Alberta Advantage Podcast
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Podcast. Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF.
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NEW EPISODE: Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
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Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the …
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/18/champagne-neoliberalism-or-effervescent-austerity/
about 2 months ago
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Harbinger Media Network
16 days ago
Happy holidays from the Harbinger podcast community inc.
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@techwontsave.us
@albertaadvantage.bsky.social
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+ shows from
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& more See you in the new year💞☃️❄️
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Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective)
18 days ago
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‘The Nazis were right': What the leaders of Canada’s biggest ‘nationalist’ group really want | CBC Accessibility
In official posts, Second Sons Canada calls itself a “men’s nationalist club” and promotes a nostalgic vision of Canada. But on personal podcasts and livestreams, its leaders consistently espouse anti...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/second-sons-leaders-livestreams-9.7022853
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APTN News
27 days ago
The memorandum of understanding has been a hot button topic for weeks now. A lot of First Nations have been voicing their concerns, but Treaty 8 First Nations were in Ottawa Thursday morning to make sure that theirs were heard.
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Treaty 8 First Nations were in Ottawa to oppose the proposed west coast pipeline | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Roberta Lexier
27 days ago
Literal joke of a province
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Friends of Medicare
27 days ago
Friends of Medicare hears the stories of how the slow creep of private health care is impacting Albertans & health care workers. Yesterday, the AB gov't passed Bill 11 paving the way for two-tier health care - a violation of the Canada Health Act. Take action here:
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Friends of Medicare
28 days ago
“It is no exaggeration to say that the passing of Bill 11 through the Alberta legislature is the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system that we’ve ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians,” said Chris Gallaway executive director of Friends of Medicare.
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Friends of Medicare
28 days ago
Unfortunately, after repeatedly using time allocation motions to limit debate, Bill 11 just passed third reading in the legislature. Read more here:
www.friendsofmedicare.org/bill_11_brin...
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Harbinger Media Network
about 1 month ago
On ep94 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 radio show ➡️
@emilylowan.bsky.social
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@karlamarx1917.bsky.social
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@rachelgilmore.bsky.social
on BUBBLE POP ➡️
@desmondcole.bsky.social
on THE BREACH SHOW ➡️
@albertaadvantage.bsky.social
talk 'Champagne Neoliberalism' ➡️ + more
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karen ward
about 1 month ago
HEY WHAT THE FUCK
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Feds to reduce housing spending by half, build only 26,000 homes: Budget watchdog | CBC News
Spending on housing programs will decline by more than half over the next four years with the federal government’s $13-billion signature housing initiative leading to the construction of just 26,000 n...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pbo-housing-cuts-report-9.6931844
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Calgary police withhold evidence of brutality as final UofC protest charges fall
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Calgary police withhold evidence of brutality as final UofC protest charges fall
New documents reveal Calgary Police Service suppressed evidence of brutality by officers at the University of Calgary on May 9, 2024. Among this was camera footage from senior officers that should hav...
https://drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-police-refuse-release-of-brutality-bodycam-footage-suppressed-in-internal-investigation-2/
about 1 month ago
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Safety Blanqui 🌾🍉𓅒
about 1 month ago
My understanding is that such abortions are rare to non-existent, because of the ethical problems involved. This is an age-old strategy by the anti-abortion movement to establish a beach-head, to launch further restrictions on the right to choose.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉
about 1 month ago
The UCP membership just voted in support of banning third-trimester abortion, except when the mother's life is at risk.
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The Progress Report
about 1 month ago
UCP AGM is off to a great start
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No conservative Premier of Alberta has successfully completed a 4-year term since Ralph Klein in 2006.
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about 1 month ago
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Avi Lewis
about 1 month ago
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
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Amanda Follett Hosgood
about 1 month ago
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
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Eric Wickham
about 1 month ago
If you think you're playing 4D chess, you're probably not playing chess right and I'm not going to invite you to play chess anymore.
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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
about 1 month ago
A handful of political economists and Parkland Institute researchers have been trying for decades to inform Albertans about how their interests --and those of Indigenous peoples--have been trampled by the oil sands majors, abetted by captured governments.2/
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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
https://www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oil-sands-giants-send-profits-out-of-canada-despite-public-support-for-resource-sovereignty/
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise. Coral reefs continue to die off. Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters. Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer. But at least we'll have a strong economy.
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Strong and Free. Great province.
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Alberta legislature member compares transgender surgery to livestock castration
United Conservative backbencher Shane Getson made the comment in chamber debate over a bill that uses the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to protect a trio of transgender laws from court challenge.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-legislature-member-compares-transgender-surgery-to-livestock-castration/
about 2 months ago
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
about 2 months ago
Senior economist w/
@policyalternatives.ca
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@marclee.bsky.social
, said the whole debate over interprovincial trade is simply political posturing so that provinces and the federal government can seem like they are doing something to respond to Trump’s tariffs.
#cdnecon
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Will new deal between provinces on interprovincial trade actually help Canada's economy?
The agreement is designed to provide mutual recognition for products like clothing, toys and vehicles but doesn't address barriers on food.
https://theprovince.com/news/will-new-deal-between-provinces-on-interprovincial-trade-actually-help-canadas-economy/wcm/0da1db4b-0af9-4df2-b424-e3a8a909db56
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greenglassworm
about 2 months ago
Fantastic episode. Keep up the good work!
