Ryan Jespersen Show

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Ryan Jespersen talks news, politics, and pop culture. He's one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People and one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 on Avenue Magazine’s inaugural list, Ryan has established himself as a next-generation mover and shaker in Alberta’s capital city.

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    • Jun 23, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 18m AVG DURATION
    • 232 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Ryan Jespersen Show

    Today's show: Edmonton's Oliver neighbourhood wants to change its name, the city is debating parking minimums and e-bike rebates & Alberta's new impaired driving laws

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 31:31


    On today's show, the Oliver Community league supports changing the name of its neighbourhood. We talk to league president Robyn Paches. Plus, Ashley Salvador tells us why she has her fingers crossed regarding parking minimums evaporating in Edmonton. And, we check in with lawyer Kyla Lee on Alberta's impaired driving laws.

    Alberta’s flagship university could be ruined with defunding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 20:02


    Dr. Carolyn Sale, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts – English & Film Studies Dept. University of Alberta

    Canada loses its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 9:34


    Dr. Andrea Charron, Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Director of the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies

    Criminal lawyer thinks Alberta's new drunk driving laws will do more good than harm

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 10:33


    Edmonton city council talking parking minimums & e-bike rebates

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 11:58


    Ashley Salvador, Edmonton Urban Planner, Co-Founder of YEG Garden Suites

    Oliver Community League launches campaign to acknowledge colonial & racist name origins

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 10:52


    Robyn Paches, president, Oliver Community League

    Today's show: YEG restaurants close due to COVID-19, CPC leadership hopeful MP Erin O'Toole & former finance minister Dr. Ted Morton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 33:16


    On today's show, some Edmonton restaurants are voluntarily closing due to COVID-19 concerns, we talk to the president of GRETA Bar, Chris Decock. Plus, Conservative party leadership hopeful Erin O'Toole joins us on the heels of last week's leadership debates. And, we talk to former finance minister, Dr. Ted Morton about the Fair Deal Panel report, does it actually mean anything?

    Talk time with Jeremy Jablonski

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 11:57


    Owner of The Coverall Shop in Red Deer and former Edmonton Oilers draft pick Jeremy Jablonski

    Alberta’s flagship university could be ruined with defunding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 6:18


    Dr. Carolyn Sale, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts – English & Film Studies Dept. University of Alberta

    Amarjeet Sohi reacts to MP Michael Cooper's potshot

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 15:20


    Amarjeet Sohi, former federal minister of Natural Resources and Infrastructure

    China charges two detained Canadians with espionage

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 7:39


    Dr. Paul Evans, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

    Alberta releases recommendations from the Fair Deal Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 17:44


    Dr. Ted Morton, Former Finance Minister, Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary

    Conservative Party Leadership Race

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 14:41


    Erin O’Toole, CPC leadership hopeful & Conservative MP for Durham

    Edmonton restaurants close because of COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 7:23


    Chris Decock, president, GRETA Bar

    Federal government changes to the CEBA loan program for small businesses

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 3:57


    Guest James Cumming, MP for Edmonton Centre

    What does Ward 5 needs after Saturday’s storm?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 13:34


    Guest George Chahal, City Councillor for Ward 5

    "COVID-19 Highlights Weaknesses in Canada’s System for New Medicines"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 22:58


    Guest 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 17:28


    Guest Drew Barnes, Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA and Fair Deal panel member

    Minister of Justice & Solicitor General Doug Schweitzer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 22:14


    Guest Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Justice & Solicitor General

    India-China border tensions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 20:27


    Guest 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 17:58


    Is equalization able to adapt to the fiscal changes among provinces post-recession?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 17:02


    Challenges of social distancing now that provinces are opening up

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 20:55


    Guest 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 17:02


    Guest Paul Palango, author and journalist

    Premier Kenney comments on the Fair Deal Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 23:21


    Guest Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney

    Is Defunding the Police Really The Right Solution?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 20:56


    Guest Amity Shlaes, noted historian and author of "Great Society: A New History"  

    Students for Canada: Letter to Trudeau

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 6:38


    Guest Cody Battershill, founder and spokesperson for CanadaAction.ca

    Calgary council votes to build the Green Line LRT

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 11:08


    Guest Neil McKendrick, retired former manager of transit planning at Calgary Transit

    "The Lockdown Contrarians Were Right"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 22:14


    Guest 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 17:06


    Guest Elizabeth Aquin, Interim President & CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada

    Racism in Canada

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 21:57


    Guest Kaycee Madu, MLA for Edmonton-South West and Minister of Municipal Affairs

    What is mass temperature screening & will it affect your return to work?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 17:23


    Paul Poscente, president & CEO, Backwoods Energy Services

    Today’s Show: UN Security Council seat, equalization, cancel culture, US politics, and long-tern care

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 116:17


    Guests: 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 22:15


    Guest Colin Busby, research director with the Institute for Research on Public Policy

    The latest in US politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 16:14


    Guest Wendy Schiller, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Brown University

    Cancel culture in journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 22:52


    Guest Jonathan Kay, Canadian Editor of Quillette

    Eight Ways to Improve Equalization

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 15:59


    Guest Bill Bewick, Executive Director of Fairness Alberta

    Canada’s push for a temporary United Nations Security Council seat

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 22:47


    Guest Brian Lilley, Political columnist for the Toronto Sun

    Are alcohol & cannabis sales really on the rise during COVID-19 pandemic?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 17:32


    Dr. Samantha Wells, Senior Director and Senior Scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

    Today’s Show: Green Line LRT, RSP’s, adult literacy, police brutality, and Prairie Sky Gondola

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 118:09


    Guests: 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 4:49


    Guest Miranda Rosin, MLA of Banff/Kananaskis

    Concept of the Prairie Sky Gondola

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 19:26


    Guest Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, President and CEO of Prairie Sky Gondola

    History between First Nations and the police in Canada

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 16:39


    Guest 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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 22:23


    Guest Jackie Seely, Program Director for Newell Further Education in the County of Newell

    RSPs can help struggling businesses today

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 17:00


    Guest Craig Skauge, President of Calgary-based Olympia Trust

    Calgary Council to vote on the future of the Green Line LRT

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 21:47


    Guest Peter McCaffrey, President of the Alberta Institute

    CFIB says 1 in 10 businesses may never recover from COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 17:01


    Dan Kelly, president, Canadian Federation of Independent Business

    Today's show: dashcam footage shows violent takedown of First Nations chief, Alberta's oil & gas industry & the Friday Round Table

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 31:38


    On today's show, Black Lives Matter activist Adora Nwofor & Vancouver criminal lawyer, Kyla Lee react to the dashcam footage showing a violent take down and arrest of Chief Allan Adam. Plus, Max Fawcett on Alberta energy. And, you don't want to miss our condo talk Friday Round Table.

    Friday remote Round Table

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 31:17


    Shelly MacMillan, President, Condo Owners Council of Alberta Sheila Meagher, Long-time condo owner, condo owner advocate Todd Shipley, Partner, RMRF LLP

    Dashcam footage shows violent arrest of Alberta First Nations chief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 7:54


    Why does the Alberta government keep doing things that hurt the oil and gas industry?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 11:56


    Max Fawcett, Freelance Writer, former editor of Alberta Oil magazine

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