Alberta Advantage Podcast

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A Manitoban
 Oct 27, 2020
Great stuff!

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 Dec 31, 2018
good.

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Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF! Commentary and analysis on local and provincial politics from a left perspective.

Episode Date
COVID-19 in 2024
Apr 07, 2024
Zionism Sucks
Dec 17, 2023
Why does Canada love Ukrainian Nazis?
Nov 20, 2023
Wildfire Season Concludes
Nov 05, 2023
Notley Loses Again! Alberta's 2023 Election
Jun 08, 2023
Clearing the Plains in 2023: Alberta's Drug Poisoning Crisis
May 29, 2023
Can Socialists Like Hockey?
May 14, 2023
Take Back Alberta (from Woke Jason Kenney)
May 01, 2023
Recession Ahead? w/ Jim Stanford
Mar 30, 2023
TORIES: Calgary Laundry Workers vs Ralph Klein
Feb 28, 2023
Declaring Sovereignty
Jan 30, 2023
Danielle Smith Thought
Oct 03, 2022
The Free Trade Debate: Then and Now
Jun 27, 2022
Canadian vs U.S. Unions
Apr 25, 2022
Inflation Fantasies
Feb 07, 2022
Shift Work! feat. Emily Leedham
Jan 31, 2022
Faculty on Strike!
Jan 08, 2022
Austerity in Saskatchewan: Roy Romanow's NDP
Jan 03, 2022
100 Years of the Communist Party of Canada
Nov 29, 2021
The Postwar CCF
Nov 12, 2021
ORPHANED: Alberta's Oil and Gas Wells
Oct 24, 2021
What's Ideology?
Oct 02, 2021
Politicizing the Economy
Sep 18, 2021
Vote Communist! with Elizabeth Rowley
Sep 04, 2021
Stacking Crises on Crises
Aug 31, 2021
Future Senator-Elect Kinney: Our Red in the Red Chamber
Aug 18, 2021
TORIES: Lougheed, 1971-1985
Aug 13, 2021
Avi Lewis Runs for Office
Aug 06, 2021
Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy, and Settler Colonialism
Jul 21, 2021
Nora Loreto: Take Back the Fight
Jul 13, 2021
Jokes?! Sean Devlin and Airports, Animals
Jul 09, 2021
Blairmore, Alberta: Canada's First Communist Town Council
Jul 02, 2021
The Fire and the Ashes with Andrew Jackson
Jun 29, 2021
Industrial Policy for the People
Jun 20, 2021
What's Going on with Alberta's Labour Movement?
May 30, 2021
Get Mad about This Awful Pandemic Response
May 20, 2021
Nuking the Oilsands: Project Cauldron (featuring Bigfoot)
May 12, 2021
Starting a Party? The Origins of the CCF
Apr 29, 2021
Against Corporate Feminism: Less Lean In, More Lenin
Apr 20, 2021
Alberta's War on Rats
Apr 10, 2021
Canada's National Energy Program, 1980-1985
Apr 02, 2021
Universal Basic Income: Utopian, or Not Bold Enough?
Mar 26, 2021
BONUS: Victor's Children
Mar 23, 2021
Workers Fighting and Winning in Post-Secondary Education
Mar 17, 2021
"Progressives Aren't Going to Stand for Mediocrity:" Niki Ashton on the Progressive International and Jeremy Corbyn
Mar 10, 2021
Are the NDP Liberals in a Hurry?
Feb 26, 2021
The State: Seize It? Smash It? Take a Long March Through It?
Feb 19, 2021
Small Businesses Are Capitalism
Feb 12, 2021
Farm Crisis, Climate Crisis
Feb 05, 2021
A New Party? The NDP and the 2001 New Politics Initiative
Jan 29, 2021
Expand Medicare to Include Dentalcare
Jan 22, 2021
The Klan in Alberta
Jan 15, 2021
Waffles, Trots, and the 1971 Takeover of the New Brunswick NDP
Jan 08, 2021
Corporate Subsidy Sponges and Handout Hogs
Jan 01, 2021
Alberta's Abstinence-Only "Recovery" Model
Dec 21, 2020
Operation Solidarity, 1983: An (Almost) B.C. General Strike
Dec 14, 2020
Alberta's One Day Wildcat
Dec 08, 2020
The Deeply Troubled Calgary Police
Nov 27, 2020
Ukrainian Ultra-nationalism and Canada
Nov 18, 2020
Canada: Making People's Lives Miserable, Around the World
Nov 11, 2020
MINI-EP: Charter Schools: Public Dollars for Private Interests
Nov 09, 2020
Monsters of the Market: Horror and Capitalist Anxiety
Oct 30, 2020
In Case of Strike...
