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Because It's 2019

Two questionably knowledgeable friends — a political junkie and a politics newbie — discuss the latest in Canadian politics and the 2019 federal election.

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In this week’s podcast, Alyssa and Ryan continue the infamous, and fairly easy, Canadian government Jeopardy game. They talk about matters closer to home and dive into the premier of Manitoba, Brian Pallister’s latest antics.

The political junkie and newbie give their two cents about Jagmeet Singh's by-election run. Who will seat for their political party? How are Singh’s odds looking? What is a by-election?

Time Stamps:

Canadian Jeopardy: 0:40-4:36

Brian Pallister “saga”: 4:44-12:27

By-election: 12:31-21:59

Political scandals: 22:01-31:50

More by-election and “Trump-esque” in today’s politics: 31:54-41:40

Even more by-election and Albertans: 41:43-48:25

Outro: 48:26-51:20

Additional Resources:

Continuation of Canadian Jeopardy game, topic Elections

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/canadian-government-115

Brian Pallister

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-premier-tweets-photos-of-winnipeg-snow-while-vacationing-in-costa-rica-1.4290424

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/11/news/manitoba-premier-brian-pallister-takes-snow-day-costa-rica

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/vacationing-pallister-gives-bowman-the-cold-shoulder-505733752.html

Canadian By-election

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=2019&document=index⟨=e

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/01/09/federal-byelections-2019_a_23632671/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By-elections_to_the_42nd_Canadian_Parliament

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Music and sound effects:

"Werq" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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“Deep Whoosh #1” Kinoton (incompetech.com)

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Who the heck is running in this year’s federal election? Should Alberta separate? When will Canada get another female prime minister? This and other questions answered — okay, mentioned — in this week’s podcast, featuring your loyal (and questionably knowledgeable) friends Alyssa and Ryan.

Time stamps:

Canadian government Jeopardy 0:50

Alberta separation 6:48

2019 federal election – party leaders 20:34

When will we get another female PM? 32:00

What we look for in a PM 36:11

A look back at Trudeau’s India disaster 40:05

Summary 48:37

Additional resources:

Canadian government Jeopardy

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/canadian-government-115

Calgary separation billboards

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separatist-billboards-1.5025437

Kim Campbell

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell

Trudeau’s India trip

https://www.google.ca/ (It’s everywhere)

Music and sound effects:

"Werq" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Deep Whoosh #1” Kinoton (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons 0 License

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/