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Podcast. Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF.
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UCP AGM is off to a great start
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
No conservative Premier of Alberta has successfully completed a 4-year term since Ralph Klein in 2006.
Danielle Smith tried to sell her federal-Alberta energy deal to the UCP convention crowd: tepid applause.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.

This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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If you think you're playing 4D chess, you're probably not playing chess right and I'm not going to invite you to play chess anymore.
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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A handful of political economists and Parkland Institute researchers have been trying for decades to inform Albertans about how their interests --and those of Indigenous peoples--have been trampled by the oil sands majors, abetted by captured governments.2/
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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.

But at least we'll have a strong economy.
The new Canada-Alberta MOU is a positive step for our energy future.

Meaningful investments in Pathways, clear measures to reduce emissions, and a stronger industrial carbon price give Albertans the certainty we need to move forward. /1
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Senior economist w/ @policyalternatives.ca, @marclee.bsky.social, said the whole debate over interprovincial trade is simply political posturing so that provinces and the federal government can seem like they are doing something to respond to Trump’s tariffs. #cdnecon theprovince.com/news/will-ne...
Will new deal between provinces on interprovincial trade actually help Canada's economy?
The agreement is designed to provide mutual recognition for products like clothing, toys and vehicles but doesn't address barriers on food.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Fantastic episode. Keep up the good work!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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AHS Nursing Care have served strike notice.

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AHS Nursing Care: We have served strike notice
Bargaining update for Locals 041, 043, 044, 045, and 046, Alberta Health Services Nursing Care
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November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 the team situate the federal budget in the current political moment, unpack what it means & ask how the "elbows-up", nation building rhetoric Carney campaigned on could actually have been implemented in Budget 2025

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Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the …
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In this ep we make the point that you can never have a budget as harsh as 1995 again unless you rebuild the welfare state first, which we haven't done.

But I think I'm going to be mumbling the phrase "Minister Champagne is repealing the yacht tax" to myself for a while. 🍾
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Danielle Smith's Alberta government has announced that they will use the Notwithstanding Clause to protect three laws (all targeting trans people) from court challenges.

NEW from me in @xtramagazine.com on the lies they're using to justify such a massive move ⬇️

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The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾 the team look at how organized labour in Alberta is responding to an existential threat as the province’s teachers are ordered back to work by Danielle Smith’s UCP.

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Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
Alberta’s teachers have been ordered back to work, and their right to strike, collectively bargain, or even present a legal challenge have been stripped away by Danielle Smith’s UCP. Ho…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I've been looking forward to this!!

#ABEd #ABLeg #ABPoli #AlbertaTeachers
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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you should, genuinely, text resist to 55255, but the stern criticism in this episode is very correct. alberta labour seems to have been very unprepared for something that was obviously coming for years
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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No punches pulled in this analysis of the presently-disappointing response to the strike-breaking Bill 2.
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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The resistance is going to be texted. Enjoy our rant!
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
NEW EP: Escape from the Planet of the Mines: Canada's Resource Imperialism
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October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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On ep84 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show

➡️ @srslywrong.bsky.social on why rent control's good, actually
➡️ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social on a Waffle-aligned takeover of the 1971 New Brunswick NDP
➡️ + more

www.spreaker.com/episode/ep84... 🔶
September 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM