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EPISODE · Apr 9, 2025 · 54 MIN

Alberta’s In Play—and Every Party Knows It

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What do you get when you mix a 15,000-person rally, a Boilermaker endorsement, and Mark Carney forgetting the price of strawberries? A pre-debate episode of The Discourse that does not hold back. This week, Erika and Cheryl throw down over: 🚨 The actual impact of those massive Conservative rallies—crowd size vs. door-knocking power. 🧠 The battle of brains and branding: Is Carney just Pierre with better cufflinks? 🔄 Spousal optics—are campaign kisses strategy, sincerity, or just Pierre cosplay? 🔥 The rise of strategic voting: Should Jagmeet worry? Should Trudeau be thanking him? 📉 Whether Alberta’s love affair with the CPC is officially on a break (again). 🇨🇦 And of course… the Team Canada unity tour, where everyone gets a participation ribbon—unless you're Danielle Smith or Doug Ford. The debate is coming. Voters are shifting. Stakes are spiking. And your favourite partisan pals are here to make sense of it all—with shade, sass, and semi-respectful disagreement. 🎧 Listen in and lock in your vote—or at least your talking points.

What do you get when you mix a 15,000-person rally, a Boilermaker endorsement, and Mark Carney forgetting the price of strawberries? A pre-debate episode of The Discourse that does not hold back. This week, Erika and Cheryl throw down over: 🚨 The actual impact of those massive Conservative rallies—crowd size vs. door-knocking power. 🧠 The battle of brains and branding: Is Carney just Pierre with better cufflinks? 🔄 Spousal optics—are campaign kisses strategy, sincerity, or just Pierre cosplay? 🔥 The rise of strategic voting: Should Jagmeet worry? Should Trudeau be thanking him? 📉 Whether Alberta’s love affair with the CPC is officially on a break (again). 🇨🇦 And of course… the Team Canada unity tour, where everyone gets a participation ribbon—unless you're Danielle Smith or Doug Ford. The debate is coming. Voters are shifting. Stakes are spiking. And your favourite partisan pals are here to make sense of it all—with shade, sass, and semi-respectful disagreement. 🎧 Listen in and lock in your vote—or at least your talking points.

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