We're continuing in our efforts to interview all the ecandidates for the NDP Leadership Race and we're very excited to present this conversation with Naheed Nenshi! We cover housing, energy, affordable housing, Grassy Mountain, renewables, and a whole lot more in this episode! Don't forget, we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a cold weather lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signi...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 20
In this episode, we're talking education with members of the Edmonton Public School Advocacy Network, Nancy Hunt, Jodi McDonald, Nancy Kirkpatrick! The UCP government introduced their new budget recently, and that's budget sees funding for private schools and early childhood centres increasing at four times the rate of public K-12 spending, the EPSAN is raising the alarm about how this budget doesn't begin to address the current situation and how the projections show decreases in funding year ov...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 19
In this episode we're addressing the rumors surrounding former MLA, Minister and Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuks alleged entry to the NDP Leadership race, But wait, there's more! We also cover the RCMP investigation into the UCP Leadership race, the provincial budget, TBA and a whole lot more! Don't forget, we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a cold weather lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, plea...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Season 6Ep. 18
We're back for another roundup of Alberta Politics and the last week has given us a lot of big events to talk about! We start by getting into the bizarre state of counselling as a profession in Alberta before we take a look at the RCMP investigation into the 2017 UCP Leadership Race, Danielle Smith's bizarre take on Pharmacare and we end with a deep dive on the state of coal mining in Alberta, particularly the proposed Grassy Mountain Mine that the UCP is inexplicably pushing through! Don't forg...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 17
We're continuing on with our series with NDP leadership candidates with a conversation with current MLA and NDP Leadership Candidate, Rakhi Pancholi! As with all of our conversations so far, we get into her vision for the Alberta NDP going into the future, her position on the relationship with the federal NDP, safe supply, the carbon tax and a whole lot more (including an Oregano scandal?) Don't forget, we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a cold weather lineup! As alwa...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 16
We're continuing on with our series with NDP leadership candidates with a conversation with former Justice Minister, Current MLA and Current NDP Leadership Candidate, Kathleen Ganley! As with all of our conversations so far, we get into her vision for the Alberta NDP going into the future, her position on the relationship with the federal NDP, safe supply, the carbon tax and a whole lot more! Don't forget, we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a cold weather lineup! As a...
Mar 03, 2025•32 min•Season 6Ep. 14
This is probably our most important episode of The Breakdown ever. We're back for our regular live round up of Alberta Politics, including the announcement of the fact Alberta intends to opt out of the new national Pharmacare program, the multiple environmental disasters that the province is inevitably facing, Smith's recent provincial address and her newest episode of "Your Province, Your Premier". But it's the call in from Alberta Physician Dr. David Keegan on the loss of his trans nephew to s...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 13
For episode 6.12, we’re proud to present this heartfelt conversation with Marni Panas! Marni is an advocate, a leader and a whole lot more, and she generously joins us to share her perspective on how Smith's anti-human rights policies already have and will continue to cause very real harm to the trans community. And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, ple...
Mar 03, 2025•56 min•Season 6Ep. 12
With 3 official candidates for the NDP Leadership race having announced their intention to become the next leader of the NDP, we're very excited to present our first conversation with one of them! Sarah Hoffman has been a multi-term MLA, deputy premier and Minister of Health during the NDP's time in government. She joins us in this episode for a conversation on what she sees as the future of the NDP, her position on a carbon tax, healthcare, housing Danielle Smith's assault on trans kids and adu...
Mar 03, 2025•50 min•Season 6Ep. 10
After Danielle Smith announced on her radio show on January 27th that she would be introducing some gender and pronoun policies, Political Scientist Dr. Duane Bratt joined us to try and make sense of what she was saying. No one was prepared for what she actually announced though. So a week later, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Bratt to the show for an in depth conversation on Smith's policies and he has dropped the gloves and pulls no punches in this not to be missed episode! And we now have merc...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Danielle Smith and the UCP have launched a series of policies attacking trans kids, the LGBTQ2S+ community, parents ability to choose medical procedures with and for their kids, teachers and the education system and the entire medical community. In this episode we fact check Dani from her launch video to several press conferences, and it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that what Dani says this about isn't at ALL what it's actually about. And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.c...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 56 min•Season 6Ep. 8
With the devastating news from the provincial government of their new policies targeting trans kids and minors ability to access healthcare, we wanted to have a conversation with someone who could bring some humanity to the conversation as soon as possible! Pam Rocker is a SUPER gay advocate, presenter, writer poet and a whole lot more! We are super excited to present this conversation that brings some much needed empathy and compassion to a subject that desperately needs it. And we now have mer...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Dr. Bratt is a professor of Political Science at Mount Royal University and he joins us for a conversation on the state of affairs in Alberta Politics! We start by taking a look at the potential political implications of Danielle Smith's recent appearance with Tucker Carlson before we pivot to the NDP leadership race and Danielle Smith's announcement that the UCP will be introducing legislation on "parents rights" with an announcement coming this week! And we now have merch that's available at w...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Another episode so big we had to split it into two parts! In this special Part 2, we sit down with politico and strategist Sarah Biggs to try and make sense of some of the choices that were made in Alberta Politics in the last week before we open it up to our open mic! And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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 support...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Another episode so big we had to split it into two parts! In this first part, we take a look at a few of the weeks bigger Alberta Politics events before we do a complete deep dive/fact check on Tucker Carlsons recent speeches in Calgary and Edmonton! (And there's a LOT to fact check!) In the process we end up fact checking a lot of Smith's recent claims as well, and theres more than a few inaccuracies in there was well! Look for Part two where we bring in Politico and Strategist Sarah Biggs to h...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 5
With Edmonton cracking down on homeless encampments and teaming up with the province to create a processing centre, as well as the UCP ignoring the overwhelming evidence that supports harm reduction, we sat down with Euan Thomson from DrugDataDecoded.ca to try to make sense of these issues as well as address safe supply, supervised consumption sites and Danielle Smith's upcoming forced treatment! And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if you ...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Time for another Alberta Poliotics Roundup! This week We're talking about the oil and gas liability facing Albertans, policing in Alberta, homeless and houselessness encampments, Tucker Carlson, Rachel Notley's resignation and more! And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Time for another Alberta Poliotics Roundup! This week We're talking about the ongoing healthcare crisis, especially in EMS and in Red Deer, the infamous Tylenot Childrens Medication scandal that just keep getting worse, Fracking and the Brazeau Damn plus we go through our latest FOIP results! And we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! As always, if you appreciate the kind of content that we’re trying to produce here at The Breakdown, please consider signing...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 2
An update form the show.
