On our weekly live episode, we go through our top 5 Alberta politics stories of the last week! Health care system in crisis, profanity in the legislature, rampant cronyism and more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating an...
May 02, 2022•31 min•Season 4Ep. 12
On our weekly Live at The Space Bar, we go through our top 5 (totally subjective) Alberta politics stories of the week! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and don’t forget to like and follow us on facebook, twitter and ...
Apr 25, 2022•35 min
On April 19th we made a joke some people didn’t like about a public figure… Some folks decided that they needed to tell us what we’re allowed to joke about. Nate has some words for them.
Apr 21, 2022•28 min
On our Easter holiday Live at the Space Bar, we take a look at what’s causing the availability shortage of COVID tests, Adriana Lagrange’s recent CRT fumble, the Pierre Poilievre tour in Alberta and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider ...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Ever since the UCP were elected, it seems that politics has moved at such a fast speed it’s almost impossible to keep up with it all. But in order to understand just how much really, terrible stuff the UCP are willing to overlook in their pursuit of power, it helps to go back once in a while to recalibrate. That’s why this week, we’re taking a look at the continued rise of Tyler Shandro despite a staggering number of scandals and failures of character in an episode we’re calling, “The Trouble Wi...
Apr 16, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 11
On this weeks Live at The Space Bar, we recap the UCP SGM launch and PR specialist/Politico Sarah Biggs helps us make sense of the messaging that went into the event and into Jason Kenney’s deeply polarizing speech to his membership! Plus, things get extra heated towards the end as we get into some of the UCP’s more offensive messaging from the week! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly suppor...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min
With the sudden firing of AHS CEO and President Verna Yiu at a time when Alberta is heading into what many are calling a 6th wave of COVID, we sat down to try and untangle the incredible complex political factors that brought us to where we are and what this sudden move might mean for the future of Alberta in the short and long term. As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreo...
Apr 05, 2022•45 min
On this weeks extra spicy live, we have a whole lot of ground to cover! With the help of Sarah Biggs, we break down Jason Kenney’s new fascination with memes, we get into the speed bumps for both the NDP and the UCP on carbon pricing, catch up on the MANY updates on Jason Kenney’s leadership review, the worsening decorum in the legislature, rising COVID numbers and more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing u...
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 18 min
With nominations ramping up for the next provincial election, so it seems, does the controversy and scandal that comes with them. Recently, a challenger to UCP minister Jason Nixon in the nomination race for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre put their name forward and after a campaign that was showing significant momentum was abruptly disqualified. Tim Hoven is no stranger to politics either. Having already served at the municipal level, there were a lot of questions raised when he was suddenly...
Mar 30, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 10
It’s a supersized weekly Live at the Space Bar! This week we have a boatload of surprise guests! The one and only Jeremy Klaszus from the Sprawl! Ex-UCP Press Secretary Payman Parseyan! And we break down the NDP and the failed confidence vote, the innumerable scandals swirling around Jason Kenney and the UCP’s leadership review, including some late breaking scandals involving “voting irregularities”, the latest in the Thomas Dang white hat hacking, the continued erosion of healthcare in Alberta ...
Mar 28, 2022•2 hr
On our regular weekly Live at the Space Bar, we take on ⁃ The Kenney Leadership Pusch, stolen polls, Brian Jean saying that he would have brought Rachel Notley into the COVID response decision making process, Kenney invoking Russia in his legal defense, the difference between Ammolite and Ammonite and the province wide “Ditch the draft” protest scheduled for April 2! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 13 min
With Brain Jean having handily won his byelection, we held a special byelection Live At The Space Bar to try and sort through the not only the low turnout but also the incredibly differences in votes between the parties and their candidates! As an added surprise, we also got to have a surprise chat with disqualified (under what is, at the very least hypocritical reasons given the circumstances) UCP nomination hopeful Tim Hoven! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying t...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 2 min
With the UCP continuing to push through a curriculum that only 5% of teachers view positively and that many curriculum experts have panned as dangerous and harmful, grassroots groups across the province are banding together to raise awareness and to try and fight back. One of the ways that they’re doing this is through is through a province wide protest and rally on April 2nd. To learn more about the how and why of this rally, we sat down again with organizer and activist, psychologist Dr. Angel...
Mar 16, 2022•47 min•Season 4Ep. 9
On our regular weekly Live at the Space Bar with politico Sarah Biggs, we take on the new “Jason Kenney Power Hour” and it’s assorted abuses of power and falsehoods, the continued misbehaviour of Shane Getson, the disqualification of UCP nomination candidates Jodie Gateman & Tim Hoven DQ, proposed healthcare wage cutbacks, the pipeline pipedream of KXL and we get into the province wide “Ditch the draft” protest scheduled for April 2! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’r...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 18 min
On our new episode, we’re taking a look at the wild world of “Freedom Convoy” finances! You may recall that after raising millions on Gofundme, convoy organizers were forced to move their fundraising efforts to Christian platform, GiveSendGo. Problem was, GiveSendGo didn’t take the appropriate measures to ensure that the “private” data of donors was kept private and it was leaked out to the internet! Chad Ohman has spent the last several weeks going through that data and comparing it to the dona...
