Danielle Smith
1,643 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsDanielle Smith's background as former leader of the Wildrose Party makes her ideally suited to deliver this unique show that is much more than just politics.
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Federal Ethics Commissioner investigates Trudeau's ties to WE Charity
July 06, 2020 16:57 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBGuest MP Michael Barrett, Conservative Shadow Minister for Ethics
Insurance company drops Trans Mountain pipeline coverage citing climate change
July 06, 2020 16:41 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBGuest Dave Yager, Energy policy analyst, oil & gas writer, and author of the book, From Miracle to Menace: Alberta, A Carbon Story
Documents delivered to the US Embassy to investigate Trudeau
July 03, 2020 19:16 - 10 minutes - 9.98 MBGuest Norman Traversy, retired firefighter from Ontario who has started a movement with Justice for Canada
Reaction to the Financial Task Force Report
July 03, 2020 19:16 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBGuest Marcel LaTouche, President & CEO of The Institute for Public Sector Accountability
“Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All”
July 03, 2020 17:13 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBGuest Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and president of Environmental Progress, an independent research and policy organization
Canada’s forest management practices
July 03, 2020 16:18 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBGuest Devin Dreeshen, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Today’s Show: Financial Task Force Recommendations, immigration curtailment, COVID anti8-body testing, and Innovation Employment Grant
July 02, 2020 19:21 - 2 hours - 113 MBGuests: Jyoti Gondek, Ward 3 Councillor, Raj Sharma, Calgary immigration lawyer, Mike Kuzmickas, President of Ichor Blood Services, and Terry Rock, Platform Calgary CEO and co-chair of the Alberta Innovation
Innovation Employment Grant
July 02, 2020 18:18 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBGuest Terry Rock is Platform Calgary CEO and co-chair of the Alberta Innovation
COVID anti-body testing
July 02, 2020 18:17 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBGuest Mike Kuzmickas, President of Ichor Blood Services. Ichor provides mobile lab collection services to people in the comfort and safety of their home or office
Immigration curtailment part of boost economy plan
July 02, 2020 18:15 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBGuest Raj Sharma, Calgary immigration lawyer
Calgary Councilor reacts to Financial Task Force recommendations
July 02, 2020 16:35 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBGuest Jyoti Gondek, Ward 3 Calgary Councillor
Today’s Show: China, selling plasma, charitable sector, Latvia and Canada, and COVID-19 restrictions
July 02, 2020 14:18 - 1 hour - 105 MBGuests: Dr. Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Peter Jaworski, Canadian professor of business ethics at Georgetown University, Brian Dijkema, vice-president of external affairs at think tank Cardus, Christian Leuprecht, Munk Senior Fellow, MLI and moderator of the webinar, and Mathew Stone, Partner at Stone-Olafson
Today's show: City Hall Spending and Financial Task Force Report, Mandatory Mask Wearing, Charter Schools, School Resource Officers, Being Positive
June 30, 2020 19:06 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBGuests: Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Franco Terrazzano; Ron Koper, Chair of the Board of Governors of The Association of Alberta Public Charter Schools; Christine Van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation; Dr. James Kent Donlevy, Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the U of C and Dr. Graham Abela, Chief of Police for the Taber Police Service; Douglas Vermeeren, entrepreneur and the producer and director of the new film When Thoughts Become Thing
The power of being positive
June 30, 2020 18:33 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBDanielle speaks with Douglas Vermeeren, entrepreneur and the producer and director of the new film When Thoughts Become Things about staying positive through stressful events like the COVID-19 pandemic.
School Resource Officers
June 30, 2020 17:57 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBDanielle speaks with Dr. James Kent Donlevy, Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the U of C and Dr. Graham Abela, Chief of Police for the Taber Police Service about a report they authored looking at the importance of having resource officers in schools.
The importance of charter schools
June 30, 2020 17:27 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBDanielle speaks with Ron Koper, Chair of the Board of Governors of The Association of Alberta Public Charter Schools about the future of charter schools in Alberta.
The trouble with mandatory mask orders
June 30, 2020 17:03 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBDanielle speaks with Christine Van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation about mandatory mask orders being given in Ontario, and how they may infringe on Canadians' rights.
City Hall Spending and Financial Task Force Report
June 30, 2020 16:35 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBDanielle speaks with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Franco Terrazzano about spending at Calgary City Hall, and the release of the Financial Task Force Report.
Today's Show: CPC on outsourcing Canada Student Service Grant, Insurance Issues, New Charter School, Science vs. Politics
June 29, 2020 19:09 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBGuests: Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Shadow Miniter for Finance; John Kirinic, President of Bahn Projects Inc.; Kris Skage, Spokesperson for New Humble Community School; Bruce Pardy, professor of law at Queen’s University
Apocalyptic science: How the West is destroying itself
June 29, 2020 18:50 - 18 minutes - 17 MBDanielle speaks with Queen's University Law Professor Bruce Pardy about his article in the Financial Post that delves into how real science might be getting ignored in favour of political policies.
New Humble Community Charter School
June 29, 2020 17:23 - 20 minutes - 19 MBDanielle speaks with Kris Skage, one of the organizers behind trying to establish a charter school called New Humble Community School.
Problems with the insurance industry
June 29, 2020 17:06 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MBDanielle speaks with John Kirinic, President of Bahn Projects Inc. about how the process of getting quotes for insurance repairs maybe increasing costs to the industry, and therefore, our rates.