Oct 26, 2020
"People are going to be driving on my family's home"
Oct 20, 2020
Doctors On Strike? 1962 and the Birth of Canadian Medicare
Oct 12, 2020
MINI-EP: Building Left Media with Andre Goulet
Oct 06, 2020
Mobilizing for the Climate Emergency: Seth Klein's Good War
Oct 02, 2020
The Attack on Post-Secondary Education
Sep 27, 2020
MINI-EP: Chrystia Freeland's Nazi Collaborator Grandfather
Sep 14, 2020
Western Alienation: Manufactured Conservative Grievance Oil Politics
Sep 10, 2020
MINI EP: Meryam Haddad, Green Party Leadership Candidate
Sep 08, 2020
CRACKDOWN: Losing Hope
Sep 01, 2020
MINI EP: Dimitri Lascaris, Green Party Leadership Candidate
Aug 31, 2020
Back to School in Pandemic Alberta
Aug 28, 2020
The Politics of Statues
Aug 22, 2020
Are Alberta's Parks Tomorrow's Coal Mines?
Aug 11, 2020
A Good Time, Not A Long Time: Dave Barrett's BC NDP 1972-1975
Aug 01, 2020
Illegal Protests and Pickets? Alberta Bad News Update
Jul 27, 2020
Are Calgary Police Above the Law?
Jul 20, 2020
Killing the Welfare State: Liberals and the 1990s
Jul 13, 2020
Fossil Capital: Nova Scotia Coal Edition
Jul 06, 2020
MINI-EP: Wealth Tax!
Jun 27, 2020
Shelter in Place? Canada's Housing Crisis
Jun 24, 2020
Your Home Is A Factory: Social Reproduction and COVID-19
Jun 15, 2020
Fear of a Green New Deal
Jun 02, 2020
MINI-EP: Tom Ross on Kenney's GND Freakout
Jun 02, 2020
Meat the Rich Who Butcher Workers: Our Beef with the Meatpacking Industry
May 29, 2020
What Is Long Term Care, and What Does It Need to Be?
May 19, 2020
James Wilt DESTROYS Elon Musk with PUBLIC TRANSIT
May 12, 2020
MINI-EP: Don't Blame China
May 04, 2020
AIMCo: Vaporizing Billions, Bailing out Oil and Gas
Apr 30, 2020
Work and Time-Discipline
Apr 27, 2020
MINI-EP: Healthcare For All: Leave No One Behind
Apr 18, 2020
Land Back: Reclaiming Indigenous Jurisdiction
Apr 12, 2020
1917, 1918, 1919: Revolution, Pandemic, Strike?
Apr 05, 2020
MINI-EP: Posties Organize for Pandemic Health and Safety
Mar 29, 2020
Can a Future Be Imagined?
Mar 24, 2020
Capitalism's Virus
Mar 15, 2020
Kenney Forgot Who Defeated the Nazis
Mar 09, 2020
Access Television: Media for the People
Feb 27, 2020
Health Services Review Pitches Privatization, Attacks Workers
Feb 18, 2020
"Balance" in Climate Change, Cursive Writing: Alberta's Curriculum Review
Feb 12, 2020
Public Ownership in Canada: Linda McQuaig
Feb 06, 2020
MINI-EP: Managing Universities to Death: Cuts and "Performance Measures"
Feb 01, 2020
MINI-EP: Imperial Oil Ignored Its Own Climate Research
Jan 27, 2020
NEWSFLASH: Tax Strike! Calls for Resistance as Kenney Lets Oil & Gas off the Hook
Jan 22, 2020
MINI-EP: Trans Mountain's Ballooning Costs
Jan 21, 2020
The 1999-2000 Herald Strike, 20 Years Later
Jan 13, 2020
The $30M Ad They Don't Want You to See: War Room Holiday Special
Jan 07, 2020
MINI-EP: Andray Domise on Opposing Capitalism
Jan 02, 2020
Chicago Principles: Free Speech or Coddling Campus Conservatives?
Dec 22, 2019
MINI-EP: Surgery Privatization: Public Risk, Private Profit
Dec 17, 2019
Kenney's Great Albertan Pension Robbery
Dec 10, 2019
MINI-EP: Hellberta Update & Strategy Session
Nov 24, 2019
Oil Propaganda Breakdown: Enough Is Enough
Nov 13, 2019
Austerity, Again: Kenney's Budget
Nov 04, 2019
Ugly Reality: Unions under Alberta's NDP
Oct 20, 2019
Chasing the Centre: The Death of the Median Voter
Oct 12, 2019
MINI-EP: Alberta's Minimum Wage Freeze
Oct 05, 2019
MINI-EP: Trudeau Formula with Martin Lukacs
Oct 02, 2019
Green New Deals!
