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Has your car insurance skyrocketed over the past few years? Albertans are already paying among the highest rates in the country, and it's about to get even more expensive. Sources say Danielle Smith's UCP government is about to let auto insurers raise rates well beyond the 3.7% cap it imposed earlier this year. Politicians will promise rates will eventually come down because they're eliminating personal injury lawsuits...but is that the right move?  2:40 | Injury lawyer Mark McCourt tells us why he thinks the Alberta government is about to make a big mistake.  MORE FROM MARK: https://www.mccourtlaw.ca/ 32:30 | Marmot Basin opens this week! We've got the details you need in this week's #MyJasper Memories presented by Tourism Jasper.  GET YOUR MARMOT ESCAPE CARD: https://www.skimarmot.com/ 38:30 | What does Danielle Smith have in common with Ralph Klein? Ryan tells us about a political panel he hosted the day before with pollster Janet Brown and political scientist Dr. Duane Bratt. 59:15 | Were you at the Springsteen show in Edmonton? Ryan tells us about a kerfuffle in the seats just in front of him. 1:13:50 | Real Talker Jeff chimes in from Grande Prairie about the big EIA/WestJet news.  DETAILS: https://rtrj.info/111924EIAWJhighlight EMAIL THE SHOW: talk@ryanjespersen.com  FOLLOW US ON TIKTOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: @realtalkrj JOIN US ON FACEBOOK & LINKEDIN: @ryanjespersen  REAL TALK MERCH: https://ryanjespersen.com/merch RECEIVE EXCLUSIVE PERKS - BECOME A REAL TALK PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/c/ryanjespersen THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS! https://ryanjespersen.com/sponsors The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Relay Communications Group Inc. or any affiliates.

Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:37 - Provincial finances are in worse shape than the PBO suggests, by Trevor Tombe 8:08 - It's time for Alberta's conservatives to move on from Ralph Klein's only bad legacy, by Brad Tennant This program is narrated by automated voices. If you enjoy The Hub's podcasts consider subscribing to our weekly email newsletter featuring our best insights and analysis. Free. Cancel anytime. Sign up now at https://thehub.ca/join/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode we visit the frontlines of apartheid in Jerusalem with progressive Israeli NGO Ir Amim on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, ask why Canada's spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, investigate how Calgary hospital laundry workers' wildcat strikes forced Ralph Klein's PC government to back off from austerity in the 1990s on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and talk about Harbinger's big plans for 2024 in a conversation host Andre Goulet recorded last week with CKUW 95.9FM. The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode we visit the frontlines of apartheid in Jerusalem with progressive Israeli NGO Ir Amim on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, ask why Canada's spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, investigate how Calgary hospital laundry workers' wildcat strikes forced Ralph Klein's PC government to back off from austerity in the 1990s on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and talk about Harbinger's big plans for 2024 in a conversation host Andre Goulet recorded last week with CKUW 95.9FM. The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Ken Boessenkool is one of Canada's leading conservative strategists. His list of work accomplishments are long including his current role as the J.W. McConnell Professor of Practice at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, and Research Fellow at the CD Howe Institute. In the course of his career, he has worked for and founded a variety of public affairs firms; played senior roles in provincial governments; was a senior regulatory economist with two electricity firms; and volunteered for and strategized Conservative campaigns nationally and in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. While Ken has been front and centre in Canadian politics for almost three decades – working with Stephen Harper, Ralph Klein, Jim Dinning, Christy Clark, Stockwell Day, Ric McIver and many others – he remains most proud of the following stand-out initiatives that helped change people's thinking and lives.

Greetings & welcome back to the rose bros podcast.This episode we are joined by the Honorable Rick Orman - CEO of Surmont Energy & Former Alberta MLA/Cabinet Minister.Mr. Orman has more than 50 years of business experience serving as Chairman, CEO and Corporate and Lead Director of a number of publicly traded companies listed on the TSE, TSX, NASDAQ and HKEX, including  NovAtel Inc., Daylight Energy Ltd and Sinopec Daylight Ltd. He is a director of Persta Resources Inc., WesCan Energy Corp., CannaPharmaRx, and Spoke Resources Ltd., and, since 2020, Surmont Energy Ltd.From 1986-1993 he was twice elected to the Alberta Legislature and served in three portfolios – Minister of Employment, Minister of Labour, Minister of Energy. Mr. Orman graduated from Eastern Washington University (Honors) in 1971.Among other things we sat down and discussed energy entrepreneurship, working alongside numerous Alberta Premiers, recruiting Ralph Klein & the Alberta Advantage.Enjoy.This podcast episode is sponsored by Connate Water Solutions.Do you need cost effective water sourcing options to supply your next drilling or completions program?Connate Water Solutions is a specialized hydrogeology company focused on water well drilling, testing and water management services in Western Canada and Texas.Contact info@connatewater.com or www.connatewater.com for more details.This podcast is sponsored by Headracingcanada.comLooking for high performance ski gear this winter? In partnership with 4x-Olympian Manny-Osborne Paradis, Headracingcanada.com is offering the lowest prices possible through its online storefront, by passing brick and mortar savings to customers. Check out  Headracingcanada.com for more info on high performance gear for the upcoming ski season.      Support the show

While the era of Ralph Klein from 1993 to 2007 brought stability, the next 15 years would be a time of change, falling governments and more in Alberta. Support: patreon.com/canadaehx Merch: www.canadaehx.com/shop Donate: canadaehx.com (Click Donate) E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: twitter.com/craigbaird Mastadon: @canadaehx@canada.masto.host Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cdnhistoryehx YouTube: youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx Want to send me something? Craig Baird PO Box 2384 Stony Plain PO Main, Alberta T7Z1X8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Building a Community Movement for Better Transit feat. James Wilt: Saturday, March 18th | University of Alberta. RSVP: michaeljanz.ca/transitcamp2023 A few short years into Alberta PC Premier Ralph Klein's deficit-slashing austerity regime, Calgary's hospital laundry workers were given devastating news: they were going to be fired. Having been pushed to the brink, they took to the streets the next day on a wildcat strike. Soon, the city would be galvanized by the strike, with sympathy strikes soon forcing Klein's government to cancel health spending cuts and talk of a general strike in the air.    Our episode ends with an excerpt from Yvette Lynch, laundry worker and CUPE 8 member.    Listen to our previous episode on TORIES: Peter Lougheed, and check out our two-part series on why Ralph Klein sucked: Part 1, Part 2.   Further Reading: Chambers, Allan. Fighting Back: The 1995 Calgary Laundry Workers Strike. Edmonton: Alberta Federation of Labour and Alberta Labour History Institute, 2012.. Foster, Jason. “Revolution, Retrenchment, and the New Normal: The 1990s and Beyond.” In Working People in Alberta: A History, edited by Alvin Finkel, 205–241. Edmonton: AU Press, 2012. Reshef, Yonaton, and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Taylor, Jeff. “Labour in the Klein Revolution.” In The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada, edited by Gordon Laxer and Trevor Harrison, 301–313. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995.

Jetzt kostenloses Erstgespräch buchen: www.wandelwerker.com Es gehört zur betrieblichen Praxis dass in den Unternehmen Fremdfirmen für diverse Tätigkeiten eingesetzt werden. Hieraus ergeben sich besondere Anforderungen an den Arbeitsschutz. In der neuen Podcast-Folge spricht Anna mit Ralph Klein, Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit und bekannt als Wissensjongleur. Die Beiden sprechen über die wesentlichen Grundregeln eines Fremdfirmenmanagements sowie die anstehenden Regeländerungen im kommenden Jahr. Weiterhin berichtet Ralph über die Auswirkungen des Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetzes auf den Einsatz von Fremdfirmen. Solltest Du und Dein Unternehmen noch Schwierigkeiten dabei haben, dass Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter das vorhandene Fremdfirmenmanagement ohne Diskussionen und Augen zu drücken umsetzen, dann helfen wir Dir sehr gerne dabei. Jetzt kostenloses Erstgespräch buchen: www.wandelwerker.com Anna Ganzke & Stefan Ganzke sind erfahrene Sicherheitsingenieure und gehören zu den TOP-Experten, wenn es um die Steigerung der Akzeptanz für den Arbeitsschutz geht und somit um die Reduzierung von Arbeitsunfällen und unsicheren Situationen. Die Gewinner des Deutschen Arbeitsschutzpreises 2021 zeigen Dir als Geschäftsführer, Sicherheitsingenieur und Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit, an welchen Stellschrauben Du in Deinem Unternehmen drehen musst, um ebenfalls Kurs auf die Vision Zero zu kommen.

