On this episode of The Breakdown we try and take a look at why seniors homes across Canada have been hit so hard with Covid 19, we break down the provinces response to the challenges affecting Alberta’s homeless population as well as the tremendous amounts of criticism that have been levelled at the province and the Minister of Community and social services, we thank paramedics, we take a look at domestic violence in the time of #stayathome, and we breakdown even more of the scandals and Shantic...
May 03, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 6
It’s extremely hard for any sort of collaboration between two groups when one group holds all the power and can unilaterally change the rules of their partnership. And yet, since the introduction of Bill 21that’s exactly what the UCP government has done with physicians in Alberta. The UCP has repeatedly said that their goal is to reduce costs, but they have continuously tried to make systemic changes to how health care is administered in our province. On the other side, physicians have repeatedl...
Apr 30, 2020•21 min
On this special podcast version of The Breakdown, we are proud and excited to share a conversation with Founder and CEO of “Be The Change YYC”, Chaz Smith. As the expression goes, the measure of any society is how they take care of their most vulnerable. There’s no question that some of the most vulnerable Albertans are the ones who survive on the streets. The number of homeless Albertans in our province continues to grow, and their vulnerability has only increased during the Pandemic. As part o...
Apr 18, 2020•39 min
On this special audio only version of The Breakdown, we sit down with Alberta Liberal Party Leader and practicing constitutional lawyer, David Khan to discuss the implications of the significant powers that the UCP granted themselves under Bill 10. In our conversation, we discuss the serious lack of legislative oversight with Bill 10, the UCP’s war on physicians and the fact that Alberta physicians are currently launching a lawsuit against the government for their mishandling of healthcare (all ...
Apr 14, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 51
We’re back! It took us a while to find out footing but. On this episode we have two deep dives! We do our best to break down a bit of Covid 19, bust some Covid myths and then do our second deep dive into the whole Tyler SHandro debacle. As an added bonus we’ll be following up this episode with two more mini episodes over the next week, so look forward to that too!
Apr 10, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 5
On this episode we Breakdown the Teck cancellation, the provincial budget, some of it’s serious cuts that will affect a lot of Albertans, the SCS review, an interview with Dr. Jillian Ratti, protests across the province, bad social media from political parties and so, so much more! We even have the Calgary Raging Grannies on as special guests to try and offer a little help resetting the moral compasses of a few press secretaries. As always, please consider visiting our patreon page at www.patreo...
Mar 18, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
On this extended edition of The Breakdown we take a look at the Teck Frontier mining project, the recent alarming changes to the AISH schedule, catch up on some of the embarrassing recent missteps from the Alberta Party and for our deep dive we sit down with Stoney Nakoda elder Rachel Snow to try and get some better context on the Wet'suwet'en crisis and the state of First Nation relations in Canada. We know that this is a much longer episode than normal, but the interview with Rachel is somethi...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 3
On our second episode of 2020, we’re taking a look at the back and forth that happened surround the apparent removal/then not removal of water and tissues for people testifying in the Alberta Court System, and then we have two deep dives this episode! The first is on what happens when smaller oil and gas companies start to fail, who picks up the tab for their back rent and taxes, and then most alarmingly what is going on with the increasingly overlook problem of orphan wells. Our second deep div...
Jan 28, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 2
On our first episode of the new year, we have an interview with the current Acting Leader of the Alberta Party, we take a look at the recent news about the Rutherford Scholarship from last summer (hint: it wasn’t an IT problem) and we break down the incredible (and it really is incredible) list of missteps of the UCP War Room (the Canadian Energy Centre) and ask the fundamental question, are Albertans getting what they’re paying for in the War Room or is this the UCP version of the Redford Sky P...
Jan 15, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Our last episode of the year! For our year end wrap up we drove up to the Alberta Legislature to cover off a few of the major stories of the last few weeks. On this episode, we break down the firing of the election commissioner, surging domestic violence in our province and the problem with the UCP government deciding not to keep an eye on Alberta’s growing classroom sizes! Plus we have a holiday sized reel at the end! For the supplemental podcast, you can listen at https://anchor.fm/the-breakdo...
Dec 30, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 11
The UCP Government has decided to discontinue monitoring class sizes across our province. We sat down with Sean Dunn from Support Our Students to break down how this happened and what it means for the future of Alberta Education.
Dec 20, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 11
With the new High School for North Calgary finally approved, this is our last episode in the empty field! With the new provincial budget cutting deep, we take a look at its effects on first responders and AISH recipients. We also do a deep dive on Wexit and we have a rebuttal to several key Wexit platforms and beliefs by constitutional lawyer David Khan!
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Here’s our full segment from Episode 9 on Canada Action where we go through how they’re very much more than they seem and how they have some pretty established ties to the UCP.
Nov 17, 2019•14 min
We sat down with Constitutional Lawyer David Khan to try and Breakdown what Brexit is about and the many, many obstacles that it faces.
Nov 17, 2019•28 min