Mar 09, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 8
On our regular weekly Live at the Space Bar, we take on the continued efforts by the UCP to silence their critics, the rise of the right against the right, the prospects of an early election, the ongoing EMS crisis and a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podca...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min
On a supersized episode, we try and tackle the major events of the week, and it’s been a busy one! With a throne speech, a cabinet shuffle that sees Kaycee Madu remain in cabinet despite the findings that he attempted to interfere in the administration of justice and a new justice minister who is under investigation from the law society with pending hearings, Tyler Shandro, plus a throne speech, a new budget and ongoing scandal with the NDP in Calgary Bow, there’s no shortage of things to break ...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Another busy week in Alberta Politics, and Sarah and Nate are here to try and break things down! With yet another week of significant scandals plaguing Jason Kenney and the UCP, Jason Kenney was lashing out at pretty much everyone this week. We take a look at some of the things that Kenney decided to try and make targets out of plus a whole lot more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly suppor...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min
With the Emergency Act being invoked, UCP MLA’s sharing hate group memes and a whole lot more going on in the last couple of days we knew we had to do another emergency episode! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a rating and do...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 6 min
With a provincial conservatives in Alberta heading into a leadership review and the federal conservative leadership imploding, we sat down with Jennifer Sanford from the Conservative Like Me podcast to try and get a sense as to what is going on and what is driving these events. This is a pretty spicy and at times challenging episode, but the greater themes that we get into towards the end make it worth it! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The ...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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Feb 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min
If the announcement that Alberta is rolling back restrictions effective at midnight wasn’t enough to necessitate an Emergency Episode, Jason Kenney’s shocking comments about AIDS victims and the need to eliminate calling some protestors racist definitely were. Sarah and Nate got together to unpack what was quite possibly Jason Kenner’s most shocking press conference to date! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signi...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 11 min
With so much going on in provincial politics (and frankly, federal politics), it’s easy for ongoing issues to fall through the cracks. Recently, the province began an “engagement” process to get feedback from Alberta’s on the extremely controversial curriculum draft. To get a better understanding of what that process has looked like and whether or not participants feel like their feedback will have any weight, we reconnected with some folks from the Alberta’s Reject Curriculum Draft advocacy gro...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 4Ep. 6
On this weeks Live Twitter event, Nate & Sarah broke down the week in Alberta politics with a particular focus on the events surrounding the border blockades and the UCP’s caving to the demands of people who fit the definition of terrorists under the Canadian Criminal Code. As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re l...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min
This week we sit down with Barry Morishita, the new leader of the Alberta Party! We get into Barry’s political history, get his (and the Alberta Party’s) positions on SCS, the new curriculum, Safe supply, a provincial police force an a whole lot more! (Plus we’re especially proud of the intro) As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab,...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 5
This weeks live event comes on the heels of a dark weekend for Canada. A protest convoy arrived in Ottawa and caused all kinds of havoc, including the desecration of multiple war memorials, the Terry Fox memorial, shut down a vigil to observe the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting, assaulted a homeless man after coercing a soup kitchen to give them food and a whole lot more. We try and sort through these events and at the same time try and make sure a boatload of events in Alberta (includ...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Alberta politics is never without controversy, but one of the most unexpected political controversies in recent memory has to do journalist Wyatt Sharpe. Wyatt is a 12 year old from Ontario who hosts “The Wyatt Sharpe Show” and his list of interview subjects and contributions to journalism in Canada really shouldn’t be underestimated. Nonetheless, when he began calling in to UCP press conferences and asking some very hard hitting question, people on all sides of the political spectrum expressed ...
Jan 26, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 4
On this weeks Live Twitter event, Nate & Sarah broke down the week in Alberta politics and possible rationale for the recent explosion in dig whistle commas we’ve seen form the UCP. Plus, Madu Monday! COVID! Testing kits missing pieces! And so much more! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at our patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab, and if you’re listening to the audi...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min
While many have been paying close attention to the Bills that the UCP are passing, it’s equally important to pay attention to the ones they have failed to pass. Bill 220 is a bill that would legislate that parents who experience the loss of a child through miscarriage or stillbirth have the right to take three unpaid days from work, and it’s in danger of falling through the cracks. To learn more, we sat down with Founder and CEO of the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Dupport Centre, for a very challen...
Jan 19, 2022•52 min•Season 4Ep. 3
On our weekly live Breakdown of the week in Alberta Politics, PR specialist and politico Sarah Biggs helps us navigate the big political stories of the last week and this one is a spicy week! The new legislative session has been announced, and with it, there have been some bills that have now fallen through the cracks, not the least of which is Bill 220 which supports grieving parents of miscarried and stillborn children, and Sarah Biggs helps us make sense of how this happened and what we can d...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 9 min