Kevin Mailo, one of the co-founders of Physician Empowerment, talks with fellow co-founder Dr. Wing Lim about wealth mindsets. They explore not just financial health, but personal and practice-oriented wealth habits that lead to greater well-being and sustainable growth. Dr. Wing Lim, founder of Synergy Wellness, references a wakeup call he received from his mentor, Dr. George, in the form of the question “How would you like to make 100% of one person versus 1% of 100 people?”. This led Dr. Lim to what he calls a “brain decompression” that has informed the wealth mindset journey he's been on ever since. In this episode, Kevin Mailo and Wing Lim discuss a 100 year old concept called ​​The Three Dynamic T's of Success, which they currently host a masterclass on. The three T's are time, talent, and treasure, and Wing Lim breaks down how each T is key to success. If you can learn to manage time, talent - people, teams, other people's talent - and treasure/money, you will have tapped into an endless source of wealth from which your success can be fuelled. Dr. Lim shares his personal insights on exactly how the three T's have made the difference for him.About Dr. Wing LimDr. Wing Lim completed his Medical Degree at the University of Alberta in 1991 & Family Medicine Residency in 1993. Later he qualified for the FCFP designation in 2005 & 2019. His practice is focused on preventive health & Geriatric Home Visits, for which he received the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005. Apart from his clinical & teaching roles, Dr. Lim has extensive experience in Practice Management and Business Development. He co-launched the Sherwood Park Primary Care Network in 2007 (currently 90+ physician members). In 2009, he founded the Synergy Medical Clinic, which grew from 12 to 37 physicians over the following ten years, serving a panel of 50,000+ patients. He also co-developed the Synergy Wellness Centre, a 75,000 sq ft integrated medical-professional destination providing 55+ medical modalities by various specialties & allied health professionals, with over 500,000 patient encounters annually. He is currently co-developing a 165-bed Senior retirement facility with the provision of comprehensive care from independent, active living to secured Dementia care. Dr. Lim is passionate in sharing his extensive knowledge & experience (both clinical & business) with others in various settings, from his clinic mentoring younger colleagues, to churches, senior groups, ethnic functions, radio broadcasts, retreats, seminars and national conferences.Resources discussed in this episode:Synergy Wellness CentreSynergy Medical PlusConfucius quote—Physician Empowerment: website | facebook | linkedinWing Lim, BMSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP: website | linkedin__TranscriptKevin Mailo  Hi, I'm Dr. Kevin Mailo, and you're listening to the Physician Empowerment Podcast. At Physician Empowerment, we're focused on transforming the lives of Canadian physicians through education and finance, practice transformation, wellness, and leadership. After you've listened to today's episode, I encourage you to visit us at physempowerment.ca - that's P H Y S empowerment.ca - to learn more about the many resources we have to help you make that change in your own life, practice, and personal finances. Now on to today's episode. Kevin Mailo  Hi, I'm Kevin Mailo, one of the co-founders of Physician Empowerment. Tonight we're hosting a webinar. It's a beautiful summer evening out there. And I'm not going to keep this too long, because I'm headed off for some water skiing for the first time this year, yeah, so I'm really happy about that. And I'm very happy to have my fellow co-founder here as well, Dr. Wing Lim. And tonight what we're going to be talking about, Wing and I are going to be discussing wealth mindsets. I think this is such an important topic for physicians, because many of us have access to knowledge, many of us have access to credit, we have high incomes to invest, but one of the things that, you know, I found over this journey of educating physicians in finance is that there's a lot of facts, knowledge, and information out there in the world - we can go on the internet and find that very easily - but wisdom and experience are in short supply. And so we try to hit to some of these deeper notes by covering some of these more profound topics. And one of the ones that we want to discuss, and only in brief, because there are entire books written about this, is the notion of wealth mentalities. And I'm interviewing Wing today, because it's really exciting to hear his journey. And if you want, you can go back to one of our founding episodes to hear Wing's entire origin story. But in brief, you know, Wing, you started out as a family doctor in general practice in the early 90s, kind of doing it all - hospital-based, clinic-based, psychotherapy, delivering babies, you did it all. Why don't you tell us just the start, the first question I got for you is just tell us a little bit about your journey. Wing Lim  Yeah. So I'm a U of A grad, graduated a long time ago, early 90s. Yes, that was a time when practices were given away because people were leaving the province, there was a guy called Ralph Klein - those who called it the Ralphonomic Days for those who knew about Alberta - and I lost 98% of my classmates to US, so I was the two percent who stayed behind. Anyways, practices were given away, but I was crazy enough to have actually bought a practice with money that haven't got. So it was a solo practice and there is a built in lab. Those days, you can still have a lab in your clinic, believe it or not. And I have an X-Ray clinic next to me, so I'm running like a mini emergency department. I loved it, so bought it, ran it, 100 percent ownership, and my wife gave up her career. And so we built a clinic together at 100 hours per week. So that was the starting point. Kevin Mailo Yeah, so that's a lot. So you're working these long hours, you're struggling to balance tax payments, overhead, your time, you've got a young family, you're in the thick of it. And let's flash forward to where you're at now, you know, as a family physician with a great practice still, but you also are a real estate developer, having originated over $100 million in new developments. And, you know, take us through the couple of the highlights on that journey. And obviously, that's not going to be the whole journey. But take us through some of the points where your mind changed, right. There's something about you along that journey that changed. Wing Lim  Yeah, I think point number one is going to the school of hard knocks. You got hit by the upside of the head really fast. At least at my med school at U of A, there was one hour of teaching on health economics that is not about your personal health economics, it was about the hospital budget, provincial budget, bored to death, that kind of stuff. So personal finance budget, how you bill, we didn't even know we have to save money for tax. So that was first smack on the head. And then very soon we got evicted. The landlord took over and doubled our rent, we went to court, lost. So we spend my firstborn child - he's 25 now - so anyway, so we spent the first Christmas at a construction site because we get evicted right around Christmas. So that was another smack on the head. So we're running as hard as we could and then we're stuck and kids were coming. We got three kids within each 18-19 months apart, right? So my wife cannot work as hard. I cannot work as hard. So how are we going to do that when we keep trading time for money, and feel like I'm on a treadmill and running faster and faster like a stress test, the way booze protocol, I'm ready to fall off. So that was a wake up call, rude awakening, and then a critical mentor. They say when the student's ready the teacher shows up. So my mentor, Dr. George - you know, he's still a friend of mine, now he's in his 80s - and Dr. George asked me a critical question that decompressed my mind. And he said that he asked me 'Wing, how would you like to make 100% of one person versus 1% of 100 people?' I said can you repeat the question, George? I'd done very well at 100% of one person at 100 hours per week, and I'm going nowhere, right? Everything I went to school for I was doing, and I thought I should be actualized, I should be happy. But I got stuck. And the just trading time for money thing is not working out. So when he asked 1% of 100 people, that decompressed my brain and that is like an airbag in the car when this deployed. You cannot push it back. So I have been decompressed since I've been thinking about 1% 100 since, and it's a 20-some year journey. Kevin Mailo  So again, one of the learnings in your journey as you develop this wealth mentality, and I should share with everybody that when you have been a personal mentor to me in this space, that I was on that hamster wheel over five years ago when we met - six years ago, now, when we met - trading time for money, exhausted, working long hours, and asking myself, 'Where am I really headed in life?'. And, you know, I was a bold dreamer, you know, and that's partly why I founded Physician Empowerment, but struggling with the concrete, the ingredients that I needed to get where I was going. So you talk about taking 1% from people, but that sounds like team building to me. Tell me about a little bit of the team building journey that you've gone on, because you started out in solo practice, now you're part of a large group practice, that's practice transformation. We teach that in our small groups, but just give us a little bit of a teaser as to what that means for you. Wing Lim  Solo practice means you do everything by yourself. If you got to do it, do it yourself, right? So we always have that mentality that we do it ourselves. And that's got to change, right? Everyone learns to leverage, learn to exceed yourself, that you got to decompress and learn how to work with other people. So then I worked at create a multidisciplinary clinic, we ended with six physicians, and then I was ready to give up my practice, I was so burned out with the provincial health care, yada, yada. And then I went to a conference, came out, I dug my residency dream, I said 'I want to build a wellness Wellness Center', and fast forward about 10 years, 11 years ago we build this giant clinic, 75,000 square foot Wellness Center at the clinic. My family medicine clinic as the anchor tenant. So right now I have 30-some colleagues. It is one of the largest clinics in the province and we do a panel size about 50-60,000 patients, which is half of the county. And the building serves about 2000 clients a day, like with all the paramedical and medical services. Kevin Mailo  Yeah. Because you have a whole bunch of specialists there, as well as, you know, pharmacists, chiropractic, physio, all of that. Wing Lim  Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Kevin Mailo  Yeah. So very comprehensive. So this is living a dream for you. Wing Lim  It is living a dream. Yes. And it's not just my dream, people embrace it. Now it's a lot of people's dream come true. Lots of people's dream practice come true. Kevin Mailo It's a shared dream. Yeah. And I remember you talking about how important it's been for you to ensure that every physician within your group feels cared for and valued, right? That the strength of the clinic depends on the well-being of every individual physician. Wing Lim  Correct. Yeah, exactly. You would only win if everybody wins, right? That's the big win. And that's one of the transformation of the thinking. Right? Kevin Mailo  Let me just segue into what that is. That's a wealth mentality. That's the idea that the more generous we are with the people in our lives, with our communities, in terms of our time, our expertise, and even our money, the more that comes back to us, right? Because people want to join with someone who radiates that, and so it's that prosperity mentality, right? Like, because we're in a group practice doesn't mean that we're taking from one another here, that we're reducing one another's billings or increasing one another's overhead, that we can actually come together, and in more practical terms, boost revenue, and reduce relative overhead, in addition to delivering better practice, or better medicine in our practices, and delivering better care for our communities. And I'll just put a little plug there because Synergy Medical sees both. I work in the hospital as an ER doctor, you know, a few blocks away from Synergy, and it sees 10 times more patients per day than my entire hospital. You know, so it really speaks to what you've built, Wing. Wing Lim  Well thank you. And part of the learning is to learn to think outside of the box. I think we went to school to be the best we could be professionally. Since pre-med days, we study for ourselves, we get a good GPA, get a good MCAT score, get in, and then you learn and you always for yourself is just one off, right? But when you go into the real world, you got to drop that thinking and do team play. In fact, I came across a concept that is 100 years old. And in a masterclass we're actually diving into this, and this is called The Three Dynamic T's. The Three Dynamic T's of Success. So in the real world to have professional success, it's not just your GPA or how smart you are, how special you are, it's about three dynamic T's and the first T is time, the second T is talent, and the third T is treasure. So when you manage these three T's, then you and your team will be unstoppable. So a masterclass is going to go through a lot of this in depth thing, so we invite everybody to check us out on masterclass which is a 12 month program. You start the one on time. So if you can manage time, manage talents - which is people and teams, other people's talents - and you can manage treasure - which is money - then you would truly be successful. In fact even when you work for fee for service, calculation model, or a fixed budget, or you work for public health, each enterprise, whether it's public or private, to be successful, these three dynamic t's need to be worked on. Kevin Mailo  Yeah. And this really speaks to another core physician empowerment concept called 'you is the most important investment'. And really what that is, is the idea that, you know, your practice, your financial stability, your personal well-being, depends on constantly investing in yourself as an individual, right? That it is not about just endless personal sacrifice, but that we are, you know, focusing on our well-being in terms of, you know, sleep, exercise, eating right, and maintaining healthy relationships. And this is something that, you know, we pay a lot of lip service to within the profession, but be mindful that as fee-for-service earners, the vast majority of us, or at least al of us trade time for money in our clinical work, the importance of being able to stay in this not as a sprint, but as a marathon. And so time is a key component to that. And even being able to outsource, being able to trust professionals in our financial and practice lives, so that we are focusing on the most important tasks, I have found to be personally transformative along that journey. When you talk about that T. Do you want to talk about talent as it relates to delegation and outsourcing, Wing, because I think that's another important topic. And if I can be blunt - and, you know, we try to be straight here on Physician Empowerment - let me be blunt, many physicians struggle with micromanaging. I certainly have done it over the years, right? So we have this mentality of, well, if I want it done, I gotta do it myself. And I'm gonna do it properly. And that means it's going to be me. And let me be the first to say, that is exactly what I want out of my surgeon. If somebody is cutting me open, I want to make sure that my bowels are getting sewn up extremely meticulously, right. And same goes with, you know, when I'm caring for critically ill patients and these sorts of things. But as we zoom the lens out a little bit, and look at how our clinics function, how our hospitals function, how our financial lives function in terms of, you know, whether it's real estate, or investing in the markets, that micromanaging can really trip us up. And it's not only in terms of not reaching our financial goals, or our practice goals, but even in terms of our well-being. That there is a limit to how much any one person can micromanage before they start to really hit the wall and become exhausted. So tell me a little bit about that, then, Wing. Talk to me about that second T, talent, as it relates to delegation and outsourcing. Wing Lim  The micromanagement, I think, it's our trademark. If you looked up the dictionary, you see our pictures in there. And the micromanagement thing, other than just being super focused on success, and no error, no mistake, we are a very mistake-adverse culture because if we make mistakes people die, people suffer, and we lose our license, potentially, we get complaints, blah, blah, blah. So we're very mistake-oriented culture, so we don't trust people. But it's a micromanagement issue. It's an issue, like you need to see a therapist, right, and it's a mistrust. The lack of ability to trust others. And I think the many more years we stay in tertiary care, the more we do that. So the first thing is to undo some thinking deep down, you give yourself permissions, right, I've learned a long time ago, if you give yourself some permissions, you can actually learn to decompress and learn and grow. And first thing was, I'm not the smartest guy, right? And I think as a family physician, as a primary care provider, it's easy for me to do because I always refer. But even specialists, they specialized and when people would always refer out they would say, 'this is not my field', right? So I'm not, I don't need to be the smartest guy, I'm not the smartest guy. So there are lots of talents out there. There's an ancient Chinese saying, "Three people walking, two of them are my teachers". Okay, this is actually a saying from Confucius. And he's not confused. Right? And so that is social, we can learn from everyone, every member on the team. So thinking change number one for talent, is 'I'm not it', right? I need other people that grows, if I'm not the smartest one, I need other people that grows to the next phase, which is called interdependence, right? We've become from dependence to independence, and then now interdependence. And I think that is a breakthrough. It's easier said than done, but we got to lean on it. And healthcare is morphing, man. Right? If you look at how we do things in hospital, we have robotic arms now, I mean, the people from third world with a surgeon here working with a surgeon there, right? Like, we're changing. We've been expected to work with a paramedical professionals, you know their MPs writing orders right next to you. Kevin Mailo  Our MPs at the hospital are phenomenal. Phenomenal. I feel very privileged to be working with our MPs, because I feel like they helped create one of the best emergency departments in the country. And again, that was a process of learning to work, you know, in an interdisciplinary mindset, and learning to let go a little bit. And it's been just great. Wing Lim  Yeah, exactly. And once you respect people for what they are contributing, even down to the most, quote, junior person.... I think we have this elitism that's another one we need to fight against. These are cocooning off the shelf, one of which, that leads to pride and arrogance, honestly, is that elitism, right? Like I'm holier than thou and smarter than thou, I belong to the smartest group, I think the sooner we break away from that, and we say, hey, we need each other, the sooner you respect the talent. And the talent is in things that you might not think is important clinically, but it's very, very important. And one example was there was a study going around with complication rates in ICU. They found that the ICU, the highest performing ICUs across the country with the lowest complication rate, come from one single parameter, how easy it is for the lowest ranking person with these knowledge, how easy it is for that person to say, 'Hey, I think we got a problem'. And the ICU group that had even the janitor or anybody, right, supportive staff, will say, 'Hey, I think we got a problem'. If the team listens to that angle, they have the best safety and the least amount of complication. Kevin Mailo  You have that parallel in the airline industry, where everyone is empowered to speak up and errors, when they are caught, are actually celebrated. And I think that's very powerful. So let's just shift a little bit here, staying on this second T talent. Talk to us about our financial lives, like another one that I see physicians do, I mean, I see physicians not wanting to pay an accountant, they do their own accounting. I see physicians who do their own bookkeeping, which is just, I feel like, overwhelming for me. I see physicians trying to manage their portfolios, talk to us about that, right? Because I see the whole spread. And it's not just about making gains financially, and managing that other T treasury. But it's about, like, our well-being. I mean, for myself personally, working, you know, a 10 hour shift in the emerg, coming home and trying to stare at my books, trying to pick stocks, feels absolutely overwhelming. And I'm certain I would screw that up a whole bunch. And then the couple of times that I've tried it, I have screwed up massively and learned my lesson. So I outsource, right, I have professionals that manage real estate for me, bookkeeping, accounting, and my equities. So talk to us about that in our financial lives, that micromanaging, because I think that's another big one. Wing Lim  So the T that's talent in the personal finance and corporate finance world is even more pertinent, because you cannot do it all. Right, so the DIY mentality, it goes right back to the mentality that I made, I'm the smartest one I can't trust anyone. Right? And if you want to be that special, you are guaranteed to be small. The S is not Superman, it's like you are super small. So you got to trust me when, if you become a specialist and okay I DIY and do all those do stocks or do crypto, good for you, it becomes a habit, a hobby, good for you. And we're not knocking anybody. But it's a team sport, right? We went to school to play solitaire, but then when we graduate, this is a team sport, right? And so you need to learn how to do a team. And so in finance, more importantly, it's a team sport. You need team members, each with their strength. They don't have to be perfect, right? You have the accountant, you have the lawyer, you have a bean counter, you have a guy who... it's just like Dorothy going to see the Wizard of Oz. She's got all these characters that each have their defects, one has no courage, one has no heart, one has no brain, right? And so these actually, I have been taught, that puts it into all your consultants. Kevin Mailo  To come back to your point, when this bit on an element of humility, I'll just share one personal story that actually came from today. And you helped me with this. I have a property that I can't sell, I can't rent, and so I'm putting it on AirBNB and I've hired a company to do that. I outsourced. And it's eye-watering, they need a $45,000 check to get the house ready, you know, to stage it, to furnish it, everything. And, you know, I'm so tempted to just like move funds from my PC, pay myself that $45,000, and then write the check off to this company. And I paused and I phoned my accountant. I rarely rarely have any answers in this space, I only have questions. But I'm thankfully very fortunate in that I'm ready to ask questions, even the so called dumb ones, and I just go ahead and ask him, I said, 'Is that smart?' Or should I be loaning money from my PC, or should I be using a line of credit? And he said based on, you know, the nature of the purchases and the property and everything else, line of credit. Wow, wow, right? Huge saving 1000s of dollars right there, huge pressure off me, I'm so happy I did that, maybe, you know, 100 bucks for that phone call, worth every penny of it, right? And so that's a growth for me, right? That's, you know, learning to be humble enough to ask questions. Understanding that I don't have the answers. And we actually do this in practice. When I'm in the emergency department, I feel like I'm in over my head, I pick up the phone and call a consultant. You know, we've got a patient in front of us in clinic, we refer on to a consultant. I mean, you mentioned that earlier, Wing, but it's important to think about that in terms of our financial lives as well, which I think is so powerful. So that was, like, actually today, off went the check. Wing Lim  You shared and you demonstrated that you actually picked a team member that is valuable. Right? So, but if you didn't pick the right team member, you won't have got that answer. So part of this talent thing is you become a talent agent. Right? People ask me, 'How do you do such big projects?' I said, 'Oh, it's easy. I chum around people who are smarter than me.' Right? If your why is big enough, the house will come to you. I'm not good at engineering at all, right? One day I found myself in a room with 18 engineers around me and 2 architects building this big senior project that is today worth $52 million that we just launched last year, right? So here's the brightest engineering minds in the city, and they're circling around me asking me questions. Well, I chum around with people who are way smarter than me. So when you put the right team together, so it's a talent show where you hunt for the talent, and you hunt for the right talent for the right thing. And then you're going to win, you're going to win because you got the best team, you got the A Team. I'm dating myself with The A Team, Mr. T. Kevin Mailo  Yeah, but it's true. And, you know, like, certainly this AirBNB thing that I'm doing, it is not cheap. I am paying a lot upfront, and I'm paying a lot for management fees, but I am so much happier. Number one, I know it's going to work far better than if I did it myself. And number two, more importantly, I am happier. Because I do not want to be going and trying to turn over a space and micromanage cleaners and everything else, right? It's about our personal well-being along this financial journey that is not simply about getting to a certain number, a certain net worth, a certain cash flow. It's really about building a financial plan that works in our personal lives. That works with our practice lives. I think that's so important. So important. Wing Lim Exactly. The other example is, tying the three T's together, is if you DIY everything yourself, you're gonna miss some advice, and tax is single handedly the biggest expense in our life. And if you don't get the right tax advice or, worse, get the wrong advice, you could be wasting a lot of money. I spent the time, sought out a smart guy in insurance and in tax, and I went home and ran it by my team and I saved about $350,000 in tax based on that one piece of advice. Kevin Mailo  Yeah, that is exactly it. And you know what, we have seen that on our Physician Empowerment conferences, people come up and they go, 'Oh, my goodness, I wish I knew this 20 years ago'. And it's never too late. Right? Like that's the most amazing thing about anything in life - any stage, anything in life, is that nothing is ever too late. So if you have those kinds of questions, start asking them, start going to people, start building that team, begin now. It can be so powerfully transformative. And I have missed out on far more deals than I had been part of. And that's okay, because guess what, Warren Buffett didn't buy Walmart, didn't buy Amazon, and he's doing just fine, right? So it is never too late to be okay. And better than okay, it is never too late to thrive in our financial lives and in our practice lives. Tomorrow is always a new day. Wing Lim  So more important than the actual talent that we thought we need to possess, is to ask the question why? And ask the right questions. What questions are we supposed to ask? Now interestingly, the word knowledge, which is a Greek word, but in Chinese the word knowledge is actually two characters: learn, ask. So knowledge in Chinese thinking is 'learn to ask questions'. So that the more knowledge you got, that means that the more questions you learn to ask, you just ask smarter questions. So what we hope to empower people at Physician Empowerment, it's a peer to peer empowerment process, is to empower you to ask better questions to your own team. How do we assemble the right team, keep asking questions, and in doing that you have an enlightened path. Right? And then you can reach your own goal, which is different than mine or yours, right? Kevin Mailo I love that. I absolutely love that, Wing. So I think we're going to actually start winding it down. We don't want to make these too heavy. We don't make these too long. And I'll just share a little bit of my own wellness with those that might be a little bit late joining, is that I'm about to go waterskiing, and it's a beautiful summer night, and I'm not going to miss that. Anyhow, being out on the lake, on the boat, it's going to be great. So we are going to wind it down here. I've really, really, really loved this. I'm always inspired when we talk like this, because it's these bigger questions, right? It's learning to take risk. It's learning to ask the big questions, why. It's learning to be humble enough to reach out to people in our practice lives, in our financial lives, that are going to help us soar. That it doesn't have to be a one person show. So we have quite a few people who've joined us in the webinar. And I'll just put it out there briefly for anyone that wants to ask questions, go ahead and type them into the chat. But otherwise, I'm also just happy to wind it down. Because this was great. And this is only a start of what we're going to be covering in this area because there's so much... you know what, when I reflect on practice success or financial success, it's about grit. And this is some of the process of building grit, just that inner toughness, that inner resiliency to keep going when you feel like giving up. And so I'd invite anyone who's interested, just reach out to us, go on the website or sign up for emails, but like we are super accessible, you reach out to us over email, phone. And if you want to know more about our masterclass or conferences, we're always happy to talk about them. But at any rate, I think I'm gonna wrap it up there. And I really want to thank everyone for joining tonight. And Wing, I really want to thank you, again, for just sharing so much wisdom. Wing Lim  Well, thank you. It's always fun and we hope to see more of everyone. Thanks. Kevin Mailo  Thank you so much for listening to the Physician Empowerment Podcast. If you're ready to take those next steps in transforming your practice, finances, or personal well being, then come and join us at physempowerment.ca - P H Y S empowerment.ca - to learn more about how we can help. If today's episode resonated with you, I'd really appreciate it if you would share our podcast with a colleague or friend and head over to Apple podcasts to give us a five star rating and review. If you've got feedback, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, we'd love to hear from you. If you want to join us and be interviewed and share some of your story, we'd absolutely love that as well. Please send me an email at KMailo@physempowerment.ca. Thank you again for listening. Bye.

