Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party released a 114-page platform detailing how they would like to go to war with Albertans. “Job creation” programs that just hand giant tax breaks to corporations! “Cutting red tape” by rolling back labour regulations! Repealing overtime pay entirely! Suing higher orders of government for fun! Conspiracy theories about foreign interests land-locking our oil! Outing gay kids in schools to their parents!
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Danielle Smith interviewed disgraced former UCP candidate Caylan Ford on March 29, 2019. Caylan Ford withdrew her candidacy on March 20, 2019 after messages she authored were released which revealed that Ford thought “white supremacist terrorists” are treated unfairly, and that she is “saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands” and “it’s clear that it will not be a peaceful transition.” The messages were authored two days after the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally.
Bashir Mohamed and Avnish Nanda join Team Advantage to discuss Danielle Smith’s interview and more generally the mainstreaming of white supremacist talking points in popular discourse.
View Danielle Smith’s interview with Caylan Ford.
Backup in case they pull it:
Danielle Smith: UN Migration Pact part of the plan to extinguish Canadian identity
Urge Corus and Global News to stop platforming and mainstreaming white supremacy.
Follow Bashir and Avnish on twitter @BashirMohamed and @avnishnanda.
Fun fact: Grant Notley, Rachel Notley’s father, led Alberta’s New Democrats from 1968 until 1984. Surely he was inspired by the radical politics of his time and serves as a useful contrast to today’s social democrats who claim that “Pharmacare doesn’t grow on trees… ?”
Team Advantage compares and contrasts the members of Alberta’s only social-democratic dynasty, and gives careful consideration to their theory of social and political change.
Jason Kenney’s star UCP candidate, Caylan Ford, recently resigned over white supremacist comments. But did you know that the Calgary Herald’s star columnist, Licia Corbella, wrote a glowing puff piece on Caylan Ford? Join Team Advantage as they read through Corbella’s insightful profile. For legal reasons, please consider this entire episode parody.
Corbella: From human rights, to film, to politics, Caylan Ford is a force of nature
Did you know that the post-war CCF once wrote admiringly about the Red Army? That it saw Canada’s wartime economic planning as a great argument for the superiority of central planning and public investment? That they authored pieces like “Political Action for the 99%” in 1943? Or that NDP leader David Lewis used to publicly name-and-shame Canadian corporations that avoided taxes while soaking up publicly-funded subsidies?
Dr. Roberta Lexier from Mount Royal University joins Team Advantage to discuss David Lewis and the CCF-NDP’s policies in the post-war period, and helps us think through how these ideas might be relevant today. Follow Roberta at @rlexier!
Renowned earth scientist David Hughes joins Team Advantage to discuss Canada’s energy mix, Alberta’s oilsands, the realities of a carbon-constrained future, orphaned wells in Western Canada, oil curtailment and oil-by-rail, as well as David’s most recent study, Canada’s Energy Outlook.
David Hughes will be speaking in Calgary on Monday, March 4th, 2019 at 7pm at MacEwan Hall. Follow this link for details.
David Hughes will also be presenting in Edmonton on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 at 7pm at the TELUS International Centre at the UofA. Follow this link for details.
Populism! It frightens liberal technocrats everywhere! What could be worse than teeming masses of people making political demands? Team Advantage takes a look at some of populism’s historical roots, and examines that classic populist formulation: the [ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE] vs [THE PEOPLE]. While everyone is concerned about right-wing populism, is a left-wing populism possible? What would it look like?
Bashir Mohamed joins Team Advantage to discuss Alberta’s Black history, and the history of racial discrimination that accompanied it. KKK cross-burning approved by Edmonton’s Mayor! Court cases over discriminatory seating! Some have suggested that MP Kerry Diotte is “racist”! That time Jason Kenney had Bashir arrested! and more…
We used this piece to ground our discussion, Cheryl Foggo’s “My Home is Over Jordan — Southern Alberta’s Black Pioneers”
Bashir’s twitter, @BashirMohamed
Bashir’s writing:
http://www.bashirmohamed.com/blog
Cold open:
wh3at elevator$$ – lil wheat ft. Yung Agri
Have you herd? There’s a new Canada Food Guide advising us to eat our fruits and veggies. This is clearly a plot by George Soros and the Global Elite to attack Alberta’s precious, precious beef industry. Our environment is, in fact, maintained by our dear methane-emitting bovines! Team Advantage does a close read of Danielle Smith’s incredibly well-informed, smart, intelligent, brilliant, sharp, keen, astute, intuitive, perceptive, and discerning argument.
Danielle Smith: If you care about the planet, eat more beef [January 25, 2019]
Team Advantage sits down with Justin and Thomas from Alberta Regional Rail to make the case for a regional rail network. Connect Alberta’s major cities! Increase transportation safety! Cut down on transportation time! Ride a train because it’s so dang cool!
Check out Alberta Regional Rail:
albertaregionalrail.com
railalberta.com
@AlbertaRail