Sep 21, 2019
MINI-EP: Debt Panic? Alberta's Revenue Problem
Sep 14, 2019
Common Front: Québec's 1972 General Strike
Aug 30, 2019
MINI-EP: Extractive Populism: Wrapping Fossil Fuels in the Canadian Flag
Aug 21, 2019
The Wrong Advantage: Destroying Justin Trudeau With Facts and Logic
Aug 06, 2019
MINI-EP: Killers, Queers, and the Birth of Canadian Socialism: 1st Legion of Utopia
Jul 23, 2019
The Winnipeg Declaration of Principles of the CCF (1956)
Jul 17, 2019
MINI-EP: Fossil-Power Top 50
Jul 09, 2019
Does Social Democracy Have a Future? A Five-Year Plan for Alberta's NDP
Jun 22, 2019
(Tax) Haven Is a Place on Earth
Jun 09, 2019
Walmart, but Good: Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
Jun 01, 2019
General Strike! Winnipeg 1919-2019
May 17, 2019
MINI-EP: Rick Bell, Calgary's Best Journalist
May 11, 2019
BONUS: Unpacking the News: Welcome to Hellberta: The Kenney era begins
Apr 27, 2019
Predictably: Welcome to Hellberta
Apr 19, 2019
BONUS: Unpacking the News: Jason Kenney's twisted political legacy
Apr 15, 2019
ANDP Platform Review: It's a Document You Can Read, I Guess
Apr 11, 2019
UCP Platform Review: It Sucks Ass
Apr 08, 2019
MINI-EP: Danielle Smith Is Mainstreaming White Supremacy
Apr 04, 2019
Notley vs Notley
Mar 31, 2019
MINI-EP: Corbella on Caylan Ford, Who Said White Supremacist Things
Mar 25, 2019
Corporate Welfare Bums! David Lewis and the CCF-NDP, feat. Roberta Lexier
Mar 15, 2019
MINI-EP: Canada's Energy Future w/ David Hughes
Mar 02, 2019
Populism Is so Popular Right Now
Feb 21, 2019
Bashir Speaks! Black Lives and Discrimination in Alberta
Feb 12, 2019
MINI-EP: Danielle Smith's Big Beefy Brain
Feb 05, 2019
Choo-Choo-Choose Commuter Trains
Jan 27, 2019
MINI-EP: James Wilt's Very Nice Interview
Jan 18, 2019
Nationalize the Telecoms!
Dec 30, 2018
Carbon Tax: Socialism or Sellout?
Dec 06, 2018
MINI-EP: An Embarrassment of Riches
Nov 27, 2018
Vote No! Calgary's Olympic Bid, Which Is Class War
Nov 08, 2018
How Do You Do, Fellow Social Democrats? Alberta NDP Convention 2018
Nov 02, 2018
MINI-EP: Paige Gorsak for Edmonton-Strathcona
Oct 30, 2018
Wheat, Pray, Love
Oct 20, 2018
MINI-EP: Reading Mouseland
Oct 16, 2018
Full Steam Ahead: Petrofutures and Energy Transition with David Gray-Donald
Oct 10, 2018
MINI-EP: Naomi Lakritz's Freeze Peaches
Oct 02, 2018
Global Conspiracy: Ernest Manning and Social Credit, Part II
Sep 22, 2018
MINI-EP: Death Scab for Cutie
Sep 11, 2018
When Public Isn't Public: Education in Alberta
Sep 08, 2018
MINI-EP: Teen Tankie Podcast Gang Reads David Staples
Sep 04, 2018
BONUS: 49th Parahell: Pipeline in the Sand (with Kate Jacobson)
Sep 01, 2018
The Manning Centre for Tories Who Want to Politics Good and Other Things Good Too
Aug 29, 2018
Funny Money: Aberhart and Social Credit, Part I
Aug 06, 2018
hyperequalization
Jul 22, 2018
The Wrong Kind of Socialism
Jul 03, 2018
Doug Ford and the Basket of Goodies
Jun 24, 2018
Flat Tax: A Brief History of a Bad Idea
May 28, 2018
Reading UCP Policy so You Don't Have To: A Guide to Hellworld
May 11, 2018
LIVE: Briarpatch Prairie Issue Launch
May 05, 2018
The Waffle, the NDP, and Full Breakfast Socialism
Apr 27, 2018
Budgets: The Government Isn't a House
Apr 10, 2018
Ralph Klein Sucked, Part 2
Mar 26, 2018
Some Actual Facts About Pipelines
Mar 11, 2018
Public Cash for Elite Private Schools (???)
Feb 20, 2018
Ralph Klein Sucked, Part 1
Feb 12, 2018
The Regina Dialogues
Jan 23, 2018
Imminent Building Collapse! Demoviction and Gentrification in Calgary
Jan 03, 2018
Centrism: Socially Neoliberal but Fiscally Neoliberal
Dec 08, 2017
Why is the University of Calgary so bad?
Nov 24, 2017
United Chastity Party
Nov 06, 2017
Calgary Municipal Showdown!
Oct 22, 2017