The Danielle Smith Podcast

Jon Danielle Smith and the founder of Families For Choice, Cathryn Carruthers, for a discuss on the impacts of Covid Mandates on Families

Today Danielle discusses the recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision on C-69

Today Danielle will talk about the Elections Alberta investigation, a new grassroots party in Saskatchewan, and what is Agenda 2030 anyways?

Danielle Smith discusses the first Conservative Leadership Debate

Danielle discusses the end of the welfare state and the rise of Paternal Societies

Danielle discusses Supply Chain woes and the increasing cost of beef

Join Danielle Smith and Gord Tulk as they discuss the future of Canadian confederation and how we can reform our health care system

Today I speak with the former Premier of Alberta and Current Chair of Covenant Health Ed Stelmach about efforts in Alberta to send Cargo Planes of donations to Ukrainian Refugees in Poland

Today I speak with Peter Amerongen, Consultant with Renu Engineering on innovations in new home and renovation construction to make Canada's homes more energy efficient

Today I speak with Mike Kuzmickas, President and CEO of Ichor Blood Services about their antibody and antigen testing during Covid and what the future of the company looks like

Today I speak with Ryan Rand, CEO of Pure Life Carbon to discuss innovations in the Carbon Capture market and how they can transform agriculture.

Today I speak with Sol Zia about the current situation with hotels and tourism in Calgary and beyond and how the industry can handle the boom to come

Today I speak with Peter Kinkaide and Hannah Chorneyko of the Women and Wealth Gala about their event coming up in May and progress of women in business and investing and what more can be done in the future.

Danielle's still in Panama, so John Liston is back to interview Art Maat, the CEO of Wilco NW, Nektar Data about ways to integrate technology into your business

Danielle's in Panama, so today John Liston fills in with Taylor Medek, Hospitality Manager for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to discuss the state of the restaurant industry after two years of Covid restrictions

Today I speak with John Gorman, President of the Canadian Nuclear Association to discuss the future of nuclear energy in Canada, including the use of Small Modular Reactors to decarbonize major industry.

Today I speak with Chief Dale McFee and COO Enyinnah Okere of the Edmonton Police Service to discuss ongoing plans and strategies to make downtown safe for everyone.

Today I speak with Mike Myshak, President of Long Chain Reclaim about breakthroughs using bacteria to aid in well site remediation

Today I speak with Corey Deacon, a practitioner at Neurvana about innovations and change in how we carry out primary care medicine.

Today I speak with Jennifer Gosse, CEO of Blackfly Environmental about innovative strategies in environment mitigation. And a bonus interview with Energy Analyst Dan McTeague regarding the impact of the shutdown TransMountain pipeline

Today I speak to Sheldon Fulton, an expert on Alberta electricity markets about the problems and potential solutions to electricity transmission problems in Alberta. And then a bonus interview from Samaritans' Purse about the situation in Merritt and Abbotsford

Today I speak with Kishor Wasam, Chief Medical and Science Officer and Zubin Kathawala from Skymount Medical regarding their clinical trial for Covid-19 early treatments

Today I speak with Gunter Jochum Of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers about how fertilizer use can be used to reduce emissions

Today I speak with Ty Pfiefer, President of Prospectum Drone Inspection Services regarding the use of drone technology to detect leaks

Today I speak with Dagmar Knutson, Executive Director of the 10 Peaks Innovation Alliance about her upcoming summit for students to learn about our energy industry

Today I talk to Art Maat, CEO of Nektar ACS Edmonton and Phil Harvey, CEO of Sabre 56 Bitcoin about all thing crypto

Today I talk to Mark Scholz, President and CEO of Canadian Association of Energy Contractors about the challenges and opportunities in the drilling environment in Alberta today and emissions reduction.

This week I talk to Jeff Grant of Zen Clean Energy Solutions about the growing hydrogen economy - hydrogen fuel cell buses, long haul vehicles and long term opportunity for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the Alberta economy.

