Alberta Advantage Podcast

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

On ep101 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 radio show

➡️ youth radicalization and transphobia on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social's BUBBLE POP
➡️ 1983’s Operation Solidarity on @albertaadvantage.bsky.social
➡️ @youcaughtscott.com on the RCMP vs. Canadian Journalism
➡️ + more

www.spreaker.com/episode/ep10...

Correction sur la couverture de la fusillade à Tumbler Ridge La direction de l'information s'excuse de la publication d'une photo présentant à tort une personne comme étant responsable de la fusillade.

Radio-Canada apologizes after it aired a photo circulated by anti-trans hate groups online, falsely claiming it was a photo of the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Damaging and irresponsible, and this apology raises more questions about journalistic process imho.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me

Headline reads: my heart can't bear

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

The new robber barons: A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada Billionaires. Wealth taxes. Stock market booms and busts. In one form or another, wealth is in the headlines day after day. But what actually is wea...

After 25 years of extreme wealth concentration, the top 1% own 23% of the wealth—up $3 trillion.

Our new report w/ @bcpolicy.bsky.social sounds the alarm: to protect our democracy & sovereignty, we need to stop our slide into US-style oligarchy.

Read it now:
www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Canada needs an independent podcast community.

Challenge right-wing and corporate media - support @harbingermedia.bsky.social’s winter 2026 fundraising campaign at

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What was Tony Clement doing on Epstein’s helicopter? A look into the Canadian connections in the Epstein Files

What was Tony Clement doing in Epstein's helicopter? adamsnotes.substack.com/p/what-was-t...

How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.

'The more provinces that join Alberta, the greater the likelihood that it will lead to the dismantling of the Canada Health Act as the federal framework that upholds provincial public health insurance plans.' #Healthcare
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Scientists Warn 'Garbage' Models Underestimate Risk of Economic Collapse From Climate Crisis | Common Dreams Experts warn of a growing gap between real-world climate risk and economic analysis, and urge immediate action to prevent catastrophic warming.

“Current economic models systematically underestimate climate damages … the cascading failures, threshold effects, and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth”

www.commondreams.org/news/climate...

Alberta’s Separatist Movement Is a National Security Threat | The Walrus Meetings with Trump officials cast new scrutiny on the province’s bid for sovereignty

I mean it's not a big secret
thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep...

Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...

i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past.

www.tni.org/en/article/l...

Everything about how we exist in society is a political choice. Continuing to allow people to be unhoused is a political choice. Unchecked grocery prices? A political choice. Potholes - political choice. Yeah, things must be weighed etc etc, but these are choices and we can demand better ones.

ICE tactics prompt concern over Canadian complicity In the wake of Alex Pretti and Renee Good's deaths there have been concerns in Canada over corporate ties to ICE as their tactics come under increasing scrutiny.

As ICE tactics escalate, scrutiny is turning to Canada’s role. Corporate contracts and arms links are prompting concern over complicity.

rabble.ca/human-rights...

Alberta Separatists Kicked Us Out of Their Event After Asking About American Support As they inch closer to triggering a referendum, the movement's leaders have been facing new scrutiny

“Rath immediately became defensive at the mention of the movement’s coziness with the United States.” @pressprogress.ca

pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Medicare Under Threat: What to Know About Alberta’s Bill 11. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A free webinar to launch “The End of Canadian Medicare? Alberta Legislation Opens the Door to U.S. Health Care,” a joint report by Parkland Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives th...

Alberta's new legislation opens the door to American-style, two-tier health care, & with it, massive repercussions for people all across the country.

Our friends at Parkland Institute are launching their new report on Bill 11 with an important and timely webinar this Tuesday, Feb. 3—Don't miss it!

A List Of Journalists Who’ve Taken Sponsored Israel Trips These Canadian media figures went on trips sponsored by the Exigent Foundation, a pro-Israel organization

NEW: I compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm.

The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors.

www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-jo...

For the blocked:

Guess we hit a nerve.

Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as prime minister | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted little time in removing a potent point of attack for the Conservatives in recent years: the consumer carbon tax.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Kenney says Alberta’s carbon tax will die May 30 | Globalnews.ca Jason Kenney says a bill to eliminate the Alberta levy is to be introduced next week when the legislature begins sitting.

globalnews.ca/news/5271691...

Trans Mountain Over-Budget; Fossil Support Nears $30B for 2024 The Canadian government provided at least C$29.6 billion in financing to fossil fuel and petrochemical companies in 2024, with most of it directed toward the over-budget Trans Mountain pipeline, accor...

www.theenergymix.com/trans-mounta...

Alberta government officially ends agency created to handle green rebates and programs | Globalnews.ca Alberta is closing the door on an agency that championed eco-initiatives but was ridiculed by Premier Jason Kenney as a costly conduit for "shower heads and light bulbs.''

Let's sit back and remember the Shannon Phillips Legacy
globalnews.ca/news/7056892...

According to Phillips, responsible thing for The Left to do is get a new pipeline built and make small incremental changes that will be instantly rolled back by Jason Kenney. Then join a GR consulting firm to collaborate with some partisan conservatives.

Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve - Alberta Politics We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation is very real. After that mi...

"If this is the NDP response to a foreign-funded secession movement that is already bombarding Alberta with a Brexit-style disinformation campaign, it’s not likely to work. It’s too long, too professorial, too nuanced, too nice, and frankly naïve."
albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/nahe...

Alberta Unions Continue To Deliver For Workers Despite UCP Attacks Unions in the least labour-friendly province boost wages, protect vulnerable workers and shrink inequality.

Unions raise the average hourly pay of workers in Alberta by 10 per cent, or $3.40 per hour ($37.88 for unionized employees versus $34.48 for non-unionized).

www.readthemaple.com/alberta-unio...

Happy holidays from the Harbinger podcast community inc.
@srslywrong.bsky.social @techwontsave.us @albertaadvantage.bsky.social & @endofsportpod.bsky.social + shows from
@pressprogress.ca @breachmedia.ca @independentnl.bsky.social @cjpme.org @broadbent.bsky.social & more

See you in the new year💞☃️❄️

‘The Nazis were right': What the leaders of Canada’s biggest ‘nationalist’ group really want | CBC Accessibility In official posts, Second Sons Canada calls itself a “men’s nationalist club” and promotes a nostalgic vision of Canada. But on personal podcasts and livestreams, its leaders consistently espouse anti...

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

YouTube video by APTN News Treaty 8 First Nations were in Ottawa to oppose the proposed west coast pipeline | APTN News

The memorandum of understanding has been a hot button topic for weeks now.

A lot of First Nations have been voicing their concerns, but Treaty 8 First Nations were in Ottawa Thursday morning to make sure that theirs were heard.

Literal joke of a province