Shannon Phillips went to Greece for a creative salon with Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Anaïs Mitchell and Ann Powers, and came home thinking differently about art, fear, politics and community.
Plus: what creativity can do when politics becomes exhausting.
Can governments protect young people online without cutting them off from connection?
Annalise Klingbeil and Leah Ward break down the new Online Harms Act, plus Alberta’s 45-million-ballot referendum headache.
Why do grievance movements often seem more optimistic than the people opposing them?
Annalise Klingbeil and Leah Ward discuss positive versus negative campaigning, political persuasion, and why facts alone don't always win arguments.
Full episode available now.
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What happens when politics collides with reality?
This week, Annalise Klingbeil and Leah Ward discuss burnout, political exhaustion, attention scarcity, and what happens when grievance politics finally encounters a price tag.
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The Sask Party’s argument against relying on Alberta natural gas is apparently:
“Look how Europe relying on Russian gas turned out.”
Yes, really.
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How does a $900M government project turn into a $26 BILLION catastrophe? 📉 Double the bills, zero transparency. SaskPower Critic Aleana Young walks us through the escalating math that left the Premier completely speechless. 🍺 Hold my beer, indeed.
Full episode: https://network.thestrategists.ca
Saskatchewan NDP MLA Aleana Young joins Leah Ward and Shannon Phillips to break down the SaskPower coal bombshell, the staggering $26 billion price tag, Prairie separatism politics, and governments increasingly governed by their own base.
New episode: A Polluted Process. Shannon and Annalise dig into Alberta’s voters list leak, the cease and desist letters, the separatist petition, and why a referendum process built on compromised data may already be tainted. Watch:
When trust in democracy is already thin, voter data suddenly becomes very personal.
This week on Balance of Power: the Elections Alberta investigation, sports as a surprising politics of belonging, and why a playoff crowd might say more about unity than another speech.
Are we solving the wrong problem? From permanent daylight saving to fertility costs to Alberta Next, decisions aren’t lining up with reality. Annalise Klingbeil and Leah Ward break down what’s being missed, and why it matters.
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