Albertans are getting screwed. A quarter-billion in unpaid property taxes. Countless billions more in environmental liabilities. And an energy regulator that can't be trusted. @thenarwhal.ca's @drewanderson.bsky.social tells us what he's dug up... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111425Drew 🎧: rtrj.info/111425

Great coverage of Alberta's unpaid oil & gas liability problem and the Mature Asset Strategy on today's Real Talk episode - “Big” Oil Betrays Landowners and Taxpayers www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2s... @ryanjespersen.bsky.social @drewanderson.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Chatting oil and gas issues in Alberta on Real Talk with @ryanjespersen.bsky.social today — regulatory failings, unpaid taxes and leases, and more. A long one, but not nearly long enough to do it all justice. #ableg #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2s...

Highly informed @drewanderson.bsky.social of the @narwhal.bsky.social was on RealTalk hosted by @ryanjespersen.bsky.social this morning. Discussed are news stories by Drew on the current sad state of conventional oil and gas in Alberta Must watch interview! www.youtube.com/live/2u2sR4K...

[email protected] says Premier Danielle Smith is "failing" & "up for a coup". The @albertandp.ca leader tells #RealTalkRJ why his party is gearing up for an election that's not yet been announced. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111325Nenshi 🎧: rtrj.info/111325 #abpoli #ableg youtu.be/BW73lECK_m8?...

Do minimum wage earners in Alberta deserve a raise? @albertandp.ca leader @naheednenshi.bsky.social says a bump up to $18/hour is long overdue. Do you agree or disagree? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111325Nenshi 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/111325 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

"I don't blame them for saying, 'Why would I do that?' They need to learn from history. If we don't do it...who's going to?" Lt.-Col. (Ret.) Laurie Hawn on Canadian Forces recruitment woes... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111125LestWeForget 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/111125 #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #RealTalkRJ

Canada's military has long been neglected. Lt.-Col. (Ret.) & former MP Laurie Hawn digs into defence spending in #Budget2025, the Trump factor, and #mentalhealth supports... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111125LestWe... 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/111125 #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #cdnpoli youtu.be/Ou3DYY55oGY?...

Lest we forget. At 99 years of age, D-Day veteran Marty Jones remembers... www.youtube.com/live/1ioKjRC...

Mark Carney calls pipeline talk "so boring" in front of a Toronto audience, triggering most of Alberta. @supriya.bsky.social says there's a different (and positive) way to interpret the PM's comment. What do you make of it? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/111025Supriya 🎧: rtrj.info/111025 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

YOUCAN Youth Services is doing such important work helping young people out of harm's way and onto paths of economic independence. I'm honoured to host their annual Celebration of Success. Please support YOUCAN's capital campaign to raise $2.5M to transform their new #yegdt location: youcan.ca #yeg

"By continuing to live their lives, it's a resistance to what's being carried out." Alberta's Dr. Ian MacNairn checks in with #RealTalkRJ from the ER at Al-Aqsa Hospital in #Gaza. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110725Gaza 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/110725 #yeg

WHISKY LOVERS: pick up a bottle of limited edition Whisky Rose to help raise $25,000 for YWCA Edmonton's Rose Campaign! $100/bottle at Hansen Distillery -- 17412 111 Avenue in #yeg. 100% of proceeds go to the YWCA! #RealTalkRJ is proud to support this campaign: ywcaofedmonton.org/events/rose-... 🥃🌹

Free transit. A rent freeze. Universal child care. City-owned grocery stores. Zain Velji and and Puneeta McBryan on the strategy behind Zohran Mamdani's historic rise as NYC's next mayor, and whether or not it would work in Canada... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110625 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/110625 #RealTalkRJ

How did "the banker" do on his first federal budget? @edmontonchamber.bsky.social's Heather Thomson, BILD Edmonton Metro's Kalen Anderson, and Qualico's Mike Saunders dig into the details on #RealTalkRJ. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110525Budget... 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/110525 #cdnpoli #yeg

"If they put me on a stretching rack, I wouldn't apologize." Ontario Premier Doug Ford and PM Mark Carney don't exactly see eye to eye on dealing with POTUS... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110425NeverA... 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/110425 #onpoli #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