In today's episode, I spoke with Rachel Buxbaum about trauma and body relationships. We had a really interesting conversation about the intersection between the two. Although, I work strictly as a dietitian and not as a therapist, I always say, you can't take the therapeutic component out of the relationship with one's body. Peoples relationship with food and body are so interconnected with so many areas of life. A few books Rachel recommended on these topics are "Disorders of the Self" by Ralph Klein, though it's a very clinical, technique-focused book. For the casual reader - "Schopenhauer's Porcupines," which tackles similar dynamics in a very digestible, accessible way. Luepnitz, D. A. (2002). Schopenhauer's porcupines: Intimacy and its dilemmas: Five stories of psychotherapy. Basic Books (AZ). Masterson, J. F., & Klein, R. (2013). Disorders of the self: New therapeutic horizons: The Masterson approach. Routledge. Rachel Buxbaum is a PhD candidate at LIU-Brooklyn's doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. She currently practices cognitive-behavioral therapy at New York Presbyterian's Gracie Square Hospital, and psychodynamic-analytic therapy at the Psychological Services Center of LIU-Brooklyn, where she also conducts research and mentors junior therapists. Rachel is an adjunct psychology professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent for courses including Social Psychology and Counseling and Interviewing Skills. Her social-clinical psychology research focuses on structural trauma, mistrust of the medical and mental healthcare systems, and ways that therapists can attend more empathically and effectively to their patients' fears of being vulnerable to the therapeutic process. You can reach her with any questions at rachelrbuxbaum@gmail.com. If you have gained from this episode or any of my content, please leave a rating and review and share it with those who can benefit. This is how the podcast moves up on Apple Podcast and more people can hear this information. Feel free to reach out with comments, questions and any feedback at gilaglassberg18@gmail.com. Have a great day and thank you for being here! If you are ready to make peace with food and never say diet again, check out my website www.gilaglassberg.com and apply for a free 20 minute clarity call. I look forward to hearing from you! https://gilaglassberg.com/scheduling/ If you'd like to learn more about what I do, follow me on Instagram @gila.glassberg.intuitiveRD. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Buche Dir jetzt dein kostenloses Beratungsgespräch: www.wandelwerker.com/termin Unterweisungen und Schulungen im Arbeitsschutz scheinen in vielen Unternehmen eher einseitig oder langweilig zu sein. Wenn die Menschen jedoch für den Arbeitsschutz motiviert werden sollen, dann braucht es frische Ideen. In der neuen Podcast-Folge spricht Anna mit Ralph Klein. Ralph ist HSE Manager, aber viel mehr als Wissens-Jongleur bekannt. Ralph spricht darüber, was ihm bei Dozenten am meisten ärgert und wie es zu seiner Rolle als Wissens-Jongleur kam. Wenn Du lernen möchtest, wie Du die Menschen in Schulungen und Unterweisungen mit dem Arbeitsschutz erreichst und dadurch die Haltung veränderst, dann buche dir jetzt ein kostenloses Beratungsgespräch bei uns. Buche Dir jetzt dein kostenloses Beratungsgespräch: www.wandelwerker.com/termin Anna Ganzke & Stefan Ganzke sind erfahrene Sicherheitsingenieure und gehören zu den TOP-Experten, wenn es um die Steigerung der Akzeptanz für den Arbeitsschutz geht und somit um die Reduzierung von Arbeitsunfällen und unsicheren Situationen. Sie zeigen Dir als Geschäftsführer, Sicherheitsingenieur und Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit, an welchen Stellschrauben Du in Deinem Unternehmen drehen musst, um ebenfalls Kurs auf die Vision Zero zu nehmen.

