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• Trump Is Not Happy with Carney's Davos Speech 22.01.2026 37мин
• Is the US economy Trump-proof? Or is the worst on its way? 03.05.2025 26мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews economist Ed Hirs,  of the University of Houston and a frequent media commentator on American economic issues.
• Smith following Trump playbook with Bill 54's un-democratic voting changes 01.05.2025 26мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews political science Professor Jared Wesley about his provocative Substack column titled,  “Danielle Smith’s Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook.”
• Global energy system rapidly changing. Will Canada keep up? 30.04.2025 27мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Lucy Craig, Director of Growth, Innovation and Digitalization, Energy Systems at Norwegian firm DNV, which provides risk assessment services to energy companies around the world. They discussed DNV's new report, SHORT-TERM VOLATILITY, LONG-TERM OPTIMISM: Energy Industry Insights 2025.
• Solid state batteries about to change everything 29.04.2025 22мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Greg Hitz, founder of ION Storage Systems, which has developed a unique solid state battery. 
• Global South's rapid electrification is bad news for oil industry 29.04.2025 28мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Siyi Mi, a Senior Associate at BloombergNEF specializing in electric vehicle markets and clean transport technologies.
• Is Trump a fascist? 19.04.2025 38мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews veteran American journalist Llewellyn King about his column,  “Political Fear Stalks Law, Education, Journalism, Migration." While King says US President Donald Trump hasn't adopted the mantle of fascism, he governs like a fascist. Markham argues that that makes him a fascist whether he describes himself as one or not. A spirited, fascinating look at the descent of the United States into chaos.Dan Gardner's substack post, Is it Fascism?:  https://dgardner.substack.com/p/is-it-fascism
• Danielle Smith, Ben Shapiro and selling the Alberta myth in the good ole USA 19.04.2025 18мин

  Energy journalist Markham Hislop explains the context for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's upcoming interview Thursday with US MAGA podcaster Ben Shapiro in Florida. Hint: Alberta thinks the energy future will look just like the energy past and it wants Trump and the Canadian government to get out of its way. The problem is that the future will likely be very different than Alberta expects.
• Trump’s Stupid Trade War and Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s response 19.04.2025 43мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Elizabeth May, Green Party co-leader along with Jonathan Pedneault, about her party's proposal to stop exporting raw natural resources. The Greens also propose create a natural resources "Strategic Reserves" to protect Canadian workers.
• Should we ignore Western Canada alienation? 18.04.2025 1ч 11мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Christopher Ragan, an associate professor and the founding Director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, as well as the author of a recent op-ed titled, “Western alienation is real and cannot be dismissed.” Markham took the position that many of Alberta's issues with Canadian energy and climate policies are unfounded or overblown.
• Canada needs this economic strategy NOW! 18.04.2025 33мин

  Markham interviews Professor Bentley Allan, professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Transition Pathway Principal with Calgary-based Transition Accelerator. Bentley is also an expert on industrial strategy and policy.
• Don’t let Jason Kenney rewrite history 17.04.2025 37мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop revisits some of his columns from 2018 to 2022 about former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's oil and gas policy approach. After several years out of the public spotlight, Kenney is again active on social media, positioning himself as a political moderate. Will he run for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership if the position opens up? If he does, the Canadians need to review his record as Alberta premier.
• How to fix Canada’s economy so Trump can’t destroy it 17.04.2025 28мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop explains Canada 2050's 3-part strategy for adding value to natural resources, electrifying extraction and processing, and building necessary infrastructure. He excerpts from his interview with one of Canada’s leading industrial policy experts, Dr. Bentley Allan of Johns Hopkins University, to explain how Canada 2050's could be implemented.
• Resist the LNG hype, Canada 17.04.2025 25мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Janetta McKenzie, director of the oil and gas program for the Pembina Institute, about the report, "Turning Tides: The economic risks of B.C.’s LNG expansion in a changing energy market."
• Trump unleashes chaos on the American economy 17.04.2025 18мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Ed Hirs, a University of Houston economist and frequent media commentator on the US economy. They talk tariffs and trade, market volatility, and oil prices.
• Energy as a technology and the fourth industrial revolution 17.04.2025 31мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Dimitry Anastakis, LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, University of Toronto. Don't let the title fool you. Canada is already behind in the transition to the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, including the development and adoption of clean energy technologies like solar and EVs.
• First Nations taking lead on renewable energy in Canada 17.04.2025 35мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop Adam Regier, one of the co-authors of “Stretch and transform for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada,” published in the July, 2025 issue of the journal, Energy Policy
• Canada Election 2025: The electricity system Canada desperately needs 14.04.2025 25мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Bruce Lourie, president of the Ivey Foundation and chair of the Transition Accelerator, about his March 20 Globe and Mail op-ed, “Letting electrons free as part of a new Canadian economy.”
• Manning, Smith hold Big Oil’s gun to Canada’s head 14.04.2025 23мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop explains what's behind threats from right-wing activist Preston Manning and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to start a "national unity crisis" that will lead to Western Canada separating from Canada. Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne points out that there is no popular support for independence.
• Mark Carney’s energy plan: is it any good? 14.04.2025 29мин

  Journalist Markham Hislop walks viewers through the Liberal Party of Canada's energy platform, announced April 9 in Calgary, Alberta. The conclusion? Some very good ideas, some that were not as good, and still plenty of questions left to be answered.