Deirdre joins The Forgotten Corner this week to discuss a wide range of topics, from her life growing up in Alberta to her foray into journalism. Deirdre candidly speaks about her past endeavours and talks about how they shaped the journalist she is today. She discusses her venture into podcasting and the new segment on her show called Women in #ABpoli.

In a first for the Forgotten Corner, we open up the proverbial mailbag and answer listener questions.

In a shift away from Alberta politics, The Forgotten Corner crew welcomes Dr. Roberta Lexier this week to talk about the gong show that is the U.S. election. At the time of recording, it had been 24 hours since the polls closed and there was still no winner declared.

In part two of our interview with Thomas Lukaszuk, the longtime Progressive Conservative MLA, cabinet minister and former Deputy Premier looks back at some of the portfolios he oversaw, the hard decisions he had to implement, some of the regrets that he has and the responsibility he feels, in hindsight, for the consequences of governing.

In part one of our interview with Thomas Lukaszuk, we look back on his early life in Canada as a Polish immigrant escaping a dictatorship, through to his happenstance foray into the world of politics. Thomas takes listeners through the events that led to his first time on a ballot, the circumstances behind his 2004 three-vote victory, how he landed his first role in cabinet and what it was like to balance and compromise his way through several portfolios.

Grace Wark is a conservation specialist with the Alberta Wilderness Association, a Calgary-based, non-partisan, non-profit group devoted to promoting community care of wildlife and wilderness. She joins The Forgotten Corner this week to offer expertise into the impact that park closures of this magnitude will have.

The Forgotten Corner is pleased to welcome Marie Renaud to the show this week, where she tells listeners the story of how she came from growing up in Quebec to sitting in the legislature in Edmonton, as well as her thoughts on what this current government is doing to those in this province that need help more than anyone else.

Hatters Ryan Oscar, Damyan Davis and Rick Armstrong join us to open up about their personal struggles in an effort to show those who are currently struggling that they are not alone. It is only through frank discussion of the issue at hand that we can even begin to address this crisis.

In an episode where we almost assuredly skirt the line on what is appropriate to suggest about Alberta’s current leader, The Forgotten Corner asks a few hard questions about the human qualities a true leader should have.

The Forgotten Corner welcomes AFL president Gil McGowan to the show this week for a spirited conversation about what the province’s workforce faces from its own government in the coming months and years. Gil is a born-and-raised Albertan who caught the bug for journalism in his youth but was quickly scooped up by the labour movement, and is now in his eighth elected term at the helm of the province’s labour umbrella.