Ryan Jespersen is one of the great broadcast to podcast success stories. After being relieved from the coveted 9 to noon position at the venerable 630 CHED in Edmonton last year, Ryan hatched a plan to move his audience from terrestrial to digital, and at the same time fill a need for real talk in the digital space.In this episode, you will hear how Ryan got into radio i(and later TV) n Red Deer, Alberta, moved north to Edmonton where he hosted Breakfast television and eventually on to Corus owned 630 CHED. We spoke about Alberta politics and how it compared to when I was there in 1990's when Ralph Klein's Conservatives held a 40+ year stranglehold on the province - and how it devolved. We also talked about how he monetizes the show, how he moved people to digital, and what the goals of the show are in the future.You can find more about Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen on our episode page.We also spoke about my friend Christian Zyp who was a guest on the Sound Off Podcast a few months ago. Zyp appeared on Ryan's show and you can see appearance here. Thanks also to the people who make this show possible every week including:PromosuiteJustin Dove at Core Image StudiosMegatraxSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fan of the show? https://www.patreon.com/newleftradio (Support us on Patreon)! How does a radical kid from Toronto end up running a public policy institute in Alberta? It's just the path of life for Gordon Laxer. Gordon's work took him to the belly of the beast, fighting for climate action in the heartland of oil & gas, and advocating for a renewed insurgency effort within the NDP — an effort that earned him a blacklisting from the party for his leadership in the Waffle. We discuss his life, his other, his work, and everything in between. Links https://www.gordonlaxer.com/ (Gordon's website) https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/ (The Parkland Institute) About Gordon Laxer Gordon Laxer is the founding Director and former head of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Parkland is a non-corporate research institute that does public policy research to serve the public interest. When the Progressive Conservatives ruled Alberta under Ralph Klein, the Globe and Mailcalled Parkland Alberta's ‘unofficial opposition'. Parkland's mission has been to change the political culture of Alberta. Laxer is a Political Economist and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, and the author of After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians (Sept 2015) Douglas & McIntyre. Ge has authored or edited five other books, including Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada (Oxford Uni Press), which received the John Porter Award for best book written about Canada, and have published over 50 journal articles and refereed book chapters and reports. He was the Principal Investigator of a $1.9 million research project: Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers: Reclaiming the Commons in the Semi-periphery (2000-2006). He is a socially-engaged, public intellectual. His op eds have been published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Edmonton Journal, the Calgary Herald, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun, the Province(Vancouver), the Winnipeg Free Press, the Victoria Times Colonist, the Hill Times, the Saint John Chronicle Herald, the St. John's Telegram, Canadian Dimension, and other publications. He has been interviewed a number of times on venues such as the CBC's The Current, As it Happens, and the House, and served on the board of the Council of Canadians from 2004 to 2009. About the Parkland Institute Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Parkland Institute studies economic, social, cultural, and political issues facing Albertans and Canadians, using the perspective of political economy. The Institute shares the results of its research widely and promotes discussion of the issues its research raises. Stay connected with the latest from New Left Radio by https://newleft.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8227a4372fe8dc22bdbf0e3db&id=e99d6c70b4 (joining our mailing list) today! _________ Support this podcast

