After Danielle Smith announced on her radio show on January 27th that she would be introducing some gender and pronoun policies, Political Scientist Dr. Duane Bratt joined us to try and make sense of what she was saying.

No one was prepared for what she actually announced though.

So a week later, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Bratt to the show for an in depth conversation on Smith's policies and he has dropped the gloves and pulls no punches in this not to be missed episode!

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Danielle Smith and the UCP have launched a series of policies attacking trans kids, the LGBTQ2S+ community, parents ability to choose medical procedures with and for their kids, teachers and the education system and the entire medical community.

In this episode we fact check Dani from her launch video to several press conferences, and it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that what Dani says this about isn't at ALL what it's actually about.

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With the devastating news from the provincial government of their new policies targeting trans kids and minors ability to access healthcare, we wanted to have a conversation with someone who could bring some humanity to the conversation as soon as possible!

Pam Rocker is a SUPER gay advocate, presenter, writer poet and a whole lot more! We are super excited to present this conversation that brings some much needed empathy and compassion to a subject that desperately needs it.

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Dr. Bratt is a professor of Political Science at Mount Royal University and he joins us for a conversation on the state of affairs in Alberta Politics! We start by taking a look at the potential political implications of Danielle Smith's recent appearance with Tucker Carlson before we pivot to the NDP leadership race and Danielle Smith's announcement that the UCP will be introducing legislation on "parents rights" with an announcement coming this week!

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Another episode so big we had to split it into two parts!

In this special Part 2, we sit down with politico and strategist Sarah Biggs to try and make sense of some of the choices that were made in Alberta Politics in the last week before we open it up to our open mic!

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Another episode so big we had to split it into two parts!

In this first part, we take a look at a few of the weeks bigger Alberta Politics events before we do a complete deep dive/fact check on Tucker Carlsons recent speeches in Calgary and Edmonton!

(And there's a LOT to fact check!)

In the process we end up fact checking a lot of Smith's recent claims as well, and theres more than a few inaccuracies in there was well!

Look for Part two where we bring in Politico and Strategist Sarah Biggs to help us make sense of it all and we have our regular open mic!

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With Edmonton cracking down on homeless encampments and teaming up with the province to create a processing centre, as well as the UCP ignoring the overwhelming evidence that supports harm reduction, we sat down with Euan Thomson from DrugDataDecoded.ca to try to make sense of these issues as well as address safe supply, supervised consumption sites and Danielle Smith's upcoming forced treatment!

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Time for another Alberta Poliotics Roundup!

This week We're talking about the oil and gas liability facing Albertans, policing in Alberta, homeless and houselessness encampments, Tucker Carlson, Rachel Notley's resignation and more!

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Time for another Alberta Poliotics Roundup!

This week We're talking about the ongoing healthcare crisis, especially in EMS and in Red Deer, the infamous Tylenot Childrens Medication scandal that just keep getting worse, Fracking and the Brazeau Damn plus we go through our latest FOIP results!

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