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Episode 63: Defending Alberta Parks and the COVID emergency

Post author By Dave Cournoyer
Post date November 22, 2020
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Annalise Klingbeil joins the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the latest developments in United Conservative Party government’s plans to close and privatize more than 160 provincial parks and recreation areas. We also discuss the mixed-messaging about COVID-19 from Premier Jason Kenney and his cabinet ministers as the second wave of the pandemic surges in Alberta. And we share some ideas about how the government could improve its COVID-19 communications.

Annalise is co-founder of Champion Communications & PR. She previously worked as a ministerial press secretary and before that she was a journalist at the Calgary Herald. She is also the co-founder of the Go Outside newsletter.

The Daveberta Podcast is hosted by Dave Cournoyer and produced by Adam Rozenhart.

The Daveberta Podcast is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported. The Alberta Podcast Network includes dozens of great made-in-Alberta podcasts.

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3 Years of the Daveberta Podcast!

Post author By Dave Cournoyer
Post date November 10, 2020
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Time flies when you’re having fun!

Rachel Notley Daveberta Podcast — Interviewing Premier Rachel Notley for the Daveberta Podcast in April 2018 (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)

Three years and 63 episodes ago, we launched the Daveberta Podcast and it continues to be a thrill to share the platform with many great guests who continue to bring a wealth of knowledge and riveting discussion and debate about Alberta politics.

And while we were sad to lose our co-host Ryan to the UCP last year, Dave and Adam are still having a lot of fun bringing you the podcast every two weeks.

A big thanks to our friends at the Alberta Podcast Network for their support and a sincerely thank you to everyone who keeps listening!

Presenting Jason Kenney with a Best of Alberta Politics Award in 2018. — Presenting Jason Kenney with a Daveberta Podcast Best of Alberta Politics Award in 2018.

In case you’re new to the Daveberta Podcast or need to catch up, listen to a few of our recent episodes:

Episode 61: Don Iveson on being a Mayor during COVID and his plan to end homelessness
Episode 60: BC Election 101 for Albertans with PolitiCoast
Episode 57: A deep dive into diversification, oil pipelines and petro-patriotism with Andrew Leach
Episode 56: Police problems and what meaningful accountability could look like in Alberta (with guest Avnish Nanda)
Episode 55: Alberta Parks need to be protected and expanded, not closed and privatized (with guest Annalise Klingbeil)
Episode 53: COVID-19 provides cloud cover over Alberta’s economic crisis (with guest Zain Velji)
Episode 52: Jobs, economy and pipelines? COVID-19 pushes small business to the brink (with guest Justin Archer)
Episode 51: A new Alberta. Responding to COVID-19 and Oil Crash (with guest Chris Henderson)
Episode 50: Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta with Dr. Elaine Hyshka

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Episode 55: Alberta Parks need to be protected and expanded, not closed and privatized.

Post author By Dave Cournoyer
Post date June 1, 2020
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Dry island buffalo jump provincial park — Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park (Photo credit: Annalise Klingbeil)

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As Environment & Parks Minister Jason Nixon moves forward with his plans to downgrade, close or privatize 164 provincial parks, outdoor enthusiast Annalise Klingbeil joins Dave Cournoyer on the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the importance of Alberta’s provincial parks and why they need to be protected and conserved.

Annalise is co-founder of Champion Communications & PR. She previously worked as a press secretary for Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley, and before that she was a journalist at the Calgary Herald.

In March 2020, she displayed her passion for Alberta’s parks in an op-ed in the Globe & Mail.

The Daveberta Podcast is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. The Alberta Podcast Network includes dozens of great made-in-Alberta podcasts.

Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or you can email us at podcast@daveberta.ca. Thanks for listening.

Recommended Reading:

Cuts to Alberta’s parks are an existential threat to Alberta’s identity (Annalise Klingbeil, Globe & Mail, March 11, 2020)
Cuts to provincial parks will be felt by all (Becky Best-Bertwistle, The Fitzhugh, May 11, 2020)
Alberta Parks for now, for life, forever. Not only should province reverse its decision to close parks, new parks should be created (Sarah Palmer, CBC, May 30, 2020)
Cuts to Alberta parks threaten fish and wildlife (Alex Beatty, Edmonton Journal, May 30, 2020)
Alberta Parks Fact Check: 13 Truths and a Lie About the Announced Changes to Alberta Parks (CPAWS, 2020)
Central Alberta naturalists fear pristine headwaters will be contaminated by coal mine (Stettler Independent, May 30, 2020)
Alberta rescinds decades-old policy that banned open-pit coal mines in Rockies and Foothills (CBC, May 22, 2020)
Alberta flooded with applications for grants to clean up inactive oil and gas wells (Globe & Mail, May 24, 2020)
Alberta to sell native grassland despite government promises no Crown land would be sold (Global News, March 17, 2020)
Bighorn parks proposal will not go ahead, says Alberta’s environment minister (CBC, May 7, 2019)

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