Physicist & engineer @davidkeith.bsky.social heard CCS Knowledge Centre's James Fann was joining us on the next episode of #RealTalkRJ, so he preloaded a question on carbon capture & storage. Thoughts? KEITH: rtrj.info/103125RTRT FANN: rtrj.info/110325CCS youtu.be/kP6DTV6KHEo?... #CCS

Canada needs to catch up! @energyvsclimate.bsky.social hosts @davidkeith.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social, & Ed Whittingham lay out how we're lagging behind in matters of energy, environment, and the economy... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/103125RTRT 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/103125pod #cdnpoli 🇨🇦 #RealTalkRJ

Will opposition parties force a Christmas election, or will PM Mark Carney's minority government garner enough budget support to survive? @supriya.bsky.social and I discuss... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/110325Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/110325 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

Does Premier Danielle Smith plan on normalizing use of the notwithstanding clause in Alberta? Strategist Sharan Kaur gets into the "grey areas" of strikes and suspending rights... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/103025Sharan 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/103025 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

"There's no prosthetic for an amputated spirit." Hundreds of teachers, principals, students, and parents poured out their hearts to [email protected] throughout the teachers' strike. Where's your head at today? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/103025FULL 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/103025 youtu.be/_meMdKHI8GE?...

Evan Li's life changed when his mic was cut at an #AlbertaNext town hall. The grade 12 student talks to us about becoming a sounding board for other frustrated students, and backing Alberta teachers' right to strike. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102925Evan 🎧: rtrj.info/102925 #ableg youtu.be/jEj1FBDURP4?...

Nearly HALF A MILLION signatures on his #ForeverCanadian petition, but @lukaszukab.bsky.social says he doesn't actually want a referendum on Alberta's future in or outside of 🇨🇦. I say bring it on. How about you? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102925Thomas 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102925 youtu.be/OxvY65f-poI?...

With the relationship between teachers & government badly damaged, will Alberta be able to recruit 3,000 new hires? Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides talks to #RealTalkRJ about the risk of invoking the notwithstanding clause... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102925Minister 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102925 #ableg

Premier Danielle Smith goes with the nuclear option in ending Alberta's teachers' strike. Political scientist Dr. @duanebratt.bsky.social says teachers are under attack, and the worst could be yet to come... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102825Bratt 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102825 #ableg #abed #RealTalkRJ

Thousands of Alberta separatists rally at the Legislature grounds, and I'll be honest - I don't love it. @supriya.bsky.social asks me to "Albertasplain" what's going on... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102725Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102725 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #RealTalkRJ 🇨🇦

ICYMI, here's our exclusive with Edmonton mayor-elect @andrewknack.bsky.social: rtrj.info/102325Knack

Former education minister @lukaszukab.bsky.social says Danielle Smith's UCP hasn't done enough to end the teachers' strike, and should reevaluate private school funding in Alberta. Do you agree or disagree? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102425Thomas 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102425 #ableg youtu.be/EI_1lYH6XFs?...

"The government has failed to signal that they even respect education." @cherylanneo.bsky.social, Erika Barootes, and I discuss what's next for Alberta's teachers. Do you support the government ordering them back to work? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102425RTRT 🎧: rtrj.info/102425 #abed #ableg #RealTalkRJ

Alberta's independent schools have become "a lightning rod" through the teachers' strike, says John Jagersma. The AISCA executive director says defunding private schools would cost Alberta more, not less. Thoughts? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102225AISCA 🎧: rtrj.info/102225 #abed #abpoli #RealTalkRJ

What qualifies as a "nation-building" project, anyway? @supriya.bsky.social and I debate the merits of Premier Danielle Smith's ask for a new pipeline to the West Coast. Where do you stand on it? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102025Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102025 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ

Edmontonians were apparently furious at a "dysfunctional" #yegcc, yet fewer than one in three showed up to vote, and all but one councillor won re-election. Sarah Hamilton tries to make sense of it all... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102225Sarah 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102225 #yeg youtu.be/MXGwfWeE48w?...