Episode 8 features Part 2 of my conversation with former MLA and Edmonton City Councillor, Karen Leibovici. We discuss Question Period's similarities to Kindergarten, Ralph Klein's mandate for reform, and the quality of the food in the Legislature Cafeteria. Future episodes include conversations with former MLAs Iris Evans, Denis Ducharme, and Laurie Blakeman.

Today we are back in Alberta and we are visiting the small town of Torrington. In this episode, Kaitlynn and Kaytlin discuss prayers and love for mayor Harold, weirdly shaped children, stealing gopher hats, the rich and interesting history of their world famous gopher museum and Ralph Klein's love for gophers. So grab your stuffed gopher and let's learn more about this small town and their big problems!

Ralph Klein's favourite mythical Alberta couple are causing headaches for Jason Kenney. Despite spiking COVID-19 cases and deaths, and news the province is planning indoor field hospitals, today's versions of Martha and Henry are showing up at anti-mask rallies and demanding their personal freedom. Meanwhile, the premier’s support continues to drop according to recent polls. Guest host Jim Brown explores what’s going on with Ken Boessenkool, a senior research fellow at the CD Howe Institute, (and the author of an article about Martha and Henry 2.0 @the_lineca,) pollster Janet Brown, founder of Janet Brown Opinion Research, and political strategist Zain Velji of Northweather, and host of The Strategists podcast.

