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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Episodes
Alberta Enterprise Group
June 19, 2020 18:41 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBGuest John Liston, President, Alberta Enterprise Group
Federal government changes to the CEBA loan program for small businesses
June 19, 2020 18:39 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBGuest James Cumming, MP for Edmonton Centre
What does Ward 5 needs after Saturday’s storm?
June 19, 2020 18:38 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBGuest George Chahal, City Councillor for Ward 5
"COVID-19 Highlights Weaknesses in Canada’s System for New Medicines"
June 19, 2020 17:07 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBGuest John Adams, one of the authors of the paper, cofounder and CEO of Canadian PKU and Allied Disorders Inc. and volunteer board chair of Best Medicines Coalition
MLA Drew Barnes says Fair Deal panel findings don’t go far enough
June 19, 2020 16:44 - 17 minutes - 16 MBGuest Drew Barnes, Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA and Fair Deal panel member
Minister of Justice & Solicitor General Doug Schweitzer
June 19, 2020 16:42 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBGuest Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Justice & Solicitor General
India-China border tensions
June 18, 2020 18:22 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBGuest Ferry de Kerckhove, former Canadian ambassador to Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and fellow with the Canadas Global Affairs Institute
"YHWH and the Sacred Secret" - Quadriplegic Scholar, says, ‘There is a God’ in new book
June 18, 2020 17:36 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBGuest: Author Monte Perepelkin
Challenges of social distancing now that provinces are opening up
June 18, 2020 17:09 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBGuest Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies and chair of the COVID-19 Social Impacts Network
New evidence of the Nova Scotia killer raises questions
June 18, 2020 17:07 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBGuest Paul Palango, author and journalist
Premier Kenney comments on the Fair Deal Panel
June 18, 2020 17:05 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBGuest Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney
Is Defunding the Police Really The Right Solution?
June 17, 2020 18:17 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBGuest Amity Shlaes, noted historian and author of "Great Society: A New History"
Students for Canada: Letter to Trudeau
June 17, 2020 17:34 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBGuest Cody Battershill, founder and spokesperson for CanadaAction.ca
Calgary council votes to build the Green Line LRT
June 17, 2020 17:29 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBGuest Neil McKendrick, retired former manager of transit planning at Calgary Transit
"The Lockdown Contrarians Were Right"
June 17, 2020 17:23 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBGuest Gwyn Morgan, retired founding CEO of Encana Corporation and a regular contributor to C2C Journal and the Financial Post
$1.7-billion federal assistance program helping clean up inactive oil and gas wells
June 17, 2020 17:20 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBGuest Elizabeth Aquin, Interim President & CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada
Racism in Canada
June 17, 2020 17:18 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBGuest Kaycee Madu, MLA for Edmonton-South West and Minister of Municipal Affairs
Today’s Show: UN Security Council seat, equalization, cancel culture, US politics, and long-tern care
June 16, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour - 107 MBGuests: Brian Lilley, Political columnist for the Toronto Sun, Bill Bewick, Executive Director of Fairness Alberta, Jonathan Kay, Canadian Editor of Quillette, Wendy Schiller, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Brown University, and Colin Busby, research director with the Institute for Research on Public Policy
Facing up to Canada’s Long-Term Care Policy Crisis
June 16, 2020 18:28 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBGuest Colin Busby, research director with the Institute for Research on Public Policy
The latest in US politics
June 16, 2020 18:23 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBGuest Wendy Schiller, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Brown University
Cancel culture in journalism
June 16, 2020 17:16 - 22 minutes - 21 MBGuest Jonathan Kay, Canadian Editor of Quillette
Eight Ways to Improve Equalization
June 16, 2020 16:56 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBGuest Bill Bewick, Executive Director of Fairness Alberta
Canada’s push for a temporary United Nations Security Council seat
June 16, 2020 16:47 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBGuest Brian Lilley, Political columnist for the Toronto Sun
Today’s Show: Green Line LRT, RSP’s, adult literacy, police brutality, and Prairie Sky Gondola
June 15, 2020 19:54 - 1 hour - 108 MBGuests: Peter McCaffrey, President of the Alberta Institute, Jackie Seely, Program Director for Newell Further Education, Patricia Barkaskas, Métis lawyer, professor of law at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and the Academic Director of the UBC Indigenous Community Legal Clinic, Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, President and CEO of Prairie Sky Gondola, and Miranda Rosin, MLA of Banff/Kananaskis
Feasibility of train linking Calgary airport to downtown, and Banff
June 15, 2020 18:14 - 4 minutes - 4.45 MBGuest Miranda Rosin, MLA of Banff/Kananaskis
Concept of the Prairie Sky Gondola
June 15, 2020 18:13 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBGuest Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, President and CEO of Prairie Sky Gondola
History between First Nations and the police in Canada
June 15, 2020 17:32 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBGuest Patricia Barkaskas, Métis lawyer and professor of law at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and the Academic Director of the UBC Indigenous Community Legal Clinic located Vancouver
Adult Literacy supports in Alberta
June 15, 2020 17:30 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBGuest Jackie Seely, Program Director for Newell Further Education in the County of Newell
RSPs can help struggling businesses today
June 15, 2020 17:28 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBGuest Craig Skauge, President of Calgary-based Olympia Trust
Calgary Council to vote on the future of the Green Line LRT
June 15, 2020 16:12 - 21 minutes - 20 MBGuest Peter McCaffrey, President of the Alberta Institute
The push to remove problematic statues in Canada
June 12, 2020 18:40 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBGuest Bernie Farber, Chair of the Canadian Anti-hate network
Friday remote Round Table
June 12, 2020 18:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBShelly MacMillan, President, Condo Owners Council of Alberta Sheila Meagher, Long-time condo owner, condo owner advocate Todd Shipley, Partner, RMRF LLP
Why does the Alberta government keep doing things that hurt the oil and gas industry?
