The Real Canadian Podcast

This is NOT our post a Alberta election episode! We recorded this episode the day before the election and because some severs were down we were not able to get it out.  On this episode we decided not to talk about the election, polls or predictions but rather talk about our political evolution(for lack of a better word) through the years, what is important to us and what decides our vote.   Special thanks to G Worthy

We catch up Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean and talk about the Alberta Circus 

We basically just talk about circus that is Alberta's government Touch on the Alberta Party's irrelevance 

Emergencies Act Inquiry results Time for the ABNDP to "hit the panic button"? R-Star cash giveaway  Moderate USP MLAS not running again

Albertans: "Jason Kenney is the worst premier ever!" DS: "Hold my beer" That pretty much sums up the state Alberta is in and this episode... We also touch on the Emergencies Act inquiry and curating your social media feed   

Should Albertans get priority in AB Universities The dumpster that was the last UCP leadership forum. What is the "middle class"  LPC can't help but step on rakes. Are they competing with the UCP? 

Stephen is back from Italy, Justin is finally married, Andrew lives with his mom and we cant wait for Poilievre to give us "inflation proof paycheques"!

Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean from PoliticalRND fills in Justin yet again!! Topics: The DQ of Patrick Brown and the CPC leadership race The UCP leadership race, should you buy a UCP membership so you can vote for the next AB premier? Passport stories 

Back from our hiatus the shake off their rust with a new episode to kick off the summer! Topics covered: Federal Liberal Government tailspin  raising cost and corporate greed CPC leadership race UCP leadership race

Nate Pike from the Breakdown podcast joins us to talk about the issues! 

Robbie Kreger-Smith joins us for serious in-depth discussion on recent events.....and it was great time!  We  talked about everything! Ottawa occupation, Emergencies Act, Skippy, Jason Kenney, how to vote in a leadership race, Trudeau needing to step down.

On our first ep of 2022 we talk about the extreme "peaceful" convoy protest in Ottawa and the CPC kicking out O'toole.

Producer/Host at Women of ABpoli Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean joins Stephen & Andrew for the last episode of the year!   Everyone consistently forgets what year is it and makes "bold" predictions for 2022* and basically bullshit for 1.5 hours...which is what this podcast in about anyways!  Topics covered: Dreidre getting kicked out of the UCP convention  Jason Kenney/UCP political future  most impressive or impressively unimpressive politicians of 2021*  Political future of the federal leaders  Will the CPC fracture sooner than later?  Are we in the market for n EV yet?  

Topics covered: UCP AGM Alberta signs childcare deal with the Federal gov 22 UCP constituencies vote for a Leadership review  CPC upset about a hybrid parliament   Why does MRG keep running for office when her heart is in Oklahoma? Where is Daniele Smith on the political spectrum (Andrew wants to know apparently)        

If you didn't figure it out from the episode title we are talking about the dumpster fire that is the Alberta government. 

On Ep 77 we talk all things federal politics including their attack on Alberta!

On this episode we talked with Dr. David Wilkinson Dr. Wilkinson, Professor and Associate Head, Canadian Research Chair in Clean Energy and Electrochemical Technologies about hydrogen and its uses/benefits.   

Election eve coverage. Will the NDP Surge? Have the Liberals done enough? Has Kenney sewered the conservative campaign?  

Steve is away working, so Andrew takes over and does a no frills episode with Justin. We cover the leadership debate, PPC intrigue, and speculate the elections outcome. Also some movie talk as we discuss Shang Chi.

On the this episode we talk everything Election 2021!   We also touch on rising covid 19 numbers and vaccine passports

New Gov General  The Green Party imploding  Nova Scotia Liberal Party telling a female candidate  The UCP welcomes back Pat Rehn Alberta eliminates all Covid 19 health measures Would you disconnect from family or friends who aren't vaccinated? 

We are all officially vaccinated and are doing our first in person podcast in over a year on Andrew's deck while tasting fine whiskey!

Justin & Andrew couldn't make this one so I brought out the Big Guns!  Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean & Roddie Kruger Smith reunite on the Pod for an Alberta heavy episode.   Topics: Justice Minister Kaycee Madu steps on rake  The Ununited Conservative Part The effect of covid 19 on businesses and out personal lives speculating of on what the future holds for AB politics 

Max Fawcett joins us to talk everything Canadian politics!    Topics Covered: CPC climate change plan and collecting "O'tool bucks" Federal budget & economic recovery  LPC's universal childcare plan  What the AB NDP needs to do to be successful in the next election Alberta is winning the covid 19 count race! #AlbertaAdvantage  Why do Albertans vote the way they do? Federal election before or after Labour Day?  

