Probably About Politics Podcast

Welcome to the first Probably About Politics Explains! For our first monthly explainer episode, Kaleigh and Alex are staying in South America after coving Peru's election to explore the Odebrecht Scandal - or Operation Car Wash. The hosts are diving into the global corruption scandal that started in Brazil and sparked demands for democratic reform in Peru's recent election that has now implicated people and major infrastructure construction in 13 countries in South America and around the world. 

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Welcome back to Probably About Politics! This week Alex and Kaleigh are heading back to South America to explore Peru's upcoming general election which sees the country, that has been hit by a major political corruption scandal that has taken down leaders in several countries in South America, on the brink of an opportunity to make major democratic reforms. Plus don't miss out on robot government in New Zealand, odd couples in Austria and dancing atoms. 

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2019 was an exciting year for Probably About Politics! 10 countries, 4 special episodes, and 3 interviews. This week Alex and Kaleigh met up over the holidays to take a look back on some of these elections and a couple they missed to see what happened after they covered them. Tensions rise, but the duo has put together the most exciting podcast highlights of the year!

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December is not the most common month of the year to have elections, and this might lead you to ask why the United Kingdom is holding theirs in December for the first time in over 100 years! Alex and Kaleigh are here with the answers to that and more. And to balance out the return to the UK for the second time this year, they've also got exciting news out of Finland and a big update on the worm census. Check it out to learn more!

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With lots of exciting elections finishing out November, Kaleigh and Alex are playing catch up on Canada's cabinet announcement and then diving in with some elections you might have missed, including Hong Kong's local elections and the national elections of a country of 50,000+, the Marshall Islands. But, as the hosts discover, these elections were closely watched by major powers like China and the United States and have big consequences for major global issues like climate change, nuclear weapons, and state sovereignty.

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On Sunday, November 17th, 2019 Belarus swept out the only two representatives from parties that opposed the government that had been elected since 1994. With the country having been led by President Alexander Lukashenko since around the time that Kaleigh and Alex were born, it makes sense that you probably haven't heard much about this particular election. In this episode, the hosts look at Belarus as a country whose relations with major powers like Russia and the EU are changing, and whose citizens might be starting to itch for a change of power although there is little trust in the voting process.

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The Canadian Federal election is October 21. Just in time for election day, Kaleigh and Alex give you their look at the Federal Party platforms; particularly what the parties have to say about the hot issue of the campaign, climate change. Kaleigh travelled to Alex to mark the special occasion of discussing, for the first time, the context, issues and scandals of an election that both the hosts get to vote in.

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The Canadian Federal election is here and, we're kicking off Season 4 of Probably About Politics, and we think it is only appropriate then that we have an interview with Jenica Atwin! This interview is an exciting follow up to our conversations with other candidates for local and provincial elections. Alex and Kaleigh want to help voters heading to the polls this fall by highlighting candidates running for Federal office, and the parties and candidates that are participating.

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Scandals in Ibiza, the rise of European populism and a snap election! This episode Kaleigh and Alex are looking at the upcoming Austrian election and the scandal that brought the country back so quickly to another election in a whirlwind two years. They also get excited talking about the unprecedented temporary technocratic government that has been in charge for the last few months. Kaleigh helps us see how this connects to the international by checking in with Secretary Guterres, and Alex leaves us on a hopeful note with some blackhole news.

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The mission of this podcast continues to be to keep our listeners up to date on issues in a democracy,  and we haven’t been talking enough about how climate change fits firmly into this category! 

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