The Breakdown With Nate Pike

With education and charter rights under attack by the UCP, Albertans are finding whatever ways they can to fight back!

And this absolutely includes young Albertans!

In this episode we sit down with Kai and KT who are part of a group of students forming the "Alberta Students Association" to ensure that young Albertans have an organization to help them speak up for themselves, teachers and Alberta education!

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We're back with a live roundup of Alberta politics, and with the legislature back in session we have a LOT of ground to cover!

We start with a quick round up of protests in the Rockies, the ASIRT investigation into criminal harassment of former Minister and MLA Shannon Phillips that former UCP Justice Minister Kaycee Madu tried to make all about himself before we turn our attention to a roundup of all of the bills that have been...

With Danielle Smith and the UCP continuing to push ahead with a provincial police force that’s wildly unpopular, we wanted to have a conversation that cut through the noise and answered some basic questions!

Is there a benefit to an Alberta Provincial Police? Will it save money? Provide better service? Provide the same level of service?

Or is it all just a power grab?

To get to the bottom of it we sat down with two curren...

In this (delayed) episode we sit down with advocate, activist, academic and stand up comedian Victoria Bucholz, who also performs under that stage name Karla Marx!

Originally recorded right before the municipal elections, this conversation covers a boatload of topics, including those elections, the rise of neofascism, the nature of comedy and yup, we absolutely get into Charlie Kirk!

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It's our episode we recorded live in Calgary on October 25th and it's ALL about the notwithstanding clause!

We start off with a crash course on the notwithstanding clause, what Albertans need to know the UCP are going to be targeting with it and why their spin doesn't spin!

From there, we move to our panel discussion with political scientist Dr Duane Bratt, Associate Law Professor Lorian Hardcastle, ATA Local 38 ...

Is Canadian media being compromised by law fare?

Last week we took a look at the apparent attempts by Danielle Smith's former chief of staff Marshall Smith to remove an article from the Calgary Herald and the fact that the alleged pressure tactics worked!

Tonight, we're talking with activist and advocate Petra Schulz, who was one of the founders of the group "Mom's Stop the Harm" and her own efforts to create pressure and hol...

Is Canadian media being compromised by law fare?

On this special mini episode we take a look at how the story of how a column targeted by law fare by Danielle Smith's former chief of staff Marshall Smith was removed and ask some important questions about the integrity of the media than Albertans rely on to keep them well informed!

Our Calgary live show is coming up fast on October 25th! Get your tickets while you can at www.t...

With the “Forever Canadian” petition entering its last days for collecting signatures, a new petition has gotten a lot of attention because it’s calling for the end of Alberta’s practice of funding private education with public dollars!

We sat down with the proponent of the AB Funds Public Education petition, Alicia Taylor to learn more about what made her decide to launch this petition and just as importantly, how Albertans wh...

Evan Li was silenced at the Alberta Next Town Hall, but his question about education was an important one!

Rather than focus on the tantrums of the executive director for the premiers southern office, we wanted to hear from not only Evan but students from across the province on what their concerns are for education and what they want the government and teachers to hear from them!

Our Calgary live show is coming up fast on October 25t...

You don't want to miss this conversation with former Alberta Medical Association President and current Emergency Room Dr. Paul Parks!

Now that Dr. Parks is no longer in any official roles with any governing bodies, he joins us for this unleashed conversation on the state of Alberta healthcare, and not only does he not hold back, but we cover a lot of ground!

From the state of Emergency rooms to chartered surgical facilities to acces...

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!

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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!

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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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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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