I interview Gunter Jochum, President of the Western Wheat Growers Association, about a federal mandate to reduce fertilizer use by 30 per cent, rising input costs and how we are going to feed the world.

I interview Ty Pfeifer from Perspectum and Dave Yager from Winterhawk about technologies to detect methane leaks with drones and plug leaks with new innovative techniques.

I interview Dagmar Knutson of 10 Peaks about her day long conference for high school students teaching them about new carbon tech, oil and natural gas and alternative energy.

I talk to Art Maat CEO of Nektar ACS and Phil Harvey CEO of Sabre Bitcoin Consulting Services about the mechanics of establishing a bitcoin mining operation in Alberta.

I interview President of the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors about the latest drilling numbers, wellsite cleanup and the changing nature of drilling to reduce greenhouse gases and other environmental impacts.

I interview Brad Field, Grace Yan, Jeff Davison, Jyoti Gondek and Zane Novak candidates for mayor of Calgary.

I interview Amarjeet Sohi, Michael Oshry, Cheryl Watson and Kim Krushell, candidates for mayor in Edmonton.

In this episode I speak to BILD Alberta Executive Director Scott Fash and Bild Chair and Genstar President Paul Boskovich about the new building codes expected to be adopted at the federal level this year and how it will affect home affordability.

In this episode I talk with incoming president of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, Gurpreet Lail, about the future of the energy business, green initiatives in the service sector and the progress on wellsite abandonment.

In this episode, John Liston talks with Phil de Heume from Raintree Financial Solutions about financing small business.

Matthew Klippenstein is Regional Manager, Western Canada at Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA). He describes himself as far left, but he still sees a role for zero emissions hydrocarbons.

This week we talk about jobs in the trades. It is one thing to have projects, it is another to have the people to do the work. I speak to guest Paul de Jong, President of the Progressive Contractors Association as they discuss this developing Trades Crunch and how to address it.

I interviewed Jason Vaillant about the Clean Fuel Standard. Posed as an attempt to clean up the emissions, detractors suggest it will increase costs. With Canada's attempt to lead the world, comes the risk of our international competitors having a distinct advantage. Join us for the discussion followed by an update on AEG activities with VP John Liston.

Could we build a transcontinental rail line today? Probably not. Jerry Demchuk and Chris Sankey from C2C2C explain how a new way of building national infrastructure could assist reconciliation with First Nations and lead to prosperity for the entire nation.

The Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada started in response to aggressive green energy policies in Ontario that harmed manufacturing. Those policies are now going national to the detriment of all business. We talk to Jocelyn Bamford, Automatic Coating Limited, Veso Sobot IPEX Group of Companies and John Galt Husky Injection Molding Systems.

In this episode I talk to Daniel Allessi co-founder of Recion Technologies about the opportunity to extract lithium from brine by working with energy companies to and create a new multi billion industry in Alberta.

In this episode I speak to Kris Kinnear, founder of Sustaining Alberta's Energy Network, about how to address the dual problem of attracting investment back to junior oil and gas companies while creating incentives to reclaim non producing wells. He calls it RStar and explains how it would work.

This week I interview Zack Storms about the finalists competing for investor money in Startup TNT, as well as investors Brian Wyatt and Bryan Slauko about policies needed to encourage venture capital and angel investing.

With Alberta entering Phase 2 of reopening today, I had a wide ranging discussion with Premier Jason Kenney about what the future of the Alberta economy looks like. Whether it is energy, tech, forestry, agribusiness - you name it - the future looks very bright.

You can download the full paper from the School of Public Policy here: https://www.policyschool.ca/authors/12939/

Concrete is the most consumed product in the world after water and responsible for 7 per cent of global GHG emissions. Lehigh Hanson has taken the lead on developing a carbon neutral approach to creating cement and concrete and have even set variable pay to achieving targets. Join Ignacio Cariega and Trevor Panas as they explain how.

I talk with Electricity and Natural Resources Minister Dale Nally, Sturgeon County Mayor Alanna Hnatiw and Edmonton Global hydrogen expert Brent Lakeman about the potential for hydrogen development in Alberta.