Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan joins host Keith Gerein.

Leading a party in a fight for its political life, Khan discusses how he hopes to attract Albertans' attention in the next election with a unique platform, the prospects of a merger with the Alberta Party, and his party's relationship with the federal Liberals.

The conversation delves into health care issues, particularly wait times for ambulance crews and whether decriminalization could be a solution to the opioid crisis.

Interview: David Khan talks drugs, decriminalization, and the future of the Alberta Liberals

The fall legislative session is over, but the oil price crash and its impact on Canadian coffers is nowhere near done.

Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Chris Varcoe, Dave Breakenridge and Keith Gerein to talk about Premier Rachel Notley's decision to curtail oil production, what that means for Alberta and reaction from the oil and gas sector.

The team also takes a look at a couple of United Conservative nomination races in Calgary — Peter Singh, who is accused of buying votes with cash and chocolates, and MLA Prab Gill's attempt to clear his name over vote misappropriation allegations that led to his departure from the UCP — and a brief look back at what else happened during the fall session.

Good Stuff from the Gallery
Dave's pick: Dave is very excited about the Edmonton Public Library's speaker series, announced this week. In particular, a visit by John E. Douglas who wrote Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit.

Emma's pick: This excellent read from ProPublica entitled I Don't Want to Shoot You, Brother. It's a shocking story of police and lethal force — but not the one you might expect.

Keith's pick: This fascinating read about about a century-old family treasure and the hope it cracks a deadly flu’s secret.

#254: The Oil, Oil, Oil And Trouble edition

As is the tradition for the final Press Gallery panel podcast of the year, this week the team looks back at 2018 for the annual news quiz.

Join host and quizmaster Emma Graney with contestants Clare Clancy, Keith Gerein and Dave Breakenridge to find out who remembers the most about what happened over the past 12 months in Alberta politics.

Play along at home to pit your wits against Edmonton Journal politicos. Merry Christmas and happy new year from all of us in the Press Gallery studio.

#255: The 2018 Year-End Alberta Politics Quiz edition

The Press Gallery’s final episode of 2018 features a chat with a man who is under fire for the struggles of Alberta’s energy industry: Amarjeet Sohi.

The Trudeau government’s natural resources minister has been in the spotlight since July, when he was appointed to the role that is overseeing the (delayed) construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Sohi talks about Ottawa’s progress on conducting “meaningful” consultations with Indigenous communities needed to get the pipeline back on track, and the state of the controversial Bill C-69 that is intended to overhaul how energy projects are approved in the future.

The episode also features a conversation about reviving the Energy East project and anti-pipeline politics in Quebec. In addition, Sohi addresses the wave of anger Albertans are directing at his government — anger that had him voted as the most unpopular cabinet minister in a recent poll of Canadians.

Interview: Amarjeet Sohi on pipelines, oil prices and being Canada's most unpopular cabinet minister

In the first episode of 2019, the Press Gallery podcast team takes a look at the ream of official complaints being filed inside the world of Alberta politics.

Over Christmas we had the UCP lodge an official complaint to the Election Commissioner about foreign funding to left-leaning third-party advertiser Progress Alberta, and Freedom Conservative leader Derek Fildebrandt doing the same about a donation in kind he made to Jason Kenney.

Then, to kick off the new year, Alberta Party MLA Karen McPherson complained about the Speaker's response to her call for an investigation into how the NDP handled sexual misconduct complaints levelled against two of its MLAs.

Join host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Keith Gerein and Dave Breakenridge to talk about all of that, and make some prognostications about 2019.

Good Stuff from the Gallery
Clare's pick: Literary Fiction, an excellent monthly podcast about books.

Keith's pick: University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe's opinion piece about why equalization is not, in fact, unfair to Alberta.

Emma's pick: The wonderful Netflix documentary series 7 Days Out, which takes us behind the scenes in the countdown to some of the world's biggest events. Also! The 2019 Popsugar reading challenge.

Dave's pick: Broken Record, an awesome music podcast by Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, and former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam.

256: The Alberta Politics Complaints edition

Regular Press Gallery listeners will recognize this week's interviewee, who sits down to talk with host Emma Graney about being one of Canada's newest senators and what exactly happened with the vote on Bill c-69.

Independent Alberta Senator Paula Simons joins us for the first Press Gallery Interview of 2019 to talk about life in the centre block and why Twitter caused her to miss out on sandwiches.

Interview: Paula Simons on what happened with Bill c-69

Audio recordings from the Edmonton Journal.