Time for another Alberta Politics roundup!

Fundraising! Healthcare Restrictions Revelations (but not really)! Private Healthcare in Alberta! Healthcare/EMS Crisis! No New Renewables! The UCP on Substance Use/Houselesness! Stampede Scandals!

All this, our regular open mic and a whole lot more!

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Time for another Alberta Politics roundup!

On this episode we start by catching up with a missing MLA, before we take a look at the potential privatization of healthcare, the history of the lab services debacle before we do a deep dive on the recent settlement of the lawsuit where the Calgary Stampede admitted liability and negligence for decades of abuse, but for seemingly inexplicable reasons Danielle Smith seemed determined to soft pedal the Stampede's admitted responsibility.

All this and a whole lot more!

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We return for our first live recording in two weeks!

Donairs! Healthcare crisis! Management Opportunities in Alberta! And Alberta Pension Plan! Cronyism Contracts? Danielle Smith's Secret Council for the future of energy in Alberta! Our FOIP results for who runs Smith's Social Media and how many accounts has SMith blocked?

All this and a whole lot more!

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The conclusion to our conversation with Energi Media Founder Markham Hislop!

Markham has been reporting on Energy and the future of Energy for years following an entire career and lifetime in the energy industry, and in this conversation we go through Parts 1 & 2 of his “Unethical Oil” series! What’s the future of Oil and Gas in Alberta? What’s the future of bitumen? What’s going on with abandoned and orphan wells?

And why didn’t the NDP capitalize on Carbon Capture and Storage during the election?

All this and a whole lot more!

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We’ve got a conversation with Energi Media Founder Markham Hislop that’s so big we’re breaking it into two episodes over this week!

Markham has been reporting on Energy and the future of Energy for years following an entire lifetime and in the energy industry, and in this conversation we go through Parts 1 & 2 of his “Unethical Oil” series! What’s the future of Oil and Gas in Alberta? What’s the future of bitumen? What’s going on with abandoned and orphan wells?

And why didn’t the NDP capitalize on Carbon Capture and Storage during the election?

All this and a whole lot more!

Look for Part 2 Friday, July 21st at 8 PM MST!

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Crossover event!

In a special episode of The Breakdown, we sit down with the 905’er podcast from Ontario to discuss the state of politics, provincially and nationally, what Alberta’s future looks like and we re-litigate the 2023 Alberta provincial election!

(Note- this episode was recorded on June 16th when it appeared that the memo of the hiring and firing of Dr. Deena Hinshaw had been fabricated. That has since been proven to have happened, although the details of how it occurred remain unknown)

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Following the appalling comments by then UCP candidate Jennifer Johnson regarding trans kids, Jonathan and the Leduc Pride began trying to reach out to Johnson to try and not only educate her, but also to heal the community. Johnson hasn't committed to a time yet, but Jonathan isn't giving up and he took some time to share with us a bit of the progress he and Leduc Pride are making in their community!

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On this live episode of The Breakdown, we take a look as the anti-LGBTQs+ protests that are claiming to be protecting kids, but more and more it looks like they're weaponing them! From there we take a look at the BC Ports strike, the Preston Manning Report, the toxic supply crisis, the catastrophic drop in FIrst Nations life expectancy, before we get into Danielle Smith's recent interview with the Rebel and the retconning of her being found to break the law.

All this and we end up our round up with some of the wildest ABPoli tweets of the last week!

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We're excited to present a conversation with Executive Director for the Queer Alberta Safety Net William Conner!

The QASN started out as a grassroots facebook community providing mutual aid support for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and with the rise of hate targeting their community have made the decision to rise to the challenge! We chatted with Will to learn the history of the QASN and where they intend to go from here!

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On this episode of The Breakdown...

This week, Leduc made the news for all of the wrong reasons, and we try and put some proper context and apply some facts to the hate filled rants that came out of the Leduc CIty Council chamber.

Take Back Alberta also made the news with not a small amount of internal and external drama, the Hinshaw hiring and Un-hiring spent a lot of time in the news and in what likely comes as no surprise Alberta premier Danielle Smith made headlines with her outright rejection of harm reduction, so we take a look at what she said and what the evidence, and fact actually are!

All this and a whole lot more!

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