Great Northern Discussions

04/17/2025

Excellent Podcast with Pierre Poilievre

Mark Carney has accepted an invite as well and they were both offered no editorial privileges.

In two weeks, Canadians will vote in one of the most important federal elections in recent memory. This is not a political podcast. But I believe the stakes ...

04/16/2025

Stay focused Canadians. Be diligent. Vote Conservative. And Spread the Word to get out the vote, to get our country back on track!

04/10/2025

Bill C59

The Competition Act was a bill brought forward and passed by the Liberal Government. It is often referred to for businesses as "Green Washing" but Energy industry insiders prefer to call this bill a form of "Green Hushing".

Why would Canadians be ok with this?

Enjoy this extra-length clip from my chat with Cody Battershill founder of Canada Action

Full Episode GND #30 I ❤️🇨🇦 Oil & Gas 👇
https://youtu.be/JyltYuba8zA?si=impRT3sVKOQW3T80



Pierre Poilievre Danielle Smith Michelle Ferreri Ryan Williams MP Bay of Quinte Shannon Stubbs Brian Jean Kevin Tucker

03/30/2025

GND is feelin a big blue wave 🌊 comin!

Despite what all these polls are “showing”. Eerily similar to what happened down south isn’t it?

will bring it home. Stay active out there friends and keep spreading the word. Vote blue, in what is surely to be the largest Canadian election in our lifetime.

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03/30/2025

That’s our Premier! Worth 10 minutes of your time….

03/22/2025

Canada’s energy future is at stake in this next election. We dig down with Canada Action

Watch here!

Canada Action is an energy advocacy group that was started by a local Calgary Real Estate guru in Cody Battershill way back in 2010.I started by asking one s...

03/21/2025

Great Job Canada Action

Finally Canadians are waking up

It’s time for a new approach.

We must ensure Canada is globally competitive for new job-creating-investment and that we can actually sell our exports globally.

03/13/2025

WATCH and SHARE CANADA

Candice Malcolm’s new documentary investigates new Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney and uncovers his web of lies.—————————————————————...

03/10/2025

*PLEASE SHARE*

Fluoride back in our waters soon!!

New episode out today folks and I learned a ton in this one! Voting on fluoride in Calgary has almost become a favourite past time, as we have voted on fluoridation 7 times dating back to the 1950s. I had a great chat with Dr Robert Dickson on the history and its affects on us, whom is founder of Safe Water Calgary.

Seems like the science is finally catching up!! And no, it is not good for our bodies or the development of our children’s brains. Now it is backed by clinical studies, and has been confirmed as that, in a court of law.

A landmark federal court case in the state of California just flipped this practice on its head, and should affect the outcome across the world.

Sign the petition here to force a moratorium on this if you are concerned at all:

https://www.safewatercalgary.com/

>>>GND #29 Fluoride in Calgary Tap Water? On all PODCAST PLATFORMS & YOUTUBE

Dr. Robert Dickson is a long time Calgary physician. Most importantly he is a health advocate and founder at Safe Water Calgary. Happening very soon, we onc...

03/09/2025

Enjoy this energy yap with the maritime good fellas at Elev8 Podcast!
Had a blast

We are joined by host of the Great Northern Discussions Podcast Kevin Tucker, who is an expert in the Oil & Gas industry in Alberta.We discuss the viability ...

03/09/2025

Check out my latest POD as a guest on the Elev8 Podcastst out if the maritimes. She’s all about energy folks!!!!

We are joined by host of the Great Northern Discussions Podcast Kevin Tucker, who is an expert in the Oil & Gas industry in Alberta.We discuss the viability ...

03/08/2025

Had a blast on the available on YOUTUBE now discussing all things energy! Check it out now!

“We are joined by host of the Great Northern Discussions Podcast Kevin Tucker, who is an expert in the Oil & Gas industry in Alberta.

We discuss the viability of Energy East, how to circumvent the difficulty Quebec’s political class and become an energy dominant country.”

02/23/2025

*REPOST 🚨Do you agree with Trudeau and Carney cancelling $670 Billion in Energy Projects? 🚨

Since 2015, Canada has lost $670 BILLION in canceled or suspended resource projects—many of them LNG terminals that could have made Canada an energy superpower. Instead, other countries filled the gap, and Canadian workers lost out on thousands of jobs and billions in tax revenue every year.

Countries That Asked for Canadian LNG:

🇩🇪 Germany – Chancellor Olaf Scholz personally came to Canada looking for LNG to replace Russian gas. Trudeau told him there was ‘no business case.’
🇯🇵 Japan – Sought Canadian LNG to diversify energy sources. Trudeau ignored the request.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Deputy Minister Chern-Chyi Chen publicly said Taiwan is “eager” to buy Canadian LNG. Canada had no export terminals ready.