This is one of those fun episodes where friends get together, have a few drinks and bullshit about Canadian politics.      Ground covered: predictions on the next Federal election will be Justin finds common ground with Jason Kenney(!) Supreme Court rules Trudeau's Carbon Tax is constitutional  and deep dive into Alberta's dumpster fire of new K-6 curriculum     

Today we are adding a new entry onto our list of awesome conversations! Jennifer Sanford, the host and creator of the Conservative Like Me podcast joins so to promote the launch her season 2...Which is out today!  Now I got to tell you people that she is one smart lady and has a real vision of what the CPC should look like in 2021. Follow Jennifer on Twitter @thejennsanford and bloody listen to her podcast ok!   Cheers

So this is our conversation about "centrists" which I cut out of Ep 66 because it would have made the ep way to long and I thought that the conversation was so good that it could almost stand by itself as it's own episode.  Hope this 30ish minutes creates more discussion & debate!      

The Alberta Gov doubles down on their battle with a children's on Netflix UCP leadership review CPC accidentally tweets about how the LPC cares about Canadian's jobs more then their own (lol) CPC HQ struggling in the poll Covid vaccine roll out  

Is a elected official responsible to their constituents but loyal to their party?  More people are a following politics lately The Steve Allen aka "the conspiracy theory laden garbage report" inquiry asks for a 3rd extension  Does the UCP have time to rebuild their reputation before the next AB election? wishing you could take back sound bits and social media.  

This is our conversation that carried on after we got off the zoom call with Rick Peterson.

  Mr Peterson thinks our conversation about taxes in Canada was a snooze fest but we think the four of us made it interesting and brought up some really good points.  Sorry Mr Peterson but we disagree!  Other topics covered: Francophone element – Campus Saint-Jean in the riding My thoughts on leveraging what the riding has to attract jobs and capital here The energy transition, and why this can be a tremendous advantage for Alberta and all of Canada Why your generation could see the greatest wealth creation and economic growth in a generation in the next 10 years. What a fantastic conversation. Very informative and we had to smile a few times as Rick held Justin's toes to the fire on some of his questions! Our conversation continues with episode 64.5  

Topics of conversation:   O'tool kicking Sloane out of caucus What is the CPC party? UCP's coal mine drama Biden/Kenney/KXL

Probably doesn't take a genius to guess what we talked about after a this crazy week!   Alberta made Jason Kenney fires all his "jetsetters" Trump supporters storm DC   Thanks to Robbie for filling in!

Well this wasn't suppose to be a real episode, just a quick recording to talk about the new Wonder Woman movie. that's it.   Then the Alberta political world caught fire as throughout the day one after another, UCP MLAs were found out of country on vacations.  Premier Jason Kenney even had to call a last minute presser!  Even more hilarious, a forth UCP MLA was found out to be out of country as we were recording and the story was posted to 2mins after we finished!  Hello 2021....

So the plan for this episode was to do a review of our Best/worsts in Canadian politics.  We succeeded for the most part while getting sidetracked with some awesome conversation along the way. We ended up talking about some interesting stuff including (but not limited to) an Alberta PST, Carbon tax and CPC party politics.  Huge thanks to Deirdre and Spencer for joining us and making our longest episode ever awesome!     

Breaking our "no American politics" rule yet again!

Back to your regular programing with us three guy!  In this episode we talked about Trudeau and the Fed Gov for and the first 40 mins and Alberta politic for the rest of the ep.

What is a bigger waste of time then Andrew trying to explain Star Trek with 3 mins left in a episode?  Canadians talking about American politics!  We make a point of never doing it but that debate calls for an exception to the rules. But hey! We closed er out with Alberta and Jason Kenney, yay! 

To kick it off we talked about Alberta's bills 29 & 32.  Also AB's doctors fleeing the province   Trudeau testifies about his WE debacle.

Jason Kenney's post covid economic recovery plan and his racist speech writer Trudeau's latest scandal of the week.  will he ever learn? Wexit splitting the conservative   China/Hong Kong NHL coming to Edmonton & Toronto!  

We talked about a whole bunch of stuff really... What is systemic racism CPC leadership Debate Jagmeet calling a Bloc MP a racist The Pride flag being taken down in Edmonton expanding socialized Healthcare

Today we discussed the  role of the opposition parties during this pandemic and walking that fine line possibly "play politics" and being a team player while still doing their job during a pandemic. Special thanks to Spencer aka "The King of Doorknocking" for coming on a providing some great insight and perspective!!        

Ok, So this the episode that sat on my hard drive for almost a month.  We recorded it pre social isolation so it was the last time we all got together and it was good a time.  Its a good fun episode and we talked a large variety of topics.   

Our first Post isolation episode.  The political drama in Canada is at an all time low as the Country is coming together in this troubled time but we were able to find a few topics to wet our whistles!

Did Scheer have permission to use party funds to send his kids to a fancy school or was it a sneaky side deal? Is Minister Freeland already PM? listen and find out!

Trudeau's new federal Cabinet UCP & bill 22 Notely being kicked out of the Leg Grapes Cancel Culture      

Main topics of conversation are Jason Kenney's new budget and the Wexiteers of Alberta(lol)

Post Election wrap up episode   stick around for after the credits ;)