Alberta already has the most choice in K-12 education in Canada, with private school pupils being funded to the tune of 70 percent per pupil compared to public school pupils, more than any other province. Charter schools, started in 1994 by Ralph Klein, receive the same level of per pupil funding as public schools, but are run by private parent or corporate boards. No other province in Canada even has charter schools. Since gaining power in the spring of 2019, Alberta's UCP Government has lifted the cap on establishing charter schools and is advocating for a voucher system that would increase the per student public funding to Alberta's private schools from 70 percent to 100 percent. The shift would arguably encourage many more private and religious education schools, more segregation—and more inequality. To top off the “Politics of Education”, Alberta's Government has paused the previous NDP Government's work on curriculum changes and is employing panels of “experts”, including an all-male group of advisors, to determine an outcome. The speaker will provide more background on these issues and give her opinions on why a strong public school system is important to the well-being of our Alberta communities. Speaker: Bridget Stirling Bridget Stirling is a PhD student in the University of Alberta's Department of Educational Policy Studies, where she is interested in children's rights and the politics of childhood. Her doctoral research focuses on education reform movements and education law and policy in Alberta. She serves as a research assistant on Thinking Historically for Canada's Future, a SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant investigating history education in Canada, where she examines the development and politics of teaching standards in history and social studies education. Bridget holds an MA in Intercultural and International Communication from Royal Roads University. In addition to her doctoral studies, Bridget serves as an Edmonton Public School Board trustee. Date and time: Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 10am MST YouTube Livestream: https://youtu.be/7OZpAe-HP0I In order to ask questions of our speaker in the chat feature of YouTube, you must have a YouTube account and be signed in. Please do so well ahead of the scheduled start time, so you'll be ready. Go the YouTube Live link provided in this session flyer and on the top right of your browser click the “sign in” button. If you have Google or Gmail accounts, they can be used to sign in. If you don't, click “Create Account” and follow along. Once you are signed in, you can return to the live stream and use the chat feature to ask your questions of the speaker. Remember you can only participate in the chat feature while we are livestreaming. For further info visit the SACPA website: http://www.sacpa.ca

Alberta already has the most choice in K-12 education in Canada, with private school pupils being funded to the tune of 70 percent per pupil compared to public school pupils, more than any other province. Charter schools, started in 1994 by Ralph Klein, receive the same level of per pupil funding as public schools, but are run by private parent or corporate boards. No other province in Canada even has charter schools. Since gaining power in the spring of 2019, Alberta's UCP Government has lifted the cap on establishing charter schools and is advocating for a voucher system that would increase the per student public funding to Alberta's private schools from 70 percent to 100 percent. The shift would arguably encourage many more private and religious education schools, more segregation—and more inequality. To top off the “Politics of Education”, Alberta's Government has paused the previous NDP Government's work on curriculum changes and is employing panels of “experts”, including an all-male group of advisors, to determine an outcome. The speaker will provide more background on these issues and give her opinions on why a strong public school system is important to the well-being of our Alberta communities. Speaker: Bridget Stirling Bridget Stirling is a PhD student in the University of Alberta's Department of Educational Policy Studies, where she is interested in children's rights and the politics of childhood. Her doctoral research focuses on education reform movements and education law and policy in Alberta. She serves as a research assistant on Thinking Historically for Canada's Future, a SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant investigating history education in Canada, where she examines the development and politics of teaching standards in history and social studies education. Bridget holds an MA in Intercultural and International Communication from Royal Roads University. In addition to her doctoral studies, Bridget serves as an Edmonton Public School Board trustee. Date and time: Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 10am MST YouTube Livestream: https://youtu.be/7OZpAe-HP0I In order to ask questions of our speaker in the chat feature of YouTube, you must have a YouTube account and be signed in. Please do so well ahead of the scheduled start time, so you'll be ready. Go the YouTube Live link provided in this session flyer and on the top right of your browser click the “sign in” button. If you have Google or Gmail accounts, they can be used to sign in. If you don't, click “Create Account” and follow along. Once you are signed in, you can return to the live stream and use the chat feature to ask your questions of the speaker. Remember you can only participate in the chat feature while we are livestreaming. For further info visit the SACPA website: http://www.sacpa.ca

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:49 Panel Introductions 00:09:19 Simon Jonassen - Demo 00:36:01 Nightmare Highway song 00:40:34 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk 01:03:35 CoCo Thoughts 01:05:23 GameON! challenge results 01:34:04 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon 01:41:23 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement 01:02:15 GameON! news 02:43:38 News from around the world 03:32:05 Project updates and acquisitions 03:54:52 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show: 1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4   https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE   2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode   https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw   3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979   https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U   4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th: https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7   5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4: (I will only show one link on the show) https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3 https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34   6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz. https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr   7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version. https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw   8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold): https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh   9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes. https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea   10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it: https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY   11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command: https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo   12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64) https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos   13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx   Game On news: 1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions: https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c   2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing: https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE Time Bomb https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI   3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery, https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875   4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot   5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game: Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/y693oque Part 3: https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy   6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+ https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236   7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE   8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games: https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114 9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link. https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:   https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:39 Panel Introductions 00:09:09 Simon Jonassen - Demo 00:35:50 Nightmare Highway song 00:40:24 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk 01:03:25 CoCo Thoughts 01:05:13 GameON! challenge results 01:33:50 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon 01:41:13 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement 01:02:05 GameON! news 02:43:28 News from around the world 03:31:55 Project updates and acquisitions 03:54:42 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show: 1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4   https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE   2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode   https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw   3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979   https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U   4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th: https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7   5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4: (I will only show one link on the show) https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3 https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34   6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz. https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr   7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version. https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw   8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold): https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh   9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes. https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea   10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it: https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY   11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command: https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo   12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64) https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos   13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx   Game On news: 1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions: https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c   2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing: https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE Time Bomb https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI   3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery, https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875   4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot   5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game: Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/y693oque Part 3: https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy   6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+ https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236   7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE   8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games: https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114 9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link. https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo     Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:   https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

A former Calgary resident and business owner describes what life was like during the oil boom in Alberta, with Ralph Klein as Mayor, and later Premier. We discuss the 86' olympics, the Calgary stampede, and blowing up hospitals. Love him or hate him, Ralph was elected time and time again, so he must have been doing something right. Music by "Hot Lettuce".

Predictably, the Alberta NDP's focus-grouped and poll-driven strategy to get re-elected failed, despite Jason Kenney's campaign having multiple run-ins with xenophobia and white nationalism. Who could've foreseen after the 2016 Clinton-Trump contest that people would vote for magic nostalgic "make the economy better" beans, even if the leader in question is an asshole? Surely in Alberta, where Ralph Klein was Premier for 14 years, people at the ballot box ask themselves "hrmm I wonder who is more fit to be Premier?"

It's A Conspiracy! Andrew gets a chance to sit down with Angie Klein, Daughter of Ralph Klein. Petals on the trail Angie Klein music Musical Mamas Ralph Klein Wikipedia Ralph Klein Park Calgary Olympics Ralph Bucks Homeless relocated to Vancouver Homeless shelter incident --- Patreon / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook Questions, comments, or feedback? Email the show at itsaconspiracy@protonmail.com

On April 16th, Alberta heads to the polls in the first big election of 2019. But which Alberta will emerge afterwards? Will it be the Alberta that recognizes Climate Change, the duty of government to supply services and protect the rights of all citizens? Or will it be the Alberta of days past with unconditional subservience to corporate will and mid-20th century social policy? The dire warnings from the usual suspects of socialism run amok under Rachel Notley simply haven't come true. Yes, poverty has been halved in 4 years. Yes, the infrastructure deficit lingering since Ralph Klein has been attacked with positive results. Yes, deficit spending is not going away anytime soon. The "impending financial doom" warnings simply don't hold up to hard statistics. Alberta still has the lowest tax burden by a wide margin in Canada. Nobody is lowering Alberta's credit rating, like Ontario's. And yes, detractors on the left have pointed out the failed promises with accuracy. But the sky has not fallen, in fact it's gotten sunnier for a lot of people. Corporate media is ready for the coronation of Prince Jason, despite his trainwreck of a leadership campaign being investigated by the RCMP. Despite candidates dropping like flies. Despite every sliver of policy announced being a throwback to anywhere between 1948 and 1992. Despite every campaign appearance by Jason Kenney mysteriously having the Facebook Live feed drop as soon as its question time. And in this mess, Stephen Mandel, David Khan and Derek Fildebrandt try to attract some attention wherever and however they can. Some constituencies in Alberta will have up to 8 names on the ballot, yet it is two parties that get all the notice. This opening episode on the Alberta Election will look at what the parties have promised so far and what they have warned Albertans about everybody else. And the band played on...  

Ready for Ralph Klein, Ontario edition? Joined by special guest James Wilt (@james_m_wilt), Team Advantage discusses the terrible coverage of Doug Ford in the run-up to Ontario's election. We read some of the awful fluffy coverage of Ford that helped him win. Warning: the following takes are absolutely awful. Jen Gerson - May 1, 2018 - Relax, Doug Ford will be fine Jen Gerson - June 8, 2018 - The Ontario PCs got their majority. Have they also been cursed? Andrew Coyne - June 6, 2018 - Whoever wins the Ontario election doesn't deserve it Matthew Lau - June 8, 2018 - Now let’s undo the damage of Wynne’s cruel and unfair minimum-wage crusade Margaret Wente - June 8, 2018 - The barbarian has stormed Ontario’s gates Globe editorial - June 5, 2018 - For Ontario voters, leadership and vision are not on offer Thanks to James for joining us -- be sure to check out his work at thenarwhal.ca, and of course, listen to the excellent News You Can Use Podcast!

