Here's the call in section from our Dec 3rd, 2023 Alberta Politics Roundup, with a special surprise appearance from a former 2 term MLA!

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We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup!

We start by breaking down some of the biggest news stories of the last week of Alberta politics, including the Westlock Crosswalk situation, a CSIS report that should turn significantly more heads than it has, Tanya Fir's very bad week in the Legislature, multiple leaks from the oils sands up north, Smith launching the Sovereignty Act (kinda) AND...

We get into th results of our FOIP requests on the Pension Report that seem to strongly suggest that there's much, much more to the story than the government is telling Albertans.

Make sure to look for the bonus episode that goes with this one with our regular open mic as well!

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Dr. Joe Vipond is an ER physician who has been an advocate for a number of causes, but over the lest few years his voice particularly stood our for his passioned positions on healthcare and on COVID prevention and mitigation.

We sat down with Dr. Vipond to hear what his concerns are on Alberta healthcare, the respiratory virus season, COVID and perhaps most importantly, what people can do to protect themselves and their loved ones!

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During this weeks open mic we heard from Jenney Yeremiy on a disturbing situation developing with logging in Southern Alberta and as well got some good news from one of our regular callers! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup!

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We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup!

We start by breaking down the whole saga with Red Deer Catholic School Board Trustee Monique Lagrange before we tackle the provinces war on affordable housing, their war on healthcare, the continuing Turkish Tylenol debacle, some fascinating developments in renewable energy (despite the renewables moratorium from the UCP), the Manning Report, and an extended "Stuff Smith Says" segment.

Make sure to look for the bonus episode that goes with this one with our regular open mic as well!

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Alberta is seeing seismic changes to it's healthcare system and the implications can be a bit overwhelming. To try and make sense of the changes that Danielle Smith and the UCP are implementing and threatening to implement, we sat down with an expert in the field of health law, Dr. Lorian Hardcastle!

Lorian Hardcastle is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, with a joint appointment to the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine. Lorian obtained her JD with Health Law and Policy Specialization Certificate from Dalhousie University, and her LLM and SJD from the University of Toronto, and in this episode she helps us navigate what the changes to the role of CMOH, forced treatment and the implosion of AHS and the profitization of healthcare delivery mean for Albertans.

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Time for another weekly roundup!

Ethics rules re-written! AHS Implosion! And...

Tucker Carlson is coming to town for a play date with Smith?

We had a LOT to talk about this week, including a special visit from David Grey for and update on the Citizens Research Foruum and we had our regular open mic!!

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Dr Andrew Leach is an economist, a constitutional law scholar and a professor at the University of Alberta!

He recently released a new book entitled “Between Doom and Denial” which takes a look at the ongoing conversation about Oil and Gas during a time of climate change and where investors are demanding companies and jurisdictions work to reach net zero.

Plus we ask him for his thoughts on the Alberta Pension Plan, the Carbon Tax & Nate Horner’s announcement he’s pursuing a retrofit subsidy for Albertans who want to switch from Natural Gas to…

Heating oil?

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After our weekly roundup, we always open our mic up to the "X Spaces" for people to share their thoughts on the show, the topics we cover and Alberta Politics in general!

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It's game on in the Alberta Legislature and we're back with another Alberta politics roundup in two parts!

In this back to session episode, we take a look at the throne speech, all of the bills that have been introduced so far and we try and make sense of their impact and what they mean for Albertans.

But if that wasn't enough...

This weekend also saw the UCP AGM, and we take a look at the policies that passed and try and make sense of the impact of what they mean for Albertans!

As always, we also hosted our open mic and you can find those conversations (with a surprise appearance from a former MLA!) in Part 2!

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