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Alberta Advantage Podcast

Nov 27, 2018

Did you hear about the recent tragedy? "Laid off at 53, former oil industry manager wonders if seven-figure savings will sustain 40-year retirement: Couple has financial assets of about $1.37 million to tide them over, but at their age, they cannot access early Canada Pension Plan benefits for another seven years."...


Nov 8, 2018

Hosting the Olympics in Calgary is a bad idea! Team Advantage considers Calgary's 1988 Olympic bid and how we lucked out financially the first time, the ridiculous demands of the International Olympics Committee (including private traffic lanes and seasonal cakes), fun fascist-Olympics crossovers, the social costs of...


Nov 2, 2018

Team Advantage treks to the great northern bastion of social democracy known as Edmonton, Alberta. We speak to some really excellent Alberta NDP members doing important work, and witness some flawlessly executed stage management. The funniest part was when we heard the UCP observer ask "are they all related? how...