If you weren't convinced by part one ... well, here's part two. It should do the trick. Team Advantage discusses the last half of Ralph Klein's reign, which includes deregulating electricity, foot-dragging on LGBTQ rights, drunkenly yelling at unhoused people, dinosaur farts, I HEART ALBERTA BEEF, pie-throwing, "paid in full," misogynistic jokes, Ralph Bucks, the flat tax, and more!

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta's vast petroleum reserves have arguably been badly mismanaged since the early 1990s both in terms of collecting proper royalties and environmental sustainability. Even some of the industry's biggest promoters have conceded that the laborious extraction of oil from sand and clay has left the province's economic fortunes in an unreliable economic situation, not to mention the resulting ecological degradation that bitumen mining causes. The speaker will argue that the revolving door between cabinet tables and the corporate board rooms, since Ralph Klein became Premier of Alberta, effectively allowed the oil industry to dictate public policy and thereby undermine the democratic process. He will also speculate on whether or not Alberta's fortunes can improve with Premier Rachel Notley's NDP Government promoting pipelines and implementing a tax on carbon as a way of taking action on climate change and environmental issues. Speaker: Dr. Kevin Taft Kevin Taft is delighted to return to Lethbridge to speak at SACPA. Kevin is the author of five books, including Oil's Deep State, published in 2017. Taft served three terms in the Alberta legislature with the Alberta Liberal Party, and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2004 to 2008, through two general elections. Prior to entering politics he had a long career working in public policy in the Alberta government, the non-profit sector, and the private sector. He has a PhD in Business from University of Warwick and is a distinguished research fellow at the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta, and served as a visiting fellow at Western Sydney University in Australia. Taft grew up in Edmonton, where he and his wife still live. He is no longer involved in party politics, and is a frequent public speaker. Moderator: Cameron Howey Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost:$11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta's vast petroleum reserves have arguably been badly mismanaged since the early 1990s both in terms of collecting proper royalties and environmental sustainability. Even some of the industry's biggest promoters have conceded that the laborious extraction of oil from sand and clay has left the province's economic fortunes in an unreliable economic situation, not to mention the resulting ecological degradation that bitumen mining causes. The speaker will argue that the revolving door between cabinet tables and the corporate board rooms, since Ralph Klein became Premier of Alberta, effectively allowed the oil industry to dictate public policy and thereby undermine the democratic process. He will also speculate on whether or not Alberta's fortunes can improve with Premier Rachel Notley's NDP Government promoting pipelines and implementing a tax on carbon as a way of taking action on climate change and environmental issues. Speaker: Dr. Kevin Taft Kevin Taft is delighted to return to Lethbridge to speak at SACPA. Kevin is the author of five books, including Oil's Deep State, published in 2017. Taft served three terms in the Alberta legislature with the Alberta Liberal Party, and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2004 to 2008, through two general elections. Prior to entering politics he had a long career working in public policy in the Alberta government, the non-profit sector, and the private sector. He has a PhD in Business from University of Warwick and is a distinguished research fellow at the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta, and served as a visiting fellow at Western Sydney University in Australia. Taft grew up in Edmonton, where he and his wife still live. He is no longer involved in party politics, and is a frequent public speaker. Moderator: Cameron Howey Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost:$11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta's vast petroleum reserves have arguably been badly mismanaged since the early 1990s both in terms of collecting proper royalties and environmental sustainability. Even some of the industry's biggest promoters have conceded that the laborious extraction of oil from sand and clay has left the province's economic fortunes in an unreliable economic situation, not to mention the resulting ecological degradation that bitumen mining causes. The speaker will argue that the revolving door between cabinet tables and the corporate board rooms, since Ralph Klein became Premier of Alberta, effectively allowed the oil industry to dictate public policy and thereby undermine the democratic process. He will also speculate on whether or not Alberta's fortunes can improve with Premier Rachel Notley's NDP Government promoting pipelines and implementing a tax on carbon as a way of taking action on climate change and environmental issues. Speaker: Dr. Kevin Taft Kevin Taft is delighted to return to Lethbridge to speak at SACPA. Kevin is the author of five books, including Oil's Deep State, published in 2017. Taft served three terms in the Alberta legislature with the Alberta Liberal Party, and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2004 to 2008, through two general elections. Prior to entering politics he had a long career working in public policy in the Alberta government, the non-profit sector, and the private sector. He has a PhD in Business from University of Warwick and is a distinguished research fellow at the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta, and served as a visiting fellow at Western Sydney University in Australia. Taft grew up in Edmonton, where he and his wife still live. He is no longer involved in party politics, and is a frequent public speaker. Moderator: Cameron Howey Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost:$11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

Team Advantage discusses the subtle pros and cons of blowing up hospitals, delivering 20% cuts, privatizing health care and relying on magical oil & gas money to solve all your problems.

Public Education and Post-Secondary Education in Alberta have been riding the roller coaster oil economy of the last 45 years. Only the last 2 of those years have been under a government that was NOT the Progressive Conservatives. Don Getty was the beginning of the funding and ideological decline. But it was his successor Ralph Klein that made a legacy out of immediate political gain for long-term generational deficits in every core service, most of which have not been restored to this day. Ed Stelmach, Alison Redford and Jim Prentice did more harm than good despite the messaging. The 2 years of Notley government has, at best, stopped the decline of education in Alberta. The hole is deep after decades of cuts, yet over that time schools outside the public system have become the highest supported via tax dollars in Canada. The resource economy has put Alberta at or near the top for a long time in education but without renewal in many ways it may end. Enter Jason Kenney and his crusade to blame nearly 5 decades of decisions on the Notley government in the last 2 years. Apparently everything was great before those commies fluked into office. In May the United Conservative Party will hold its first convention to approve policy, a draft of which has created concern from many corners. Jay Gamble was born in London, Ontario and did his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Waterloo. He came to Alberta in 2000 to study Canadian Prairie Literature at the University of Calgary where he earned his Ph.D. Jay currently teaches in the English department of the University of Lethbridge and is the Coordinator of the Global Citizenship Cohort. A single father of two boys, he is also a published poet (Book Of Knots, BookThug, 2015) and goes by @DrJayDrNo on twitter. He is recognized as Jason Kenney's favourite communist professor (lol). Jay joins us to discuss the UCP Education "Devolution" Plan in waiting    

Why is the University of Calgary so bad? Team Advantage digs into UofC's history, including Ralph Klein, Friends of Science, Joseph Lougheed, the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability, Tom Flanagan, Jack Mintz, Imperial Oil, and David Frum.

Ralph Klein is our Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor Emeritus of Old Testament. He preached on Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22.

A new report from the U of A's Parkland Institute says that despite a provincial deficit, the Alberta government will forego some $55 billion in potential revenue over the next three years as a result of overly generous royalty cuts and the government's failure to meet even the modest targets set by previous administrations. The report looks at the most recent data on profits in the oil and gas industry versus government share and determines that despite tremendous growth in the industry the share of profits to Albertans is shrinking. Alberta has gone from capturing close to 40% in 1979 to only 10% in 2009 and 13% in 2010.That is arguably all money that has gone directly from serving the public interest to serving the bottom lines of huge oil and gas corporations. Peter Lougheed set a target of capturing 35% of the revenue from oil and gas production, which his government met or exceeded. Ralph Klein lowered those targets significantly, yet in most years even failed to meet those. If Lougheed's 35% target had prevailed, and been met, Alberta would have collected an extra $195 billion between 1971 and 2010. The current provincial budget seeks to capture only between 9% and 12% of oil and gas revenues, instead of working towards Lougheed's target of 35% for conventional oil and gas and 25% in the tar sands, which could yield an extra $55 billion in revenues over the next three years. The speaker will argue that by properly managing oil and gas revenues in Alberta, we could quickly pay off our current deficit and begin to build a fund that would generate enough revenue to support future generations as is the case in Norway, where their Oil Fund is currently valued at around $600 billion. Speaker: David Campanella David Campanella is the Public Policy Research Manager for the Parkland Institute and is based in Calgary. In 2011, David received his Masters degree from York University where he studied environmental politics and focused on the political history of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's oil and gas industry.

