The Breakdown With Nate Pike

It's a weird intersection of provincial and municipal politics on this 2 part episode of The Breakdown!

Landon Johnston was elected to Calgary city council in 2025, but that came on the heels of him getting his first exposure to notoriety with the campaign to recall then Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek in 2024. Since then, whether it's been calling for the lifting of water bottle bans, arguing for limiting municipal low income supports to "citizens" only, he's been no stranger to controversy.

But in September of this year, two particularly striking scandals came to a boil. The first was a leak of confidential documents and the second is an apparent conflict of interest stemming from an overlap of Johnston's office and Danielle Smith's recent trips to Nashville.

In part two of this two part episode, we get into the reality that his Chief of staff, Laura Pentlebury, is also one of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's closest friends, former employees and on a recent trip to Nashville was seen in official meetings despite having no official standing to be in them!

With the provincial government overseeing the disciple process for Landon in regards to his recent leaking of confidential documents, we get into how Landon believes he should approach this conflict of interest.

And if he even believes there is one.

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It's a weird intersection of provincial and municipal politics on this 2 part episode of The Breakdown!

Landon Johnston was elected to Calgary city council in 2025, but that came on the heels of him getting his first exposure to notoriety with the campaign to recall then Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek in 2024. Since then, whether it's been calling for the lifting of water bottle bans, arguing for limiting municipal low income supports to "citizens" only, he's been no stranger to controversy.

But in September of this year, two particularly striking scandals came to a boil. The first was a leak of confidential documents and the second is an apparent conflict of interest stemming from an overlap of Johnston's office and Danielle Smith's recent trips to Nashville.

In part one of this two part episode, we take a look at Landon's leaking of confidential preliminary budget documents, the resulting complaint from the city to the provincial government and the provincial governments claims that there was nothing they could do because the UCP deleted the code of conduct!

If you can support our legal defence fund in fighting back against the $6 million lawsuit filed by Sam Mraiche, the man responsible for importing Vanch masks and Turkish Tylenol, as well as hosting MLA’s and Ministers in his skybox for government business, please consider donating at www.savethebreakdownab.ca.

As always, if you enjoy the content we create at The Breakdown, please consider becoming a monthly supporter on our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/thebreakdownab. We’ve also added e-transfers to our payment options at info@thebreakdownab.ca.

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In a legislative session that saw extremely limited debate and bad faith obstructionism by the UCP, Danielle Smith's government has voted to push through the gerrymandering maps that go against the recommendations of the judge who chaired the original commission!

(Whew, that was a lot)

In order to make sense of all of this, we are thrilled to present this conversation with Political Scientist Dr Duane Bratt, who walks us through not only how we got here, but what we can possibly expect to happen next!

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For a few weeks now, a secret Medicine Hat candidate has been posting to social media and the official reveal is today!

Former AMA President and ER physician Dr Paul Parks is seeking the nomination to be the NDP candidate in Cypress-Medicine Hat, and The Breakdown has his first official interview!

In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground, including the future of Alberta's healthcare, law enforcement, First Nations relations and a whole lot more!

Including...

Food trucks?

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We've got a conversation with Jeremy Appel and we cover a LOT of ground!

For starters, Jeremy has released a new book on Danielle Smith entitled "Dark Phoenix" that charts her early life all the way to the premiership!

But we don't stop there!

We get into the ongoing implosion/civil war amongst the separatists in light of their crushing defeat in Alberta's recent referendum as well as another story that flew underneath the media attention for the referendum...

A former journalist who recently admitted that they not only manufactured a story, they lied to Albertans and Jeremy for years.

But our hot take on that might be a bit different than you would expect!

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