💡 What did Trudeau and Mark Carney say?
❌ Trudeau: Questioned the “business case” for exporting LNG to Europe while our allies were desperate for non-Russian gas.
❌ Carney: Pushed carbon pricing and renewables instead of supporting LNG expansion, despite its clear economic and strategic benefits.

What We Lost:

📉 Tens of thousands of high-paying jobs
📉 Billions in yearly tax revenue that could fund hospitals, roads, and lower taxes
📉 Our global LNG market share—now taken by the U.S., Qatar, and Russia

Meanwhile, the U.S. has built over 10 major LNG facilities since 2015. They are now one of the world’s largest LNG exporters—a position Canada should have held.

🔥 Enough is enough. Canada has the resources, the technology, and the demand. We just need a government that won’t stand in the way.

02/20/2025

New episode out today folks! With Sean Alexander President and CEO KAILANI Outdoors. Kailanioutdoors
Sean Alexander is a former Canadian Oil-Patcher turned Retail Lifestyle CEO. His path to get there was unconventional to say the least. In this episode we tip our toes briefly into Sean's upbringing, which includes him being forced to live on is own at the age of 16, and having already switched schools 14 times by grade eight. Eventually he would drop out of high school to go make a life for himself.

The two time Dragons' Den pitcher took what he had always done, the side hustle, and turned it into a multi-million dollar up-and-coming competitor to the titan YETI brand.

WATCH his Dragon's Den appearance here:

https://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/pitches/kailani

LISTEN to our in-depth great northern discussion here:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Jpn18bvZiRw2nvlNVFZt6?si=2df0ef394571401b

OR

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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/great-northern-discussions/id1721177922?i=1000691437366

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Sean Alexander is a former Canadian Oil-Patcher turned CEO at Kailani Outdoors. His path to get there was unconventional to say the least. In this episode we...

02/18/2025

New episode out folks! With Sean Alexander President and CEO KAILANI. Kailanioutdoors
Sean Alexander is a former Canadian Oil-Patcher turned Retail Lifestyle CEO. His path to get there was unconventional to say the least. In this episode we tip our toes briefly into Sean's upbringing, which includes him being forced to live on is own at the age of 16, and having already switched schools 14 times by grade eight. Eventually he would drop out of high school to go make a life for himself.

The two time CBC Dragon's Den pitcher took what he had always done, the side hustle, and turned it into a multi-million dollar up-and-coming competitor to the titan YETI brand.

WATCH his Dragon's Den appearance here:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7017550

LISTEN to our in-depth great northern discussion here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Jpn18bvZiRw2nvlNVFZt6?si=-DC8-urySpqW5Co6XsIZCQ
OR
🍎
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/great-northern-discussions/id1721177922?i=1000691437366

Or Watch Here on YOUTUBE!
DON'T FORGET TO HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM SERVICES PLEASE!

https://youtu.be/A32xuILpt6M?si=sqv8eanIoBSzFgzh

Sean Alexander is a former Canadian Oil-Patcher turned CEO at Kailani Outdoors. His path to get there was unconventional to say the least. In this episode we...

01/09/2025

As has always been the case, Brad Wall nails it!

Your Mom likely told you what mine told me - if you can’t say something nice ..don’t say anything at all. So maybe that’s why it has taken me a day to offer a few thoughts on Trudeau’s resignation announcement yesterday. I miss my Mom everyday but I’m not sure I will be able to follow her advice for this post. (On the other hand..remembering some of her comments during the Trudeau years - she might be fine with this!)

I truly believe that those who put their name forward for public office, no matter how much I might disagree with them personally and politically should be thanked for their willingness to wade into the increasingly toxic waters of politics.

But the undeniable truth is that Canada would be better off today had he decided not to follow in his father’s footsteps.

His Prime Ministership was manifestly the most divisive and economically damaging of any in our history…including the record of the elder Trudeau ..who generationally knee-capped the economy of western Canada with the National Energy Program.

I dealt with this particular Trudeau in my old job at First Ministers’ Conferences, in bilateral relations and one on one discussions. He struck me as someone who was the product of an abiding central Canadian/Quebec world view with a focus on progressive trends rather than policy development or political and economic thought. That was my impression anyway.

Somewhere along the way he found and then clung to wokeism and an obsession with man-made climate change. They were very trendy things for those on the left. Shiny buttons that permanently distracted Trudeau.

His government continues to risk our economy, our trade competitiveness and exacerbate affordability issues for all Canadians with his forced march to a carbon tax that in 4 years will be a debilitating $170.00 per tonne. All in the name of reducing Canada’s emissions that account for less than 2% of global emissions. Imagine - stubbornly pursuing a policy like his carbon tax that is that damaging - in the name of maybe, possibly reducing emissions by a quantum that will make no impact..no change on this thing you’ve sworn us all to fight - climate change. A leader shoving his citizens ahead of him into a winless fight, forcing them to pay for the costs of that fight and risking the competitiveness of the entire economy (at a time when we are now facing the threat of Trump’s tariffs).

