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It's a Charter of Rights and Freedoms heavy episode!

We're back with another Alberta Politics Roundup, and while we hit on the most recent events in Alberta Politics, we also have a deep dive on Danielle Smith's willingness to crush Charter rights using the notwithstanding clause as well as a deep dive on the recent developments in the "CorruptCare" scandal because what is going on with all of these different reports?

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More and more Albertans are realizing how important school board elections will be this year, so we sat down with a candidate from War A in Edmonton! Nicole Renaud is a mother and an advocate and we sat down with her to hear about why she's running, what she believes the biggest issues are and what her vision is for how to work with a province that is growing increasingly combative with school boards!

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Time for another Alberta Politics roundup with a special announcement and a scoop on how Invest Alberta is spending taxpayer dollars!

We start with a look at how Danielle SMith decided to use almost a billion dollars from a tobacco settlement and then we take a look at where the book bans are, the teachers strike, the HSAA union vote before we get to the big reveal we've been building up to all week!

How much did taxpayers mo...

An episode with a scoop!

We sit down with Public Interest Alberta Executive Director Bradley Lafortune to not only learn more about what PIA does, but also to get into the UCP changes to AISH, the UCP's book bans, the degradation of how government officials interact with the public and a whole lot more!

If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million lawsuit against us by Sam Mraiche, the...

Two former UCP MLA's have spent the last several months looking for a way to make a home for Progressive Conservatives in Alberta, but Danielle SMith and the UCP have tried to shut them down at almost every turn.

Last week though, the Alberta Party officially voted to rebrand as a Progressive Conservative option, and while the final version of the name has yet to be approved, we sat down with Current AP leader Lindsay Amantea to...

It's back to school and our Alberta Politics roundups are back too with a scorcher of an episode!

On this episode we deep dive into not only the massive self inflicted blowback on the UCP's book bans, we also git into the impending teachers strike, Alberta's constantly revising COVID Vaccine policy and the recent scandal with a UCP minister letting a hate preacher into the legislature for a special late night tour and impromptu ...

We did a thing!

On August 16th we did our first live show ever and went up to Edmonton to do it!

Not only that, but after we did a deep dive on the UCP's book bans, we had a panel discussion with Curriculum expert Dr. Carla Peck, ATA President Jason Schilling, Advocacy Leader Bradley Lafortune and the best voice in Alberta Politics TikTok Lisa B!

But we didn't stop there!

We also sat down with former Deputy Premier Thom...

You asked for it, you got it!

With Dr Bratt laying out an exceptional argument for how relevant the federal byelection is in Battle River - Crowfoot is to Alberta Politics on our last episode, we sat down with Independent candidate Bonnie Critchley to learn more about who she is, why she's running and a whole lot more!

Separatism! The Alberta Next Panels! Gun Laws!

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Thor and Tractor subscriptions!

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It's time to bring in an expert!

Summer is usually a time for Alberta Politics to slow down, but this summer is definitely an exception! With Danielle Smith launching her Alberta Next panel, the PC Party relaunching, legal actions left right and center and federal politics invading the provincial scene, we sat down with Political Scientist Dr. Duane Bratt to try and make sense of it all!

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The town of Jasper just released a report on the wildfire that burned down almost a third of the town, but Danielle Smith isn't having any of it!

With the report informed by the on the ground debriefings of firefighters and emergency management team members, there's plenty of things to improve on with future responses, but the concern that the the province making demands delayed decisions during the response has Danielle Smith tryin...

*Editors note - The Audio on the first 4 minutes is a little wonky, it gets better though, don't worry!

It's been two weeks since our last Alberta Politics Roundup so there's a lot to catch up on!

We start with a look at the recent changes to AISH before we catch up on what's going on with water in Alberta, take a look at Premier Danielle Smith's weaponization of immigration, the Alberta Next Panel, the new (ish?) PC Party, books ban...

With the UCP Government rolling out its wide reaching book ban policy, we're presenting a special mashup of our coverage up until the ban was fully revealed.

This includes the June 1st segment addressing the underlying issues behind the bans and how they're almost certainly going to cause harm AND the June 22nd segment with our FOIP that revealed that the UCP not only used American and religious book ban lists to inform their polic...

Let's talk separatism!

Or rather, let's talk about the fight against separatism with the man leading the charge to ensure that Alberta remains in Canada, Thomas, Lukaszuk!

With the recent approval of his referendum petition question, we sat down with Thomas to get the inside story on why he decided to bring the referendum question forward and what’s next!

But we don’t stop there, because the separatism question really open...

This episode is a very, very special episode!

With relations between the government of Alberta and First Nations at an arguable low with Treaty Chiefs expressing deep frustration and hurt from the way that the province is treating First Nations and the Treaties, we are extremely excited to present this extremely important conversation with Mi'kmaq poet Rebecca Thomas!

We are extremely grateful to finally make this conversation a rea...

We're back after two weeks and on this Alberta Politics Roundup we have a lot to catch up on! We start off with a look at Danielle Smith and the UCP's very bad day in Fort Macleod before we take a look at the changes to seniors drug coverage and COVID vaccination coverage that were quietly introduced over the last few days.

From there we do a deep dive in Dani's health care restructuring before be talk about our recent FOIP result o...

On this Alberta Politics Roundup we're taking a look at the by-elections, the latest in the corrupt care scandal, the UCP's new book ban and the latest very wild episode of "Your Province, Your Premier"!

If you're able to support our legal defense fund to fight back against the $6 Million lawsuit against us by Sam Mraiche, the man who imported Vanch masks and the Turkish Tylenot as well as who hosted MLA's and Ministers in his skybo...

Time for another look at the biggest political scandal in Alberta's history!

That Danielle Smith effectively threw $80 million down the drain in an attempt to own the feds by trying to buy childrens medication is largely a matter of public record.

But it's the story beneath the surface that begins to show the real problems.

There's been a lot of speculation as to who did what and when, but in this episode we are able to f...

Time for another Alberta politics roundup!

UCP Travel! Another by election on the way! Abortion debate returns!

Plus we do a deep dive on the incredible fallout from the UCP's Bill 54 and their sweeping changes to the fabric of democracy in Alberta as well as how it has re-opened the door for separatism in Alberta.

Plus the return of our Speakers Corner!

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Almost 2 years ago we did a deep dive on the Western Standard and where they get their funding from, despite claims they accept no government funding whatsoever.

As we finally got our FOIP results back after involvement from the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, this is a follow up on the 100's of thousands of taxpayer dollars that the Western Standard has recieved from Danielle Smith's government!

And on th...