Podcast appearances and mentions of joel french

Taught by Joel French on Sunday, April 13, 2025.

Taught by Joel French on Sunday, June 2, 2024.

Joel French and I discuss why we LOVE real estate as an investment vehicle. Cash flow, appreciation, tax savings, and many other great reasons! Find out how to spot the right deal, manage your properties, and screen prospective tenants. Joel also shares a little about Phil Keaggy, and how he would spend the perfect day.

Joel French, Executive Director  of Public Interest Alberta See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest:  Dr. David Este, Adjunct Professor of Social Work, University of Calgary & collaborator on We are the Roots, Jay Cameron, lawyer, litigation director, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, Dale Swampy, President of the National Coalition of Chiefs, Sarah Teich, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a counter-terrorism researcher, and Joel French, Executive Director  of Public Interest Alberta See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Support this podcast! Alberta is the only province in the country that allows charter schools, and Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party has now removed the cap that had limited their expansion. Joel French, Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta, joins Team Advantage to discuss the first new charter school in Alberta in 13 years, opening about 50km from Edmonton. Why a new charter school— in the same location a public school recently closed? How does this relate to the broader changes that are happening within Alberta's public education system? Follow Joel French on Twitter @JoelFrench, and follow Public Interest Alberta's work at pialberta.org and @PIAlberta.

What do the prairie budgets say about the values of our provincial leaders? In a time of such uncertainty, how can we formulate a vision of a society that values people over profits? Joel French, Simon Enoch, and Lynne Fernandez discuss the Prairie budgets and what they mean for the future of workers. AUPE asks for immediate expansion of public healthcare https://www.aupe.org/news/news-and-updates/media-release-aupe-asks-immediate-expansion-public-health-care Public Interest Alberta https://www.pialberta.org/ CCPA - Saskatchewan https://www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/saskatchewan CCPA - Manitoba https://www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/manitoba

Alberta's minimum wage is now "frozen," which means it will slowly be eroded by inflation. How many minimum- or low-wage workers are there in Alberta, and what do they look like? Joel French, Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta, joins Team Advantage to examine the consequences of the wage freeze, consider who's affected, discuss the realities of low-wage housing, and think on what to do about that pesky 1%. Twitter: @JoelFrench and @PIAlberta Read PIA's report here: https://www.pialberta.org/lowwage2019 Read the CCPA's report here: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/unaccommodating Read about the 1% doing great here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-top-1-per-cent-saw-fastest-income-acceleration-overall-decrease-in-taxes-1.4609196

Joel French, Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta

Joel French, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, reflects on the annual convention which wrapped up Friday in Edmonton.

In this conversation Joel French, executive director of non-partisan advocacy group Public Interest Alberta, discusses Premier Rachel Notley's realpolitik approach to Kinder Morgan, considers levels of enthusiasm for federal NDP leadership candidates in the province and reflects on the successes, failures and contradictions of Alberta's first NDP government .

The Alberta NDP's historic 2015 victory was a direct result of a severely dysfunctional right wing political culture in the province. Despite a combined 51% of the vote, the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties won just 30 of the 86 seats in Edmonton’s legislature. But a merger of the two parties this summer has led to rapprochement and an ongoing leadership campaign to head the United Conservative Party. Major candidates Brian Jean and Jason Kenney are currently running even in the polls and while the Kenney campaign has been light on substance, Brian Jean has released a detailed, extensive and very frightening platform outlining an extremist vision for Alberta. In this conversation, Joel French of advocacy group Public Interest Alberta discusses the leadership race and explains why the proposals in Jean's platform would be a disaster for the province.

Joel French, Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta and Angela Pitt, MLA for Airdrie and Critic for Human Services join Angela Kokott to talk about the pros and cons of the NDP government's new $25 a day daycare. 

A recent report from the right-wing Fraser Institute unwittingly makes the case against its own findings on public funding of private education in Canada. In this conversation, Joel French, executive director of advocacy group Public Interest Alberta, expands on his recent article at Ricochet critiquing the study’s conclusions. To find out more about Public Interest Alberta and their advocacy work, go to pialberta.org.

In a very special episode of the Pinball Sessions Podcast, it's just a big ol' bottle of Pink Wine today! We feature two tracks from their recent session and a conversation between Roo and Joel French, lead singer of the band. So sit back...relax...and get tipsy on Pink Wine! Pinball Sessions are live, off the floor, pressure free recordings by some of Canada and the World's best artists. Recorded in Guelph, ON at the Pinball Studios, full sessions are released twice a week and can be heard and downloaded for free at http://pinballsessions.com. PINK WINE SESSION: http://pinballsessions.com/2014/04/14/pink-wine/ THE MUSIC: Pink Wine - Better Half Pink Wine - Can't Get Out/Bad Faith PINK WINE ONLINE: * Web: http://ilikepinkwine.wordpress.com * Bandcamp: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ilikepinkwine PEOPLE PUT OUT ONLINE: * Bandcamp: http://peopleputout.bandcamp.com * Twitter: https://twitter.com/peopleputout * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peopleputout --- Find Pinball Sessions Online: Web: http://pinballsessions.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PinballSessions/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pinballsessions Instagram: http://instagram.com/pinballsessions/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/109652065469078482120/posts --- Sign up for our newsletter for regular updates on upcoming sessions, contests and other goodies! -http://eepurl.com/uQkyD Rate and Review us on iTunes, Podomatic, or whoever you consume our podcast! It helps more than you could ever know! iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/pinball-sessions-podcast/id678367272?mt=2 RSS (Android, WebOS and others): http://pinballsessions.podomatic.com/rss2.xml Each time you rate and review us, four independent musicians get unexpected fan-love on Twitter.