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) Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the bud...Show More
5) Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
Alberta's teachers have been ordered back to work, and their right to strike, collectively bargain, or even present a legal challenge have been stripped away by Danielle Smith's UCP. How is organized ...Show More
Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
46:27 | Nov 4th, 2025
6) Escape from the Planet of the Mines - Canada's Resource Imperialism
Canada exists to put holes in the ground and extract surplus value for shareholders. In this episode, originally recorded in 2021, Team Advantage opens the Canadian trench-coat to find total corporate...Show More
7) 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
The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
1:34:38 | Aug 14th, 2025
8) 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
9) 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
Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
57:06 | Jun 10th, 2025
10) 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