A new report from the U of A's Parkland Institute says that despite a provincial deficit, the Alberta government will forego some $55 billion in potential revenue over the next three years as a result of overly generous royalty cuts and the government's failure to meet even the modest targets set by previous administrations. The report looks at the most recent data on profits in the oil and gas industry versus government share and determines that despite tremendous growth in the industry the share of profits to Albertans is shrinking. Alberta has gone from capturing close to 40% in 1979 to only 10% in 2009 and 13% in 2010.That is arguably all money that has gone directly from serving the public interest to serving the bottom lines of huge oil and gas corporations. Peter Lougheed set a target of capturing 35% of the revenue from oil and gas production, which his government met or exceeded. Ralph Klein lowered those targets significantly, yet in most years even failed to meet those. If Lougheed's 35% target had prevailed, and been met, Alberta would have collected an extra $195 billion between 1971 and 2010. The current provincial budget seeks to capture only between 9% and 12% of oil and gas revenues, instead of working towards Lougheed's target of 35% for conventional oil and gas and 25% in the tar sands, which could yield an extra $55 billion in revenues over the next three years. The speaker will argue that by properly managing oil and gas revenues in Alberta, we could quickly pay off our current deficit and begin to build a fund that would generate enough revenue to support future generations as is the case in Norway, where their Oil Fund is currently valued at around $600 billion. Speaker: David Campanella David Campanella is the Public Policy Research Manager for the Parkland Institute and is based in Calgary. In 2011, David received his Masters degree from York University where he studied environmental politics and focused on the political history of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's oil and gas industry.

A new report from the U of A's Parkland Institute says that despite a provincial deficit, the Alberta government will forego some $55 billion in potential revenue over the next three years as a result of overly generous royalty cuts and the government's failure to meet even the modest targets set by previous administrations. The report looks at the most recent data on profits in the oil and gas industry versus government share and determines that despite tremendous growth in the industry the share of profits to Albertans is shrinking. Alberta has gone from capturing close to 40% in 1979 to only 10% in 2009 and 13% in 2010.That is arguably all money that has gone directly from serving the public interest to serving the bottom lines of huge oil and gas corporations. Peter Lougheed set a target of capturing 35% of the revenue from oil and gas production, which his government met or exceeded. Ralph Klein lowered those targets significantly, yet in most years even failed to meet those. If Lougheed's 35% target had prevailed, and been met, Alberta would have collected an extra $195 billion between 1971 and 2010. The current provincial budget seeks to capture only between 9% and 12% of oil and gas revenues, instead of working towards Lougheed's target of 35% for conventional oil and gas and 25% in the tar sands, which could yield an extra $55 billion in revenues over the next three years. The speaker will argue that by properly managing oil and gas revenues in Alberta, we could quickly pay off our current deficit and begin to build a fund that would generate enough revenue to support future generations as is the case in Norway, where their Oil Fund is currently valued at around $600 billion. Speaker: David Campanella David Campanella is the Public Policy Research Manager for the Parkland Institute and is based in Calgary. In 2011, David received his Masters degree from York University where he studied environmental politics and focused on the political history of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's oil and gas industry.

Seeking better working conditions, representatives of all Alberta's trade unions met, along with members of the recently (1909) formed United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), at a founding convention of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) in Lethbridge on July 14-15, 1912. The convention was chaired by Donald McNabb, a Lethbridge coal miner who had served a brief term as Alberta's first independent labour MLA (supporting the governing Liberals). The AFL blossomed early and in 1926, they had several MLA's elected resulting in many improvements to Alberta labour laws and the Workman's Compensation Act, making Alberta a leader of such laws in Canada for several decades. Attacks on the Alberta labour movement since the latter part of the 1970's and particularly through the Ralph Klein years during the 1990's have arguably made life difficult for unions. The speaker will speculate on how unions can survive in a labour market where collective bargaining is under threat in Alberta and generally throughout North America. Will the many achievements labour has gained over the past 100 years continue to be at risk? Speaker: Winston Gereluk Winston Gereluk worked for the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees in Canada in the areas of research, education and public relations for over 25 years. In 1999, he moved to Athabasca University, where he served as Academic Coordinator for Industrial Relations & Human Resources programs until his retirement in 2009. Winston has represented the international trade union movement at United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and currently represents them on a Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative, which meets in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Gereluk has a Masters Degree in Educational Philosophy and is a member of the Alberta Labour History Institute, Greenpeace and the editorial board of Athabasca University Press. He has written articles and chapters on labour and the environment, industrial relations and sustainable development for a number of periodicals and textbook publishers. Winston currently also serves as Chair of Project 2012 and Coordinator of the Alberta Federation of Labour's Centennial Celebration.

Seeking better working conditions, representatives of all Alberta's trade unions met, along with members of the recently (1909) formed United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), at a founding convention of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) in Lethbridge on July 14-15, 1912. The convention was chaired by Donald McNabb, a Lethbridge coal miner who had served a brief term as Alberta's first independent labour MLA (supporting the governing Liberals). The AFL blossomed early and in 1926, they had several MLA's elected resulting in many improvements to Alberta labour laws and the Workman's Compensation Act, making Alberta a leader of such laws in Canada for several decades. Attacks on the Alberta labour movement since the latter part of the 1970's and particularly through the Ralph Klein years during the 1990's have arguably made life difficult for unions. The speaker will speculate on how unions can survive in a labour market where collective bargaining is under threat in Alberta and generally throughout North America. Will the many achievements labour has gained over the past 100 years continue to be at risk? Speaker: Winston Gereluk Winston Gereluk worked for the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees in Canada in the areas of research, education and public relations for over 25 years. In 1999, he moved to Athabasca University, where he served as Academic Coordinator for Industrial Relations & Human Resources programs until his retirement in 2009. Winston has represented the international trade union movement at United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and currently represents them on a Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative, which meets in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Gereluk has a Masters Degree in Educational Philosophy and is a member of the Alberta Labour History Institute, Greenpeace and the editorial board of Athabasca University Press. He has written articles and chapters on labour and the environment, industrial relations and sustainable development for a number of periodicals and textbook publishers. Winston currently also serves as Chair of Project 2012 and Coordinator of the Alberta Federation of Labour's Centennial Celebration.

The Alberta economy is booming. People from across the country and abroad are pouring into the province. Yet, we still face labour shortages. House prices are going through the roof. Despite our huge resources of oil and natural gas, the cost to Alberta consumers is skyrocketing. How long can the can the boom last? And what about the quality of life for Albertans? There are still no clear plans for health care. The affordability of post-secondary education is still a serious concern. Are we really committed to preserving our environment for generations to come, or are we hell-bent on reaping short-term economic gains, such as the exploitation of the oil sands? Are we investing enough in non-polluting, sustainable forms of energy? Will we ever be anything other than an oil province? With the Ralph Klein era over, we have a rare opportunity to address the issues that Albertans care about. Will our new political leaders seize it? Speaker: Dave Hancock Dave Hancock is in his third term as the MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud. He has served as Minister of Advanced Education and as Government House Leader, Vice Chair of the Standing Policy Committee on Education and Employment, and as a member of the Agenda and Priorities Committee and the Treasury Board. Mr. Hancock has also served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and as Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs. Born in Fort Resolution, N.W.T., Dave Hancock is a lawyer by profession. He was a partner with Matheson and Company, Barristers and Solicitors before entering public service. He received his law degree from the University of Alberta in 1979.

“First elected in 1993 on a platform of “common sense revolution,” a little over a decade later Ralph Klein's Conservative party remain in power, but the gloss is off its “revolution.” Deficits and debts have been eliminated, but new problems and new issues have arisen, such as energy deregulation and water shortages. Efforts to export the revolution … have stalled. Meanwhile, at the world level, neo-liberal globalization is in retreat … The Return of the Trojan Horse re-examines Klein's Alberta after a decade of deficit-slashing, tax-cutting conservatism.” Presentation by three of the authors: “The Klein Revolution and Alberta's democratic deficit” – a talk by Trevor W. Harrison “Alberta's Finances” – a talk by Greg Flanagan “Water Under Fire” – a talk and video presentation by Jim Byrne Speakers: Trevor W. Harrison is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge and former Research Director of Parkland Institute. He is an author, editor and frequent commentator on political events provincially and nationally. Greg Flanagan is Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Management at the U of L. Trained as a public finance economist, he has numerous publications dealing with public policy issues to his name. Jim Byrne is a Professor of Geography at the U of L. He leads an ongoing research program investigating the impact of climate change on water resources in western North America. Together with the U of L's Dr. Rick Mrazek and Lethbridge video producer George Gallant, Jim produced a seven-part television series – Water Under Fire – on the state of water in Canada, which has been telecast nationally. Moderator: Trevor Page Location: Lethbridge Public Library Theatre Gallery, 810 5th Ave. S. Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Admission: By donation Download the Audio of this session. Download the Audio of Audience Q&A from this session.