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The Breakdown With Nate Pike

Local Alberta Podcast about provincial and local politics and issues. Not journalists. #abpoli #albertapolitics Alberta Politics

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01:21:13

Episode 6.19 - The Edmonton Public School Advocacy...

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2024/03/16

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 over

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01:36:55

Episode 6.18 - Thomas Lukaszuk!

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2024/03/14

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,

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02:03:25

Episode 6.17 - March 10th, 2024 Alberta Politics...

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2024/03/11

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

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01:12:04

Episode 6.16 - Rakhi Pancholi!

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2024/03/09

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

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01:25:25

Episode 6.15 - Mythbusting Gender Affirming Care with...

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2024/03/07

There's been a lot of talk about Danielle Smith's proposed policies limiting access to gender affirming care, and we've talked a lot about statistics and studies here on the show when it comes to gender affirming care... But enough of the academia. We sat down with an ACTUAL physician in Alberta who provides gender affirming care to cut through all of the noise and the fearmongering to hear from someone who actually provides gender affirming care what is happening in Alberta, what the rules are, who

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00:32:09

Episode 6.14 - Kathleen Ganley!

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2024/02/29

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

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00:17:57

Dr. David Keegan

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2024/02/26

The section of our show where Dr. David Keegan called in to share the story of his nephews death by suicide because of Smith's policies is so important and heartbreaking we decided to release a version with a few minor technical difficulties removed.

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02:04:32

Episode 6.13 - Feb 25th, 2024 - Alberta Politics...

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2024/02/26

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

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00:55:45

Episode 6.12 - Marni Panas

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2024/02/22

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,

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01:29:47

Episode 6.11 - "Parental Rights" & a whole lot more...

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2024/02/19

On this episode we take a deep dive on the history or "Parental Rights" in Alberta and we further explore how Danielle Smith's new anti-trans, anti-choice, anti-expertise policies will affect all Albertans with Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, Dr. Kristopher Wells! 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

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00:50:02

Episode 6.10 - Sarah Hoffman!

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2024/02/13

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 adult

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01:10:01

Episode 6.09 - Dr. Duane Bratt Drops The Gloves

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2024/02/10

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

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01:56:14

Episode 6.08 - Fact checking the UCP Attack on Trans...

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2024/02/07

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.ca,

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01:13:15

Episode 6.07 - An Appeal To Reason with Pam Rocker!

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2024/02/03

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 merch

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01:00:47

Episode 6.06 - Dr. Duane Bratt!

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2024/02/01

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

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01:32:36

Episode 6.05 - Part 2 - Analysis with Sarah Biggs and...

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2024/01/30

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

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02:02:55

Episode 6.05 - "Tuckered Out" (January 28, 2023...

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2024/01/29

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

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01:08:32

Episode 6.04 - Euan Thomson & Drug Data Decoded!

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2024/01/25

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

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02:21:23

Episode 6.03 - January 21st, 2023 Alberta Politics...

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2024/01/22

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

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02:04:58

Episode 6.02 - January 14, 2024 Albertans Politics...

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2024/01/15

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

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