Alberta Premier Danielle Smith snubs her fellow premiers, as Alberta abstains from a cross-country collective effort to dissuade Donald Trump from imposing tariffs on Canadian goods and services. 

5:00 | Is Smith out of line, embarrassing Alberta, or doing exactly what a premier is supposed to do in circumstances like this? We hear from Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Smith herself, and Ryan shares his own thoughts. 

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26:00 | What alternatives does Alberta (and Canada) have, in dealing with Donald Trump? What should Pierre Poilievre be doing? Is the Canadian dollar about to plummet? And is Wayne Gretzky risking his legacy, being tied to Trump? Economist Moshe Lander lays it out. 

55:50 | Real Talker Garth La Beach had some challenging questions for us re: DEI in our January 15 Live Chat powered by Park Power. We figured it made sense to bring him on the show. Turned out to be one of our best conversations in a long time. Thanks, Garth, for being such a valued member of the Real Talk community! 

1:16:53 | What would Naheed Nenshi do differently if he was Premier? We hear from the Alberta NDP leader. 

1:21:21 | That selfie of Trump, Danielle Smith, and Kevin O'Leary is fake, friends. We have some fun (and wind up with a wake up call of our own) with AI image generation. 

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