
The Breakdown
With Nate Pike

The Breakdown - Episode 3.04 - The Calgary Climate Hub with Dr. Joe Vipod and Robert Tremblay
Jan 18, 2021
In the last days of 2020 we recorded an interview with Dr. Joe Vipond and Robert Tremblay from the Calgary Climate Hub to discuss their campaign to work with Enmax to get them to commit to becoming a Net zero company.

The Breakdown - Episode 3.02 - Kim Siever
Jan. 10 2021
Kim Siever has built himself a reputation as an independent news man over a variety of formats over the last several years. His focus on deep dives into empirical evidence has garnered a strong following in Alberta that reaches outside of the province across Canada.

The Breakdown -Episode 3.01 - Aloha means “Hello” and “Goodbye!”
Jan. 6 2021
The world of Alberta politics started 2021 with a bang that was louder than any fireworks set off the night before!
When news started to break that multiple UCP staffers and MLA’s had been travelling inter-provincially and internationally in open defiance of travel advisories issued by their own government, things started moving fast!

The Breakdown - Episode 2.33 - Dr. Jared Wesley
Dec. 21 2020
Dr. Jared Wesley is a political scientist and an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. He’s also the lead on the Common Ground Initiative, which aims to identify and define the values that drive politics in Alberta. Dr. Wesley has done extensive work to explore what Conservatism means in Alberta, and the Common Ground Initiative has done extensive work to determine how Albertans relate to politics.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.32 -Zoe Lambert
Dec. 18 2020
With Jason Kenney waging an ideological war on addiction and addiction treatment methodologies as well as shutting down a supervised consumption site in one of the areas of Alberta that needs it most, we wanted to have a conversation on what addiction is and how it can potentially be managed, including the role that harm reduction services like Supervised Consumption Sites should play.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.31 - Payman Parseyan
Dec. 7 2020
Payman Parseyan is someone who has been a nomination candidate, a political candidate, a campaign manager, he’s a current UCP member and he has also been a press secretary to a minister in the UCP government.
Payman graciously offered to come on the show to provide an insiders perspective as to what this government is doing and why.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.30 - Emma Deady
Dec. 4 2020
Emma Deady (pronounced Deedee) is a Calgarian who found herself facing significant boredom when the first “lockdown” occurred in Alberta. To help fill the time she started spending more time with the app TikTok.
It wasn’t long until Emma began to produce satirical videos heavily focused on Alberta Politics and particularly targeting the UCP government.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.29 - Kathleen Smith
Dec. 1 2020
Kathleen Smith has been a part of Alberta’s online community since pretty much the start of online in Alberta.
She’s provided thoughtful and insightful online commentary in Alberta for more than 25 years and in conjunction with the “Political RND” platform is now co-hosting a podcast with the intent of reaching and engaging women in Alberta on political issues and happenings.

The Breakdown - Pop up mini podcast! - Training the trainer.
Nov. 28 2020
Kevin Smith is a physical fitness trainer and independent gym operator.
With mental health at the forefront of many Albertans as the battle against COVID is coming up to almost a year. Kevin is in the progress of organizing a fundraiser he’s calling “Train the Trainer” to raise fund to support people who are struggling with mental health.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.28 - Rachel Notley
Nov. 23 2020
We’re back with another round up episode and a very special interview!
There’s been a lot going on, so in this episode we catch up on a few important stories...
UCP MLA’s run amuck! Hail damage! Health Care cuts! A milestone for the show! Masks and more!
And our guest this episode is none other than Rachel Notley!

The Breakdown - Episode 2.27 - Les Landry (Got Milk?)
Nov. 18 2020
Got Milk?
Les Landry is an Albertan who has relied on supports from the government to make ends meet due to his disabilities for quite some time. When the UCP Government rolled back indexing of AISH, it presented some very real financial challenges for him as many other AISH recipients.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.26 - Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu
Nov. 17 2020
Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Law and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Katz Research Fellow in Health Law and Science Policy, at the University of Alberta who teaches, among other things, Public health law and policy. We caught up to him to get an accurate picture as to what Dr Hinshaw’s powers are as well as to how she might have to navigate the use of them.

The Breakdown - Episode 2.25 - Scott Harold Payne
Nov. 12 2020
Scott Harold Payne is a writer and politcal organizer who recently wrong a series of articles called “The Bully Pulpit”. One of the most bizarre elements to come out of the Jason Kenney administration has been the advent of taxpayer funded “issues managers” whose duties apparently include, among other things, aggressively demeaning and harassing private citizens. Scott Harold Payne (@scotthpayne) wrote a series of articles on the subject of these issues managers behaviour, and also spoke to some of the victims of their tactics.