Feb 17, 2025•7 min
Betcha didn't see this coming! (we sure didn't) With Alberta rolling back human rights and access to abortion increasingly on the table, we sat down with Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Federal NDP MP Leah Gazan to hear what the federal NDP are planning to try and ensure that access to healthcare doesn't fall victim to the agenda of social regressives! Don't forget, we have merch that's available at https://www.abpoli.ca/category/the-breakdown-ab ! As always, if you appreciate the kind of c...
Nov 04, 2024•21 min•Season 6Ep. 65
Time for another Alberta Politics roundup! On this episode we take a look at the saga of the anonymous letter to the UCP alleging conflict of interest in the halls of Edmonton CIty Hall, Danielle Smiths 2nd (!) $2 million COVID panel, the recent appointment of one of Danielle Smith's mentors to the Alberta Energy Regulator before we do a deep dive on what some are arguing is the most Un democratic and even authoritarian piece of legislation to come out of the Smith government yet, Bill 20! Plus ...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 6Ep. 29
We’re back! And we’re kicking off the new year by asking what it even means to be conservative or progressive in the province of Alberta anymore! We take a look at Danielle Smiths track record, her year and comments and we deconstruct her appearance on the “program” Alberta Update that’s run by UCP staff and paid for by taxpayers and we measure that against the definition of conservative! But the NDP don’t get a pass in this episode either as we take a look at their frenzy around the changes to ...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 6Ep. 1
We're rounding the year off by revisiting our top 10 episode of 2023 (in no particular order). Guy Felicella spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail. He spent nearly twenty years residing in a two-block radius in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. Miraculously, with sheer determination and the help of others through harm reduction and recovery, Guy managed to survive the HIV/AIDS crisis in the DTES, two decades of being homeless, multiple life-threaten...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 93
We're rounding the year off by revisiting our top 10 episode of 2023 (in no particular order). David Gray is someone with extensive knowledge of Alberta's electricity system, and he sat down with us to explain why Alberta's electricity prices went through the roof this year! He also has a long history in Alberta Politics and provided some historical insight on Danielle Smith's somewhat duplicitous approach to politics! We'll be dropping our top 10 most popular episodes over the next two weeks, s...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 92
We're rounding the year off by revisiting our top 10 episode of 2023 (in no particular order). Collin May is a highly educated lawyer who made the news in 2022 when he was appointed to be the chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, but that was only the start of his media coverage… Later that year, an academic book review he provided was portrayed as being Islamophobic by some and racist by others. Collin was eventually fired from his position by the government and has since initiated mult...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 5Ep. 91
We're rounding the year off by revisiting our top 10 episode of 2023 (in no particular order). Back in May we sat down with legendary broadcaster and commentator Charles Adler! We covered a lot of ground in our chat, starting with his history in media, his shock at where Alberta "conservatism" has gone, his endorsement of Rachel Notley and his historic interview with Jason Kenny during the 2019 election! We'll be dropping our top 10 most popular episodes over the next two weeks, so stay tuned! P...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 90
We're rounding the year off by revisiting our top 10 episode of 2023 (in no particular order). To kick things off, we're reaching back to May of 2023 with our election kickoff episode! We'll be dropping our top 10 most popular episodes over the next two weeks, so stay tuned! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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 ...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 89
Here's the call in section from our Dec 3rd, 2023 Alberta Politics Roundup! We get into the housing crisis, long COVID, the healthcare crisis, the Alberta Pension, the lifting of gift limitations for MLA's and a whole lot more! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 5Ep. 89
We're back for another weekly Alberta Politics roundup! On our last live show of 2023, we try and debunk some of the myths that are being spun on th carbon tax, we take a look at the bizarre meeting Adriana Lagrange had this last week leading to two rants on naturopaths and the Alberta Paramedic Association! From there, we take a look at the new federal emissions caps on oil and gas before we break down the new (and somewhat revealing) developments on the Alberta Pension Plan! Make sure to look ...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 88
Here's the call in section from our Dec 3rd, 2023 Alberta Politics Roundup, with a special surprise appearance from a former 2 term MLA! Plus we now have merch that's available at www.abpoli.ca, including a fall lineup! 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. If you’re listening to the audio version of our podcast, please consider l...
Dec 05, 2023•47 min
