The 3 Best The Alberta Advantage Podcast Episodes
1) Universal Basic Income: Utopian, or Not Bold Enough?
Team Advantage convenes to discuss Universal Basic Income. Why is it, and why has it gained such popularity over the last few years? What's so appealing about the proposal, and how does this appeal re...Show More
2) Expand Medicare to Include Dentalcare
While Canada's medicare system was launched in the 1960s, some notable exclusions remain. Vision, pharmaceuticals, mental health, and dental care are all aspects of health that remain largely uncovere...Show More
3) Walmart, but Good: Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
Team Advantage delves deep into The People's Republic of Walmart, joined by special guests and authors Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski. You'll be shocked to learn that economic planning goes on al...Show More
4) The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
Every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inagurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang in 1932 at the founding...Show More
5) Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For?
Support our podcast! 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 projec...Show More
6) Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM - Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary - Free Entry - Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of the 20th century l...Show More
7) Colonialism and Capitalism: Bryan Palmer on Canadian History
Support our podcast! Team Advantage sits down with Bryan D. Palmer on his stop through Calgary to discuss his new book, and discuss how labour and anti-colonial movements have historically challenged ...Show More
8) Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies
WARNING: This episode begins with slam poetry. Team Advantage subjects themselves to some favourite books of UCP ministers and Western Standard columnists in search of the intellectual basis for justi...Show More
9) James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police
Support this podcast! The Winnipeg Police Service is 100 years old - a century they've used to repress dissent, censor media, bungle investigations and devour city budgets. Author James Wilt joins Tea...Show More
10) Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson
It’s election season in Bubble City, the ultra-protected enclave that keeps the rich safe from the mutants of the so-called Uninhabited Zone. When veteran officer Swamp Cop embarks on a dangerous unde...Show More