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The Spendpalooza Federal Budget Episode
Some Politics is Local
English - April 25, 2021 18:48 - 33 minutes - 46 MBPolitics News Society & Culture canadianpolitics globalpolitics localpolitics provincialpolitics uspolitics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Green Petro Points Episode
Next Episode: The Grandpa Joe Gets His Report Card Episode
In this episode, we talk about the first federal budget in close to 2 years that the Liberals have just rolled out. Spoiler alert, if you have a pulse, you get something from it. We also talk about the state of politics in Alberta - with new fundraising and poll numbers having the NDP looking pretty good.
For BookReport this week, Mike read (with his ears) On the House by John Boehner. This autobiography, written and (most likely drunkenly) read by the author, tells the story of how a bland, middle-aged white man gets to be the fourth most powerful person in the US government (being into golf helps).