If your laptop went missing, how many police detectives do you think would get assigned to the case?

When Alberta’s UCP government set up the Canadian Energy Centre, a.k.a. Jason Kenney’s oil and gas ‘war room’ back in 2019, they kept it off the books. All public bodies in Alberta are supposed to be open to ‘freedom of information and protection of privacy’ (FOIP) requests, but due to some fancy legal footwork by the UCP the war room was exempt. 

University of Calgary chancellor-elect Jon Cornish clearly understands the challenges that both people of colour who are born here and many newcomers face after they arrive in Canada.

Chris Parsons of the Nova Scotia Health Coalition (formerly of the Dog Island podcast) joins host Duncan Kinney to walk him through Canada's currently terrible pharmacare system, what is in the works between the Liberals and the NDP and why the struggle for pharmacare is not only winnable but absolutely key to the left staying relevant. 

The city of Edmonton knows a crisis is coming. There are more unhoused people in Edmonton now than ever due to the pandemic and the emergency shelter available to these folks is going to drop steeply in June when temporary emergency shelter sites that were used in the winter close.

The rich and powerful know that one of the most important things to do if you want to continue being rich and powerful is to constantly and consistently show class solidarity with your fellow elites. 

Former conservative justice minister Jonathan Denis just refuses to step out of the spotlight: now Denis has been accused of a conflict of interest by a former conservative operative involved in Kenney’s ‘kamikaze candidate’ scandal. 

Alberta’s conservative justice ministers, both current and former, aren’t exactly covering the legal profession in glory. 

Bashir Mohamed and Alex Da Costa join host Duncan Kinney to discuss their work on the Edmonton SRO Research Project. Their research shows hows the school resource officer (SRO) program in Edmonton public schools criminalized students, got them expelled and suspended and got them started on the school to prison pipeline. 

Rob Houle joins us to discuss how it's one year out from the release of a landmark report on how to actually fix the Edmonton Police and not much has happened. Instead Chief Dale McFee has introduced a host of tepid reforms—including a mandatory "Managing Unconscious Bias" class that both Rob and I took. Listen to learn more.