June 12, 2020 16:55 - 11 minutes - 11 MBMax Fawcett, Freelance Writer, former editor of Alberta Oil magazine
Alberta's top Mountie doesn't believe there's a problem of systemic racism in policing in Canada
June 12, 2020 16:42 - 16 minutes - 15 MBAdora Nwofor, Black Lives Matter activist, & comedian
Experts say while Alberta reopens, COVID-19 cases will go up
June 12, 2020 16:19 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBDr. Stephanie Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta
Canada’s economic recovery needs a small business rebound
June 12, 2020 00:28 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBGuest John Stackhouse, Senior-Vice President at RBC
Changes to the Southwest Ring Road
June 11, 2020 17:33 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBGuests Ric McIver, Minister of Transportation and Jody Haynes, concerned Woodbine Resident
Issues surrounding Bill 1
June 11, 2020 17:31 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBGuest David Khan, Calgary-based constitutional law lawyer and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party
Changes to Alberta impaired driving penalties
June 11, 2020 17:23 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBGuest Ian Savage, president of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association
Today’s Show: Bill 15, isolating seniors, Conservative leadership race, Green Line LRT, and COVID-19
June 10, 2020 19:17 - 2 hours - 113 MBGuests: Adriana LaGrange, Alberta Minister of Education, Jay Cameron, Litigation Manager at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, Peter MacKay, Federal Conservative leadership candidate, Scott Fleming, Founder of Betterworkplace, and Steve Overguard, the co-founder of Alberta Adventures
COVID-19 Crushes Longtime Alberta Family-Owned Guide Outfitter
June 10, 2020 18:17 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBGuest Steve Overguard, the co-founder of Alberta Adventures
Is there common ground for pausing the Green Line LRT project?
June 10, 2020 18:03 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBGuest Scott Fleming, Founder of Betterworkplace, a company that has been in the business of telework for 20 years with a great deal of that focusing on the City of Calgary
Federal Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay
June 10, 2020 18:01 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBGuest Peter Mackay, former Conservative Cabinet minister and candidate for Leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada
Ontario Government warned that isolating seniors is elder abuse and violates the Charter
June 10, 2020 17:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBGuest Jay Cameron, Litigation Manager, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom
Bill 15: Choice in Education Act
June 10, 2020 17:29 - 22 minutes - 21 MBGuest Adriana LaGrange, Alberta Minister of Education
"Lockdown Lunacy: the thinking person's guide"
June 10, 2020 14:45 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBGuest J.B. Handley is a best-selling author and honors graduate from Stanford University. His recent blog post, titled "Lock down Lunacy: the thinking person's guide" was published on May 30th and has had over a million reads. He joins us from his home in Portland, Oregon.
Councillow Farkas demands Calgary Green Line plebiscite vote
June 09, 2020 18:07 - 6 minutes - 5.77 MBGuest Calgary Councillor Jeromy Farkas – Ward 11
Fighting the spread of foreign disinformation during COVID-19
June 09, 2020 18:06 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBGuest Marcus Kolga, MLI Senior Fellow and moderator for the webinar
ALS Awareness Month
June 09, 2020 17:13 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBGuests Karen Caughey, Executive Director of the ALS Society of Alberta, and Ed Skapin volunteer advocate supporting ALS society of Alberta and family members that lost loved ones to ALS
Flurotest and Flurotech working to adapt technology for Covid-19 testing
June 09, 2020 16:40 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBGuests Danny Dalla-Longa, CEO of FluroTech and Bill Phelan, CEO of Flurotest LLC