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Episode 63: Defending Alberta Parks and the COVID emergency

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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.

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Recommended Reading/Listening

Virtual townhall on Alberta parks goes downhill for UCP (Global News, Nov. 18, 2020)
Frustration over lack of answers on virtual meeting on Alberta Parks (City TV, Nov. 19, 2020)
Albertans continue to stand up for parks that sit on the chopping block (CTV, Oct. 29, 2020)
Defend Alberta Parks campaign
Don’t Go Breaking My Parks campaign (NDP Caucus)
My Parks will Go On campaign (UCP Caucus)
Episode 55: Alberta Parks need to be protected and expanded, not closed and privatized (Daveberta Podcast, May 31, 2020)
As COVID-19 cases soar, UCP MLA tells constituents the pandemic is behind us (AlbertaPolitics.ca, Nov. 20, 2020)
Alberta MLA falsely claims ‘worst of COVID-19 health pandemic’ over (CBC, Nov, 20, 2020)
Has Jason Kenney lost the plot? (West of Centre Podcast, CBC, Nov. 20, 2020)
This is Fine (Progress Report Podcast, Progress Alberta, Nov. 11, 2020)

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

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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)