The Breakdown AB

"We want to create pathways so people can be self supporting"

When challenged on her claims about AISH, Smith finally told the truth.

She doesn't believe everyone on AISH needs to be on AISH and she's looking for off-ramps.

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Smith when asked why the change from AISH to ADAP...

Well look at the name, AISH is supposed to be for people who can't work at all. Turns out some folks did. Gotta address that!

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Dani is claiming that hiring people with expertise to address staggeringly complex problems isn't the way to go...

Just get a few politicians with no training or experience to do it!

We're days away from a Kid Rock appearance in Alberta.

Oh Wait.

Paul Brandt.

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Wherein Dani states that the problem with AHS wasn't managers...

It was HR, Payroll, Finance, IT and Contracting.

(Ok, we'll give her the contracting)

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On Triage Physicians...

Smith again blamed the AMA for following the process that Smith's government defined.

Stating...

"I've hoped that we would have on good faith been able to get the position in there"

This from the govt that went to war with docs.

K.

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More good news!

Dr. Dani (not a doctor) has announced that no patient should "ever be in a hospital longer than 30 days"!

Even if they're in a coma, suffering from a serious brain injury or massive burns apparently.

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Good news everyone!

According to Dani yesterday, there's no longer a shortage of healthcare workers!

And we don't need to give healthcare any more money for recruitment or retention!

(We still very much have a staffing shortage for the record)

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When asked about healthcare premiums...

On the same episode that Smith talked about her referendum questions that blame immigrants for driving up the cost of healthcare...

Smith said that healthcare doesn't actually need more money.

No.

Really.

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🚨BREAKING!🚨

Yesterday, when challenged on the reality that a judge has already determined that the separatists question is unconstitutional...

Smith announced if they get the signatures she'll have Amery rewrite it to make it constitutional!

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Sunday at 8!

Corrupt Care! The Provincial Budget! Coal Mines! Healthcare! Cost of Living!

And…

A response to the criticisms of the current Alberta NDP Leadership!

With…

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi!

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Danielle Smith drags the judiciary deeper into her partisan mud slinging The Alberta Premier’s referendum is a direct threat to the proper functioning of our justice system

“this referendum is not about constitutional reform. It is about politics. It is about blaming immigrants, blaming Ottawa, blaming judges, blaming anyone other than the government itself.”

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www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

The AI data center in Olds has been rejected for the time being…

Among the reasons…

“ The environmental evaluation is a draft document with missing information, including incomplete citations, missing figures & document mark-ups including highlighted text.”

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“Treaties are recognized in international law and any attempt to override them is a violation of the original agreements made between First Nations and the Crown.”

Treaty 6 is meeting with the King.

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So…

Not just Arizona then?

Separatists are collecting signatures in multiple locations across the Southern US.

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Can we talk about Danielle Smith's Executive Director for a sec?

(See how we used a question mark there Spanky?)

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Pro-separatist content creators have started spinning for Modry.

Our favorite parts?

“You guys, it wasn’t even the aunt and uncle that sued!”

(They aunt and uncle were deceased)

&

“Modry did have documentation because he didn’t expect to have to account for the money”

Wherein Danielle Smith claims that she has been a champion of Alberta remaining in Canada since "Day 1"...

But appears to set Day 1 as the day that Carney became Prime Minister?

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But that's not true at all.

In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics says...

“The AAP continues to hold to the principle that patients, their families and their physicians, not politicians, should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them,”

On today's episode of "Danielle Smith's complicated relationship with the truth"

Dani responds to protests by youth against her anti-medical choice policies outside of her press conference...

By claiming that the major medical associations in the US agree with her policies.

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Smith on why she's tightening access to the Alberta Seniors Benefit...

Can you guess?

You can guess...

It's the newcomers coming to Alberta to take advantage of our incredible social programs!

(Never mind you have to be a Citizen or Permanent Resident)

Drink!

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If 90% of communication is non-verbal...

What do Smith's expressions when asked about the struggles of small business say?

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Smith in response to concerns that two tiered private healthcare would massively impact access in the public system...

Literally claimed that the only way to save the public system is with private healthcare.

No.

Really.

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The Alberta Teachers Association has released a statement on their quest for an injunction against Danielle SMith's use of the notwithstanding clause.

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Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

“Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall”

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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Danielle Smith and Mickey Amery have spent a lot of time attacking Judges and claiming the appointment of federal judges "is not non-partisan".

But it turns out, not only are their complaints not based in reality, but "their" track record is actually worse.

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On daylight savings time and the economic impact of switching...

Horner seems to think that Dani will put that to a referendum.

(But not a PST, that would solve actual problems)

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When asked if Alberta would offer shelter to people fleeing the unprecedented conflict in the Middle East...

Nate Horner said that Alberta wants "economic immigrants who will fulfill the roles we need".

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Matt Jones claimed today that no one is trying to blame the AMA for the delay in the Triage Physicians...

Bot we had to go all th way back in the archives to...

(Checks notes)

Yesterday...

To fact check that claim.

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Matt Jones seemed to acknowledge today that the UCP did NOT follow their established negotiating protocols when announcing the Triage Physicians...

And now the first meeting is March 20.

So don't expect to see docs in the waiting room anytime soon.

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Episode 8.10 - March 1st, 2026 Alberta Politics Roundup! Podcast Episode · The Breakdown With Nate Pike · March 2 · 2h 1m

New episode!

In what we're already hearing is one of our most powerful episodes yet, we take a look at Smith's incoming book bans, her attack on the courts and her attempts to shut down discussion on the tactics she's using.

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