CPC letter on Canada Student Service Grant
June 29, 2020 16:48 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBDanielle speaks to Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Shadow Miniter for Finance about a lettter he and other Conservative MPs have sent to the Auditor General asking the outsourcing of a $900-million Student Grant program to be included in her COVID-19 Spending Report
New research reveals Albertans mixed about pace of lifting COVID-19 restrictions
June 26, 2020 19:09 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBGuest Mathew Stone, Partner at Stone-Olafson
Why partnering with Latvia serves Canada’s national interests
June 26, 2020 19:07 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBGuest Christian Leuprecht, Munk Senior Fellow, MLI and moderator of the webinar
Canada’s charitable sector is in serious trouble
June 26, 2020 18:51 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBGuest Brian Dijkema, vice-president of external affairs at think tank Cardus
Should Canadian start selling their plasma?
June 26, 2020 18:41 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBGuest Peter Jaworski is a Canadian professor of business ethics at Georgetown University. He recently authored a brief entitled, “Bloody well pay them: The case for Voluntary Remunerated Plasma Collections” that was co-published by the Adam Smith Institute in the UK, and the Niskanen Center in the US.
Canadian thought leaders urge Prime Minister to reject calls to release Meng Wanzhou
June 26, 2020 18:36 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBGuest Dr. Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
“Stay off the Grass: COVID-19 and Law Enforcement in Canada” - Report on COVID-19 fines
June 25, 2020 18:38 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBGuest Abby Deshman, CCLA Criminal Justice Program Director
Alberta's Bill 29
June 25, 2020 18:37 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBGuest William McBeath, Principal with Canadians for Democracy and Prosperity
Taxpayers Federation reacts to rating downgrade of Canada's sovereign debt
June 25, 2020 18:36 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBGuest Aaron Wudrick, CTF Federal Director
CFIB #SmallBusinessEveryDay campaign launched to emphasize customers are critical to business survival
June 25, 2020 18:35 - 10 minutes - 9.28 MBGuest Annie Dormuth, Director, Provincial Affairs of Alberta, Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Removal of the small and medium oil and gas employer emergency loan program
June 25, 2020 18:34 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBGuest Adam Waterman, President of the Lloydminster Oilfield Technical Society
Letter to Trudeau says Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou should be released
June 25, 2020 16:27 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBGuest Gordon Houlden, Director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta
What is happening in Canadian Conservative politics?
June 24, 2020 18:12 - 21 minutes - 20 MBGuest Tim Powers, Vice-Chairman Summa Strategies
Conservative leadership campaign – Derek Sloan
June 24, 2020 17:53 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBGuest Derek Sloan, Member of Parliament for Hastings-Lennox and Addington and Conservative leadership candidate
Justice Centre calls for an end to Ontario lockdown as unjustified violation of Charter freedoms
June 24, 2020 17:51 - 22 minutes - 21 MBGuest Lisa Bildy, lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
"The Rebellion of America’s New Underclass"
June 24, 2020 16:43 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBGuest Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute.
Jay Hill interim leader of Wexit Canada
June 24, 2020 16:09 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBGuest Honourable Jay Hill, former Conservative government House Leader and longtime party Whip. Now the new interim leader for Wexit Canada
Transferable voting
June 23, 2020 18:05 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBGuest Jode Himann, founder of a new movement to investigate and research electoral reform specifically transferable voting
The removal of the dedicated small and medium oil and gas employer emergency loan program
June 23, 2020 17:58 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBGuest Shannon Stubbs, the Member of Parliament for Lakeland and Conservative Shadow Minister for Natural Resources
How is COVID-19 and the recession affecting employment insurance accessibility?
June 23, 2020 17:11 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBGuest Fred McMahon, Resident Fellow at the Fraser Institute
Study shows no rising trend in permanent layoffs in Canada over past four decades
June 23, 2020 16:47 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBGuest René Morissette, senior economist in the Social Analysis and Modelling Division at Statistics Canada. He has worked on a wide range of issues related to the Canadian labour market such as income and wealth inequality, worker displacement, youth employment and changes in the wage structure
"The flaw in relying on worst-case-scenario climate model"
June 23, 2020 16:38 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBGuest Ross McKitrick, Professor of Economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce, Department of Economics, University of Guelph
Today’s Show: Criminal charges against MP Marwan Tabbara, IDTechEx, basic income, wealth tax, and China charges 2 Canadians with spying
June 22, 2020 18:41 - 1 hour - 109 MBGuests: Brian Lilley, Political columnist for the Toronto Sun, Daniele Gatti, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, Dave Korzinski, Research Director with the Angus Reid Institute, Katrina Miller, Program Director at the Broadbent Institute, Guy Saint-Jacques, Ambassador to China from 2012-2016 and Fellow at the China Institute, and Garnett Genuis, Conservative MP for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan and Shadow Minister for Multiculturalism & Canada-China Relation
China charges 2 Canadians with spying in Huawei-linked case
June 22, 2020 18:06 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBGuests Guy Saint-Jacques, Ambassador to China from 2012-2016 and Fellow at the China Institute and Garnett Genuis, Conservative MP for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan and Shadow Minister for Multiculturalism & Canada-China Relation
The Case for a Wealth Tax in Canada
June 22, 2020 17:32 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBGuest Katrina Miller, Program Director at the Broadbent Institute
Supporting the idea of a basic income of up to 30K
June 22, 2020 17:27 - 21 minutes - 20 MBGuest Dave Korzinski, Research Director with the Angus Reid Institute
Why Are We Still Talking About Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells?
June 22, 2020 16:41 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBGuest Daniele Gatti, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx
Criminal charges against MP Marwan Tabbara
June 22, 2020 16:24 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBGuest Brian Lilley, Political columnist for the Toronto Sun