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Left Wexit
about 2 months ago
Budget drops and cork pops
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AHS Nursing Care have served strike notice.
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AHS Nursing Care: We have served strike notice
Bargaining update for Locals 041, 043, 044, 045, and 046, Alberta Health Services Nursing Care
https://www.aupe.org/news/news-and-updates/ahs-nursing-care-we-have-served-strike-notice
about 2 months ago
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Harbinger Media Network
about 2 months ago
On a new 🌾
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🌾 the team situate the federal budget in the current political moment, unpack what it means & ask how the "elbows-up", nation building rhetoric Carney campaigned on could actually have been implemented in Budget 2025
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Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the …
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/18/champagne-neoliberalism-or-effervescent-austerity/
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Dave
about 2 months ago
In this ep we make the point that you can never have a budget as harsh as 1995 again unless you rebuild the welfare state first, which we haven't done. But I think I'm going to be mumbling the phrase "Minister Champagne is repealing the yacht tax" to myself for a while. 🍾
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Mel Woods
about 2 months ago
Danielle Smith's Alberta government has announced that they will use the Notwithstanding Clause to protect three laws (all targeting trans people) from court challenges. NEW from me in
@xtramagazine.com
on the lies they're using to justify such a massive move ⬇️
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The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/danielle-smith-notwithstanding-clause-278028
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NEW EPISODE: Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
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Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the …
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/18/champagne-neoliberalism-or-effervescent-austerity/
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
On a new 🌾
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🌾 the team look at how organized labour in Alberta is responding to an existential threat as the province’s teachers are ordered back to work by Danielle Smith’s UCP.
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Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
Alberta’s teachers have been ordered back to work, and their right to strike, collectively bargain, or even present a legal challenge have been stripped away by Danielle Smith’s UCP. Ho…
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/alberta-teachers-and-the-end-of-collective-bargaining-text-resist-to-55255/
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Alec Walker 🏳️⚧️ (he/him)
2 months ago
I've been looking forward to this!!
#ABEd
#ABLeg
#ABPoli
#AlbertaTeachers
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jim storrie
2 months ago
you should, genuinely, text resist to 55255, but the stern criticism in this episode is very correct. alberta labour seems to have been very unprepared for something that was obviously coming for years
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The Progress Report
2 months ago
No punches pulled in this analysis of the presently-disappointing response to the strike-breaking Bill 2.
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Roberta Lexier
2 months ago
The resistance is going to be texted. Enjoy our rant!
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NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
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Doug Saunders
2 months ago
To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
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NEW EP: Escape from the Planet of the Mines: Canada's Resource Imperialism
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
On ep84 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show ➡️
@srslywrong.bsky.social
on why rent control's good, actually ➡️
@albertaadvantage.bsky.social
on a Waffle-aligned takeover of the 1971 New Brunswick NDP ➡️ + more
www.spreaker.com/episode/ep84...
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4 months ago
On ep82 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show we bury the NDP w/
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@fritzlechat.bsky.social
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karen ward
4 months ago
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Courtney Theriault
4 months ago
Asked about Ayn Rand being included on the EPSB list of books that would violate the age-appropriate rules by the province, Premier Smith suggests Ayn Rand should be mandatory reading in schools.
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Kim Siever
5 months ago
This was a great listen.
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Roberta Lexier
5 months ago
Time to consider a new/old socialism
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Left Wexit
5 months ago
We formed a new socialist party, that will make Alberta pay, for real this time
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NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium feat.
@robrousseau.bsky.social
@fritzlechat.bsky.social
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@robertalexier.bsky.social
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5 months ago
On ep80 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show ➡️
@albertaadvantage.bsky.social
on the New Nationalism ➡️
@policyalternatives.ca
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talk non-market solutions on HOUSING PARTY ➡️
@rachelcairns.bsky.social
's ABORSH
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Paris Marx
5 months ago
Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption. In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech
Canada’s AI agenda ignores potential harms in the hope of short-term economic gain
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carney-is-going-elbows-down
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World Health Network
5 months ago
Canada’s new respirator standard (CSA Z94.4-25) is a major step forward in protecting healthcare workers — but it’s facing opposition. WHN strongly supports this science-based policy and urges others to submit a public comment before the August 19 deadline.
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6 months ago
On a new 🌾
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🌾 the team trace a brief history of Canadian nationalisms, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project, in order to better understand the current moment of rising nationalist sentiment.
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/e...
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Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For?
Rhetorical and real threats to Canadian sovereignty pose a tough question to critics of the Canadian state: Do we align with liberal nationalists in defense of the Canadian project or do we remain …
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/elbows-to-the-left-is-canada-worth-fighting-for/
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The Progress Report
6 months ago
More than half of the members of the public appointed to Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel are United Conservative Party donors, with their donations ranging from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars, reports
@readtheorchard.org
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Alberta Next appointees have donated more than $40K to the UCP
https://www.theprogressreport.ca/alberta_next_appointees_have_donated_more_than_40k_to_the_ucp
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Kelly B
6 months ago
Prime Minister Carney: “Elbows? I don’t recall saying anything about Elbows. I said ‘I’ll bow.’”
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