An excellent conversation! #yeg #yegcc #abpoli #RealTalkRJ

Are Mark Carney's elbows down, or is he taking a page out of Gordie Howe and Mark Messier's playbooks? We talk US trade, India, and China with @politico.com's Nick Taylor-Vaisey on #RealTalkRJ. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/101525POLITICO 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/101525 #cdnpoli

The Alberta teachers' strike has been brewing for decades. @athabascau.bsky.social's Dr. Jason Foster lays out the similarities between the strikes in 2002 and 2025... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/101425AU 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/101425 youtu.be/x65B1sTDvjE?... #abed #abpoli #ableg #RealTalkRJ

Are Canada's elbows down on the India file? Supriya Dwivedi says Canadians are right to be skeptical... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/101425Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/101425 #cdnpoli #India

Our #RealTalkRJ #YYC Mayoral Debate REALLY heats up at the One on One Challenge. SPARKS FLY as @jyoti4mayor.bsky.social draws @jeromyyyc.bsky.social, who draws Sonya Sharp, who draws Jeff Davison, who draws @briantyyc.bsky.social, who draws the incumbent. WATCH: rtrj.info/101025OneOnOne #yyccc

Mayoral candidates Jyoti Gondek, Jeromy Farkas, Sonya Sharp, Jeff Davison & Brian Thiessen challenge each other head-to-head in the #RealTalkRJ Calgary Mayoral Debate. Who's your pick to win the top job at City Hall? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/101025YYCRTRT 🎧: rtrj.info/101025 youtube.com/shorts/Hgnf7...

How long is this teachers' strike going to last? Is there a double standard between public and private schools? Will the government ultimately order teachers back to work? We ask Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100825Minister 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100825 #abed #abpoli #ableg

Municipal governments may not be able to end Alberta's teachers' strike, but Calgary mayoral candidate Jyoti Gondek says it'll be a top election issue on October 20. Would a prolonged dispute affect how you vote? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100725Gondek 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100725 youtu.be/5t6gahJ1snI?...

"Tears come to my eyes when I see this city is falling behind everywhere you go." Former Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel tells us what he REALLY thinks about the state of Alberta's capital city. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100725Mandel 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100725 #yeg #yegcc #abpoli

The Liberals' Strong Borders Act (Bill C-2) is "batshit crazy," says @supriya.bsky.social. What do you think? Are the privacy tradeoffs worth it if Mark Carney strikes a trade deal with Donald Trump? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100625Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100625 #cdnpoli

We owe teachers a debt of gratitude. I speak from the heart on day one of the Alberta teachers strike... #RealTalkRJ

Alberta's teachers have just been notified they're being locked out. The largest strike in provincial history is "personal," ATA president Jason Schilling tells #RealTalkRJ. Catch our interview w/ Minister Demetrios Nicolaides Oct. 8 at 8:30am. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100625Teachers 🎧: rtrj.info/100625

Candidates @timcartmell.bsky.social, @andrewknack.bsky.social, and Michael Walters grill each other during the Crossfire round of our Real Talk Edmonton Mayoral Debate. Who do you think won the debate? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100325YEGCC 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100325 #yeg #yegcc #abpoli #RealTalkRJ

Candidates @timcartmell.bsky.social, @andrewknack.bsky.social, and Michael Walters deliver their Big Promise during our Real Talk Edmonton Mayoral Debate. Who impressed you most? 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100325YEGCC 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100325 📸 @karlywatson.bsky.social #yeg #yegcc #abpoli #RealTalkRJ

Don't miss the #RealTalkRJ Edmonton Mayoral Debate featuring @timcartmell.bsky.social, @andrewknack.bsky.social, and Michael Walters on Friday, October 3. Watch or listen live at 8:30am or later on demand: www.ryanjespersen.com #yeg #yegcc #abpoli

Danielle Smith's got absolutely nothing to lose advocating for a new pipeline to the West Coast. On the flip side, Mark Carney's "between a rock and a hard place". @tashakheiriddin.bsky.social explains... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100225Pipeline 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100225 #cdnpoli #abpoli #RealTalkRJ

Canadians are giving Donald Trump an "F" on his performance to this point, and his health secretary RFK Jr. scores even worse. Pollster David Valentin gets into the latest numbers, including PM Mark Carney's job approval. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100125Polls 🎧: rtrj.info/100125 youtu.be/TJHHhc9v_f4?...

Can anybody take the UCP's Alberta Next town halls seriously anymore? I have thoughts after seeing Calgary high school student Evan Li humiliated by moderator Bruce McAllister. 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/100125ABNext 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/100125 #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