipal politics in Calgary. 

William McBeath, director of Training at the Manning Centre, joins the show to talk about what issues he thinks should be focused on at the municipal level in Calgary. 

Ken Green, senior director in the Center for Natural Resource Studies, at the The Fraser Institute, joins the show to talk about wildlife in Canada. 

Stewart Muir, executive director of Resource Works, joins the show to talk about how deeply the environmental community is nowadays embedded in governments. 

Tim Pickering, founder and chief investment officer of Auspice Capital Advisors, joins the show to talk about Canadian oil production being set to hit milestone by 2018.  

Anne Stevenson, a senior planner on the Edmonton Zoning Bylaw Implementation team, joins the show to talk about the regulations pertaining to secondary suites in Edmonton and the changes the City of Edmonton has made in the last 10 years, to help encourage this type of development. 

Calgary-South East MLA Rick Fraser will sit as an independent. Fraser made the announcement this morning, penning a letter saying he has a respect for the United Conservative Party. But he says since Alison Redford stepped down as premier, "multiple leadership races, cabinet changes and an election, there has been an overwhelming focus on politics in Alberta and not on the people of Alberta."