The carbon tax is just one policy on a laundry list of damaging and often feckless policies that Trudeau has introduced in his 10 years as Prime Minister. He all but declared his disdain for the western Canadian resource sector. He never much liked how we made a living in the west; how we live by and rely on fossil fuels in rural Canada. He never respected the values that a majority of western or rural Canadians hold dear.

He, more than any PM in contemporary Canadian political history, was found wanting in ethics and third party investigations. He chose to fire or force out strong female Ministers rather than be held accountable for things he very much said…and very much did.
All this from a self-proclaimed feminist who would regularly lecture Canadians on the importance of his ‘feminist’ view.

He offered the same when it came to Reconcilation yet he failed to fulfill his promise for clean drinking water on First Nations reserves.

He demonized millions of Canadians who were represented by the Freedom Convoy or who had concerns about lock- downs and vaccine mandates - dismissing them as un-Canadian and fringe and ..much worse.

His fiscal record and tendencies were so bad that even the big spending, big government advocating Chrystia Freeland quit his cabinet.

People will observe that Canada has never had an NDP Prime Minister. I beg to differ.

He was unserious. He said things and believed things like “The budget will balance itself” and “I don’t think too much about monetary policy “

Incredible.

I recall when I was the lone Premier and Saskatchewan was the lone province opposing his carbon tax. I know the kinds of things he and his Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said about us…about Saskatchewan..behind closed doors and to some whom they believed had assured discretion.

And yet despite all of this - I did not feel as gratified as some did when the news broke yesterday. You see yesterday was a good day for the Liberal Party of Canada. Or at least a better day than they have had in a long while. Granted the Liberals have a huge hole from which to dig out but the digging could not begin until Trudeau quit.

I’d rather he had decided to lead his party into the next election. We would be much more assured of much needed change had that been the case.

Because make no mistake - with him or without him - this is a new Justin Trudeau-shaped, leftwing, woke, anti-resource development Liberal party of Canada. Long gone is the pragmatism of the Chretien/Martin era. Trudeau policies for the most part will continue to be front and centre with the Liberal party long after he is gone.

I hope the Conservative Party of Canada keeps its head down, humbly asking Canadians to be their agents of much needed change..and runs like they are 10 points behind - not 20 points ahead.

I believe that Canada as we have known it- hangs in the balance of the next election. If somehow, we continue to have a federal government with the ghost-vestigial policies of the man who announced his departure plans yesterday…well that would be very bad for the west and not much better for the rest of the country.

So please Conservatives - campaign like you are 10 points behind.

Have a great day Facebook friends.

01/03/2025

Do yourself a favor and watch Pierre Poilievre our next Prime Minister….

Jordan Peterson sits down with Canadian member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre (and likely the next Prime Minister). They discuss his role as Leader of the Op...

12/03/2024

Caylan Ford was born in Calgary, AB, and earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history at the University of Calgary. From there she obtained a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and worked on and off as a senior policy advisor for Canada’s foreign ministry for about ten years. Between the birth of her two children she earned another Master’s in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. She is currently the founder/operator of Alberta Classical Academy
This story truly begins though previously, as she was anointed a star UCP Candidate in the 2019 Provincial Election for her own riding of Calgary Mountain View, a "swing" zone.

Sound like someone that might be rooted in racist beliefs?

Caylan found herself at the centre of what might easily be one of Canada's biggest political smear-jobs in its history. She received an ominous email from PressProgress at writ drop 29 days before the election call, telling her they had proof of her being a racist and if she'd care to comment, and that she needed to answer within 3 hours. She of course had no clue.
What ensued was absolute madness in collusion to spread misinformation between the AAlberta NDPNew Democratic Party of Canada, the CCBCthe TThe Toronto Star and the main perpetrator in Karim Jivraj after he leaked old private Facebook messages to PPressProgress(Progress Alberta) who then fed the media world.
She would be forced to resign from the race. And the rest is history.
In this discussion we detail the events unfolding in the minutes, hours, days and years following this "Cancel-Culture" mob in full effect. In 2020 Caylan filed a 7.65 Million defamation claim against all said above, including a smattering of other individuals (14 in total) who continued to push this narrative. Some of the individuals include the Chief of Staff to Rachel Notley, the Broadbent Institute | Institut Broadbent (started by former NDP Leader to feed hit pieces and attack opposition), David Khan (Liberal Party), and Emma McIntosh (Formerly Toronto Star)

*Progress Alberta has recently settled out of court with Caylan for $250k

She found herself unemployable, and isolated from all her former work colleagues at the UCP and her own circle of friends. She hit rock-bottom.

Only thing left to do was to fight. We get into all of it in this epsiode folks!!!

>>>GND #25 with Caylan Ford, Founder Alberta Classical Academy & Former UCP Star Candidate up on all Podcast Platforms and YOUTUBE

Caylan Ford was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and is the current Founder and owner/operator at her recently expanded Alberta Classical Academy. They're...